Power outage
This week’s prompt was to choose a ‘what if?’ question and explore it some more. I chose: ‘What if electricity and any other power source was unavailable for a full week? What would happen?’
Speculative fiction
From 2018 to 2020 I undertook an MA in Science Fiction & Fantasy with Anglia Ruskin University, which included a module and Major Project in Creative Writing. I am not currently working on any fiction, but thought I would share some of my work from the course to give you a flavour of my style, as it may re-emerge in the future.
For our weekly assignments we would be given a prompt and encouraged to practise writing in a particular style or genre. The following are some of my favourite pieces from these weekly exercises. As they are not fully formed, they only have ‘working titles’, but I hope these give you a hint of what to expect.
The Doomsday clock ticks on
This week’s prompt was to write a new scene raising the stakes for a character from a previous scene: I chose the one from SFF tropes and themes.
A Doomsday experiment
This week’s prompt was to write a scene that comes after the one already written for SFF tropes and themes.
There be dragons…
This week’s prompt was to write a travelogue description of either some place in our world outside of the UK, or some place wholly invented.
A girl and her Doomsday clock
This week’s prompt was to write a scene that combines a trope and a theme from science fiction and fantasy.