/lit/ - Literature

>>19288638
Congrats bro, hope it all comes together. You give me hope that I'll finish drafts 2 and 3 and be on to new stories next year.

>>19165559
Thanks for sharing. I don't know what tomorrow holds, but if I can still write I look forward to the day someone accepts my writing.

>>18919687
Can you be more specific on what you think the issue is? Anyways here's some advice using the MICE quotient. If its a novel you have room to tell the story with all 4 ways. If you have a novella, novelette or short story you only have a few you could work with. Scifi short stories are usually not character based, but better for Ideas and Events from those that I've read. You can tell character based short stories but people may not notice or care that it's scifi unless its building into an established scifi world they already care about.

>Milieu
Learn more about the scifi setting and reveal things about the characters subtly by learning more about the world. The process of going to one area and back out or even to another is great and you can either build anticipation with it or even surprise readers. You can have a lot of fun with this as long as you have some science to back it up, no matter hand-wavy it is you can justify it more later if you want through research.
>Ideas
Read visionary science topics, perhaps ones people are already investing in or future trend think tanks have "predicted."
>Character
Get a variety of opposing motivations, attitudes and viewpoints from your characters. Get sub plots going between the characters that tie into the main plot. Scifi has potential for some very bizarre characters and viewpoints since you can normalize things that no one on earth considers normal.
>Event
For me this is pretty big. When I think about the future, I think of some big stupid event that changes everyone's lives forever and can be powerful for a precipitating event or other kinds of the climax.