Listen now | Tiny tales. Cosmic laughs. 1940s-style. Between 1942 and 1944, "Astounding Science-Fiction" ran a curious column tucked between its more serious fare—tiny, impossible sci-fi stories designed to make you laugh and think.
I know what you mean. That could be something you can do on your YouTube or tiktok, but I like seeing how they respected the intelligence of their readers, and encouraged participation.
This is cute. I like that the editors made room for silly or absurd sci-fi. And throwing a creative challenge too in having the writers make the story work.
It's a fun idea. Although the time might be past for it, it'd be a riot to try to re-create a column like this. If successful, it'd wash away some of our seriousness about writing. ;-)
Yes! A great creative exercise that would make a creative group of people ignore writing for the algorithm and instead be driven by fun and passion for the story/project.
Maybe in time a small group of creative people will come together and apply this as an exercise to generate ideas. I am looking for other creative people to collaborate with.
I know what you mean. That could be something you can do on your YouTube or tiktok, but I like seeing how they respected the intelligence of their readers, and encouraged participation.
I often wonder how we can bring that back. We might try those things today but somehow they don't work as well.
This is cute. I like that the editors made room for silly or absurd sci-fi. And throwing a creative challenge too in having the writers make the story work.
It's a fun idea. Although the time might be past for it, it'd be a riot to try to re-create a column like this. If successful, it'd wash away some of our seriousness about writing. ;-)
Yes! A great creative exercise that would make a creative group of people ignore writing for the algorithm and instead be driven by fun and passion for the story/project.
Maybe in time a small group of creative people will come together and apply this as an exercise to generate ideas. I am looking for other creative people to collaborate with.
Count me in. :)
Awesome. Thank you, Sara.