Epic dystopias, domestic utopias
Aug. 8th, 2014 10:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stefanie_beanDystopias often tend towards the epic. Utopias tend towards smaller "domestic realisms," even though it's far more likely in reality for us to experience dystopia than utopia.
Think of the cozy domesticity of Robinson Crusoe and Friday, versus the world-stage of endless global wars and social destruction of 1984.
Perhaps, also, it's harder to imagine optimism on a world-wide scale.
Writing on my LOST novel got a whole lot easier when I realized (admitted to myself, maybe?) that I was writing a utopian "domestic realism" story with a good dose of love and relationship-forming, not some kind of epic.
Think of the cozy domesticity of Robinson Crusoe and Friday, versus the world-stage of endless global wars and social destruction of 1984.
Perhaps, also, it's harder to imagine optimism on a world-wide scale.
Writing on my LOST novel got a whole lot easier when I realized (admitted to myself, maybe?) that I was writing a utopian "domestic realism" story with a good dose of love and relationship-forming, not some kind of epic.