Wondering about a story set in a kind of mental/respite home, but for those with more supernatural problems. Anyone read anything like this before?
Write it anyway.Wondering about a story set in a kind of mental/respite home, but for those with more supernatural problems. Anyone read anything like this before?
Wondering about a story set in a kind of mental/respite home, but for those with more supernatural problems. Anyone read anything like this before?
Not like X-Men, a home for people with supernatural powers?
And not like someone with supernatural powers being locked up in a muggle hospital, right?
Is it set in a supernatural world, and their problems are something akin to their spells always going wrong, or their prophecies always turning out false?
I can't think of anything like it, but I think it's an awesome idea.
Too many writers dive into the first story idea that comes to mind without first screening the many possible stories they could write for what is or isn't marketable.
I'm curious about this statement.
How does a writer decide if a story is marketable until they actually write it? Often the initial idea is different from the finished product, and by the time the story has been written and polished, the market has already shifted.
The OP's idea could be a depressing story. It could also end up being quite humorous, depending on what she actually does with it.
ETA: Slight cross-post with above.
You cannot base the marketability of a book on idea (just a sentence) alone.
KingM:
Perhaps you should try following threads in the genres your agency represents, as in your answer to this question, you stated that no published novel existed. Berg has a large following in fantasy.
Patrick Rothfuss also had an asylum for magicians in The Name of the Wind, but it wasn't the sole focus, either.Yes, Carol Berg had a home for those with magical abilities in her fantasy novel Daughter of Ancients. It wasn't the sole focus of the novel.
Something vaguely similar but not quite:
Hunted by S. W. Vaughn, which I've read. The author's a member here so mind how you go.
So it's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest done as UF, yes?Yes, I was talking about an asylum type place. A correctional facility. I'm not fussed if it's been done before as such, I just want to make sure that what I write isn't too similar to what has gone before. Thanks for all the suggestions/comparisons on that front. Was thinking of something like a House Of Un -- unmentionable, unexplainable, unsightly...undead...
So it's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest done as UF, yes?
NO SEX!!!!???? Oh, well if agents wallow in their fluids, I guess that's a fair sub.