After the successes of THE ROAD and THE PESTHOUSE, I set out to write my own postapocalyptic story, this dealing with a bleak outlook on manifest destiny. The story is written in the fashion of Cormac McCarthy and Ernest Hemingway. Anyway, I'm hoping to write the greatest postapocalyptic Western ever, and in doing so I hope that I can get some help here. I could use some ideas (for instance, the Oregon Trail is actually an ancient interstate overgrown and caked with ash). The event that ruined existence may have been a supervolcano eruption, maybe not. Suggestions would be greatly valued.
2007-07-08 18:55:12 · 5 answers · asked by Stephen D 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Write about
Wesatern politics
as they are now.
The super-volcano erupting is then the USA or Corporate Politics blowing its lid, or
the exploited middle and lowering middle classes erupting...
1984 was written about 1948, you know.
These days there would be 5 ot 6 power blocks, with further sub-divisions within.
There are also NGOs, Governments with all their departments, National, international and transnational corporations.
But KISS - Keep It Simple Sagaciously.
have you read Stephen King's Dark Tower, speaking of Western flavour??
GL. 1984 took two years on an island to write, you know.
2007-07-08 19:02:07 · answer #1 · answered by Master Anarchy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you want to write about manifest destiny I dont see where a supervolcano fits in. I would suggest doing some research on manifest destiny and the westward expansion. Begin with Frederick Jackson Turners collection of essays titled The Frontier in American History. This collection of essays really gives insight not only as to who we were in the past but who we are now, and who we will be in the future.
2007-07-08 19:11:12 · answer #2 · answered by wackywallwalker 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dubstep sounds apocalyptic. bob ross is my well known ambient song. even nonetheless he does not sing, his voice is soothing song to my ears. if i ought to elect the reason of the tip of the international, it would be brought about with the help of a diseased penguin infestation i'd elect Santa, reason he's Santa
2016-09-29 08:40:55 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
coming up with the ideas is the FUN part. if you can't do that on your own, then you'll never survive the hard slog of actually writing the book.
2007-07-08 19:20:13 · answer #4 · answered by sweetness 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sounds like you have it all planned out, oh except for the the plot and other pesky details that you are trying to get other people to write for you. you sound more like a publisher than a writer to me.
2007-07-08 19:05:31 · answer #5 · answered by nobudE 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋