Posted on 09/05/2015 9:59:51 AM PDT by iowamark
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Sound familiar?
(Assyrian tablet, 2800 B.C.)
There is nothing new under the sun.
I wish some FReepers could get together for a collaborative sci fi effort.
I have plenty of detailed ideas in my head but don’t have the skill to put it down in words.
May check into.
Thanks.
First you need to be a loud mouthed liberal douche bag if you want to make it as a writer. :)
Did this course include all of Obola’s scriptwriters and teleprompter-fed media in his national press corpse of ABCNNBCBS?
Reminds me of Robert Mitchum’s quote: “Taking acting lessons is like practicing to be tall.”
I found a kindle ebook titled something like _John Scalzi is a bad writer and not as popular as me_.
I tried a sample and it was probably written by John Scalzi trying to portray the nonSJW mindset.
It was pretty pathetic.
Anyway, bfl.
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I gotta check this out. Bump
Bfl! Looks interesting!
Bfl! Looks interesting!
I read or write at least three hours a day and I'm a halfway decent writer.
If this is the U of Iowa it’s going to teach you how to write tiny slice-of-life minimal-action wandering plotless stories.
Maybe with lots of graphic sex.
I don’t think it would do much good for writers who want to explore the complexities of action writing. Which ain’t that easy.
then put it down in sentences. (joke) There are so few writers who are interested in the mechanics and techniques of writing that it drives me to the edge of despair. I can’t even find a decent forum where writers talk about their dismal craft, ink-stained wretches that we are.
I just think it would be cool for those of us FReepers who can’t write to throw ideas out there for Freepers who can to see where they can go with them.
Something I’ve been thinking about for a while is sophisticated robots with true human intelligence, memory and emotion downloaded from an existing human. They would have all the same knowledge, feelings, and memories of the human donor. At the moment of download they would be virtually identical in the intellectual/emotional sense.
After the download the human donor and the robot would begin to become separate individuals as they had different experiences and different viewpoints of experiences.
You could put your donor and bot characters on a starship on a 100,000 year journey. Maybe 10,000 human donors in stasis with 10,000 bots who maintain the ship and keep it operational. The bots would regularly download their brains into a computer in case they were damaged beyond repair so they could be replicated with as little loss as possible.
The ship could also be carrying say 50,000 cryogenically frozen embryos for colonization of the destination planet.
These are the sort of things I ponder as I go to sleep every night. I just don’t have the skill for building a coherent story around it.
Thanks. But if I ever get published it’ll just be another book.
bkmk
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