Now I'm NOT going to limit myself to a true Bogart-style, gritty private eye caper set in a dark dystopian future (like in Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?). But I need first-person POV, I need it to be told from the POV of a male, I need a little bit of darkness, and a little bit of either fantasy or sci-fi will do nicely. All of that PLUS future dystopian would be perfect but not essential. AND IT MUST BE A VERY RECENT PUBLICATION -- five years or less.
I'm asking because I need to examine someone else's accomplishment as far as style, pacing and tone to help me in the latest editing job I'm trying to accomplish on my WIP. And my NEED of all of this as a template or a springboard of sorts comes from the following handicaps I'm working under at the moment:
-- I am a female, and yet I'm writing the POV of a male
-- I am a screenwriter, but this is my first forray BACK into the realm of writing a novel in over a decade, and so I am VERY rusty at writing prose again (Derek?? You listening, bro??)
-- I have a few noir novels and a few first person novels and a few future dystopian novels from decades ago all kicking around in my memory, and I could TRY to use any of one those, or a combination of those, as a template or an inspiration, but their writing styles are old and out of date (they are mostly from the 1960's) and I feel that I need to try and get caught up with "the Church of What's Happening Now" as far as my writing style goes
Anyone?
Thanks!
(PS-- Any purists who might balk at the idea that I somehow need to "copy" someone else's work, please consider the movie Finding Forester. In that film the young teenaged student named Jamal Wallace was instructed by the brilliant award winning and internationally acclaimed novelist named Forester to employ the writing exercise of starting out by copying word-for-word the first few paragraphs of someone else's written manuscript. Then after arriving at a place of inspiration, he was to branch out from there into his own prosaic offering.
This is about what I need at this time.)
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I'm asking because I need to examine someone else's accomplishment as far as style, pacing and tone to help me in the latest editing job I'm trying to accomplish on my WIP. And my NEED of all of this as a template or a springboard of sorts comes from the following handicaps I'm working under at the moment:
-- I am a female, and yet I'm writing the POV of a male
-- I am a screenwriter, but this is my first forray BACK into the realm of writing a novel in over a decade, and so I am VERY rusty at writing prose again (Derek?? You listening, bro??)
-- I have a few noir novels and a few first person novels and a few future dystopian novels from decades ago all kicking around in my memory, and I could TRY to use any of one those, or a combination of those, as a template or an inspiration, but their writing styles are old and out of date (they are mostly from the 1960's) and I feel that I need to try and get caught up with "the Church of What's Happening Now" as far as my writing style goes
Anyone?
Thanks!
(PS-- Any purists who might balk at the idea that I somehow need to "copy" someone else's work, please consider the movie Finding Forester. In that film the young teenaged student named Jamal Wallace was instructed by the brilliant award winning and internationally acclaimed novelist named Forester to employ the writing exercise of starting out by copying word-for-word the first few paragraphs of someone else's written manuscript. Then after arriving at a place of inspiration, he was to branch out from there into his own prosaic offering.
This is about what I need at this time.)
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In a laughing-with-you way. 
