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I have sort of a different take: don't narrow it down. Write them all, as short stories. Your premise is the premise of an entire society. All those potential stories are valid. So create them al...
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2019-12-13T12:00:11Z (almost 5 years ago)
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2019-12-08T02:26:56Z (almost 5 years ago)
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I have sort of a different take: don't narrow it down. Write them all, as short stories. Your premise is the premise of an entire society. All those potential stories are valid. So create them all. Use each little vignette as a different window into how this society functions, how the people relate to one another, how the technology developed, how some people embrace it and some reject it, how it's seen from the outside. Edgar Lee Masters wrote a book of poems called the [Spoon River Anthology.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoon_River_Anthology) The 200-plus poems are each from the POV of a different character, and all together they create a portrait of the town of Spoon River. I suppose yours might be the _There Is No Spoon Anthology,_ but you get my point. If your goal is to explore all the different facets of this society, then show all the facets.
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2012-07-01T01:57:15Z (over 12 years ago)
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