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People gave me tons of awesome and amazing feedback about my writing course! I talked to the teacher, and based on her suggestions, I'm actually going with the story that the fewest of you voted for :-P, largely for reasons that [livejournal.com profile] daydreamweaver also posted: because the thing I have the biggest problem with is revision, not writing, so using the course for that would be the best way to learn, and then doing it with other stories will get easier.

So the decision is to go with Hypnotist's Gaol.

While I was trying to decide what to work on, I found out just how many semi-finished novels I have lying around.

A few for your edification:

--Firebrand
Coming-of-age fantasy about bluestockings fighting for the right to go to a magical university. Inspired by suffragettes!

--Tilt
This is a story about a high school jousting team in a modern-day world that is completely ordinary except that there are giant fantasy animals like unicorns and flying cats, and jousting takes the place of American football.

--The Traitor's Herbal
American Dustbowl fantasy complete with evil railroad magnates. Think "The Grapes of Wrath" but with angels instead of turtles.

--Squall
Um, for those of you in Erins, Squall is where Andre originally came from. This is a story about an airship captain who takes on a swamp princess who is running from the law.

--Suck
Two teenaged girls with the potential for a lucrative modeling contract are told they need to drop ten pounds. One becomes a vampire in order to lose weight.

Those are only the ones that I have, you know, more than 20 pages or so of. I have like a billionty other ideas that are just outlines or synopses or a couple pages.

My brain is so full of things! I just need to get better about finishing them.

Anyway thank you everyone who gave me feedback, that was awesome.

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Date: 2011-01-21 05:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] liret.livejournal.com
Hypnotist's Gaol is good!

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Date: 2011-01-21 11:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] teaberryblue.livejournal.com
I hope it is :-P

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Date: 2011-01-21 05:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alephz.livejournal.com
Holy wow, those are some awesome ideas right there. Particularly Tilt, Traitor's Herbal and Suck.

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Date: 2011-01-21 11:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] teaberryblue.livejournal.com
I really like the narrator of Suck.

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Date: 2011-01-22 08:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kalliona.livejournal.com
I love the idea for Suck; good social commentary plus it's hilarious. It also sounds totally marketable.

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Date: 2011-01-21 06:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] i-smell-apples.livejournal.com
OMG I want to read Firebrand like right NOW. My alley, you are up it!

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Date: 2011-01-21 06:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] i-smell-apples.livejournal.com
...in the non-dirty way!

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Date: 2011-01-21 11:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] teaberryblue.livejournal.com
I am working off a hideously bad draft that is 200 pages long, that I wrote almost ten years ago. Fixing it is fun.

Bwah ha ha

Date: 2011-01-21 10:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] daydreamweaver.livejournal.com
I am going to put on my genius hat now, because I love it when people take my advice. :-)

Re: Bwah ha ha

Date: 2011-01-21 11:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] teaberryblue.livejournal.com
Your advice was the same as the teacher's, so!

Re: Bwah ha ha

Date: 2011-01-23 08:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] daydreamweaver.livejournal.com
That's extra special bonus smug for me, then. Means I've not completely forgotten what they taught me on my MA. ;-)

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Date: 2011-01-21 11:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hug-machine.livejournal.com
I WOULD READ THESE, TEA!

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Date: 2011-01-21 11:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] teaberryblue.livejournal.com
I have to not be a lazy ass and write them!

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