Fanfiction and/or fiction

I have just came up with a clever response to being told:  ''you have limited imagination'', or something like it

you say: ''it's because I'm limited edition, and you can't have it''

I was talking about the book. It's a novel but I think it started as a series of blogs on how to survive on Mars.

for me anythinmg that required money was a no go, my pocket money coming from various sources except parents, was ending in a hidden stash until; I had enough to buy myself proper winter boots.

but 

In Poland it used to be obligatory tio provide own chilldren with books for every sybject at school  every year a new one. So end of August for me was better than Christmas, filled with anticipation andc excitment, I had all books read before scchool year startedc every year :P

Billy87 said:

limited imagination

is not the worst what they attribute to us

limited intelligence, limited senses, limited lifespan, limited mental health, etc.

but the truth is that those stereotypes stem from their inability to imagine that something might be more than what they think of as maksimum.

I love writing, it has always been my dream to be a writer. I have a very vivid imagination, sometimes too viviid, so the steryotype of the limited imagination really bothers me 

Nice to know you are the same

When I was a kid I pestered my parents to get me:

(How It Works) The New Illustrated Science and Invention Encyclopedia : volumes 1-26

They didn't have much money but they came through. I spent hours upon hours looking at the cutaway diagrams and imagining all the possibilities. It was probably the best present I ever got... apart from a bicycle several years after everyone else

I got rid of them when I left home. Something I kinda regret 30+ years later.

Now, I might just have to rewatch it

Ah, I've seen the movie but not read the book...

I spent most of my time reading encyclopedias, the dictionary, and science and engineering books.

me too, whenever I got my hands on any :P 

movie or short TV series?

You should like Andy Weir's 'The Martian": There is a lot of technical data in it.

My imagination was based more around how things worked, drawing things, deconstructing toys etc

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I avoided reading most fiction when I was at school.

I did some Shakespeare, 1984, Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies etc. But on the whole found reading fiction rather unstimulating, or I just couldn't remember what I'd just read.

Instead, I spent most of my time reading encyclopedias, the dictionary, and science and engineering books.

It was only in my late twenties, maybe early thirties, that I discovered I enjoyed reading sci-fi and speculative fiction. Finally something I could engage with.

Not being a strong reader, because I get caught up on the rivers between the text, forget what I'd read, get stuck repeating the same phrase until all meaning has gone etc... I started easy and then overwhelmed myself immediately:

Robert Matheson: I am Legend - 160 pages

followed by:

Iain M Banks: The Algebraist - 534 pages

The change in difficulty was phenomenal for someone who doesn't read much fiction.

I love Iain M Banks 'Culture' and non-culture sci-fi novels but they're hard work and I have to be in the mood. The language is so dense at times, but a lot of fun.  I'm still trying to tackle them many many years later, but  I keep getting distracted. One day I'll get through them all.

For some reason, I've never been interested in reading the Iain Banks novels. For those who don't know, he wrote sci fi with 'M" and non sci fi without the M

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Ursula K. Le Guin: The Left Hand of Darkness.

Also, a lot of great stuff on the Gollancz sci fi masterworks list.

And some weird fiction:

Some China Miéville although not a massive fan.

Love Jeff VanderMeer stuff: City of Saints and Madmen and the Southern Reach Trilogy are particularly good.

Thank you, I found them!

It seems that you are in the right line of work if you like to read fantasy.

I find him hilarious as well 

Yeah Loki was a fun watch. The character is hilarious* all through the series.

*depending on your sense of humour, of course.

I do not think I have ever done something like I am about to do before, so here it is:

You must see this new TV Series Loki imdb.com/title/tt9140554/  (I meant it's my first time recommending something)

It took me only 1 episode to realise what is it about and become full of unstoppable desire to continue watching it. 

It  seems it is about a plotter, who is plotting how to plot a plotter who is his alter ego, while in fact it is the most accurate presentation of world where gods, like our Hindu gods, play with mortal's lifes for unfathommable reasons.

Happy to help. I work as an editor for a publisher so I am in that world.

I think those authors are called Stephen James and she is called Jordan Rosenfeld.

Wow, thank you for the list. I'll check them out!

It's great. A bit ironic because the author (Stephen...something I think?) says don't write to a structure, then goes into a list of things you must put in your story. Er...

There is also Make a Scene by Jordan someone. How to write different types of scenes e.g. action, conclusion, thoughtful. That was a bit deep for me but good.

Write from the Middle by James Scott Bell is a new approach too. It does what it says.

Yes, I think diagnostic criteria have been established only in recent times. I saw a number of psychologists, psychiatrists, psychanalysts when I was a teenager and no one had any idea what my problem was!