Blending the Familiar and the original

Before you post in this thread, I recommend that you lisiten to this. It's the good stuff.

Anyway, This a writing exercise were we find stuff in our work that is a blend of:

• The familiar, somthing that is a common trope or idea and not a twist on it's own,(like Giant Robots)...

• ...and the original (The robot is a mile or so tall, but cannot stand under it's own weight without help and thus is confined to the deep depths of the sea).

You can make a concept up on the spot if you wish, and critique on the originality/non-originality of your work would be appciated.

edited 13th Dec '10 4:50:22 PM by doorhandle

Hello and thanks for the link! You might want to fix it so it has double brackets like this:

[[http://www.writingexcuses.com/2008/02/17/writing-excuses-episode-2-blending-the-familiar-and-the-original/ this]]

so that it would look like this:

this

I think I'll post one of my own blends when my mind is working.

edited 13th Dec '10 6:26:01 AM by EldritchBlueRose

One of my favorite expressions of this concept is a Captain Ersatz.

Take, for instance, Supreme. Supreme is basically Superman (familiar), but everything is twisted slightly to give it a fresh edge (original).