Post by account_disabled on Dec 4, 2023 23:16:19 GMT -6
Last week a reader asked me if two literary genres can coexist together, because she has an idea for a novel and doubts about its validity. In reality, one of the two - which is not a genre, rather, but a genre - has been far too abused in literature, to the detriment of quality. I like the mix of multiple elements within a story, as long as there is originality and you don't end up writing the same old things. Above all, I think there needs to be consistency and solidity in the story. It is not important, now, to know what those two elements of the reader are, but we can very well imagine wizards.
Harry Potter, and project them into the future: will it be interesting as a story? Does the fantasy combination always work? Gianni Rodari taught us the fantastic combination: taking two Phone Number Data elements at random and putting them together. What will come of it? Naturally, we have an advantage when it comes to children's stories : the crazier and more imaginative they are, the better. They generate curiosity and stimulate. But we're talking about stories for adults here. In my opinion, Rodari's binomial can only work if a strong bond is established between the two elements . Have you read I Am Legend by Matheson? Vampires and science fiction. Nice story, credible, also because the vampires in that book are not those of Bram Stoker and Twilight .
In that novel the link between the two elements was strong and was not to be found in the simplification vampires + science fiction, but in viruses + mutation (science fiction) = beings similar to vampires. Consider the strength of the two elements Is it a wedding that needs to happen? Or is it better to think about another pairing? What I would go to see is whether the two elements clash together. Wizards and science fiction can work, if you create a valid context that justifies the presence of wizards in a futuristic world. I, Frankenstein was recently released at the cinema, based on a graphic novel, of which I refuse to even see the trailer: Mary Shelley's creature projected into a fantasy of demons.
Harry Potter, and project them into the future: will it be interesting as a story? Does the fantasy combination always work? Gianni Rodari taught us the fantastic combination: taking two Phone Number Data elements at random and putting them together. What will come of it? Naturally, we have an advantage when it comes to children's stories : the crazier and more imaginative they are, the better. They generate curiosity and stimulate. But we're talking about stories for adults here. In my opinion, Rodari's binomial can only work if a strong bond is established between the two elements . Have you read I Am Legend by Matheson? Vampires and science fiction. Nice story, credible, also because the vampires in that book are not those of Bram Stoker and Twilight .
In that novel the link between the two elements was strong and was not to be found in the simplification vampires + science fiction, but in viruses + mutation (science fiction) = beings similar to vampires. Consider the strength of the two elements Is it a wedding that needs to happen? Or is it better to think about another pairing? What I would go to see is whether the two elements clash together. Wizards and science fiction can work, if you create a valid context that justifies the presence of wizards in a futuristic world. I, Frankenstein was recently released at the cinema, based on a graphic novel, of which I refuse to even see the trailer: Mary Shelley's creature projected into a fantasy of demons.