When I was fresh out of school, I began writing fiction based at first on Dator’s four archetypes, but then later refined by the six archetypes described by Alex Fernani. Unfortunately, the editor I hired to review my manuscript asked me, “So, you wrote a book without a plot?”
Thus started my long journey up another mountain as a learned my new craft of fiction writing.
I bring this up because I have gained the sense that academics who study fiction don’t really appreciate it in some essential ways.
Nevertheless, the application of strategic foresight to fiction seems a natural evolution of scenario planning and, in my view, the two disciplines are made for each other.
Throw in specific predictions from forecasting platforms (I tie a specific forecast from the Metaculus platform to each chapter) and you have a very interesting technique to peer into the future.
When I was fresh out of school, I began writing fiction based at first on Dator’s four archetypes, but then later refined by the six archetypes described by Alex Fernani. Unfortunately, the editor I hired to review my manuscript asked me, “So, you wrote a book without a plot?”
Thus started my long journey up another mountain as a learned my new craft of fiction writing.
I bring this up because I have gained the sense that academics who study fiction don’t really appreciate it in some essential ways.
Nevertheless, the application of strategic foresight to fiction seems a natural evolution of scenario planning and, in my view, the two disciplines are made for each other.
Throw in specific predictions from forecasting platforms (I tie a specific forecast from the Metaculus platform to each chapter) and you have a very interesting technique to peer into the future.