Silkpunk Fiction & Elements of Fiction

• Elements of Fiction

  1.       Setting

  2.      Point of View

  3.      Conflict

  4.      Character

  5.      Plot

  6.      Theme
• Setting – refers to the time and place (or when and where) of the story.
• Point of View – refers to the perspective the story is told.
• Types of Point of View: 1st person, 2nd person, and 3rd person (limited, omniscient, limited omniscient)
• Conflict – refers to main issue that is to be resolved in the story.
• Types of Conflict: man vs. society, man vs. man, man vs. self
• Character – refers to people, animals, or beings in the story who are given thoughts and feelings.
• Character versus Characterization: Character refers the people, animals or beings in a story whereas Characterization refers to the portrayal of a character in a story.
• Types of Character:

  Role in the story:                              Characterization:

  1.       Protagonist                                 1. Round (Dynamic)

  2.       Antagonist                                 2. Flat (Static)

  3.       Deuteragonist                           3. Stock (Archetypal)
• Plot – refers to the sequence of events in a story.
• Linear Plot – Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution.
• Theme – refers to the central idea of the story.
• Symbolism – refers to objects, colors, shapes, and places (etc.) that have hidden meaning in the story.
• Atmosphere – refers to the “feel” that readers get as they read. It mainly emerges through description rather than action.
• Style – refers to the writer’s distinctive way of narrating a story.
• Silkpunk Fiction

  ~  Which can also be referred to as Techno-Orientalism, is a genre that blends science fiction and fantasy. It is considered a hybrid of Chinese and Western epic forms.
• Silkpunk Fiction

  ~  Draws inspiration from classical East Asian antiquity, whereas, Steampunk takes inspiration in the chrome-brass-glass technology aesthetic of the Victorian era.
• Silkpunk Fiction

  ~  Ken Liu, describes "Silkpunk is very much about the punkish reappropriation of classical East Asian philosophical political technologies and imagines how they can develop in fantastical ways to achieve a more equitable, just demographic society.”