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akashasheiress .
Give me a character from any fandom, tv show, movie, book you know that I know and I will tell you:
a. My favorite thing about that character.
b. My least favorite thing about that character.
c. One person I would ship them with in their own verse.
d. One crossover ship for them I think would be neat.
e. One crossover universe for them I think would be even neater.
f. Their ship from hell.
g. Their song.
h. The title of their biography or autobiography.
i. The last bad dream they had.
j. How they're gonna shuffle off the mortal coil, if they haven't already.
akashasheiress .Give me a character from any fandom, tv show, movie, book you know that I know and I will tell you:
a. My favorite thing about that character.
b. My least favorite thing about that character.
c. One person I would ship them with in their own verse.
d. One crossover ship for them I think would be neat.
e. One crossover universe for them I think would be even neater.
f. Their ship from hell.
g. Their song.
h. The title of their biography or autobiography.
i. The last bad dream they had.
j. How they're gonna shuffle off the mortal coil, if they haven't already.
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Well, somewhat predictably, I was thinking in terms of a trilogy... (Tentative titles: Midwinter, Equinox and Midsummer...although on second thoughts those sound a bit too much like those bloody Twilight novels...). Well, the current story is more or less self-contained, I think, but the historical events it sets in train have to play out somehow, and at least one of the current viewpoint characters is going to live long enough to see at least some of them come to pass... I'm sort of coming to the conclusion that you suggest above, that instead of trying to second-guess "the market", I should just write the thing and then let it live or die on its own merits...in the current form I'm envisaging, it doesn't seem too "fandom friendly" - the current crop of fantasy series seem to have whole casts of suitably likeable/hateable goodies and baddies who seem just designed for people to dress up at at conventions, whereas I've got precisely two "main characters", one of whom is a religious prophet who may or may not be just imagining all of the portents and omens they claim to see, and the other is a slightly clueless knight who ends up involved in high treason without really realising it...
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Well, your dscription of yours makes me want to read it, and I really haven't felt moved to want to read fantasy for ages. I made a deliberate decision to only read children's fantasy, because adult was so trammelled by cliches, and children's wasn't. Of course, that came with the job description at the time, too.
You know you're going to write what you want to write anyway; you keep saying as much! The 'market' as you're looking at it is last year's trends, if not two-three years' trends ago. The publishers will be looking for the next thing by now. And in fantasy that yours fits naturally into a trilogy in your head is only a bonus.
Hmm... Maybe you should save the retro TW for when you run off with the ieda and turn it into original fic? :lol: Sontarans up the jungle you can't, so you had better finish it. I think
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Yeah, as you've said to me before, the idea is to be the next big thing, not copy the last big thing, because by the time it gets published (if ever!), things will have moved on anyway, so...yeah, I'll just go with the crazy pictures inside my head I guess, the way I usually do. ;D
Yes I better had finish that, actually...there were some good things I'd thought of for the later parts...and a bit of Four and Romana will no doubt cheer me up if I end up beating my head in frustration against the Black Bore.
No torture, really, but a bit of human sacrifice, both hinted-at and shown (and one of our viewpoint characters is one of the ones doing the sacrificing, so...yeah...)
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Well, there's nothing wrong to starting off a novel with a canny eye to the market, but, yes, I'd suggest looking for the things that are just showing signs of growth, and anything nobody seems to be doing. I'd have confidence in your ability to do that. And that's not an insult, either, which I realise it could sound like!
:-D No matter what it ends up being called, I'll probably always think of it as The Black Bore. And snigger to myself, cos you know how childish I am about bores. ;-D
Oh, only human sacrifice? Well, THAT's okay then. :loL:
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But yeah, I'm sure some of the things I used to love when I was thirteen fall into the category of "indescribably awful", so I probably should be more tolerant (this is the main Lesson What I Have Learned This Week... ;D)
Yeah, well human sacrifice as part of their indigenous belief system - who are we to judge? ;D I've been reading up on pagan religious practices (including some hippy trippy neo-pagan stuff about horned gods and lunar goddesses etc which is utter tosh from a historical/anthropological viewpoint (there WAS NO "witch-cult", people - that's by way of being the moral of the whole sorry story, if history ever has morals!), but there's material there to be used, I think, provided you don't go unwittingly trashing anybody's RL belief systems). And I was reminded about that Arab slave-trader's description of the Viking-age pagan shrine at (I think!) Uppsaala in Sweden...and the very specially-decorated sacred tree they allegedly had there...which is an absolutely horrific sort of mental image I _have_ to get into the story somehow! Er, because, you know...well, just because...
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And if my careless words leads you to Twilight, then I can only apologise. With the rider that you would be able to slag them off freely, and I wouldn't glare. (Of course, if you actually really liked them, I wough laugh a lot. A lot. But nicely. After all, I haven't read the last two, so what can I say?)
Although apparently, there have been attempts at Twilight/DW crossovers where Bella is the daughter of Ten and Rose. You can't help but feel that this would explain a lot. (I've made myself laugh again remembering it.)
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That is kind of the danger, isn't it? To be honest, I read quite a bit of vampire fic in my misspent youth, but I don't know how much of it I actually _liked_ with hindsight. I think I have the same attitude to vampirism you do to human sacrifice! ;D
Apart from the Anno Dracula series by Kim Newman which are extremely enjoyable (to me!) and a little bit mad, taking place as they do in an alternate-history version of Victorian Britain (and carry on well into the 20th Century) where the novel Dracula ended differently and the Count (who is portrayed very much as the undead version of his historical namesake Vlad the Impaler) married Queen Victoria and became Prince Consort...and then it just gets madder from there...
(plus just about all of the supporting characters are cameos from other works of fiction, so if you don't like the admittedly quite bloody storyline, which involves Jack the Ripper and lots of other such shenanigans, you can at least play spot the sometimes-obscure reference...)
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I'll see your Kim Newman and raise you a Cherie Blair! Yes, the former Mrs-PM is indeed the most famous living pupil of my former alma mater (from the days when it was a posh convent school back in the 60s, before it became a slightly disreputable comprehensive - her father was an actor in Til Death Us Do Part, so presumably could afford it!). I've shaken her hand and had a certificate off her! ;D It was her or our second-most-famous living pupil, Anne Robinson... O.o
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He had't written much.
Anne Robinson? 8-o
(We've killed the thread again!)
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