Sheffield SFF Writers group needs your input!
As part of the Off the Shelf festival, Sheffield SFF Writers
group is hosting the ‘Write a Book in a Day’ event. For this event, we’re
building a shared world that can be a starting point for six sci-fi/fantasy
genres. In each of the genres (split into ages), I’m looking for two different
entries to flesh out the world;
STOCK: Details, locations and events that anyone is free to
use or alter for their story. I’m not looking for too many of these, as the
writers themselves will no doubt have their own stock of characters; however,
having a common linking device (such as a prolific family or key battle) in two
stories will help this be a shared-world collection of stories, and not just a
set of stories that happen to share a world. Entries should be less than 100
words each, and be open enough that multiple people can have a different take
on them (A common family name is more useful in a shared world than a single
character, and there’s not going to be a fixed map, so keeping locations fluid
will let other writers add their own details.).
‘INSPIRATION POINTS’: A more open, interpretive entry,
Inspiration Points are little pieces of scenes that someone struggling to start
their story can use. Beginnings, in media
res paragraphs, or descriptions of a scene are all welcome, the more open
the better. For instance, these entries (submitted by myself and Chris
Joynson);
1) “You
can tell a lot about your enemy by their arrows.” said Imp, “Copper headed
ones, that’s bandits, or Dreamer save you the elves. Iron headed ones, that’s
town guards, and they only fire them if they can get them back; they have to
pay for ammunition.” He snatched an arrow from the air as we ran, “Steel
heads!” he said triumphantly, “with a smith’s mark and everything! Be proud,
master; someone rich wants us dead
for a change.”
2) A
ship floats dead in space. The crew’s belongings are left lying around, as if
they’d stepped out a minute ago, but the food has rotted to dust, the power
cells are completely drained, and the ship’s log is decades old. What happened?
Entries should be less than 100 words.
All submissions from the writer’s group are welcome; please
submit entries to Mathew.presley82@gmail.com
(Subject: SHARED WORLD SUBS)
GENRES: The six genres the shared world will cover are;
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