In a way, the switch from non-fiction to fiction feels hard in the same way switching from procedural to OO and more structured paradigms felt hard. I never successfully learned OO or declarative styles besides bits and pieces, and never even tried functional.
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One of my suspicions is that for my more ambitious drafts that I want to put more work into, the unblocking move will be finding the genre-busting tweak. Right now, the drafts are pretty much pure-paradigm sci-fi plots.
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In my first flirtation with fiction ~20y ago (which I've since deleted from online), the flow-inducing mashup was first-person regular fiction + cookbooks + lyric books. I had segments with literal recipes and song fragments in them. Again not great, but it flowed.
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Dunno about the rest of you, but for me flow is key. If the words don't flow at near the physical limit of typing speed and physical endurance, it's not working for me. Until I can unlock that flow rate, the writing lacks both quantity and quality of words. Minimum viable flow.
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Ground-truthing this thread... I've written probably a couple of million words of non-fiction, and maybe 50k words of fiction in my life (publicly published that is). I've never directly made money off fiction though. Art of gig doesn't count since it is a nonfiction trojan horse
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see also/related... Iain Banks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Business_(novel) …
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I would read Consultant Detective Sci Fi. Consultant is hired to solve mystery (murder? corporate espionage? hostile take over?). Investigation takes him through various parts of the business (sci fi world) and into verbal combat with various corporate officers and employees.
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BTW, Satin Island by Tom McCarthy may be the closest thing I can think of to Consultant Fictionhttps://www.amazon.com/Satin-Island-novel-Tom-McCarthy-ebook/dp/B00MZWA678 …
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