I have a couple of decent stories on ribbonfarm, but the easiest fiction I've written is actually a flow-hack... on @artofgig where half the issues are kinda silly didactic fiction around an absurdist consultant world. It's mediocre quality, but the thing is it flowed out easily.
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I probably have about a novella worth of words there, like 20k. I have the final chapter to write, after which a winter project is editing the whole thing into an ebook, which will be my first kinda-fiction book. We'll see how it goes.
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The frontispiece of Reality Hunger by David Shields quotes the best line on fiction I've ever read: "All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one." I don't care about "great" but I find that genre-creative-destruction is where words flow easiest for me.
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My art of gig yakverse fiction may not be great, but it does dissolve/invent a genre -- absurdist consultant fiction with elements of sci-fi and fantasy but base content being basic airport-business-book style business ideas. It's the only one of it's kind I know of.
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Also bits of murder mystery. There's such a thing as consultant fiction but afaik I'm the only one who's gone down this particular genre-bending bunnytrail.
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see also/related... Iain Banks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Business_(novel) …
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@bruceshttps://www.amazon.com/Strange-Paranormal-Romance-Bruce-Sterling-ebook/dp/B00ASBPAWY …1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
way furtherhttps://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Consulting-Philosopher-Disappearance-Drake-ebook/dp/B07G7R9Y9B …
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grr I feel like I read something in the last 2 years about an asylum of consultants/futurists, but I can't find it...
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But do these examples also double as literal business advice books? Ie didactic dual purpose by intention?
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no, other than perhaps as cautionary tales
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Then there's the other extreme of Goldratt/etc
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