{"id":730,"date":"2017-02-26T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T06:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.interestingauthors.com\/blog\/?p=730"},"modified":"2017-10-18T08:18:23","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T14:18:23","slug":"how-does-the-human-race-wipe-itself-out-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interestingauthors.com\/blog\/fiction\/how-does-the-human-race-wipe-itself-out-part-4\/","title":{"rendered":"How Does the Human Race Wipe Itself Out? (Part 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">Most of you won\u2019t be able to take a mirror human history\/culture\/religion approach like \u201cPlanet of the Apes\u201d did. Starting after an extinction level event then explaining what lead up to it by showing a different species go down the same path is a difficult thing. You can dis science fiction all you want but a circular time line is incredibly difficult to pull off. I\u2019ve been kicking around trying to create what I call an \u201cinterlocking\u201d trilogy for some time. Interlocking may even be an incorrect term. Basically the first book is the center of the story detailing the \u201cevent\u201d up close. The second book starts before and continues after \u201cthe event\u201d with a different set of characters who put in motion what happened. The final book, once again starting before and continuing to well after \u201cthe event\u201d reveals the actual puppet masters who pulled the strings of those in the second book to cause what happened in the first book. Yes, it is complex and I haven\u2019t put that much time into it because it is a huge gamble. With a trilogy like that you have to write all 3 books and release them as a box set. That\u2019s a long time to work on something so it requires a solid commitment. (i.e. when one no longer has to work to both eat and live indoors.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Some writers can do quite well mirroring human history as a basis for their writing. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/04\/04\/the_real_life_inspirations_for_game_of_thrones\/\">George R. R. Martin has done quite well<\/a> with \u201cA Song of Ice and Fire\u201d which most of you will know as \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d from television. He took <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wars_of_the_Roses\">the War of the Roses<\/a> and inverted some of the family traits for the story\u2019s baseline.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">As I said before, the \u201ccannon fodder\u201d is a lot of work. To many writers try to skip it. Fully understanding the extinction level event you plan to base your story on helps you answer the \u201cwhen\u201d and \u201chow\u201d questions about it as they pertain to your character\u2019s story. The event becomes a character itself and like all characters it will tell you the size of its role. Just don\u2019t let that role get too big or oversold as it did in \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/dvd-the-13th-warrior-antonio-banderas\/3559417?ean=0717951004659\">The 13th Warrior<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/dvd-the-village-joaquin-phoenix\/7711550?ean=0786936242850\">The Village<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of you won\u2019t be able to take a mirror human history\/culture\/religion approach like \u201cPlanet of the Apes\u201d did. 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