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Title: concept for fiction serial (take 2)
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on May 07, 2009, 02:53:03 AM

I wanna write something set in a  religious cult, one whose supernatural beliefs were actually true.  It would work sort of like Buffy or Angel in that it overlays a mythology on the real world, and the characters' fantastic problems parallel and are used as metaphors for more mundane real-life problems, only instead of fighting vampires and demons or whatever, our crew is working to bring about the resurrection of sealed ancient gods, a la stereotypical JRPG villains.  Only instead of being evil, these gods are awesome and will make the world awesome.

i can't decide whether to do this or continue with the vampire fiction project i started a ways back.   Huh

Title: Re: concept for fiction serial (take 2)
Post by: Eric P on May 07, 2009, 11:20:45 AM

so basically cthulhu stories in reverse

Title: Re: concept for fiction serial (take 2)
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on May 07, 2009, 01:02:15 PM

more or less, but with more wacky romcom hijinx

Title: Re: concept for fiction serial (take 2)
Post by: Eric P on May 07, 2009, 01:08:11 PM

so a tom holt book

Title: Re: concept for fiction serial (take 2)
Post by: Cyanista on May 07, 2009, 03:31:38 PM

This might do well with a nerd niche, but I'm scared of it.

Title: Re: concept for fiction serial (take 2)
Post by: Ganhyun on May 07, 2009, 03:34:55 PM

go for it, if your lucky it becomes big and you are the next equivalent of Laura Hamilton or such.

Title: Re: concept for fiction serial (take 2)
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on May 07, 2009, 03:47:39 PM

but as we have already seen from this thread, 100% of women are turned off by the concept  :'(

Title: Re: concept for fiction serial (take 2)
Post by: Cyanista on May 07, 2009, 04:06:12 PM

Oh, it's just the romcom aspect that turns me off.  Not all women are as jaded as I am!  in fact, I'd say very few of them are, judging by the popularity of Twilight.

Title: Re: concept for fiction serial (take 2)
Post by: Tauntaun on May 07, 2009, 04:10:00 PM

sealed god sounds cool