Writing exercise – Sci-fi idea for me

Today’s post is a writing exercise that I want your help with. As well as trying to write fiction for women’s magazines, I also want to try to write short sci-fi stories. I already have one idea for a story, which I will write soon (want to enter a story competition first) but would like more. Yes, I know I might be a glutton for punishment. Thinking about science, I have realised that it is behind a lot of things we either use or eat/drink. Here is a list of things I thought about:

Medicine

Technology

Weather

Transport

Nature

Clothes

Cosmetics, lotions etc

The future

So, I want you to think of an idea for a sci-fi story that features one of the above, and has a good person and a bad person. Eg the bad person is attempting to harm everyone and the good tries to save us. But what happens next? It is up to you. Give me a brief summary of your idea, and I might turn it into a story to write.

Good luck.

Do you know what your brand is?

Following my previous posts about the issue I have had (my book has now been taken off Amazon completely), I thought I’d write about what is a brand, or what I have learnt is a brand.

A brand is…You. It is not a name, a logo or your voice. It is you. So, learning this, I have decided not to brand my children’s books now, but keep myself as an Aspie children’s author as my brand along with what I write. So my brand is me writing magical realism and ghosts. When someone mentioned this to me on Facebook, it got me thinking. Yes, they are right. I started thinking about other authors and their brands, and came up with two that I often read who have a definite brand: Nora Roberts writing under her own name, and Jacqueline Wilson. Their style of writing, and esp with Jacqueline Wilson, the book covers are definite brands. So I am going to learn from those two about how to work on my brand as myself. I want my book covers to reflect me and what I write as my brand. I have decided to call my brand ‘Asper Fiction’ which incorporates both my children’s fiction series’ and any short stories I write with Aspie characters in. I have written two so far, and sent them to women’s magazines.

So, question for you; what is your brand like? Can you describe it, like I have for me? Go on… tell me.