Scribbled Fiction

Merry Christmas, ya'll. It's gonna be Christmas on Tuesday, which is when I usually do a post, so I'm just gonna show you some spoof Christmas carols I did on my twitter and call it a day. You can probably guess what all of these are at a glance, but let's see you guess in the comments. And if you can come up with one of these off the top of your head, I'd love to read it. Here we go! Like I said, it's not much of a post, but it's Christmas, so bye and I'll see you next week for my next post, which is going to be some fun facts about myself! What are you doing this Christmas? What's your favorite Christmas song? Let me know in the comments! My  Instagram My  Twitter

I already did underused creatures in fantasy, and it seemed to be pretty popular (you can go see it  here ), so now I'm doing another one! Since the only creature consistent to sci-fi is, um, aliens, I'm doing concepts instead. So, allons-y! Off we go on our list of ten underused concepts in science fiction. Ever consider: Aliens that are seriously NOT humanoid. Question: Does a fish have arms and legs? No? And yet they function anyway? News flash!  Not all of God's creations are built the same way, so let's have some diversity! Make them something that can be more or less easily imagined, of course, like saying they were a cross between a squid and an albatross, but not all of them have to be humanoid. Humans getting the short end of the stick on everything. A lot of people use the thing where we're underdeveloped as opposed to the other races, but we could even take it a step further. Maybe our lack of unity in our own race is frowned upon by the others...

I. Love. Antiheroes! YAAAAAAAASSSS Antiheroes are my favorite kind of character. They're unpredictable, more often than not they're sarcastic and witty, and they're definitely the most interesting of all the character archetypes. But people are ruining them left and right. How? They're making them become good guys. The allure of the antihero is that they're not really good or bad. They look out for number one as their top priority in life, and making them necessarily good or evil ruins the allure unless done correctly. Tell me if this process sounds familiar: 1) Something that shouldn't really be earth-shattering happens to the antihero, such as the hero saving them or something, 2) The antihero realizes that this means they've been wrong all along, 3) They dedicate their lives to doing good in this world, acting like their past of wrongdoing never happened. It's annoying. To me. I'm sorry if I'm coming off as really ang...

Dunno about you, but harsher characters tend to seep into my stories one way or another. I don't condone their actions and the unsavory attitudes they have on occasion, but they happen one way or another. And occasionally, such as during the preplanning for this last NaNoWriMo, I feel like I'm doing it wrong.  Seriously, call me crazy, but sometimes when I really have the feel of the character together, I get their voice in my head. They're not always there, sometimes they won't talk to me at all, but on occasion, when I ask them a question, they'll answer me. During the prewriting for this last NaNoWriMo, the character that was giving me grief was one of the boat crew. I think I forgot to tell you this before, but I had a crew of nine people total, Javi included, and I tried my hardest to make them all unique, memorable characters. I probably failed at it miserably, but c'est la vie. *shrug* The character I was having a hard time with was a really big, r...