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

Andrew Perron pwerdna at gmail.com
Fri Feb 21 06:00:01 PST 2014


On Wed, 5 Feb 2014 02:16:07 +0000 (UTC), Tom Russell wrote:

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>    His challenge, "Outside the Walls of Genre", was to "take your
> characters and put them in an alternate universe that doesn't have
> superheroes!" I read the challenge and was immediately inspired to
> begin work on the story "Other Life", which forms the first part of
> NONFICTION # 2. During the editing process, however, I revisited
> Andrew's original post and began to think that I had
> misread/misunderstood the parameters of the challenge. I think whether
> or not I did depends on the meaning of the word "put".
>    If by "put them in an alternate universe" he meant to displace the
> characters, SLIDERS-like, then "Other Life" is good to go. If by "put
> them in an alternate universe" he meant to reimagine existing
> characters in the context of a different genre, then "Other Life"
> doesn't really address the challenge at all. I began thinking that
> maybe I should work on another story that would more properly fit
> Andrew's challenge.

Going to cover this in more detail in the roundup, but: I meant the latter,
but doing the former fits the challenge 100%! And heck, I love it when that
happens - when an idea gets taken in an entirely different direction than
expected.

Andrew "NO .SIG MAN" "Juan" Perron, alternities


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