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RE: Heretics - Day 485: 5 Minute Freewrite: Sunday - Prompt: heretics
thank you @kaelci - now I might!
While shoveling snow for an hour, a longer version played out in my head. This version is rushed and truncated. Should I bother... it sounds like a dime-a-dozen plot to me. How would I make it stand out from a gazillion other stories like it....
I thought it was unique.. :)
But then, I haven't really read anything new or watched anything new in ages... well, it's unique to people who live under a giant rock like I do! Haha. :D
Love it!!! I live under a rock too. :)
The not-so-new part is the use of tropes from Brave New World and 1984.
But there are only so many stories before the same premise gets used and used again; it's the execution, the characters, the narrative voice, that make the difference. So I shouldn't let fear of "This has been done before" stop me from doing it. Finding a ring (in a cave or anywhere) is also a popular theme in fiction, but your Aussie voice and the Min Min Lights add a whole new dimension. Thanks for your encouraging words!!