LeGuin's Left Hand of Darkness is a SF book all about interpersonal relationships, as is Samuel Delany's Triton. In the worlds of SF & F, Patricia Wrede's Caught in Crystal is a great story about a retired hero, a hardworking single mom who has to balance keeping her kids safe and happy with saving the world. You might also watch some Richard Linklater movies -he's a master of seemingly aimless, slice-of-life movies that somehow manage to never lose your attention. The main character is pursuing a murderer, but there are lots of smaller moments mixed in. A good example of this is the movie Fargo. In this case, I would suggest mixing in some low-stakes subplots with your high-stakes world. The usual key is making sure the characters are pursuing goals that are important and consequential to them, even if it's not things that anyone outside of their circle would care about: Getting the better of a neighbor, or gathering up enough courage to ask someone on a date, for example. If your MC is saving a city, that's not slice of life. However, slice of life is usually all internal stakes -nothing big and external. I really like this idea -slice of life in a magical world. So what should I do? What should I write and don't? Is there any rules or something that I should know? Or, is it even a bad idea to mix those three genres in the first place? I'll appreciate every answer. I tried looking for a novel or anime with the similar idea for inspiration, but I just couldn't find one (if there are any novel or anime recommendations, I'd really appreciate it). All that I have now is the idea of 'what is in that world,' and 'what happened in that world,' but I don't know how to progress them through the slice of life genre while also not forgetting to tell the main plot. I don't know how to write an interesting slice of life that is interesting enough for the reader to keep reading it, and I also don't know how to introduce the fantasy and sci-fi aspect through it. And beyond that, I also use slice of life genre to mainly get some drama between the characters, but I also use it to show how the world looks like, and also to make the characters really precious.īut the problem is, that I don't know what should I write to do all of those. My plan is to make the main character to save the sci-fi city using fantasy. I am currently writing a novel where I mix the genre fantasy, sci-fi, and slice of life.
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