8FOLD/HCC: Nonfiction # 2 (part 2), "Other Lives"

[Scott Eiler]

On 2/4/2014 6:16 PM, Tom Russell wrote:

>     Andrew really put the
> "challenge" into High Concept Challenge with this one. Because for the
> life of me, I can't or won't reimagine any of my significant
> characters in any other context.

I have the opposite problem.  Before I ever published an Ellipsis story, 
I found he works awfully well as a cyberpunk character.  Wyatt Ferguson 
basically *is* an intruder in a superhero genre; he'd work about as well 
if he took the place of Harry Potter.  And, well, there's the Powernaut. 
  *All he does* is get reimagined into other genres.  (To date I count 
Patriotic, Men's Adventure, Teen, Team-Up, Spy, Underground, Modern 
Angst, and Apocalypse.)  With those Big Three characters to choose from, 
how do I meet the challenge in a meaningful way?

I do have a response ready to go.  I'm going to take the one-week 
extension, though, because I've been pushing out Powernaut 1968 until today.

-- 
(signed) Scott Eiler  8{D> -------- http://www.eilertech.com/ ---------

When you *are* the leader... whatever goes wrong... whether you did it
or not... *you* are held responsible. - Barack Obama

I know. - Archie Andrews

- from Archie #617, March 2011, scripted by Alex Simmons.