A Long Time on the Road
Jul. 7th, 2010 11:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jasonandrewI had a lot of time on the road today. I think I was on the bus for almost 3.5 hours in total. I did a mental wrap up of my writing progress.
I started with six novel ideas.
The Doom That Fell Upon the Villa Diodati is a solid novella idea. I think around 20,000 words. Anything beyond that will be padding. I did enjoy writing the first thousand or so pages, but I think the novel is the wrong form. It is very difficult capturing that voice, but I think I did it decently enough.
Persephone's Daughter is a decent vampire novel that I think hasn't been done before. I wrote the outline and put that and the first thousand words into my seed folder. I'll come back to this one in a few years.
The New Gods of the Lost Children is a short horror novel about homeless children creating new gods. However, I've written two books featuring children and I want to write an adult novel.
Logos is a strange fantasy novel that felt a little undercooked. Basically, a immortal woman named Inanna travels the universe via portals discovered on her sentient map of the universe. She working to fight off an invasion from beyond the universe and selects a Jazz Musician from Post Katrina New Orleans. I like the idea but again undercooked.
I was left with two and I realized that I had written about 5,000 words for each of the other two novels and I decided to continue writing both of them.
Mystical Rome is an epic fantasy story about an orphaned set of siblings from a noble house trying to make their mark in an alternate Rome where Caesar did not die and magic was rediscovered.
The Highway West is an urban fantasy novel about a young man on a vision quest to determine if he will train with his trickster uncle to embrace his mystical heritage or if he will decide, like his deceased father, to surrender the magic and live as a mortal. This novel has been my personal rock I've pushed up the hill many times, but I think I understand what the images and the stories mean to me now.
I started with six novel ideas.
The Doom That Fell Upon the Villa Diodati is a solid novella idea. I think around 20,000 words. Anything beyond that will be padding. I did enjoy writing the first thousand or so pages, but I think the novel is the wrong form. It is very difficult capturing that voice, but I think I did it decently enough.
Persephone's Daughter is a decent vampire novel that I think hasn't been done before. I wrote the outline and put that and the first thousand words into my seed folder. I'll come back to this one in a few years.
The New Gods of the Lost Children is a short horror novel about homeless children creating new gods. However, I've written two books featuring children and I want to write an adult novel.
Logos is a strange fantasy novel that felt a little undercooked. Basically, a immortal woman named Inanna travels the universe via portals discovered on her sentient map of the universe. She working to fight off an invasion from beyond the universe and selects a Jazz Musician from Post Katrina New Orleans. I like the idea but again undercooked.
I was left with two and I realized that I had written about 5,000 words for each of the other two novels and I decided to continue writing both of them.
Mystical Rome is an epic fantasy story about an orphaned set of siblings from a noble house trying to make their mark in an alternate Rome where Caesar did not die and magic was rediscovered.
The Highway West is an urban fantasy novel about a young man on a vision quest to determine if he will train with his trickster uncle to embrace his mystical heritage or if he will decide, like his deceased father, to surrender the magic and live as a mortal. This novel has been my personal rock I've pushed up the hill many times, but I think I understand what the images and the stories mean to me now.