Now is the time, gentle readers, to make suggestions for blog topics!
My list is running dangerously short, so now is your chance to make your voice heard. If not your voice, then your words, written in the comments section below. Give me your top 3, 5, 10 or even 20 topics! Heck, make it 100!
I'm having a rather serious case of writer's blog, ur, block. In fact, maybe that will be one of the topics! Who knows!
Make sure to comment quickly, because I have nothing written for Wednesday and Friday!
Yours Faithfully,
The Sign Painter
Mary-Sues and Gary-Stues (self-inserts)
ReplyDeleteOn Killing off Your Main Characters
Ripping off Other People's Work Or Just Taking Inspiration: The Fine Line
Non-humans I have known (like Redwall and Watership Down) and how they were effective characters
Robots
Unlikely genres and how they can be fun
Making up what you don't know: when it is appropriate
Politics in other worlds with other governments: fun or boooooring
Writing the supernatural
Sense of wonder (the Left Behind books do not have this)
Time travel and how to write it
Food in stories (Redwall, looking at you)
Oh my gosh Kessie, you're my second-favorite savior. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who can start with a blog title and fill in everything from there!
ReplyDeleteAnd some more! (Glad you liked the first list! Blogger ate my second list so I'm reposting it.)
ReplyDeleteWays to End the World
Ways to Rebuild the World
Invisible Writing
Zombies (fast or slow?)
Aliens
Vampires
Werewolves
Fantasy set in Medieval Times
Fantasy Set in Modern Times
Fantasy Set in the Future
Mindscrew
Brainstorming techniques
Why bother with dragons
The importance of the mundane
What magic looks like
Murder
Pacing
Insanity
Including pop culture references (dating yourself)
After reading Kessie's list I would love a pointer on writing invisible. I would love to be able to write without being seen.
ReplyDeleteWriting the best Snape X Dumbledore fanfic eva.
ReplyDeleteNo, seriously:
Religion and (or vs.) Fantasy - Why it's such a big deal.
Inspiration from/adaptation of other genres, especially the visual.
Editing - Or how to keep from becoming a pretentious, wordy ass.
Also: Nice World of Good reference :]
ReplyDeleteMoar hot, hot topics, texas-style with sauce:
Handling Criticism
Literary Masochism. (e.g. reading bad books/fiction for pleasure and as a lesson as to not what to do)