Shine Anthology

[jasonandrew]

I had a really good idea for a story to submit for the upcoming the Shine Anthology. You can read more about the anthology at http://shineanthology.wordpress.com/

The basic concept of the anthology is optimistic science fiction set in the next fifty years.

My idea involved the internet and something like twitter being used to resolve problems between nations by the people resolving the problems and deciding not to fight a war. And then the Iranian elections started going south and I felt weird writing about it.

Twitter changed how the world viewed those events. The deadline is coming up and so I decided to look at the idea again. At first I thought that it might cheapen the struggle of the recent events, but they didn't want their voices to be silence, so I am going to give it a try.

The worse that can happen is that it is tacky and I waste my own time.

Comments

[sasjhwa.livejournal.com]

It is good to be sensitive to what is going on in the world, but this is the very first time in history that this has happened with something like Twitter. This is the time to strike while the iron is hot. In 5 years it may be the common thing to have wars seen through the Internet's eyes. Then you will just be one of a thousand people putting out the same story about what has already happened.

Think about when CNN went to Iraq during our first war there. That was cutting edge to broadcast live right from the battlefield on that scope. Everyone was interested. Now, only a few years later, it is the standard and when an author writes about a news company covering a war it is assumed that this is the status quo way of doing it. The newness has worn off and that hook is gone.

Write the story. Take your chance at hitting this emerging form of communication and then seeing what it might become. Do it before it becomes something new.