Sunday 13 July 2014

What The Best Sci Fi Books Should Try To Do Away

By Marylou Forbes


People who love to read will normally go for science fictions and fantasy genres. This is most likely because anything can happen in these stories. As long as the author makes the idea seem plausible, then it is a good story to pursue. It does not even matter if there are rules or no rules being followed for it.

However, there should be benefits in breaking the rules. Instead of following the normal conventions for your stories, you might want to break the rules a bit so that you can tell a fascinating story. Here are some of those normal rules in the best sci fi books that you should try to break when you are writing this story.

First, you should try to do away with the third-person omniscient. This means that yous should avoid having to use a third person narrative where the readers can see what is in the head of every character of the story. In a nutshell, you should avoid having to expose everything through this third person omniscient.

Avoid infodumps. This basically says that you should stop dumping on the readers a boat load of backstories and even technical schematics. If you push these information down the throat of your readers, they will definitely put down your book and look for another one they can read.

Having one book should become the norm once again. Instead of the popular trilogies and chronicle types of books, a writer should take it as a challenge to improve his or her writing skills and aim to have just one book. If you have one book, then you can definitely aim for a better market since you do not have to entice them to buy the sequel.

The plot should be created without having to rely on portals. This basically means that the protagonist should not always be in situations where he suddenly falls into a portal, he suddently finds an open pathway leading to a new world, or other similar situations. There are enough of that going around in the bookstores these days.

Space travels or light travels should also be taken away of the common plot for science fiction plots. Of course, it is definitely awesome to warp speed or to jump into hyperspace. However, there is a bit less realism in there. It might be exciting to go for space travels but the charm has already worn off after being used in lots of science fictions these days.

Magic is a very common element with fantasy and science fiction genres. If you can, you should make sure to avoid using the said element to the story you are making. You should write the science fictions or the fantasy stories without having to rely heavily on the magic or power of legendary people to make your world go round.

Try to use the present tense appropriately. Some of the writers these days say that present tense is disconcerting. However, it can actually work out better if you want to make your story feel more immediate. There is a vague arty literary presence with the use of present tense in your science fictions or fantasy stories.




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