Writing Forum

Just so, write a good story. But if your story is primarily about cutting edge tech that isn't anymore then you have a problem. Yes, voice can make something seem dated, it can BE dated, but that's a question of audience and there will be readers that prize that old feel. Yes, I suppose they will be old people mostly.

Dabbling in steampunk, it seems that people try to replicate that old voice to varying degrees of success. I'm looking at YA and trying to figure out how to write to that audience. In fifty years Mazerunners, and Hunger Games, and Harry Potter will be dated, there will then be a cadre of geezers who think that's the best stuff ever written. (probably there is now a reading public that finds these a bit old-timey)

So, I'm not sure if your response was in support or contra-point or explanation or correction or advice or... How do you think it is done? How was it done best and by whom? That's what I'm wondering.

LSO