If you’re stuck for ideas on what I mean by small and personal stakes, look at a contemporary general fiction novel 2. If you’re looking for a good idea of what to look for as a reader or a writer, this is a good place to start, if I do say so myself.ġ. The following traits are not an exhaustive list of Things You Must Do To Write Slice-of-Life, but they are a list of what I, personally, consider core traits of SFF fiction that employs or relies on slice-of-life to convey its narrative to the reader. Slice-of-life fiction, in my experience, has a few common traits that may help writers looking to create their own novel-length narrative in this vein. As people expressed an interest in hearing what I thought were some of the core components of a good slife-of-life story, I sat down to write up a short essay 1 containing my thoughts.
My own work also draws heavily on the concept of slice-of-life most of the time and I’ve always enjoyed writing and reading it immensely.
It is just that the plot looks more like those found in general contemporary fiction than those found in contemporary commercial science fiction or fantasy.Įxamples of this type of slice-of-life fiction are Becky Chambers’ The Long Way to Small, Angry Planet, Joyce Chng’s Water into Wine and M.C.A. Slice-of-life stories can be any length and they most certainly have a plot. This is, however, not the way modern authors frequently use the technique. In literature, slice-of-life is a narrative technique that is said to lack plot development, conflict or exposition. It’s a discussion asking for more stories that don’t feature epic narratives and focus more on the mundane side of living in a fantastical or futuristic setting and draw more strongly on the concept of slice-of-life than more well-known commercial narratives. Over the past few years, I’ve seen the same type of discussion come up fairly regularly, most notably among fantasy readers and writers. :O)Ĥ Core Traits of Plotted Slice-of-Life Fiction (Fun facts: Almost all of them are queer, over half of them can be considered indie books, and there’s only one cis dude mentioned in the whole piece. ~1,850 words, including a set of recommendations with books to explore.
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