Timeline for Should I be concerned with my fiction writing containing accidental prophecies of real world events?
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| Aug 15, 2017 at 8:48 | comment | added | dhein | @corsiKa: I'm not affine to writing and therefor haven't any experience in this subject. But having done some own hobby projects that transport a story in a nonwritten style, yeah sure OP can simply "sell" it as something that it wasn't intended to be. But if I got OP correctly, thats not the intention, more it is a worrying that a "near future fiction" is not taken as fiction by the audience, if the fiction is reality. May it be for the reason that a specific conclusion should be transported or an "Where will this end?" loosing its effect as everyone just needs to leave house, to see. | |
| Aug 14, 2017 at 23:28 | comment | added | corsiKa | @Alissa If your goal is to get people to think about humanity, why not use those current events as a vehicle to get your message to people? | |
| Aug 14, 2017 at 17:23 | comment | added | user16226 | Well its up to you, but novels can be about more than one thing. The events of the novel are just a vehicle for examining the novel's themes. Contemporary events can provide a marketing hook to a novel that might get it published and read (and make you some money) and thus give you the opportunity to explore your theme and say what you want to say about humanity. A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. | |
| Aug 14, 2017 at 17:04 | comment | added | Alissa | This is a good answer, but what if I don't want it to be about some recent events? I started the novel as an abstract one, about humanity and all, but not about certain events... | |
| Aug 14, 2017 at 12:27 | history | answered | user16226 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |