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Given that I want to write something original for NaNo I still have great heaps of ideas, half-formed scribbles, and fanfic to rub the serial numbers from to use *g* So I need your help to narrow it down, flist!
To stave off the obvious "just write what you feel most inspired to write" -- yes, I know, and I may very well do that anyway. BUT, since this is, at least in theory, something I would like you to spend your cold-hard cash on, some day, input at which sound the best/most interesting would be helpful!
These are the four I have some characters and some plot already figured out.
1.Romantic thriller with SFnal elements. A scientist trying to invent a new method of space travel meets a concert pianist, and together they have to fight off terrorists who want the scientist's accidental weapon.
2. Alternate History/Fantasy. The walls of Byzantium have to hold against the not-exactly-Mongol Horde (they have dragons, y'all. Things get grim), even as its leaders face internal pressure in this cosmopolitan, political place and a coup in Roma. Yes, it's fucking epic with a cast of zillions stretching from Scotland to Damascus.
3. Fantasy. History comes back to bite not-Earth Epicland in the ass when an archaelogical expedition turns up an artifact that breaches the Veil to the abyssal plane where the demons lurk. People start getting brutally murdered, and the wizard's council is too busy failing at leadership. Thus three plucky students have to investigate and get in lots of trouble.
4. Fantasy. Four friends at college are surprised to find out that one of them isn't a human at all, when another falls through a portal to another Earth where the Sidhe now rule. The others go through to rescue, and the human friends have to fight their way through a dark, dangerous world they know nothing about to rescue their friend.
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I'm not going to bother with a NaNo filter, I don't think. Any bitching will be behind a cut, and I probably won't' post more than some snippets, anyway. The only thing I would ask is that nobody be less than encouraging, if I end up posting any of the draft.
If anyone else is doing NaNo, I'll be buddies! I'm lizardbeth
To stave off the obvious "just write what you feel most inspired to write" -- yes, I know, and I may very well do that anyway. BUT, since this is, at least in theory, something I would like you to spend your cold-hard cash on, some day, input at which sound the best/most interesting would be helpful!
These are the four I have some characters and some plot already figured out.
1.Romantic thriller with SFnal elements. A scientist trying to invent a new method of space travel meets a concert pianist, and together they have to fight off terrorists who want the scientist's accidental weapon.
2. Alternate History/Fantasy. The walls of Byzantium have to hold against the not-exactly-Mongol Horde (they have dragons, y'all. Things get grim), even as its leaders face internal pressure in this cosmopolitan, political place and a coup in Roma. Yes, it's fucking epic with a cast of zillions stretching from Scotland to Damascus.
3. Fantasy. History comes back to bite not-Earth Epicland in the ass when an archaelogical expedition turns up an artifact that breaches the Veil to the abyssal plane where the demons lurk. People start getting brutally murdered, and the wizard's council is too busy failing at leadership. Thus three plucky students have to investigate and get in lots of trouble.
4. Fantasy. Four friends at college are surprised to find out that one of them isn't a human at all, when another falls through a portal to another Earth where the Sidhe now rule. The others go through to rescue, and the human friends have to fight their way through a dark, dangerous world they know nothing about to rescue their friend.
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I'm not going to bother with a NaNo filter, I don't think. Any bitching will be behind a cut, and I probably won't' post more than some snippets, anyway. The only thing I would ask is that nobody be less than encouraging, if I end up posting any of the draft.
If anyone else is doing NaNo, I'll be buddies! I'm lizardbeth
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ok, also, I am too sleepy to appreciate high fantasy, elves and political intrigue.
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At this rate I'm going to get the predictable result that there is no actual winner anyway. :) .
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(also, wtf, how did I manage to use my Thanos icon last time when I chose the Anders one? Different ends of the alphabet, lj...)
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SO. #2 or 4? :)
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YAY NaNo! I am considering scrapping my half-baked Kushiel Universe fic and starting over. Possibly something else epic that I will come up with in the next two weeks. XD I will be doing mini-nano this year, but perhaps the Universe will be kind to me this November?
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yep, this is my first try at a proper NaNo, so we'll see how it goes...I actually have a complete first draft I wrote years ago for #4 which I'd rewrite from scratch, so that's tempting, and yet, I don't know! *flaily hands* So many ideas, so little time...
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But they all sound awesome!!!!!
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Man, NaNo terrifies me! Even mini-Nano! My writing muse is so darn fickle, there is no way I could get anything even remotely decent finished inside of a month! Massive props to you & all of the others for trying and I wish you luck!
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heh, of course the point is not to worry about decent or not decent, which is the thing I don't know if I can do. word count isn't scary, but good gods not revising as I go is probably going to drive me nuts, if I can do it at all.
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So if tiebreaking is necessary (as it looks to be now), I'd count that consideration as a powerful influence.
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and also it's thinly disguised fanfic, which is easierOR, I could have the physicist fall through a portal into a world ruled by elves and have to fight serial killer demons.
DAMN I ROLLED A SIX. :P
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