Writing life: Where Ideas Come From, Part IX

[elfs]

I stumbled today upon the Grand List of Overused Science Fiction Clichés. My first reaction? Print it out and attack it with a highlighter: green for things I've done, orange for things I've parodied or Shakespeared, and yellow for the ones I haven't tried yet.

Comments

[jenkitty.livejournal.com]

78. The stolen alien technology is already compatible with our power systems and can be installed and used immediately.

"Shit! It won't interface with the ship's computer! Botsie, can you port it?"

"Already on it man, already on it..." tikka tikka tikka CLICK "This baby's gonna need a 30-pin attachment welded on before we can plug it into the main system..."

"Well, hop to it, man!"

BEEP

[sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com]

Actually, with judicious use of the SPAN tag and CSS, you could post that up here for us to see. :-)

[flying-pegasus.livejournal.com]

Clichés are not in themselves necessarily bad, but their overuse shows that the writer has forgotten what separates the strong tale from the hollow: "the human heart in conflict with itself,

When is it not?

Dan Brown - wrote Angel Deamons and it's a very good book. It shows the truth with in the dark of Science and Religion...I know it has nothing to do with the topic.

But

I'm in love with the Author. So go buy his book...giggle. You do like to read don't you?

[mouser.livejournal.com]

...and circle those that sound like cool ideas that you didn't think of using, but now will.