Tell us about the book you didn't write
Sept 13, 2017 13:43:52 GMT -5
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Post by Breakingchains on Sept 13, 2017 13:43:52 GMT -5
Why didn't you write it? Was it probably for the best, or would you like to revisit it someday?
I've left several projects alone over the years, either because I just didn't really know where they were going or because I got started and found that nothing grabbed me.
I had a fantasy NaNovel in 2006 when I was in a hardcore lol-so-random phase. It involved a talking semi-anthro frog who was also underage, who was desperately trying to convince the rest of the cast that he would turn into a handsome prince if somebody bought him a beer. The rest of the cast included an intentional Mary-sue who had wandered into the wrong story and a peasant boy/chosen one who just wanted to save his kidnapped pig and go home.
I promise all the other lolrandom teenagers in 2006 thought this was endlessly hilarious. Anyways, I tried to write it for nano and it just never clicked--I was fighting the words within the first couple of pages and it just crashed and died. Yyyyeeaaaaahhh that was when I figured out I couldn't write comedy.
Another abandoned nano project of mine also involved a "chosen one" sort of story where you have your chosen one in training, and all the signs line up, and then he attempts to fulfill the prophecy and just. Fails, catastrophically. Because as it turns out, the prophecy was nonsense and if you're looking for patterns in the universe's random number generator, somebody's eventually going to fit the pattern if you squint. So basically it was about his ensuing mental breakdown and attempts to remain important in a world that convinced him he was important.
I don't think the problem with this one was the premise so much as the fact that I never developed a strong plot before I started writing. I'd like to take another stab at it if I can actually flesh out the cast and figure out how to develop the main conflict.
Another one I spent a ton of time developing in early 2011 was this mediocre thing that involved magically-induced insanity, political intrigue, and lots and lots about Kappas. I developed the entire backstory start to finish, finalized a very long complete outline, drew the characters, and then said "meh" and never wrote a word. It's just sitting there in near-complete form waiting for someone to type it, and it will never be typed.
I really have no explanation.
I've left several projects alone over the years, either because I just didn't really know where they were going or because I got started and found that nothing grabbed me.
I had a fantasy NaNovel in 2006 when I was in a hardcore lol-so-random phase. It involved a talking semi-anthro frog who was also underage, who was desperately trying to convince the rest of the cast that he would turn into a handsome prince if somebody bought him a beer. The rest of the cast included an intentional Mary-sue who had wandered into the wrong story and a peasant boy/chosen one who just wanted to save his kidnapped pig and go home.
I promise all the other lolrandom teenagers in 2006 thought this was endlessly hilarious. Anyways, I tried to write it for nano and it just never clicked--I was fighting the words within the first couple of pages and it just crashed and died. Yyyyeeaaaaahhh that was when I figured out I couldn't write comedy.
Another abandoned nano project of mine also involved a "chosen one" sort of story where you have your chosen one in training, and all the signs line up, and then he attempts to fulfill the prophecy and just. Fails, catastrophically. Because as it turns out, the prophecy was nonsense and if you're looking for patterns in the universe's random number generator, somebody's eventually going to fit the pattern if you squint. So basically it was about his ensuing mental breakdown and attempts to remain important in a world that convinced him he was important.
I don't think the problem with this one was the premise so much as the fact that I never developed a strong plot before I started writing. I'd like to take another stab at it if I can actually flesh out the cast and figure out how to develop the main conflict.
Another one I spent a ton of time developing in early 2011 was this mediocre thing that involved magically-induced insanity, political intrigue, and lots and lots about Kappas. I developed the entire backstory start to finish, finalized a very long complete outline, drew the characters, and then said "meh" and never wrote a word. It's just sitting there in near-complete form waiting for someone to type it, and it will never be typed.
I really have no explanation.
