Novel

[quislibet]

I have no time to participate in that novel-writing thing that so many of y'all are doing, but I do have this fabulous idea:

Once there were some people whose lives got really messy all of a sudden. After they had gone through a lot of trouble, gaining and losing things along the way, it all turned out mostly all right.

What do you think?

Comments

[larryhammer]

Has some potential, but it needs a little fleshing out—with about 49,963 more words.

---L.

[rojagato.livejournal.com]

I read this very quickly as "gaming and losing things along the way", and thought, that's a winner, all right!

[alonewiththemoon]

I did exactly the same thing :)

[basha.livejournal.com]

Brilliant! You should try to sell the film rights!

[exquiscadavre.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm. Take off the retro Hollywood ending and have things turn out just the same as before, only different.

Then, it will be more modern.

[canonfire.livejournal.com]

Didn't Livy write something like that?

[jdm314.livejournal.com]

Nice icon!

[canonfire.livejournal.com]

thanks! mcsnee made it for me.

[whatifoundthere.livejournal.com]

I think it's too ambitious. Narrow yourself down to one hero (http://department.monm.edu/classics/Courses/Clas230/MythDocuments/HeroPattern/default.htm), and you'll have a bestseller.

[screed.livejournal.com]

Or kill them all and you'll be Shakespeare. Or John Carpenter.

[quislibet.livejournal.com]

Yes. But then Tolkien decided it gave too much away.

[jdm314.livejournal.com]

You stole that plot from Menander!

[quislibet.livejournal.com]

Who *doesn't* steal plots from Menander?