novels, Old Spice Sesame Street, novel-writing

[tielan]

I've started on the first of the Alexia Tarabotti novels, Soulless, by Gail Carriger.

Anyone read these? Supernatural Steampunk Romance, and quite enjoyable so far. Maybe it just hits my kinks. Admittedly, she's a little too competent, practical, and absent 'soul' - (think 'lacking sensibility' in the old Jane Austen way of Sense and Sensibility where Elinor has too much sense, and Marianne has too much sensibility) when compared with the rest of the female cast, although Carriger has done a pretty good job of incorporating gender prejudices of the time into the society. And she has a lightly humourous turn of phrase, which adds to the entertaining style of her writing.

She does cross one of my 'lines of annoying' which is that she doesn't keep the differing POVs separate from each other. One minute you're in the heroine's head, the next you're in the male love interest's head.

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You have seen Old Spice Grover, haven't you? HAVEN'T YOU? ("I am on a horse!" "Moo." "...Cow.")

Search "smell like a monster" on YouTube.

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I'm going to have to start my Alt Earth novel ahead of NaNo, because I won't otherwise reach the 80K word minimum before December, let alone have time for rewriting/editing. The plot is still in progress: I know what has to happen, but not how. And I'm terribly afraid it'll turn out cliche and predictable and, well, bad. Or, at least, mediocre. Which really is worse than just being 'bad'.

I'll be using the Writer's Workshop tips I got from Michael Stackpole and Aaron Allston last year at D*C to get this plot moving.

"Help me, Michael Stackpole, you're my only hope..."

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[tielan]

So everyone is telling me! I shall have to lay hands on the 2nd novel and use it as incentive to write!