Sci-Fi & Speculative Writing w/David

Take a look at the slides from this awesome workshop for everything David shared: https://youtu.be/miRkF08AXDM. Or you can read the summary below. Be sure to post your writing in the comment section!

Imagining the Future of the Familiar

Scene from Upload (2020)

  • Note how many everyday objects are re-imagined in this scene.

  • This includes biological, technological, and spiritual

Little Thing” (Short Film) (2018)

  • Note the effect of an inhuman character viewing the familiar human world through their lens.

Exercise 1: Re-imagining the Familiar

  •  List a series of common, everyday objects, places, or events.

    • For those who were part of this workshop in May, you may wish to try the events or places prompt

      • e.g., What does a wedding of the future look like? (Event)

      • e.g., What does a classroom of the future look like? (Place)

  • Now let’s imagine how they will be different in 50 years (there are no wrong answers).

    • Pick two or three from your list and speculate on how they will be different

    • Will they be made of different materials? Will how we use them change? Will they be as common? Obsolete? Will they have a different use?

Exercise 2:

In all writing, your reader is being dropped into your world.

Some of you will have done “the Fish out of Water” exercise where a character finding their bearings in a new world is exactly what your reader experiences.

In your world of the future, what are the three things your “fish out of water” notices first?