1. Posted: October 25, 2019In:

    A journalist quits his job to write a book about a woman he’s become infatuated with – a reclusive movie star, unwilling to give him the truth.

    Mike Pedley Singularity

    To me, it feels like this is just the inciting incident. What does the journalist do about it? How do they extract the truth? Think visually. When a reclusive celebrity he's infatuated with agrees to let him write her life story, a XXX journalist must (and then tell us what he must do).

    To me, it feels like this is just the inciting incident. What does the journalist do about it? How do they extract the truth? Think visually.

    When a reclusive celebrity he’s infatuated with agrees to let him write her life story, a XXX journalist must (and then tell us what he must do).

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  2. Posted: September 19, 2019In:

    A one-armed young man obsesses over becoming an astronaut after a final discussion with his girlfriend, and turns to criminal actions to fulfill his desire after the space agency rejects him.

    Mike Pedley Singularity

    So you have a one armed black guy who turns to crime in order to afford a prosthetic limb which will enable to somehow go into space without assistance from the space agency. I feel like this is problematic at best. As per my previous question - how, if he can't even afford a prosthetic limb, how isRead more

    So you have a one armed black guy who turns to crime in order to afford a prosthetic limb which will enable to somehow go into space without assistance from the space agency.

    I feel like this is problematic at best. As per my previous question – how, if he can’t even afford a prosthetic limb, how is he going to go into space without the space agency’s help?

    My biggest problem is that your story is meant to be about racial equality, but you’re suggesting that the only way a one-armed black person can go into space is by resorting to crime.

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  3. Posted: June 30, 2019In:

    Billions of refugees seek shelter from deadly weather events, antibiotics have lost their potency, nations wage wars over land and water, and activists not opposed to violence towards humans try to save animals from extinction.

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    Mike Pedley Singularity

    Surely the best person to fly this thing is not a race car driver but an astronaut... trained in this kinda thing. When the space programme started, they didn't choose people who were just used to travelling at speed. They chose people who were intelligent and exceptional pilots... key word is pilotRead more

    Surely the best person to fly this thing is not a race car driver but an astronaut… trained in this kinda thing. When the space programme started, they didn’t choose people who were just used to travelling at speed. They chose people who were intelligent and exceptional pilots… key word is pilots. Just because the driver is used to going fast doesn’t mean he can fly, so why would anyone think he was a better choice than the leading astronaut at that time? Someone who can fly and is also used to speed and has had psychological training to deal with such a situation. A race car driver just makes no sense to me at all.

    You’re telling us they must induce a second ice-age… but why? To what end. That’s the goal. Why does a second ice age need to be induced bearing in mind that most plants and animals on earth will die?!

    I stand by my previous thoughts on light speed travel. If light speed is possible, then everything changes. Everything is possible at that point unless you’re adding to what we currently know about light speed travel. If that’s the case, we NEED that information to understand how this could work.

    I think the idea that we will all be destroyed by Mother Nature is a good inciting incident BUT what your characters seem to do about it makes very little sense right now. There needs to be something that grounds it in reality even if it is a SciFi. How would light speed travel induce an ice age??

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