I’m currently working on a concept where the main character is told that they have 24 hours left to live, and they have to decide on one book to read in that remaining time. It’s going to be a love comedy.
Ryan, a challenge for you!How many scenarios (SF or otherwise) can you develop in which the main character is an adult human, but for whom gender-specific pronouns can not, or do not apply? (I have 7 already, but I could come up with a couple more if the plot called for it.)
So wait, T-Rex…your perception of sci-fi is basically the equivalent of Star Wars, with the generic spaceships, explosions and aliens? Shame on you! There’s considerably much, much, much more to sci-fi than all of that, and certainly doesn’t have to rely on any of those stereotypes at all. If you don’t recognize that…you probably shouldn’t be writing for the genre then anyway.
Also, speaking as an aspiring writer than knows something on the subject, determining what genre you’re aiming for is something you determine when you START writing, not at the end after it’s all done, otherwise your story probably isn’t going to be as well thought as you think, and you’re going to have a harder time selling it to publishers who are going to want to know this in advance, otherwise they aren’t going to be terribly confident you know what you’re doing.
Ida No over 8 years ago
I’m currently working on a concept where the main character is told that they have 24 hours left to live, and they have to decide on one book to read in that remaining time. It’s going to be a love comedy.
Ida No over 8 years ago
Ryan, a challenge for you!How many scenarios (SF or otherwise) can you develop in which the main character is an adult human, but for whom gender-specific pronouns can not, or do not apply? (I have 7 already, but I could come up with a couple more if the plot called for it.)
scyphi26 over 8 years ago
So wait, T-Rex…your perception of sci-fi is basically the equivalent of Star Wars, with the generic spaceships, explosions and aliens? Shame on you! There’s considerably much, much, much more to sci-fi than all of that, and certainly doesn’t have to rely on any of those stereotypes at all. If you don’t recognize that…you probably shouldn’t be writing for the genre then anyway.
Also, speaking as an aspiring writer than knows something on the subject, determining what genre you’re aiming for is something you determine when you START writing, not at the end after it’s all done, otherwise your story probably isn’t going to be as well thought as you think, and you’re going to have a harder time selling it to publishers who are going to want to know this in advance, otherwise they aren’t going to be terribly confident you know what you’re doing.