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11 votes
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A historian's perspective on the Battle of Helms Deep
13 votes -
When you only cast non-actors in your movies
3 votes -
JK Rowling's new book, about a transphobe who faces wrath online, raises eyebrows
19 votes -
The true history of the Knights Templar with Dan Jones
4 votes -
The Futures of Inform (Talk transcript and slides)
3 votes -
The Great Fiction of AI | The strange world of high-speed semi-automated genre fiction
9 votes -
Sanderson’s First Law for magic systems
17 votes -
She spent a decade writing fake Russian history. Wikipedia just noticed.
8 votes -
Reading to improve language skills? Focus on fiction rather than non-fiction
6 votes -
Idol words
8 votes -
Harry Potter (a literary analysis)
9 votes -
I gave psilocybin a try
Can you answer "yes" to that statement? Tell me about it.
18 votes -
Fifty years of text games
11 votes -
The melancholy decline of the semicolon
17 votes -
Marvel Unlimited - Free month
4 votes -
How to save the novel - self-censorship and problematic language in modern fiction
4 votes -
The poisons – real and fictional – used in Bond films
7 votes -
The 'Shoulder Check' problem, or when snippets of LGBT life feel out of place to others in fiction
9 votes -
A story about living in nature and the value of culture captures the spirit of Finland – Lizzie Enfield explores the remarkable legacy of 'Seitsemän veljestä'
9 votes -
Substack just made a major new hire as it goes after comic-book writers and expands its fiction efforts
4 votes -
Why is young adult fiction the defining literary genre of the last two decades? What does its popularity say about modern American life?
20 votes -
Did Twitter break young adult fiction?
10 votes -
Queer readings of The Lord of the Rings are not accidents
12 votes -
Who’s afraid of modern art: Vandalism, video games, and fascism
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What are some great LGBT speculative fiction?
Speculative fiction contains elements that don't exist in reality. It includes genres such as science fiction, fantasy, and supernatural horror. A producer friend is looking for stories with a...
Speculative fiction contains elements that don't exist in reality. It includes genres such as science fiction, fantasy, and supernatural horror.
A producer friend is looking for stories with a focus on LGBT issues. As someone with a predilection for speculative fiction, it would be great to read/watch some speculative stories that deal with issues in that area. I am aware of some stories with LGBT characters, but gender and LGBT issues are generally not the main themes. I'd love to get suggestions for movies, TV shows, and books (especially short stories) that deal with those issues in a proper and inventive way.
As usual, Wikipedia has an extensive list on the subject, but I was hoping to get some more personal suggestions from the Tildes crowd.
Thanks!
7 votes -
The protagonist problem
13 votes -
It began as an AI-fueled dungeon game, it got much darker
14 votes -
The Paradox of Fiction
3 votes -
The best advice I've ever gotten for writing fiction
9 votes -
Ars’ plea: Someone make this into a series
8 votes -
The internet’s most beloved fanfiction site is undergoing a reckoning
15 votes -
The current New York Times Best Sellers list for combined print and e-book fiction, scaled according to demand for the e-book at a selection of US public libraries
6 votes -
Ready Player Two available now
@Ready Player Two: pic.twitter.com/8zsAmQaZV9
8 votes -
The New York Times Book Review editors' choices for the ten best books of 2020
7 votes -
Into The Omegaverse: How furry fanfic tropes landed in federal court - Featuring LegalEagle, Contrapoints, Caitlin Doughty, and more
15 votes -
Why Panem from The Hunger Games might be the most incompetent dystopian government in fiction
8 votes -
Football in the year 17,776 as told from space
12 votes -
“Would you be willing to ask Siri how to assassinate Trump?” - excerpt from Shelter in Place
6 votes -
The obsessively complete Infocom catalog
10 votes -
CBS Studios has struck a global first-look deal for an adaptation of Ragnar Jónasson's best-selling nordic-noir book The Darkness
5 votes -
Black Panther titles are free on Comixology
8 votes -
Novel idea: The Apartment
Just finished (re-)watching the Friends TV series ... End of the last episode, sitting in the empty apartment (Joey: "Has it always been purple?" Phoebe: "Do you realize that at one time or...
Just finished (re-)watching the Friends TV series ... End of the last episode, sitting in the empty apartment (Joey: "Has it always been purple?" Phoebe: "Do you realize that at one time or another, we've all lived in this apartment?")
Got me thinking, more as a plot contrivance than the actual plot, a story about an apartment, spanning a century or more, and the various people that lived in it, jumping back and forth across time, linking them together through history ... perhaps even, a la "Ship of Theseus", spanning multiple centuries and multiple homes/dwellings that occupied the same space.
So specifically, I'm wondering if anyone can think of any novels that adopt this idea, or anything similar, as a primary vehicle for their storytelling?
I have a vague recollection of a short story or novella in 2ndary school, about the life of a redwood, and the various people and animals that lived in and around it over the centuries ... and also I recall reading "A Winter Tale" by Mark Helperin -- a semi-fantastical novel about the city of New York ... oh look, apparently, they made it into a movie, too.
But those two are the only examples I can think of that come close to this idea.
PS: I love to write fiction, and someday I may even finish a novel ... but generally, I get about halfway through, figure out how it's going to end, and then lose interest ... so if anyone with more ambition likes the idea, you're welcome to it.
ETA: I'm not looking for the 10,000 variations of "oooh, haunted by the ghost of a person that died here 20 years ago". Broader, covering a longer timeframe, multiple substories interwoven into the same living space, you get the idea.
10 votes -
You Are A Chair
13 votes -
AI Dungeon: Dragon Model Upgrade
12 votes -
GPT-3 writing creative fiction on its own
3 votes -
Thirty-one brand new LGBTQ YA books to devour this summer
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A feud in wolf-kink erotic fanfiction raises deep legal questions about copyright and authorship
18 votes -
AI Dungeon Multiplayer is out!
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Fiction writers introduction thread!
1. Definition By fiction, I mean: literature in the form of prose, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people. (Google) 2. Introduce Yourself! I understand we...
1. Definition
By fiction, I mean:
literature in the form of prose, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people. (Google)
2. Introduce Yourself!
I understand we have at least one professional writer in the house (I cannot remember your username, sorry!), and several aspirant writers.
Every once in awhile, I get the urge to suggest some collaborative threads exercises, but it's hard to gauge interest without a better notion of how many fiction writers we have.
With that in mind, I make this call for introductions!
Please try to include:
- Have you ever made money writing fiction?[1]
- First writing language(s): Examples: English, Portuguese, German, etc
- Other writing languages(s): same as above. English is implied.
- Formats* : Examples: Short story, Romance, Play, Screenplay, etc
- Genres*: Examples: horror, science-fiction, fantasy, etc.
- Main themes*: Examples: relationships, violence, artificial intelligence, etc.
- Link to Writing Sample(s) on Tildes or Ghostbin (either as
text
ormarkdown
) - What do you expect to achieve with your writing (anything, either subjective or objective)?[2]
- Apart from ~creative, where do you go for feedback?
- Are you looking for collaborations of any kind? Yes or No.
Footnotes
[1] The purpose of this question is not to assess the quality of your writing, but rather the position writing occupies in your life. Is this something you do in your free time, or does it have a central role among your other activities? I do not pretend to know how and why everyone writes, this is just a starter. Feel free to share as much as you want.
[2] For example: self-expression, philosophical investigation, external appreciation (nothing wrong with that), financial rewards, political or societal change, any combination of those.
* In order of importance
8 votes