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WRITING OBSTACLE
Write a letter to a friend, from the perspective of someone living 100 years in the future.
What commonplace things might they mention that would surprise a reader now, and how can you use these to drive an interesting narrative?
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To You 100 Years From Now,
If you are reading this…yes, I am, in fact, 100 years in the future. I have one request that will need to be made if you want to see the world prosper and not fail, YOU MUST DO THIS ONE THING. Before I ask you to do this task, let me explain what the world is like in 2124. Today’s world has had some great inventions; we are flying cars, which have been very convenient. ...
Dear Mia,
I hope this letter finds you well in your corner of the Solar Network. I was delighted to receive your last holographic missive; it’s amazing how much clearer the image quality has gotten with the latest updates. It felt like you were right here in my living pod, though I could’ve done without your digital cat pawing at my face during the call!
Life here in Neo-Seattle is as bustling a...
If you’re reading this now, it means that from the moment you find it, the universe is intrinsically changed. I’ve gone back and forth with myself- what would someone 100 years ago benefit from knowing? How much of what I have to say would not even make sense to you without temporal context?
You live in a time driven by fear and anger. A time with a glaring sense of doom, the knowledge that witho...
Well Pal I really got my self into some trouble this time. I’m not confident that this will get you to you but I’m out of options. This is going to sounds crazy. But I’m in 2125. Last thing I remember I was at a dinner party with Rachel and her cousins. The colors are so dull here. I’ve been sleeping at the bullet train station for a few month a now and have begun noticing all kinds of odd shit ab...
The year is 2125. I’m writing to you in hope to influence progress. You would think by now we’d have more advanced tech or flying cars. That’s what they showed us in the old moves from the 80s. The small mindedness of society prohibits its advancement. We’re still stuck on bickering over our cultural differences. While do believe that every society should have some sort of structure, it is still i...
Hi! have you ever thought of something about time travel, never right? I am lakhyajit from future, you might be thinking this is impossible but see we i m here. The world has changed completely changed, the technology have help to mitigate the environment problems and now the climate has become stable. Humans stop using fossil fuels. Now humans use the solor so efficiently that it is used in almos...
“Dear Friend,
Here in the year 5000, nothing is the same. In 3000 our beloved pet dog, and all other domesticated animals went extinct. We have ruined the planet and all friendships have gone astray. I once had a dear lover, oh how I miss Kiliath. We were deeply in love, we would go to the ends of the Earth. But after WW IV, the 5th world war in our history, and Canada conquering North America, n...
If there’s one thing I miss about our past, it’s having friends. Here in 212X, it’s nearly impossible to have a normal conversation with people—everyone depends on screens or artificial intelligence to communicate. I remember 100 years ago, we could just text each other, and within minutes, we’d meet up at the outdoor cafe to catch up face-to-face.
In the future, everything is digital, and people...
Author’s note: I took this prompt in a slightly different direction. Instead of the letter being written from the perspective of someone already living 100 years in the future, I wrote it from the perspective of someone who is about to go into cryogenic sleep for 100 years writing to her best friend. Since I changed the prompt around, I focused on different narrative elements than the ones suggest...
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