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Worldbuilding
May. 30th, 2012 07:25 amThe trouble with me and writing is I find the inventing things stage interesting and the writing stories part hard work. I suspect this is common. Plus by the time I've invented a world in sufficient detail to know how the plots would work out, I know how the plots would work out. I mean, why explore more?
:eyeroll:
All of which is to say that despite me not having writ a single episode with Rhodri et al, after filling a folder full of world notes, I have another ever so slightly different world springing to mind.
I was thinking that my assorted insomniac mary sue adventures have departed from their madly crossed over canon sources to the point I could just slip the last few ties and have basically a whole new epic science fiction adventure. Which, granted, would be a tad bit familiar in places, but, genre.
But if I put it that way, nobody would ever read it.
Yet if it's all about awesome women running interstellar empires and kicking lots of arse, with bonus epic romances, some of them between expressive scientists and stoic military types, that's like a grab bag of everything cool.
All the women looking like clones of me would be somewhat of a problem for the cool factor though.
( Read more... )
Would be an easy way to populate a 'verse though. Take all the spaceship shows and give them different planets, see how their politics crunches together. All those ready made characters and that political variety, even if you only bring the humans. And then what I would do is different again, so my people would be in the middle, clearly being right.
Or, you know, not, and then readers would still be interested because they could cheer the other teams.
Writing it as a crossover... it kind of happens sometimes, but it's always x visits y's world, small team stuff. There's never just, the Tau'ri discover the Federation, politics ensues. I mean, in Stargate there are so many planets and galaxies of humans, there's no particular reason to not just do that. Granted the history of the Federation would involve parallels of epic scope right up until the 1960s, but go lalala about that a very little and you've just got another set of neighbours. If the Earth all these space heroics start from is just one in a vast set of planets where people looked at the ground and named it Earth then everything fits like kaleidoscopes. And it's suddenly less obvious who The Good Guys are.
That could be interesting.
But now I should do essays.
:eyeroll:
All of which is to say that despite me not having writ a single episode with Rhodri et al, after filling a folder full of world notes, I have another ever so slightly different world springing to mind.
I was thinking that my assorted insomniac mary sue adventures have departed from their madly crossed over canon sources to the point I could just slip the last few ties and have basically a whole new epic science fiction adventure. Which, granted, would be a tad bit familiar in places, but, genre.
But if I put it that way, nobody would ever read it.
Yet if it's all about awesome women running interstellar empires and kicking lots of arse, with bonus epic romances, some of them between expressive scientists and stoic military types, that's like a grab bag of everything cool.
All the women looking like clones of me would be somewhat of a problem for the cool factor though.
( Read more... )
Would be an easy way to populate a 'verse though. Take all the spaceship shows and give them different planets, see how their politics crunches together. All those ready made characters and that political variety, even if you only bring the humans. And then what I would do is different again, so my people would be in the middle, clearly being right.
Or, you know, not, and then readers would still be interested because they could cheer the other teams.
Writing it as a crossover... it kind of happens sometimes, but it's always x visits y's world, small team stuff. There's never just, the Tau'ri discover the Federation, politics ensues. I mean, in Stargate there are so many planets and galaxies of humans, there's no particular reason to not just do that. Granted the history of the Federation would involve parallels of epic scope right up until the 1960s, but go lalala about that a very little and you've just got another set of neighbours. If the Earth all these space heroics start from is just one in a vast set of planets where people looked at the ground and named it Earth then everything fits like kaleidoscopes. And it's suddenly less obvious who The Good Guys are.
That could be interesting.
But now I should do essays.