Too much chasing around in my head
Jun. 25th, 2008 11:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhienellethI am at loose ends, writing-wise. I'd love to work on that Tony/Pepper fic, but they aren't talking to me, currently. (Of course not, the novel is done. Irritating!)
I have half formed thoughts of opening a fresh Word doc and starting Consort (working title for the sequel to Nemesis). But then I'm not sure I'm ready to dive in to that big a project quite yet. And also, maybe I need to step away from Mercy's voice for a bit.
Also, I have recently though of completely overhauling Starlight & Shadow - to the point where very little would even be recognizable from the original piece. And making it YA. Except faerie seems to be the latest trend in YA urban fantasy fiction, and, hmmm, probably editors/agents aren't really looking for more in that vein. Also, I'm not sure how dark and, er, sexual it's kosher to be in YA these days. It seems to have become much more "adult" than "young" anymore, but again...hmm. Well, in my 'verse, the Aos Sí (sídhe) would be entirely inhuman - dark, deadly beautiful, but without human conscience, remorse, or feeling. And they're dying, almost gone from the world (which might not be a bad thing).
I don't know. Right now, this is just musing. Enough that I've opened up the S&S doc for the first time in...2 years. I think I could bang out a 50,000 word manuscript in the next month, and I find the idea for the overhaul of a story I never thought I would touch again intriguing.
But then, so is the idea of starting Consort.
I have half formed thoughts of opening a fresh Word doc and starting Consort (working title for the sequel to Nemesis). But then I'm not sure I'm ready to dive in to that big a project quite yet. And also, maybe I need to step away from Mercy's voice for a bit.
Also, I have recently though of completely overhauling Starlight & Shadow - to the point where very little would even be recognizable from the original piece. And making it YA. Except faerie seems to be the latest trend in YA urban fantasy fiction, and, hmmm, probably editors/agents aren't really looking for more in that vein. Also, I'm not sure how dark and, er, sexual it's kosher to be in YA these days. It seems to have become much more "adult" than "young" anymore, but again...hmm. Well, in my 'verse, the Aos Sí (sídhe) would be entirely inhuman - dark, deadly beautiful, but without human conscience, remorse, or feeling. And they're dying, almost gone from the world (which might not be a bad thing).
I don't know. Right now, this is just musing. Enough that I've opened up the S&S doc for the first time in...2 years. I think I could bang out a 50,000 word manuscript in the next month, and I find the idea for the overhaul of a story I never thought I would touch again intriguing.
But then, so is the idea of starting Consort.
