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Feb. 21st, 2003 02:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tanaiseI've been mugged by an Amish SF story. There was this boy on the bus today--pretty much a hottie, albeit one with a bad haircut. Lovely long lashes. and he was single. I think it's nice when people are easily identified even at first glance as being available. (And not because they're very unattractive and still shopping at walmart with their mother at age 30-something.)
Oh, sorry, I was telling you about the story idea. Anyway, I noted to myself the deplorable lack of Amish SF stories. And I started figuring out how to write one. And I've got the basics for it figured out. The hardest part was figuring out how to make it need the speculative element, but I think I've got that got down, and it's just a matter of figuring out the characters a little more and letting it simmer a bit before I start writing it. I do have the benefit of having grown up in an area with a very strong Old Order Mennonite population, so I'm pretty up cool with Amish details. Not to mention learning about them to explain why Quakers are different. (Have I told you lot about the Catholic boys in Rome? I could have been from a different planet as far as they could tell with the whole Quaker bit. One asked me if it was true we couldn't ride in cars. Never mind that I'd come across town on the bus with him. Had he forgotten the whole plane thing? Did he think I'd swum there? Still, he was nothing compared to the boy who wanted to know if it was true that Quakers couldn't have sex for fun. "No, only for money," I said. "Why, you interested?" ) So I should be able to avoid the major problems without research, or without much research, or without having to do more than call my mom and ask her.
So that's my current story to work on. Stay tuned, I'll let you know if I decided to name the characters after the Strange Horizon's fiction editors. Maybe for my working draft. But you have to admit that Jedidiah makes a good Amish name. ;)
Oh, sorry, I was telling you about the story idea. Anyway, I noted to myself the deplorable lack of Amish SF stories. And I started figuring out how to write one. And I've got the basics for it figured out. The hardest part was figuring out how to make it need the speculative element, but I think I've got that got down, and it's just a matter of figuring out the characters a little more and letting it simmer a bit before I start writing it. I do have the benefit of having grown up in an area with a very strong Old Order Mennonite population, so I'm pretty up cool with Amish details. Not to mention learning about them to explain why Quakers are different. (Have I told you lot about the Catholic boys in Rome? I could have been from a different planet as far as they could tell with the whole Quaker bit. One asked me if it was true we couldn't ride in cars. Never mind that I'd come across town on the bus with him. Had he forgotten the whole plane thing? Did he think I'd swum there? Still, he was nothing compared to the boy who wanted to know if it was true that Quakers couldn't have sex for fun. "No, only for money," I said. "Why, you interested?" ) So I should be able to avoid the major problems without research, or without much research, or without having to do more than call my mom and ask her.
So that's my current story to work on. Stay tuned, I'll let you know if I decided to name the characters after the Strange Horizon's fiction editors. Maybe for my working draft. But you have to admit that Jedidiah makes a good Amish name. ;)
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Date: 2003-02-21 12:55 am (UTC)Hold on, they do eschew technology, right? Or am I getting them mixed up with someone else...?
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