Post by N7Pathfinder on May 3, 2017 16:56:14 GMT
This thread is for writers or story tellers wanting to express ideas about story genres and ways to twist them for interesting storylines. The genre of a story is very important, because it determines everything. The setting, the depiction of your world, the characters, the dialogue, and most importantly, how the story is supposed to go.
It's safe to assume that most genre's have a pre-determined storyline that every movie or story seems to follow. Sci-fi for example is usually set in space or a future dystopia, where a guy (or girl) joins an army to fight off against a tyrannical ruler. And I do mean it, this type of plot thread is everywhere! Star Wars, the new Star Trek movies, The Hunger Games, Terminator, The Matrix. The similarities are there.
Now some writers are smart enough to try and twist elements of genres around to create unique stories. Sometimes it's combining two genre's together (Dark Tower being Western/fantasy, Aliens being sci-fi/horror, and Back to the Future being sci-fi/romantic comedy (yeah, when I look back at it, if you took out the whole time travel thing, the story of back to the future feels more like a high school romantic comedy about a guy trying to help another guy get the girl of his dreams.)) But sometimes a writer will choose a genre, but add a new element to it that makes it stand out. George R.R. Martin made a fantasy world where swords and sorcery are minor compared to the religion and politics and one of my favorite underrated books, Anonymous Rex, is basically a detective noir but the main characters are dinosaurs.
So in this thread, here's a challenge. Take a genre and describe a certain twist(s) that could help a story feel a bit unique.
For example, let's say I want to make a time travel story, but one of the most obvious plot-lines time-travel stories usually do is that someone travels to past, mucks up the future, and has to try and correct in the past in some bonkers way. To make my story unique, I decide to go with an opposite direction. What if a time traveller goes to the future and ends up altering the past? Obviously, it seems a little crazy since the idea of change past, change future makes a lot more sense, so I would have to figure out a simple way to make it happen. Let's say for some reason (fate, destiny or whatever) when a certain (big) element of the future is changed, like a certain character gets killed or a war begins, the past ends up adjusting itself so that the big event of the future happens naturally. For example, a character commits suicide because of something the traveller said or did, so in the past this character begins to exhibit signs of depression and has a history of depression.
Your turn. Pick a genre and describe a twist you would add to make it feel unique.
It's safe to assume that most genre's have a pre-determined storyline that every movie or story seems to follow. Sci-fi for example is usually set in space or a future dystopia, where a guy (or girl) joins an army to fight off against a tyrannical ruler. And I do mean it, this type of plot thread is everywhere! Star Wars, the new Star Trek movies, The Hunger Games, Terminator, The Matrix. The similarities are there.
Now some writers are smart enough to try and twist elements of genres around to create unique stories. Sometimes it's combining two genre's together (Dark Tower being Western/fantasy, Aliens being sci-fi/horror, and Back to the Future being sci-fi/romantic comedy (yeah, when I look back at it, if you took out the whole time travel thing, the story of back to the future feels more like a high school romantic comedy about a guy trying to help another guy get the girl of his dreams.)) But sometimes a writer will choose a genre, but add a new element to it that makes it stand out. George R.R. Martin made a fantasy world where swords and sorcery are minor compared to the religion and politics and one of my favorite underrated books, Anonymous Rex, is basically a detective noir but the main characters are dinosaurs.
So in this thread, here's a challenge. Take a genre and describe a certain twist(s) that could help a story feel a bit unique.
For example, let's say I want to make a time travel story, but one of the most obvious plot-lines time-travel stories usually do is that someone travels to past, mucks up the future, and has to try and correct in the past in some bonkers way. To make my story unique, I decide to go with an opposite direction. What if a time traveller goes to the future and ends up altering the past? Obviously, it seems a little crazy since the idea of change past, change future makes a lot more sense, so I would have to figure out a simple way to make it happen. Let's say for some reason (fate, destiny or whatever) when a certain (big) element of the future is changed, like a certain character gets killed or a war begins, the past ends up adjusting itself so that the big event of the future happens naturally. For example, a character commits suicide because of something the traveller said or did, so in the past this character begins to exhibit signs of depression and has a history of depression.
Your turn. Pick a genre and describe a twist you would add to make it feel unique.