Writing novels
Posted by:
Sarah (---.vip.uk.com)
Date: December 03, 2002 08:21PM
<HTML>I'm writing one too. Not my first, but hopefully my first published (I'm an optimist!).
I was thinking the other day about a male friend who had better be nameless, who is about six weeks older than I am and the world's most reluctant virgin. This is by no means for want of trying, but from my own feminine point of view I can assure you, ffellow Fforumites, that he is not exactly the world's greatest catch. Then I started thinking about unicorns. As far as I know, you don't have to be young, beautiful or even female to end up with a unicorn. The only qualification is virginity.
So I had a character who is rather like my friend, landed him with a rather bossy lady unicorn who is trying to solve a transdimensional murder mystery and needs a human assistant to work in our reality, and threw in a lot of stuff about a minor English aristocrat called Lord Smallpiece of Oxtongue who is both dead and not dead at the same time (sort of like Schroedinger's cat), a mysterious Italian by the name of Guido Borlotti who turns out to come from an Escher print, and, oh yes, how could I forget, Merlin. Actually, Morwenna. The business about sleeping for thousands of years in some draughty cave is just a publicity stunt so he doesn't get bothered by a lot of people wanting spells and incantations doing. In fact Merlin reincarnates on a regular basis as his own son, but this time he got a bit careless and slipped a chromosome. Could happen to anyone. So he's turned up this time as his own _daughter_, and having been used to living in a male body for all those years, he's not too happy about it.
This is either going to be brilliant or dreadful. But I'm having fun writing it, anyway, and it makes a change from science fiction, which is great stuff to write but hopeless to get an agent for.
Anyone else out there writing a novel, then, apart from a certain very quiet person who happens to be the other "Blake's 7" fan on this Fforum? ;-)</HTML>