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Sacrebleu
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If you wrote your novel...
#7877073 - 01/14/08 04:23 AM (16 years, 18 days ago) |
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Most people seem to have an ambition to write a novel. Considerably less actually write their novel. Nevertheless, we all seem to have, at least, fragmented ideas for novels, floating around in the ether of our minds, that we might one day process and make public.
Myself, I would write a fantasy epic: a character driven, quest propelled narrative. A coming of age story, really. With a splash of magic and melee. The physical world that they live in is pretty sketchy, which I have to work on, but their personalities and the storyline is a bit more vivid. I'd have to gather lots more research materials before I actually could ever write it...to a standard that I would actually publish.
What novel is locked up inside your head?
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mikebart101
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Re: If you wrote your novel... [Re: Sacrebleu]
#7877082 - 01/14/08 04:41 AM (16 years, 18 days ago) |
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I want to write a novel about freedom, set in a post-nuclear terrorist attack US. It would be men and women in their early 20s, fighting the Martial Law type system that had evolved; somewhat like a modern Weather-Underground.
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CosmicFool
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Re: If you wrote your novel... [Re: Sacrebleu]
#7877303 - 01/14/08 08:01 AM (16 years, 18 days ago) |
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I have an idea that first started out as a horror story but could end up somewhere else seeing as I hit a block.
I want to take an average guy and warp his reality. I would start off real slow (maybe he'd see something move out of the corner of his eye) and move to big changes (the sky may crack and splinter like a piece of glass). But that is were I hit the dead end, once his world is far enough from his starting one I have no where to go and nothing to do.
I also feel I'm lacking in the human interaction department, but I don't mind too much, I'm not great with dialogue
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Re: If you wrote your novel... [Re: Sacrebleu] 1
#7877360 - 01/14/08 08:31 AM (16 years, 18 days ago) |
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My novel will be about a man and his chemical relationship to the world around him...I say will be, not would be. Mark my words.
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BrAiN
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I'd right somethin all near futuristic/bladerunner where a jaded old ass hitman would look for redemption or some shit in a nasty ass gothic setting.
It's a pipe dream of mine to be a director so I'd probably end up being a movie instead of a novel :P I ain't got the attention span to write 300 pages.
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CosmicFool
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Re: If you wrote your novel... [Re: BrAiN]
#7877422 - 01/14/08 08:53 AM (16 years, 18 days ago) |
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Quote:
BrAiN said: It's a pipe dream of mine to be a director so I'd probably end up being a movie instead of a novel :P I ain't got the attention span to write 300 pages.
I too rather be behind the camera than the pen. I have many more ideas for movies, but that one idea I think would be hard to pull off and may be better suited for the printed word.
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Re: If you wrote your novel... [Re: CosmicFool]
#7877491 - 01/14/08 09:24 AM (16 years, 18 days ago) |
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I'd rather be behind the pen, but I'd like to write screenplays (and have a few unfinished ones) as well.
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CosmicFool
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there are certain things the pen does better, like subtly. And I've always been a visual artist (painting, drawing, photography) but I can never really capture the art I see in my head, those pictures move, and that is another thing I like about writing, even when you "paint" a still picture it still has some movement to it.
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Re: If you wrote your novel... [Re: Sacrebleu]
#7878873 - 01/14/08 03:47 PM (16 years, 18 days ago) |
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"Slice of life" stories, like Huxley's Chrome Yellow or Pynchon's earlier work (Slow Learner)
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Sunny
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Re: If you wrote your novel... [Re: Sacrebleu]
#7881114 - 01/14/08 11:33 PM (16 years, 18 days ago) |
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"life in a western town" about a guy who lives with his buddies in slum, and the bizarre social expectations of life in a growing rural town south of seattle. 
I've got about 70 pages done.
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