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hadassahintheshell) wrote2019-01-17 07:04 am
Novels and novel ideas
So, I’m a writer. Not published anywhere but the places you can publish for free on, but still. The big dream one day is to get a published novel out there. Below are the novel ideas I’ve gotten further than three chapters into writing, including a finished novel that didn’t elicit much response with agents (alas).
Colony Ship Breakdown (Draft 1, 40k words in): A colony ship on a six-hundred year long journey run by half a dozen AI is having severe trouble mid transit. Normally an entirely unmanned trip, they wake up Jamus to help engineer fixes for their problems, the only problem being is that Jamus is a terraforming engineer without a lick of experience on interstellar travel. Jamus must navigate cagey AIs with unclear directives to enforce secrecy, a ship that seems to be falling apart around him, and a growing solidarity and friendship with an agender AI that the others have been isolating for over a century.
Surviving Protagonists (Finished, or pre-draft 6): Stories supposed to be about protagonists, but on an Earth where this issue is deadly serious, Erin just wants to avoid the local Protagonists just like every other still self-aware human. Unfortunately for her agency, her office’s Protagonist has taken an interest in her personally. When the Plot demands, Erin is trapped between choosing to give up her agency by playing along with these outsiders using her world for fun or losing it permanently by trying to fight a malign fate.
Animus ex Machina (3 Chapters in): Sylvanna is ancient in the world of self driving cars, one of the first street-legal fully-autonomous cars. Having survived more owners, fender benders, and wrecks she had any right, she’s even outlived the company that designed and maintained her increasingly obsolete code, without anyone realizing that she’s more than the sum of her software. When she’s stolen for a bank robbery, Sylvanna may need to reevaluate being man’s best transport. Given that her new owners were smugglers, Sylvanna realizes may need to start being more aggressive about proving her worth to avoid the scrap heap. It also might mean learning to trust her new backseat driver as she gets the opportunity to show these humans the real spirit of road rage.
Enchanted to Death: Deidre Windwillows shouldn’t have been at the preservation ruins on the night she died. Becoming a Master Enchanter wasn’t just enough, she wanted to have a research paper that would impress even her demanding parents. She figured if she’d been caught, she would have been arrested maybe, and gotten a fine. Instead, some shadowy figure killed her on the spot. When her vestigial spirit watched her killer also steal her body, Deidre found the motive to sear her spectral form into reality, becoming a banshee intent on two simple tasks. She’d finish her thesis, and by the gods, Diedre would kill the bastard that stole her body.
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