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galadriel1010) wrote2010-09-17 06:12 pm
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Original fiction input request
Heya guys. These are all untitled, vaguely sketched out ideas for original fictions, and I'd love to hear what you think of them. My main questions are:
1)Do you like the idea?
2)What would you most like from a story of this kind?
3)If you know my writing style, do you think I could write this?
4)If you know my writing style, what do you think are going to be the biggest challenges of it for me?
5)What do you think that the biggest challenges of this story are going to be in general?
If you give me feedback, I'll write you a pretty story? Prompts for claiming here (There's 48 of them).
Seriously though, if you'll help me out here, I'll love you forever. Who knows, you might get to see some of these in bookshops or (fingers crossed!) on TV one day.
YA Utopian Lakeside Life
Based off the backstory I created for Jack in Not As Planned, this is a story of growing up in a lakeside settlement on a human colony world in the future. It's a rural, idyllic life, with seasonal rituals and an open attitude to relationships – 'marriages' can be between as many people as you want, and are formed for one season, but can be renewed each season.
Beyond the idyll of their life, however, there are threats from aliens and border-land humans, because of the settlement's location on the fringes of human expansion. Medical aid is hard to get because of its remote location, and famine is a worry because the community grows all of its own food.
The story will focus on a group of adolescents growing up in this community. At the moment I'm planning to do one year, from New Year (the day of the Spring festival) to Old Year (The night before the Spring festival), with the issues that transpire over that year, but there's room for expansion into a series with different issues and challenges each year as the teenagers grow up.
Dark gritty apocalyptic TV drama
One of my deepest desires is to get this produced for TV, preferably by the BBC.
The story begins with two men who have been trained by MI5 as undercover agents in the event of an invasion of Britain. Their task is to close down the underground from inside it, assuming that the invasion force will try to plant a biological attack on the underground and that they will also occupy any location outside the underground where the network could be shut down (this is going to take me probably about 10k to explain in fic, I know).
Anyway, yes. It opens with these guys going into the Underground and trapping a biological agent and themselves inside, and telling each other about their lives whilst they wait to die. Much to their chagrin, they survive, having been pumped full of vaccines by MI5 (against their knowledge) and escape the underground past all the people they trapped in there to die.
On the outside, the Apocalypse is trying to happen, and they, and other sleeper agents in a similar position, start on the work of making life really, really difficult for the invaders and trying to take the company back.
Along the way our two main guys (I wouldn't call them heroes) fall in love and try to ignore it.
There's also the head of their department, who thinks he's in charge, and his second-in-command, who thinks that she should be in charge and sort of is, and one of the guys has an ex-wife and kids who might or might not turn up, and a former lover who is the reason she's his ex-wife.
Work-Life Balance in the stars
Two guys living on a human colony world which is ripped apart by a war between the settling nations. They live in the Switzerland of their world, which was settled by a corporation rather than a country and refuses to get involved. The other regions are fighting over the governing language of the planet, but they've pretty much forgotten that.
So 'Switzerland' is rigidly governed, and has a very stable economy. Loyalty is the most valuable commodity, and you're expected to stay with one company for life. One of the guys is a teacher, and stays at the university where they studied; the other is a high flyer within his company in a culture where position is worth more than money, and gets moved to another office in another city. The story largely revolves around how they cope (or don't) with a long-distance relationship, and borrows heavily from Just A Mistake.
There are no ass-babies, but they do have a clockwork cat.
Polyamorous and a long way from home
Set on the same world as the previous story, this one follows a student who is from Earth but studying in Switzerland when Earth cuts off communications because of the war. She's polyamorous, and the story follows her life and the arrangements she forms with people, seeking to replace the family she's been cut off from and to find some stability and love.
Love in war
Remember that war I mentioned? Yeah, well the heroines here are at the heart of it. The planet was colonised in regions of English speakers, Spanish speakers and Chinese speakers (in a future where the different versions have blended into one, and German has been subsumed into English; Portuguese, French and Latin into Spanish; Japanese and Korean into Chinese, you get the picture), and the regions are governed by 'elected' presidents, who aren't so elected these days.
The English and Spanish presidents both have daughters who are pretty much set to inherit their seats and continue the war, which the two families make their money from. Yes, the leaders of the regions have a lot of money invested in arms. Love, however, steps in, and the two girls spot each other across a crowded room...
Marriage between the girls would bring peace to the world, because it would unite two regions to completely outgun the other. The girls are banned from seeing each other – which fails. They're banned from courting – which fails. They're banned from marrying – which fails. They marry in secret, intending to fake going along with their families' wishes until they get in charge and then reunite and end the war – which fails. They are found out and forced to go on the run, heading for Earth and safety in disgrace and in fear for their lives.
Heaven and Earth
An old story that I fancy revisiting: Heaven is full, and God wants to build a new one, so he puts Jesus and his fiancé in charge of that. Unfortunately, his fiancé is Satan's daughter, and Mary is throwing a wobbler. In the meantime, we have the sentencing of the newly dead souls and the angels and devils sent to collect them.
Yes, there's gay angels and wing-sex, jealous of the fact that gay and lesbian devils can be together openly whilst the hierarchy of the faithful ban such things, and God despairs about his followers having completely missed the point, and Jesus and Satan's daughter trying to set a trend in relationships between the faithful and the damned.
Did I mention the wing-sex?
Prime Minister's alien advisor
Have I used this plot before? Yep. Oh well, I like it. This is the story of the Prime Minister's newly appointed advisor on extra-terrestrial matters, who has to deal with the fact that the Prime Minister doesn't want to know, she has lousy taste in men and everyone somehow knows that she's an alien. They don't mind, but that's still weird.
Blatantly stolen from Just A Mistake, but I've fleshed that whole concept out too much in my head to leave it there.
Writer in love with her character
A story about a story. The main character starts writing because she needs a hobby, gets very involved with it and ends up falling in love with her main character. The story switches between her story and the one she's writing, and the balance skews more towards the one she's writing as she loses herself in it and her life outside writing contracts. As she starts to get a grip on real life again, her side of the story starts to expand again, until she puts it behind her and the story ends completely unsatisfied.
1)Do you like the idea?
2)What would you most like from a story of this kind?
3)If you know my writing style, do you think I could write this?
4)If you know my writing style, what do you think are going to be the biggest challenges of it for me?
5)What do you think that the biggest challenges of this story are going to be in general?
If you give me feedback, I'll write you a pretty story? Prompts for claiming here (There's 48 of them).
Seriously though, if you'll help me out here, I'll love you forever. Who knows, you might get to see some of these in bookshops or (fingers crossed!) on TV one day.
YA Utopian Lakeside Life
Based off the backstory I created for Jack in Not As Planned, this is a story of growing up in a lakeside settlement on a human colony world in the future. It's a rural, idyllic life, with seasonal rituals and an open attitude to relationships – 'marriages' can be between as many people as you want, and are formed for one season, but can be renewed each season.
Beyond the idyll of their life, however, there are threats from aliens and border-land humans, because of the settlement's location on the fringes of human expansion. Medical aid is hard to get because of its remote location, and famine is a worry because the community grows all of its own food.
The story will focus on a group of adolescents growing up in this community. At the moment I'm planning to do one year, from New Year (the day of the Spring festival) to Old Year (The night before the Spring festival), with the issues that transpire over that year, but there's room for expansion into a series with different issues and challenges each year as the teenagers grow up.
Dark gritty apocalyptic TV drama
One of my deepest desires is to get this produced for TV, preferably by the BBC.
The story begins with two men who have been trained by MI5 as undercover agents in the event of an invasion of Britain. Their task is to close down the underground from inside it, assuming that the invasion force will try to plant a biological attack on the underground and that they will also occupy any location outside the underground where the network could be shut down (this is going to take me probably about 10k to explain in fic, I know).
Anyway, yes. It opens with these guys going into the Underground and trapping a biological agent and themselves inside, and telling each other about their lives whilst they wait to die. Much to their chagrin, they survive, having been pumped full of vaccines by MI5 (against their knowledge) and escape the underground past all the people they trapped in there to die.
On the outside, the Apocalypse is trying to happen, and they, and other sleeper agents in a similar position, start on the work of making life really, really difficult for the invaders and trying to take the company back.
Along the way our two main guys (I wouldn't call them heroes) fall in love and try to ignore it.
There's also the head of their department, who thinks he's in charge, and his second-in-command, who thinks that she should be in charge and sort of is, and one of the guys has an ex-wife and kids who might or might not turn up, and a former lover who is the reason she's his ex-wife.
Work-Life Balance in the stars
Two guys living on a human colony world which is ripped apart by a war between the settling nations. They live in the Switzerland of their world, which was settled by a corporation rather than a country and refuses to get involved. The other regions are fighting over the governing language of the planet, but they've pretty much forgotten that.
So 'Switzerland' is rigidly governed, and has a very stable economy. Loyalty is the most valuable commodity, and you're expected to stay with one company for life. One of the guys is a teacher, and stays at the university where they studied; the other is a high flyer within his company in a culture where position is worth more than money, and gets moved to another office in another city. The story largely revolves around how they cope (or don't) with a long-distance relationship, and borrows heavily from Just A Mistake.
There are no ass-babies, but they do have a clockwork cat.
Polyamorous and a long way from home
Set on the same world as the previous story, this one follows a student who is from Earth but studying in Switzerland when Earth cuts off communications because of the war. She's polyamorous, and the story follows her life and the arrangements she forms with people, seeking to replace the family she's been cut off from and to find some stability and love.
Love in war
Remember that war I mentioned? Yeah, well the heroines here are at the heart of it. The planet was colonised in regions of English speakers, Spanish speakers and Chinese speakers (in a future where the different versions have blended into one, and German has been subsumed into English; Portuguese, French and Latin into Spanish; Japanese and Korean into Chinese, you get the picture), and the regions are governed by 'elected' presidents, who aren't so elected these days.
The English and Spanish presidents both have daughters who are pretty much set to inherit their seats and continue the war, which the two families make their money from. Yes, the leaders of the regions have a lot of money invested in arms. Love, however, steps in, and the two girls spot each other across a crowded room...
Marriage between the girls would bring peace to the world, because it would unite two regions to completely outgun the other. The girls are banned from seeing each other – which fails. They're banned from courting – which fails. They're banned from marrying – which fails. They marry in secret, intending to fake going along with their families' wishes until they get in charge and then reunite and end the war – which fails. They are found out and forced to go on the run, heading for Earth and safety in disgrace and in fear for their lives.
Heaven and Earth
An old story that I fancy revisiting: Heaven is full, and God wants to build a new one, so he puts Jesus and his fiancé in charge of that. Unfortunately, his fiancé is Satan's daughter, and Mary is throwing a wobbler. In the meantime, we have the sentencing of the newly dead souls and the angels and devils sent to collect them.
Yes, there's gay angels and wing-sex, jealous of the fact that gay and lesbian devils can be together openly whilst the hierarchy of the faithful ban such things, and God despairs about his followers having completely missed the point, and Jesus and Satan's daughter trying to set a trend in relationships between the faithful and the damned.
Did I mention the wing-sex?
Prime Minister's alien advisor
Have I used this plot before? Yep. Oh well, I like it. This is the story of the Prime Minister's newly appointed advisor on extra-terrestrial matters, who has to deal with the fact that the Prime Minister doesn't want to know, she has lousy taste in men and everyone somehow knows that she's an alien. They don't mind, but that's still weird.
Blatantly stolen from Just A Mistake, but I've fleshed that whole concept out too much in my head to leave it there.
Writer in love with her character
A story about a story. The main character starts writing because she needs a hobby, gets very involved with it and ends up falling in love with her main character. The story switches between her story and the one she's writing, and the balance skews more towards the one she's writing as she loses herself in it and her life outside writing contracts. As she starts to get a grip on real life again, her side of the story starts to expand again, until she puts it behind her and the story ends completely unsatisfied.