How to Start Writing a Dystopian Fiction

Benjamin Wareing
6 min readAug 19, 2018

A definitive short guide to writing your own dystopian fiction.

Dystopian fiction is a truly beautiful genre of literature, captivating and exploiting the inner child within us all, fascinating us with the believably far-fetched and apocalyptic descriptives, and satisfying our deeply morbid desire for destruction with graphic, gory, brutalist and grimy scenes. It touches a nerve that no other fictional literature type reaches; unlike magic, it’s believable. Unlike non-fiction, it allows for complete creativity. Unlike horror, it isn’t routed in simply scaring…

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