Allrighty then.
I'm going to take part in National Novel Writing Month. My lovely and loving wife has oriented me and set me a stumbling down this path, for which I am painfully grateful.
Scary.
But this will hopefully give me the kick in the pants that I need to get going on at least SOME kind of written treatment of at least one of the ideas pelting around in my noggin, and who knows, might even lead to bigger and brighter things.
Now here's where YOU come in.
If you are here, it's because I value your opinion. No, not just that - I think your opinion has actual VALUE to me personally. I want YOU to help me in my endeavor. I want you to take a critical look at what I'm writing, my process, etc. Feel free to be brutally honest, warmly encouraging, whatever works for you (and/or whatever you think will work for ME).
And first up - please help me to figure out which of several ideas I should attempt to wring 50,000 words out of during the month of November.
So PLEASE check out the Poll to the right and let me know what you think sounds the most fun.
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From your poll, I think that you are looking at this more like an adventure writer than a novel writer. The selections all have to do with setting, not the type of story. So, I don't know if you want to write an adventure story, love story, comedy, drama, or some combination. If you want something funny, "A Fist Full Of Zombies" sounds cool, but it would be even better as some kind of funny love story.
ReplyDeleteAlso, unlike gaming, readers are a diverse bunch of people. Think about the audience you want to reach: sci-fi intellectuals? teens? adult women? twenty-something men?
How about "Full Steam Ahead!" as a childrens' book? My son would love time-traveling trains!
"I think that you are looking at this more like an adventure writer than a novel writer" - Interesting distinction, and it hits on a conversation I had with Kat re:High School Monsters. I told her that I had the setting and characters, but no real ANTAGONIST or TRIAL for the characters to combat. She pointed out that I really needed to look again at teen fiction - there are very few PLOTs and more relationships.
ReplyDeleteWhat can I say - I like conflict ...
MEANWHILE - all the stories have a cast of characters attached and a plotted storyline (with the exception of maybe High School Monsters), I just had limited space to post in the poll - Should I expand the descriptions a bit to give a better idea of what each entails ? That might even serve to get some good practice in prior to the start of November.
"Full Steam Ahead!" as a childrens' book ... wow, that sounds fun :)
ReplyDeleteI actually have a GREAT artist allready working on images for this, and we had been talking about a graphic novel format for it.
So ... a novel, a graphic novel, and a children's book .. might be a very cool combo-release ...
Good luck. I've had a couple of novel ideas for years and never done a damn thing with them.
ReplyDeleteI'm all about 'Full Steam Ahead!'... steam powered machines, the Victorian era clothing, faeries... I'm sold.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking I might enter this National Writing Month challenge myself... I've been working on a novel in my spare time... Though I noticed that bringing in pre-written prose is 'punishable by death' for NaNoWriMo. So much for that!
Good luck with this, Bo... I'm really anxious to read what you come up with!
Good Luck Sir. I've meant to do this for the last few years, but never get my ass in gear. maybe next year....
ReplyDeleteI'm voting for Full Steam ahead... (I love elipses too!) Kat is very right about teen fiction (especially the ones girls read), but all the same I think High School Monsters should be a screenplay for a Nikelodean channel movie. They just did an ethnically diverse live action teenage Scooby Doo and it was a hit...seems to me to appeal to the same audience! And Scooby Doo has about as much plotline as that Justice League cartoon!
ReplyDeleteThe nice thing about all of these is that they are emminently liscensable. And if I were to be lucky enough to sell the rights to any of them (jumping the gun a bit, I know, first published, then sell the rights ...) I might just be lucky enough to get to write a draft of the screenplay ...
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