Generating New Ideas

When you're stuck as to what kind of story to write, start by thinking of nonsensical genres you could put on the cover somewhere. Catalectic Fantasia. Quasi-Experiential Scientific Opera. Dark Internalization. Shamelessly Speculative Narrativa. With your senses of reasonable storytelling accordingly jarred, true creativity will be possible.

Addendum

Similarly, if you make a chimera in your magical lab, your atelier if you prefer, it isn't mythological, but it remains a chimera. Fortunately the category of bioweapons is universally recognized, but many would find it offputting to hear a work described as "bioweapon fantasy." For now.

Addender

I was going to propose extractionlit, but, well, you know.

Addendum

They won't be noble at all, but let's throw our minor factions the bone of dignity, which costs nothing and can be chewed forever without being broken up.

The Next Subgenre

We've all been enjoying litRPG, but now it's time for sokolit. That's right, it's time to push blocks . . . in text! Different styles will emerge. Will pushing boxes be the inciting incident, a background feature, or will there be detailed descriptions of pushing techniques and thought processes? Purists, inevitably and sadly, can be nothing but a noble minority.

The Dire Warning of Highguard

The newest sensation seems not to be doing so hot. Since it has elements of both science fiction and fantasy, we'd better all switch over to alt history or romantic comedy for the next fifteen years or so. Keep your detailed settings under the pillow and await the changed wind.

Addendum

On another note, how many Christmas spaceships have you seen? Looks like fantasy wins again, losers!

The True Difference Between Fantasy and Science Fiction

People suffer from a curse in the former, while in the latter, populations exhibit a syndrome. Am I saying it's just the number of syllables? Yes I am.

Timing Your Release

Donkey Kong Bananza is almost out. Have you completed you banana fantasy story yet? Or was it bananapunk or a banana opera? I don't know what any of those things are, which is why I'm not rich.

Adapting Shannara

Obviously it should already have been a gacha game years ago. Don't ask silly questions. Genre? Who cares?

The Four Fantasy Subgenres

A master swordsman can defeat:
- A man
- Eight men
- Eighty men
- Eighty thousand men

There isn't much in the way of eight hundred or eight thousand. Those are too middle-of-the-road.

Genre Confusion

Is a cozy mystery a story in which nobody much cares that somebody got murdered? That's the impression I've gotten, but maybe there's more to it. For instance, does it have to star Angela Lansbury? That could present problems for the subgenre in the future.

Use This Now!

"Fantasy" is too broad a term. From now on, call the genre "magispec" so we can call James Bond fantasy and nobody will be confused. You might think nobody is confused already, and you're right, but think of all those poor souls who pushed "speculative fiction" and couldn't get it done. What's wrong with a little compromise?

The Real Difference Between Fantasy and Science Fiction

The most fantasy shape is the circle. The most science fiction shape is the trapezoid.

Train Fantasy

I bet that would do pretty well. The problem is that anyone capable of writing convincing train fantasy is busy looking at trains.

The Death of Fantasy

Fantasy's had a good run, or maybe it hasn't, but we have to accept that the future of speculative fiction is just history but all the names are changed for some reason. A Song of Ice and Fire already started it (Stark and Lannister? Are you kidding me?), Glen Cook continued it, and it's too late for anything to be done. Now all we need is a term for it.

Review of Fantasy Island

Hey, wait a minute! They were using "fantasy" in a different sense from what we use here! Aside from that, I never thought much of it.

Rating: The/Plane

Addendum

There can be illustrations, but they should probably be either blue or black and white.

The Newest Science Fiction Subgenre

400 pages of describing hi-tech equipment such as spaceships, guns, and lathes. No plot. No characters. Pure things.

We Need Dramatic Fantasy

I don't know what that means, but I don't know what it meant when Super Robot Wars was advertised as a Dramatic Simulation either. I think it's that characters talk during the stage sometimes.