What exactly is Sci-fi-lite?
Okay, here goes. First, let it be known that I am claiming sci-fi-lite as my term. Don't know if it's been used before. Maybe I should copyright it? What do you think? I guess you need to know what it means; to me, anyway.
Sci-fi-lite means you have a fun, exciting, adventurous story with limited technological terminology and limited futuristic gizmos and gadgets. Don't get me wrong, I use gizmos, for example; a magnigun is a laser gun that is based on magnetic principals. I'm not a physicist, so, yes, it's made up, and no, I don't know if it could be real.
Moving on; Sci-fi-lite, other than being a little awkward to keyboard, (notice I didn't date myself by saying type), haha, and I won't tell you how old I am, (relatives reading this- shut it!) sci-fi-lite usually has realistic events. I know, that's a bit of an oxymoron,(sorry editors, can't get an em dash)- for young readers this means they are opposite in meaning. Most people use" honest politician" as an example. In realistic science fiction, the people and their daily lives shouldbe familiar to the reader, for exampl: parent/teenager difficulties, jealousies, anger, love, romance, sibling rivalry and so on. Once again, realistic doesn't mean you won't encounter weird animals or people- that's the sci-fi part.
Oh, and a biggie for me, the content should be appropriate for young readers as well as adult. For me that means no bad language and no sex. I know that's a big deal these days but I'm willing to take the chance on fewer sales in order to keep my writing clean. Besides, in my opinion which is what this blog is right? if you have to resort to bad language and sex to draw readers, your writing needs work. I'm just sayin'.
So, that's it in a nut shell. If you want to read a good sci-fi-lite book, try Golden Hope , by Donna Chubb, found on Amazon, B&N, Nook, Kindle, and @All Things That Matter Press.
www.sci-fi-lite.com
Sci-fi-lite means you have a fun, exciting, adventurous story with limited technological terminology and limited futuristic gizmos and gadgets. Don't get me wrong, I use gizmos, for example; a magnigun is a laser gun that is based on magnetic principals. I'm not a physicist, so, yes, it's made up, and no, I don't know if it could be real.
Moving on; Sci-fi-lite, other than being a little awkward to keyboard, (notice I didn't date myself by saying type), haha, and I won't tell you how old I am, (relatives reading this- shut it!) sci-fi-lite usually has realistic events. I know, that's a bit of an oxymoron,(sorry editors, can't get an em dash)- for young readers this means they are opposite in meaning. Most people use" honest politician" as an example. In realistic science fiction, the people and their daily lives shouldbe familiar to the reader, for exampl: parent/teenager difficulties, jealousies, anger, love, romance, sibling rivalry and so on. Once again, realistic doesn't mean you won't encounter weird animals or people- that's the sci-fi part.
Oh, and a biggie for me, the content should be appropriate for young readers as well as adult. For me that means no bad language and no sex. I know that's a big deal these days but I'm willing to take the chance on fewer sales in order to keep my writing clean. Besides, in my opinion which is what this blog is right? if you have to resort to bad language and sex to draw readers, your writing needs work. I'm just sayin'.
So, that's it in a nut shell. If you want to read a good sci-fi-lite book, try Golden Hope , by Donna Chubb, found on Amazon, B&N, Nook, Kindle, and @All Things That Matter Press.
www.sci-fi-lite.com
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