\"Writing.Com
*Magnify*
SPONSORED LINKS
Printed from https://shop.writing.com/main/forums/message_id/3217084
Rated: 13+ · Message Forum · Writing · #1474311
A month-long novel-planning challenge with prizes galore.
<< Previous  •  Message List  •  Next >>
Reply  •  Post New
Sep 30, 2018 at 1:08pm
#3217084
Re: Tomorrow is October 1st
Ultimately, it's about your story and what works for you, and it. The "What If" question is largely a starting point; of course other elements must end up in the story. Many of those are addressed in later assignments, but some things you'll have to come up with on your own. It's kind of like digging footers when building a house - the basic outline is laid out, but there's a lot more to the finished structure.

Science fiction puts a lot of emphasis on this particular question, but other genres use it as well. For example, in The Bourne Identity, it's "What if a master assassin woke up one day with amnesia?" Or, like Stephen King's Christine: "What if a car were possessed by evil spirits?"

(At least that's my interpretation. I didn't come up with the assignments.)


WALTZ
2018 October NaNoWriMo Prep Challenge
Tech Support Division


"Why annoy BrandiwynšŸŽ¶ with technical issues when you can annoy Robert Waltz instead?"


"...from the darkness" sig
MESSAGE THREAD
Tomorrow is October 1st · 09-30-18 12:40pm
by A Non-Existent User
*Star* Re: Tomorrow is October 1st · 09-30-18 1:08pm
by Robert Waltz Author IconMail Icon
Re: Tomorrow is October 1st · 09-30-18 5:55pm
by BrandiwynšŸŽ¶ Author IconMail Icon
Re: Tomorrow is October 1st · 09-30-18 6:26pm
by Anders J. Skeleton Author IconMail Icon
Re: Tomorrow is October 1st · 09-30-18 7:35pm
by Rich Author IconMail Icon
Re: Re: Tomorrow is October 1st · 10-01-18 10:57am
by MontyB Author IconMail Icon
Re: Re: Re: Tomorrow is October 1st · 10-01-18 7:57pm
by A.J. Barretts Author IconMail Icon
Re: Re: Re: Re: Tomorrow is October 1st · 10-02-18 4:06am
by Elle - on hiatus Author IconMail Icon

The following section applies to this forum item as a whole, not this individual post.
Any feedback sent through it will go to the forum's owner, BrandiwynšŸŽ¶.
Printed from https://shop.writing.com/main/forums/message_id/3217084