Last week’s WW: Be Not Afraid

That is the question.  The answer is simple:  Of course!

But is it really that easy?

Genres

What is a genre, if not using an existing idea to write something that fits within it?  I don’t think that anyone would argue that writing in an existing genre automatically makes a story unoriginal.  But where do we draw the line?  Want to write scifi, ok.  Want to write about scifi nanites, ok.  Want to write about scifi nanites in a post-apocalypic world, probably still ok.  How about nanites in a post-apocalypic, technologically advaced scifi world?  I sure hope that’s alright, cause I’m doing that now.  How specific must an idea get before it becomes a take-off of something else?   Continue reading →