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Comedy and Sci Fi

© David A Simpson.

Sometimes writing can get far too serious and the want and need to be published and hopefully make money leads to the writer forcing themselves into the block. The message you intend to give to your readers may be fast and entertaining, colourful and imaginative but keeping focused can be time consuming and drains your brain. Forced writing is going to have to be rewritten so if you feel the need to write but you have difficulty following the flow of your work try a little experiment and write a short comedy. If it's not a new and original theme who cares it's for your entertainment and maybe only shared with close friends or fellow writers. Either way it will stimulate and probably expand your writing ability.

With such wonderful examples of Science Fiction comedy as Flash Gordon the movie which some of the older readers of this page will remember and the rock band Queen fans will have in their shrine. The spoof Flesh Gordon which was obviously written by someone with serious writers block followed this masterpiece of Science Fiction comedy! Space Balls, Tripping the Rift and many other sidesplitting comedies have been developed in the minds of the Science Fiction writer. You can take any scenario and manipulate the verbal text of your characters to say everything you always wanted to say but decorum dictated it was not the right time, place or career move. How many times have you missed the chance to say a brilliant one liner only because in retrospect it came to your head? Practice makes perfect and by reading the work of others or watching a Science Fiction movie or serial and looking for the alternative text you will develop a skill which could enhance your work and writing technique.

It is a fact that when you sit watching Star Trek and you suddenly splutter with stifled laughter it is difficult to explain to others present in the room that you just thought, what if Spock was gay and jealous of the inevitable lick lock Capt James T was going to have with the newly encountered blue faced alien female, highly illogical. But then if Captain Picard announced his expected "make it so" and Data stood up and replied "do it your self you arrogant ******* I'm going for a beer" and walked away, brings a whole new way of being on the Enterprise.

The comedy side of Science Fiction with it's open to abuse ability and multitude of inventive scenarios can be the release of the block and the first steps into the time space differential which to normal people would be called insanity.

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