Everyone knows the song, right?
Good. If you're following me on twitter, you would have seen me riffing off JC Hutchins' "sponsor my novel" idea. Now, while I can get behind the whole idea of patronage, having people vote on content strikes me as a bad idea, and I tried to express the thought by threatening to start a meme to force JC to write a Jane Austen-style romance.
(which, incidentally, he told me later he'd love to try.)
And because I couldn't leave it alone (is anyone surprised?) I immediately added lasers, dinosaurs, cyborgs, and a post-apocalyptic setting. And, dagnabit, all of a sudden it started sounding like a good idea.
It just started flowering in my brain - an idea about a society which had undergone some kind of great shakeup, leaving technology in some places, perceived barbarism in others, forcing a more rigid social structure... it just sort of unfolded like a fractal.
Now, despite threatening JC with having to write it myself, and naming my protagonist Chet Awesomelaser! (yes, the exclamation point is part of the name) it sounds like a project that would be a lot of fun to write. "In a post-apocalyptic future, brave dinosaur-riding, laser-wielding cyborgs seek true love in a rigid social society."
Trouble is, I already have an idea for NaNoWriMo. Something I think is a really good idea. In fact, long time twitter followers have seen me float the idea for its sequel at least once. And when I compare the two of them... my original idea wins. Hands down, just wins. Now, thanks to the discussion earlier, the first story's love story will be deepened a little, twisted a little. (and may benefit from the awesome addition of dinosaurs - it'd work).
The point is, you have to write the story that speaks to you. And the story of Bit's journey - coming to an understanding of his heritage, the burden it places on him, his attempt to redeem it, and his move into a larger world... it's singing to me. The opening is in my head, clean and crisp as the snow that surround the opening action. The climactic battle at the end is there, and the consequences of saving the day will be heavy, indeed.
So, cyborg Victorian romance/farce (I think I could play this pretty straight... maybe it'd be funnier that way) will have to wait.
One More Week!!!
Good. If you're following me on twitter, you would have seen me riffing off JC Hutchins' "sponsor my novel" idea. Now, while I can get behind the whole idea of patronage, having people vote on content strikes me as a bad idea, and I tried to express the thought by threatening to start a meme to force JC to write a Jane Austen-style romance.
(which, incidentally, he told me later he'd love to try.)
And because I couldn't leave it alone (is anyone surprised?) I immediately added lasers, dinosaurs, cyborgs, and a post-apocalyptic setting. And, dagnabit, all of a sudden it started sounding like a good idea.
It just started flowering in my brain - an idea about a society which had undergone some kind of great shakeup, leaving technology in some places, perceived barbarism in others, forcing a more rigid social structure... it just sort of unfolded like a fractal.
Now, despite threatening JC with having to write it myself, and naming my protagonist Chet Awesomelaser! (yes, the exclamation point is part of the name) it sounds like a project that would be a lot of fun to write. "In a post-apocalyptic future, brave dinosaur-riding, laser-wielding cyborgs seek true love in a rigid social society."
Trouble is, I already have an idea for NaNoWriMo. Something I think is a really good idea. In fact, long time twitter followers have seen me float the idea for its sequel at least once. And when I compare the two of them... my original idea wins. Hands down, just wins. Now, thanks to the discussion earlier, the first story's love story will be deepened a little, twisted a little. (and may benefit from the awesome addition of dinosaurs - it'd work).
The point is, you have to write the story that speaks to you. And the story of Bit's journey - coming to an understanding of his heritage, the burden it places on him, his attempt to redeem it, and his move into a larger world... it's singing to me. The opening is in my head, clean and crisp as the snow that surround the opening action. The climactic battle at the end is there, and the consequences of saving the day will be heavy, indeed.
So, cyborg Victorian romance/farce (I think I could play this pretty straight... maybe it'd be funnier that way) will have to wait.
One More Week!!!
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