Electric Bone Flute
Troubadour
That is, protagonist [and co.] go off to weird place, do stuff there, then the next weird place with a different weirdness than the last one, repeat last three clauses until they get where they are going, and then go back home/die/stay there/[fill-in-blank].
I'm here to ask for two things, a how-to, and for your opinions.
1: You read the first line, right? Sounds silly when you sum it up like that, right? How do you sophisticate it further than "and then they went there and did stuff"? A common approach I see is to make something mess up on the journey between those spaces, especially if the transportation is a literal ship, whether of the sea or the space variety.
2: How do you like your odysseys? Unrelated worlds, connected by some common theme, some particular thing increasing or decreasing the further along you go, utter strangeness? What's your favorite stopping point in an "odyssey" story you've seen?
I'm here to ask for two things, a how-to, and for your opinions.
1: You read the first line, right? Sounds silly when you sum it up like that, right? How do you sophisticate it further than "and then they went there and did stuff"? A common approach I see is to make something mess up on the journey between those spaces, especially if the transportation is a literal ship, whether of the sea or the space variety.
2: How do you like your odysseys? Unrelated worlds, connected by some common theme, some particular thing increasing or decreasing the further along you go, utter strangeness? What's your favorite stopping point in an "odyssey" story you've seen?