Which novel should I write?
Oct. 16th, 2003 03:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altarielI have absolutely no intention of participating in NaNoWriMo next month because I want to be sane when I go and see The Return of the King.
However, I do want to try to write a novel next year. So, to celebrate my recent upgrade in status to paying member, I thought I'd try out a poll to ask you all which one I should write, and maybe even why.
[Poll #192513]
However, I do want to try to write a novel next year. So, to celebrate my recent upgrade in status to paying member, I thought I'd try out a poll to ask you all which one I should write, and maybe even why.
[Poll #192513]
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Date: 2003-10-16 02:34 pm (UTC)Mostly because I want to see how you work in a dead lover.
I did NaNoWriMo last year and by the time Thanksgiving rolled around, I was certifiable.
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Date: 2003-10-16 05:48 pm (UTC)I wasn't going for anything fancy - just flashbacks, the sense of the dead weighing down on people, probably throw in a bit of spiritualism. It's almost a ghost story, this one.
I did NaNoWriMo last year and by the time Thanksgiving rolled around, I was certifiable.
You're very brave. Did you hit the 50,000 mark? I can make myself do 1,600 words a day, but I can't sustain it for long periods, and I couldn't do a full time job at the same time.
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Date: 2003-10-16 08:13 pm (UTC)No, I got to 46,700. It was very disheartening :-/, but between school and company and the holidays, I just couldn't get the time to finish.
can make myself do 1,600 words a day, but I can't sustain it for long periods, and I couldn't do a full time job at the same time.
That's precisely why I'm not doing it. Maybe when I'm more settled, I can give it a go next year, but I'm all writ out for now.
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Date: 2003-10-17 12:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-16 02:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-16 05:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-16 09:47 pm (UTC)Yay! Though I don't think you ever needed to have any worries! I'd read it.
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Date: 2003-10-16 06:25 pm (UTC)Speaking of dead lovers, have you seen Truly, Madly, Deeply?
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Date: 2003-10-17 07:55 am (UTC)(Hm, I first typed 'Depply' then...)
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*Giggles* *Thinks Depply* *Swoons*
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Date: 2003-10-16 06:32 pm (UTC)I'm voting for the dead lover story. Um. Kind of twice, given that I forgot who I was logged on as the first time. Love triangles involving the dead are inherently funky, and also have the happy potential for gruesome manifestations and dripping ectoplasm. Plus lots of cool kinky ghost sex -- you can never have too many ghostly threesomes in a story. :-)
I couldn't help but sadly note the lack of sparkle in those choices, so I have brought my own sparkle in icon form.
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Date: 2003-10-17 07:54 am (UTC)Voting twice? This ain't Florida, you know!!
They are all woefully sparkle free, aren't they? Leaning towards the angsty. Who'da thunk!?
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Date: 2003-10-17 07:19 pm (UTC)They are all woefully sparkle free, aren't they? Leaning towards the angsty.
There's no law saying you can't have angst *and* sparkle. At least, I really hope there isn't, 'cause otherwise I'm going to have to clear all the sackfuls of dead babies out of the post-Apocalypse, and that would be a pain.
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Date: 2003-10-17 07:29 pm (UTC)Yes...but it is in my heart. ;-)
(I know I am. But I don't think my sister is reading this.)
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Date: 2003-10-17 07:51 pm (UTC)In sandwiches?
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Date: 2003-10-17 03:40 pm (UTC)Oooh, yes! Polterporn! ;)
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Date: 2003-10-17 03:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2003-10-17 12:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-17 06:43 pm (UTC)But I recently re-read "To Serve Them All My Days" so the "love triangle" is also very tempting.
But whatever, I can't wait for you to have written a novel so I can be reading it and loving it. Go you! *waving pom-poms in a bouncy fashion*.
Well cheered up by this news. No pressure of course. ;-)
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Date: 2003-10-17 09:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-20 09:53 am (UTC)The family epic sounds as dull as fuck. Maybe it's a great story that just needs a better pitch, but based on the description so far I'd give it the heave-ho.
That leaves two. The love triangle is the more immediately engaging story concept, but I'm concerned that it might end up covering some well-trodden ground. I'm most interested in the spy story: I think that one could end up going somewhere really special.
Of course, it's not me who has to write the bugger. If I were you I'd cut the possibilities down to two -- the love triangle and the spy story -- and then use the Coleman Decision-Making Device. Here's how it works. You toss a coin: heads for the love triangle, tails for the spy story. If you find yourself wanting to toss the coin again to get a different result, you've made your decision.
Iain
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Date: 2003-10-20 11:50 pm (UTC)Tavia
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Date: 2003-10-22 01:18 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2003-10-25 12:41 pm (UTC)Besides, I think you'd do a terrific job tracing British feminism. I can really see you writing such a novel.