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megwritesAll right friends and Romans, I need your very wise counsel. I'm debating which particular idea I'm going to proceed with for NaNoWriMo and I thought getting the opinions of others might help me decide which to go with.
The two ideas are as follows:
Idea #1 - Tentative Title: "Bound for Canaan". SF. - When 50,000 men, women, and children suddenly die on the remote, separatist religious colony-planet called Canaan, the government of the nearest planet -- Inachoye -- is charged by the Planetary Union with sending an investigative expedition. Reluctant and resentful, the Inachoyean government sends the worst they have, hoping they will rule the deaths a mass suicide as they're told and be done with it. This team, composed of six investigators chosen specifically because something is wrong with them take a GRAFT -- a genetically engineered pseudo-human who's sole purpose for existing is to be an experimental tool. Even as their superiors push for the quick finding of a mass suicide, the evidence the team finds points to a far more sinister explanation, one that will lead the team to discover that Canaan was home to more than just a colony, but terrible secrets.
Idea #2 - Tentative Title: The Bronze Orchid - Fantasy. Our Heroine [I don't know her name yet] is a failed priestess working at a bar frequented by criminals. Her job is simple: keep the grifters, con artists, thieves, kidnappers, assassins and criminals who patronize the bar from ripping off the barkeeper, make sure they pay their tab, and throw out anyone who gets unruly. With her temple training in everything from self-defense to high order mathematics, it's a job she's very good at. One day, a long time patron, [also unnamed so far] comes to the bar keeper with a proposition. The Patron is retiring and wants one last big score, but to get it he needs some working capital. If the bar keeper will front him a few thousand, he'll get ten times his money when the job is done. To protect his investment, the bar keeper send Our Heroine to accompany the Patron. Quickly, Our Heroine realizes that this is far more dangerous than a simple theft or confidence scheme. Because what the Patron is after something that cannot be measured in gold, and getting it could cost them both their very lives.
So, what say you internets? One or two?
The two ideas are as follows:
Idea #1 - Tentative Title: "Bound for Canaan". SF. - When 50,000 men, women, and children suddenly die on the remote, separatist religious colony-planet called Canaan, the government of the nearest planet -- Inachoye -- is charged by the Planetary Union with sending an investigative expedition. Reluctant and resentful, the Inachoyean government sends the worst they have, hoping they will rule the deaths a mass suicide as they're told and be done with it. This team, composed of six investigators chosen specifically because something is wrong with them take a GRAFT -- a genetically engineered pseudo-human who's sole purpose for existing is to be an experimental tool. Even as their superiors push for the quick finding of a mass suicide, the evidence the team finds points to a far more sinister explanation, one that will lead the team to discover that Canaan was home to more than just a colony, but terrible secrets.
Idea #2 - Tentative Title: The Bronze Orchid - Fantasy. Our Heroine [I don't know her name yet] is a failed priestess working at a bar frequented by criminals. Her job is simple: keep the grifters, con artists, thieves, kidnappers, assassins and criminals who patronize the bar from ripping off the barkeeper, make sure they pay their tab, and throw out anyone who gets unruly. With her temple training in everything from self-defense to high order mathematics, it's a job she's very good at. One day, a long time patron, [also unnamed so far] comes to the bar keeper with a proposition. The Patron is retiring and wants one last big score, but to get it he needs some working capital. If the bar keeper will front him a few thousand, he'll get ten times his money when the job is done. To protect his investment, the bar keeper send Our Heroine to accompany the Patron. Quickly, Our Heroine realizes that this is far more dangerous than a simple theft or confidence scheme. Because what the Patron is after something that cannot be measured in gold, and getting it could cost them both their very lives.
So, what say you internets? One or two?
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Date: 2009-10-21 02:12 pm (UTC)I like the idea of a grifter/caper book with fantasy overtones. It's almost like it can have a Harry Dresden sort of feel to it but with your own unique twist.
I also think, being somewhat cold-blooded, that idea #2 is ultimately more marketable, because it's more relatable. People LIKE stories that are set in universes that are just this side of what's familiar to us.
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