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We've all heard the name steampunk. And we definitely all know what it looks like. What is steampunk and is it dead or not?
Hi! Might I ask for, uh, your take on how to write steampunk? Like the most important things about the setting and the types of plot? Thank you 🖤
I don't have much experience in the steampunk genre, but I think the main thing to keep in mind is creating the tone! Naturally, you're going to have the classic elements of traditional Victorian mixed with modern locomotive/steam-power aesthetics. Creating a visual is key to this genre, so definitely play into that whole steam-centric town setting, locomotive power, and upended Victorian tradition.
The setting is pretty fluid, with a combination of both past and future. Don't confine yourself to one time period - take what you like from both and make it your own!
Fashion is the huge thing with steampunk. Leather, nuts and bolts, buckles, top hats, fancy boots, lace, etc. If you can create that fashion aesthetic, you've won half the battle.
Contraptions and machines are the other big thing. Steampunk is all about inventions and revolutionary ideas, so play off that and create something unique for your characters to be working with / inventing / fighting / etc.
For plots, I'm afraid I don't have many tips since I don't have the experience. However, I think the classic plotlines (revenge, lost love, hero’s journey, overcoming personal difficulties, loyalty to family, training a protegee, solving a mystery, government entanglements, spy business, the list goes on) can be applied to any setting. With steampunk, you can take a pretty simple plot and make it exciting just by adding some fun steampunk elements and being as creative as possible!
Sorry I can’t be of more help! Here’s some links I found to some good source material for writing steampunk. Happy writing!!
Writing Steampunk
Tips for Writing Steampunk
5 Elements of Steampunk
Steampunk Story Generator
WIP: Maxwells Clockwork Pirates - Steampunk YA Sci-Fi
“Why not consider a more challenging career?”
The home page of author Gail Carriger: comedic, urban fantasy, steampunk, historical, romance, mystery, and more sub-genres than one can shake a parasol at. Books include Soulless and Changeless.
Steampunk inspiration by Gail Carriger:
[...] Here are a few sources I’ve run across that I really enjoy, whose influence you may see in my work…
4 Classics That Gail Still Loves Miss Cayley’s Adventures by Grant Allen (1848-1899) [I do not recommend the print edition] Around The Tea-Table by Thomas De Witt Talmage (1875) History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley and Jessie Willcox Smith A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett [...]
The links still work for the most part. If you are not in the US, you have to replace the amazon.com part with your country designation (I always switch it to amazon.de and then I can download most thing to my Kindle like US readers. Watch out for price shifts though, free books on .com may not be free on .de or .co.uk)
character aesthetic — gwendoline ‘gwen’ ancestor
“I'm not a hunter but I'm nobody's prey.”
Introducing Capt. E. Esher
This is the first time I’m uploading an excerpt from my WIP “Requiem for a Laborer.” The novel is the story of Joel Thompson Woodcock and his adventures aboard the steam-powered airship, the Elysian Rose.
When I emerged onto the flight deck with its controls, gauges, and other machinations for controlling the aircraft, there was no one to be seen. No one except for a woman.
She looked like she was about thirty years old. She was only slightly shorter than me. Her dark brown hair was tied back in a careless ponytail, by a black satin ribbon. She was wearing a man’s shirt and trousers, over which she had on a course workman’s apron that was smudged with oil. On her feet were boots that were very similar to mine, being heavy rough leather. Her face was broad but not unpleasant with bright blue eyes that blazed with intelligence. Her jaw was square and like the rest of her sent out a message of no-nonsense.
“Excuse me, Miss,” I said. “I’m looking for the captain of this vessel” Just to make my point, I took the letter and ticket out of my breast pocket and made a point of looking at them. “A Captain E. Esher? I heard he was the captain.”
The woman raised her chin and arched her shoulders back.It was obvious to me that this woman was the wife or girlfriend of someone, maybe a crewman or perhaps one of those of the captain himself. Who else would let a woman run around his ship, playing like she was meant to be there?She fixed her gaze on me. I thought it would be best if I played along and not upset her to the point that she would give a negative review to her loved one.
“Please, Miss,” I said. “I really need to meet with the captain.” I smiled to show her that I was, indeed, no threat.
“Yeah, and who the hell are you?” was her flat reply.
I was somewhat both taken aback and irritated by this. “Miss, if you please, I am looking for the captain to validate my ticket and give me passage to Saint Louis.” I would have added “Missouri” but I didn’t want to risk insulting her intelligence and that getting back to whomever she belonged to.
“Look, pal, is there something you want?” she said.
The posturing by this woman was getting to be quite enough. “All I want is to have is this ticket I have to be validated or whatever it is that I need to have done. This is why I really do need to see the captain. Can you help me find the captain, PLEASE?” I said with forced pleasantness while gritting my teeth.What came next completely derailed all train of thought that I might have had.
“You’re looking at her.” She fixed her cold steel gaze even harder on me which was making me feel uncomfortable to the point where I started shifting my weight from one foot to the other then back while looking at the floor.
She took a step towards me and squared her shoulders.When I looked up at her she said, “Perhaps we need an introduction, Mister Woodcock. Yes, I know who you are. For your information, I am Captain E. Esher. The ‘E’ is short for Elizabeth.”
I’m sure that I must have given her a look of incredulity mixed with astonishment. I couldn’t speak for several moments. I was, of course, completely stunned. “I’m sorry, Captain… I just… I never heard… I mean I never…,” I stammered.Captain Esher folded her arms across her chest and sighed as she cocked her head to one side, giving her the look of a disapproving school teacher.
“I think I’ll just shut up now,” I managed to say.
“Bright man,” she replied. “Store your effects down below. Put your bag in an empty crew locker and if you have anything that won’t fit, you’ll have to stow it in a trunk. Then you can come back up here, and we can talk about how much of an ass you are being before that mouth of yours gets you into trouble. Now get a move on, pal!”
I was going to say something about the remark, but I thought better of it. As I turned around to make my way make down the stairs to the engine deck and the crew lockers, I was met face to face with Charles Dormer. The nearly arrogant look he gave me seemed to say, “You deserve every bit of that, asshole.” And I suppose I did.
From Idea to Book - The Life Cycle of a Story
From Idea to Book – The Life Cycle of a Story
I’ve been deep in edits for Fragile Destiny, Book 3 of the Aether Chronicles series and it’s made me think about all the work that goes into getting a book ready for publication. Steps I wasn’t aware of when I first started seriously writing.
Back when I first started writing, I thought I was done when I wrote “the end. Revisions? What was that? I was lucky if I remembered to run spell check.
As…
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Steampunk Novella: 802 words in. The age of steam has begun.
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Without a proper name this poor little darling only has 802 words into its life but it has been born and now it needs nurturing. Although I’ve found steampunk elements seeping into the…
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