How To Keep Writing Wacky Science Fiction

HOW TO KEEP WRITING WACKY SCIENCE FICTION - (or any fiction for that matter) - especially during a global pandemic

It started with Superstellar; my book about a pink-haired (earthling) girl who gets beamed aboard a space ship and becomes an intergalactic space queen. Twice!

Since then my penchant for writing wacky space adventures has overwhelmed, to say the least.

Next, I wrote Superpower. My story about a girl not from earth who's on earth, but she discovers earth is absolutely not where she's from. Also, she has the superpowers of the elements: earth, air, fire, and water.

I went on to start writing Supernatural about an earth girl from earth, so far. She's haunted by the echo device in her house. She's convinced there's a ghost in the machine. Is it possessed A.I. or is she the one about to become digitally possessed?

But I got sidetracked and started writing an even more wacky science fiction novel. It wasn't even supposed to be science fiction. The thing that wacked it was the fact that I was going to write up my elopement experience years ago. It rapidly descended into wacky sci-fi from the third sentence! Or maybe it was the second paragraph. I don't know. One minute I wrote that my fiancé and I were arguing, and the next I'm writing about being kidnapped by an alien from space called Utak! So far he's got feathers on his humanoid personage, and three arms. The alien, not my ex-fiancé.

So basically that's how you do it. Start with any genre and it can turn into science fiction and fantasy as you let your imagination run wild (and wacky).

Furthermore, I was supposed to be shifting to writing a rom com and it turned into craziness. And it's happened before. When I set out to write Matrimony Malfunction about a bride-to-be who was panicking about her wedding dress size, but shouldn't be. It turned into a rom com novel complete with a stalker and killer robots! Seriously, I'm wacked in the head, I know. Can't say it wasn't fun writing that. The thing is, I think I write the way I do because I like to and it truly is fun for me gosh darnet.

If you, like me, are finding fiction writing difficult during these troubled times. You're not alone. One way I've overcome this is by writing in the past or future. Skip the pandemic for now. Maybe come back to it later after all is said and done.

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