Choose my next WIP

Admittedly, I'm about a month away from getting started on a new novel, but in my brain I'm already beginning to bat around ideas. I have three potential novels right now, and before I really get stuck on one I'm wondering what the general opinion would be. IE, which one would you be most likely to pick up? I'm hoping you AWers can convince me to get all psyched up about the one that will be most commercially viable. Instead of, you know, the weird one that nobody will ever buy.

So, your choices are:

1) Science fiction about a young widow from a colony planet of Earth. Takes place after the colony planet rebelled (parallels to American Revolution) and was cut off completely from Earth. Young widow travels back to Earth with her father, a high-ranking politician, to open peace talks for the first time in a generation. She gets sucked into the weirdness of an Earth that has gone crazy for genetic manipulation, gets kidnapped by the leader of the Earth-based revolution, and is inducted into a secret alien society.

2) More science fiction; this one follows a spaceship captain with a tormented past as he attempts to retain his honor while the solar system is falling into corruption and chaos. A military experiment has split time into two "threads" that periodically overlap, and the two timelines have gone to war. Slowly his only goal becomes the salvation of his younger brother, but when little bro gets killed he goes nuts.

3) Non-magical fantasy about a young girl who takes on the role of squire for the king's right-hand knight to avoid having her virginity auctioned off. This one's not really well plotted but it will involve war and romance.

Shady, you only get one vote.

And it doesn't count because I knew you'd pick that one.

Oh sure, you guys, pick the one I totally DON'T have completely plotted out or anything...

Red Robin said:

Wow. I picked #3 before scrolling down the thread.

I'd suggest that the rebuffed paramour be an undead sorcerer and buccaneer.

No?

No.

I'll just... um... let myself out.

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Hahaha.

Okay just to add a bit more info since #3 seems to be the favorite here, the setup is as follows:

Girl with mysterious past is raised as a lady-in-waiting for a lord's daughter. Kingdom is prepping for a big war on the horizon and the king's way of resolving internal conflict and unifying the kingdom is to have a tournament. He needs to offer a big prize for all the young knights he wants to fight his war... so he decides to offer girl's hand in marriage to the knight who wins the tournament. After all she's not valuable for alliances. Little does he know the girl is as smart as she is pretty. The king's really hideous old huge right-hand knight has just returned from scouting... and girl asks him to fight in the tournament. He wins, a few more twists happen, and she ends up (with his permission) disguising herself as a boy and becoming his squire, thus evading a bunch of horny young knights.

Actually this is a short story I wrote, but when I got to the end I realized, 'This is just the beginning.'

I find it ironic that nobody has voted for the one I was leaning towards: #1.

See? I always pick the one nobody else wants to read.

Woo hoo, some votes for number one!

Actually I think you guys have convinced me to go with #3. Yeah, it's a plot that has been done before, and it's simple, but I think maybe simple is good. I always wade in way over my head with these huge epics and stuff and I think it might be nice just to write something simple, straightforward, and fun.

Akuma said:

Should have made a poll.

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DOH!