The text on this page isn't important, just the link above this line. Reading it, however, might open you to a more open style of thinking.
I'm a new author (new as in only recently published in this capacity), but have been writing since grade seven. I remember that I would try to write "normal" things, but I could never succeed. Sure, I'd come close, but there was always one thing that stuck out: An alien character- the most tech savvy guy in the word driving around in a friggin' Yugo (Yes, it was held together by duct tape. Feel free to laugh at the irony), half-animal characters like something straight out of a bad animé, or even just playing around with physics when the characters realized "Hey, I'm not real- I'm in a book. I can eat rat poison and I'll come back if the dude writing this gets a kick out of it."
No, don't try to imitate that last one, but my point stands- it was (and still is) a unique style of writing, not unlike Rick from Rick & Morty, if you will- what with all of the bending-reality-at-your-whims.
Over the years, I've tried writing a number of different things, one where the characters even ended up in a world where the Norman Conquest of 1066 failed, so English remained close to its Germanic brethren… Runic was even an alternate script, simply because I thought it was neat to write in.
Quite honestly, the only limits to my ideas could best be summed up as "Here's what most people do- I'm incapable of this, so I'm switching gears and going Alien Space Bats crazy with this. It's more entertaining, anyway.".
Entertaining it was, as well as helped me expand on my critical thinking skills. For instance, everyone thinks that vampires would hate garlic because it's a deterrent or murder weapon against them.
Scientifically… no.
Garlic, being a natural anticoagulant, would actually be beneficial to the vampire, especially if the victim had eaten it a short while before because the victim's blood would be thinner.
Could the Eastern Bloc still exist? It's quite possible, had changes been implemented sooner and the peoples' opinion over there shifted before everything came crashing down… and it wouldn't be a dictatorship.
Þe þing I'm getting at is þe amount of hƿat-ifs þat actually exist.
Is there anything wrong with writing with the letters Þ, Ƿ, Æ, Œ, Ŋ, Ð, Ȝ, and everything else we've lost or never had? Is there anything wrong with asking a question that makes a few people mad?
Is it wrong to want to look into another world, so different and so similar to our own at the same time, that it makes you think about what else could go on in that world that is or isn't in ours?
The choice is yours, and there's nothing wrong with going after your thoughts and turning them into an existent item.
And, with this, I bid my farewell.
Ænd, ƿiþ þis, I bid my fareƿell.
ᚫᚾᛞ, ᚹᛁᚦ ᚦᛁᛋ, ᛁ ᛒᛁᛞ ᛗᚣ ᚠᚪᚱᛖᚹᛖᛚᛚ.
И на етом я прощаюсь.
就这样,我告别了。
就這樣,我告別了。
そして、これでお別れです。
그리고 이것으로 작별을 고합니다.
Үүгээр би салах ёс гүйцэтгэж байна.
2 comments:
I love this kind of out of the box/standard realm line of thinking!
Thank you so much, Re85sa! When you start questioning mundane things and accepted facts of life, you can have some pretty wild end results!
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