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So many ideas, so few ideas.
Dec. 26th, 2003 06:58 pmI've had a lot of ideas on the brain lately. Due to a bounced email, I had to re-post all of my Wyvern's Library stuff, and in the process one of my unfinished stories received Moderator's Choice. Nothing like a little praise to make you think about writing more often.
Most of my stuff is unfinished; I have a number of projects I began and never did a lot with. Plus a few fanfic ideas that have occurred to me lately and which I have yet to do anything with at all.
I have it in mind to try and restart (or start, as the case may be) some of these projects, and see if I can't get any of them finished.
In particular -
The story idea that got mod's choice at Elfwood, involving a small-town private investigator in a version of the modern world where creatures of Faerie live openly and are either campaigning for or have recently received legal citizenship in the US. Not a new concept (see Melisa Michaels, Laurell K. Hamilton and Jim Butcher) but in this case, the PI has no supernatural training, heritage, or ability, and in fact would just as soon not have anything to do with fey, if only they'd quit seeking her out. Particular storyline to involve some sort of wealthy businessman who thinks he's being stalked and harassed but who actually has a poltergeist problem. Stumbling block - I have no idea what said businessman might do for a living, or how to make the whole fey-as-legal-citizens thing relevant, aside from the fact that dudeguy employs an unusually high number of fey.
A high fantasy piece about a retired half-elf and his very not retired elven former partner and a supernatural critter that's been eating people's dreams. I had specific ideas for where this would go at some point, but I've forgotten them all now, save that the critter in question would fight the partners through a number of illusions of their past, and that one of the major conflicts is that the half-elf is Getting Too Old For This Shit, but the elf is trying very hard to ignore that fact.
Another high fantasy piece dealing with a mercenary company, particularly one very stoic and professional guy named Asher who gets hired by a community which has been having monster problems, and must make a bunch of townsfolk somehow capable of dealing with said problems, and... there was a lot more to it, but damn if I can remember that now. There was, however, a romantic subplot which would end when Asher finished his contract and went back to his company, and the girl stayed in the town, because he wouldn't stay there and she couldn't follow him. Also some stuff about Asher's sister, who is a member of a militant religious order. I wish I kept better notes.
The sequel to the above, in which the love interest from the first story gets word that Asher's in jail in some exotic foreign county and ropes some of his fellow mercenaries into going to help spring him, only to find that he's not actually in prison - he's stuck bodyguarding a very young, very immature, very high-risk princess. This time the romantic subplot fares a little better, although there's no overt romance, and I have better notes on what I intended to happen but less recollection of what the major conflicts were supposed to be. Go fig.
I'd like to do some more fairy-tale rewrites. Beauty and the Beast is always good, or I could go for something less traditional, like the Steadfast Tin Soldier. No real ideas, though.
And the fanfic, both the FFVIII bit I posted about in October and a Kingdom Hearts vignette dealing with just why Squall/Leon hangs around Traverse Town picking off the small fry and advising Sora instead of marching off to try to actually do something about the major problem at hand.
Hm.
Most of my stuff is unfinished; I have a number of projects I began and never did a lot with. Plus a few fanfic ideas that have occurred to me lately and which I have yet to do anything with at all.
I have it in mind to try and restart (or start, as the case may be) some of these projects, and see if I can't get any of them finished.
In particular -
The story idea that got mod's choice at Elfwood, involving a small-town private investigator in a version of the modern world where creatures of Faerie live openly and are either campaigning for or have recently received legal citizenship in the US. Not a new concept (see Melisa Michaels, Laurell K. Hamilton and Jim Butcher) but in this case, the PI has no supernatural training, heritage, or ability, and in fact would just as soon not have anything to do with fey, if only they'd quit seeking her out. Particular storyline to involve some sort of wealthy businessman who thinks he's being stalked and harassed but who actually has a poltergeist problem. Stumbling block - I have no idea what said businessman might do for a living, or how to make the whole fey-as-legal-citizens thing relevant, aside from the fact that dudeguy employs an unusually high number of fey.
A high fantasy piece about a retired half-elf and his very not retired elven former partner and a supernatural critter that's been eating people's dreams. I had specific ideas for where this would go at some point, but I've forgotten them all now, save that the critter in question would fight the partners through a number of illusions of their past, and that one of the major conflicts is that the half-elf is Getting Too Old For This Shit, but the elf is trying very hard to ignore that fact.
Another high fantasy piece dealing with a mercenary company, particularly one very stoic and professional guy named Asher who gets hired by a community which has been having monster problems, and must make a bunch of townsfolk somehow capable of dealing with said problems, and... there was a lot more to it, but damn if I can remember that now. There was, however, a romantic subplot which would end when Asher finished his contract and went back to his company, and the girl stayed in the town, because he wouldn't stay there and she couldn't follow him. Also some stuff about Asher's sister, who is a member of a militant religious order. I wish I kept better notes.
The sequel to the above, in which the love interest from the first story gets word that Asher's in jail in some exotic foreign county and ropes some of his fellow mercenaries into going to help spring him, only to find that he's not actually in prison - he's stuck bodyguarding a very young, very immature, very high-risk princess. This time the romantic subplot fares a little better, although there's no overt romance, and I have better notes on what I intended to happen but less recollection of what the major conflicts were supposed to be. Go fig.
I'd like to do some more fairy-tale rewrites. Beauty and the Beast is always good, or I could go for something less traditional, like the Steadfast Tin Soldier. No real ideas, though.
And the fanfic, both the FFVIII bit I posted about in October and a Kingdom Hearts vignette dealing with just why Squall/Leon hangs around Traverse Town picking off the small fry and advising Sora instead of marching off to try to actually do something about the major problem at hand.
Hm.
