Which novel...?
Nov. 1st, 2003 10:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altarielI'm calling this poll closed - if not exactly conclusive.
Taking into account the two votes cast in private conversation and deducting one of the two votes cast (presumably under Florida rules) by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
msmanna, there were 21 votes cast altogether - and 7 votes cast for each idea.
These were the options, plus some of my own thoughts on them.
A family epic spanning three generations, and tracing the course of 20th century British feminism.
A mixture of responses for this one, includingiainjcoleman's opinion that it would be "dull as fuck". I suspect this would be the most autobiographical of the three, and do wonder whether it would be better to wait a few decades before I write it.
A love triangle set in 1919 concerning a shellshocked soldier, a suffragette, and her dead lover.
Personally, I hadn't intended to include much in the way of ectoplasm in this one, mostly intending to write something elegantly post-Edwardian, probably from the POV of a child, rather in the fashion of The Go-Between. Have WW1 books been 'done', however?
A spy story set in 1951 about a Russian who came to Britain in the thirties and has lived through the Blitz - but not Stalingrad.
This has had some strong opinions expressed in its favour. I foresee a great deal of research around this one, which would be most enjoyable to do. Also, spy fiction tends not to be written, on the whole, by female writers, and I wonder if that might count as a USP. I suspect I might well be leaning towards this idea.
Anyway, thank you to everyone who voted and expressed an opinion - I'm much heartened by the thought that all three could conceivably find a readership! :-D
Taking into account the two votes cast in private conversation and deducting one of the two votes cast (presumably under Florida rules) by
msmanna, there were 21 votes cast altogether - and 7 votes cast for each idea. These were the options, plus some of my own thoughts on them.
A family epic spanning three generations, and tracing the course of 20th century British feminism.
A mixture of responses for this one, including
iainjcoleman's opinion that it would be "dull as fuck". I suspect this would be the most autobiographical of the three, and do wonder whether it would be better to wait a few decades before I write it. A love triangle set in 1919 concerning a shellshocked soldier, a suffragette, and her dead lover.
Personally, I hadn't intended to include much in the way of ectoplasm in this one, mostly intending to write something elegantly post-Edwardian, probably from the POV of a child, rather in the fashion of The Go-Between. Have WW1 books been 'done', however?
A spy story set in 1951 about a Russian who came to Britain in the thirties and has lived through the Blitz - but not Stalingrad.
This has had some strong opinions expressed in its favour. I foresee a great deal of research around this one, which would be most enjoyable to do. Also, spy fiction tends not to be written, on the whole, by female writers, and I wonder if that might count as a USP. I suspect I might well be leaning towards this idea.
Anyway, thank you to everyone who voted and expressed an opinion - I'm much heartened by the thought that all three could conceivably find a readership! :-D
