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I've been consumed with prep notes for this years National Novel Writing Contest. Yes, I know it doesn't kick off until November but this is an idea that I've been kicking around since last year's contest and the ideas have been coming freely the last few days so I've been jotting them down. The "novel" from last year, Never Say Die, still isn't finished.
It's nowhere near being finished. Actually I toyed with the idea of just breaking the timeline down and starting a new novel with the stuff I want to parody. I never did get that far last year. However I am now firmly in the Start a New Damn Story mode and that's what I'm going to run with this year.
My concept combines Mecha, genetic engineering, an alien race bent on wiping out humanity - and has already killed every human on Earth to boot! The action picks about about 70 years after the fall of Earth on an outworld colony. Most of the fighting is handled by massive organic WMDs the size of Gundams. It's not enough in my book that you can be shot down but you're lucky if you're also not smashed, ripped apart and eaten alive by your opponent.
Is it a good sign when I'm already thinking of inventive ways to kill half the cast off? Hell "the cast" so far is comprised entirely of people who meet rather horrible demises. I'll probably back off from that some during the process of writing. I'm not particularly fond of killing characters just for the sheer sadistic pleasure of doing so.
Now I just need to think of some more animals I can blow up to 40 foot tall half-alien versions.
It's nowhere near being finished. Actually I toyed with the idea of just breaking the timeline down and starting a new novel with the stuff I want to parody. I never did get that far last year. However I am now firmly in the Start a New Damn Story mode and that's what I'm going to run with this year.
My concept combines Mecha, genetic engineering, an alien race bent on wiping out humanity - and has already killed every human on Earth to boot! The action picks about about 70 years after the fall of Earth on an outworld colony. Most of the fighting is handled by massive organic WMDs the size of Gundams. It's not enough in my book that you can be shot down but you're lucky if you're also not smashed, ripped apart and eaten alive by your opponent.
Is it a good sign when I'm already thinking of inventive ways to kill half the cast off? Hell "the cast" so far is comprised entirely of people who meet rather horrible demises. I'll probably back off from that some during the process of writing. I'm not particularly fond of killing characters just for the sheer sadistic pleasure of doing so.
Now I just need to think of some more animals I can blow up to 40 foot tall half-alien versions.
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