Blog Detail
The Story Faucet
http://www.threetreesstudios.com/ideas/
A blog about writing ideas and where to get them, primarily focused on science fiction and fantasy.
- Added on: Jun 14th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Elton Gahr
- Listed in: How-To Fiction
- Tags: ideas science fiction fantasy writing advice stories
Recent Posts
Some great places to find ideas
There are hundreds of websites across the internet with great information that can fill any science fiction author with ideas. Seeing technology that is expected in ten years can not only supply ideas for modern science fiction stories but long dista...
Partial or insufficent story ideas
One of the most frustrating feelings for a writer is knowing that you have an idea that you like but can’t find a good way to use it. It could be a character that you love or a technology for a science fiction story that just doesn’t have eno...
Using Maps to create story ideas
One of the things that you will find at the beginning of many fantasy novels is a map. This is often used as a sort of enticement for the reader showing him oddly named places that the characters may or may not ever visit, but the truth is that often...
Writing your way out of a corner
One of my favorite stories about ideas comes from Douglas Adams. The original Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy radio drama. He ended one episode with Arthur and Ford thrown into space by the Vorgons with no idea how they were going to survive. There w...
Using allegory as a way to discover ideas
One of the things that science fiction and fantasy can do better than any form of literature is allegory. It can give us distance from things that are simply to inflammatory or uncomfortable to talk about. This is often easy to see when you look at...
“Borrowing” ideas
Ideas are important, but often the best ideas are almost infinitely variable if you take them at their most basic. Consider the story idea “A young boy is trained to be a soldier by the military. You could make this science fiction, fantasy, ho...
