Hey guys and gals,
So as a writing prompt I generated some random tropes and tried to mash them together (Story generator on the TV tropes site - I recommend it). Anyway I went for 1,000 words and, well, kinda overshot. By about 7,000. Yeah, you know how it is. Anyway, I think I created something a lot deeper than I thought, perhaps enough to carry a novel. But there's a problem (NB: there's always a problem).
1) I'm beginning to layer in the outlines (albeit in my head), to take the writing seriously. This requires a lot of effort (I'm a thorough planner and drafter).
........which would normally be fine. Except..........
2) The backdrop to the plot is, well, one rarely seen outside fan-fic. And not very...professional...fan-fic at that (I've hunted the net and found no real examples). I think I can do it justice and I think I can do it believable. Thing is I just don't think it will within a Astronomic Unit of publication.
So here goes - the set-up is a young musician who, for various reasons most of which are lethal, has to start a new identity.......as a woman (not medically, mind you). I'm playing it straight (boom boom!), probably going for a thriller (psychological or crime), and using the pressures of having to live, to be, so different while not affording the slightest mistake to torture the poor dude. Plus of course trying to build some semblance of a life in the process.
Now, I know this is triggery for many, and the maxim usually follows that if it's not already been done, there's normally a reason. So I'm wondering if this is just one of those subjects that just wont be published. Should I just treat it like the exercise it started as, free-write, finish it up, and not waste the colossal effort of creating a solid product at the end of it?
Any and all thoughts will be gratefully received (even just "Eww, DUDE!")
So as a writing prompt I generated some random tropes and tried to mash them together (Story generator on the TV tropes site - I recommend it). Anyway I went for 1,000 words and, well, kinda overshot. By about 7,000. Yeah, you know how it is. Anyway, I think I created something a lot deeper than I thought, perhaps enough to carry a novel. But there's a problem (NB: there's always a problem).
1) I'm beginning to layer in the outlines (albeit in my head), to take the writing seriously. This requires a lot of effort (I'm a thorough planner and drafter).
........which would normally be fine. Except..........
2) The backdrop to the plot is, well, one rarely seen outside fan-fic. And not very...professional...fan-fic at that (I've hunted the net and found no real examples). I think I can do it justice and I think I can do it believable. Thing is I just don't think it will within a Astronomic Unit of publication.
So here goes - the set-up is a young musician who, for various reasons most of which are lethal, has to start a new identity.......as a woman (not medically, mind you). I'm playing it straight (boom boom!), probably going for a thriller (psychological or crime), and using the pressures of having to live, to be, so different while not affording the slightest mistake to torture the poor dude. Plus of course trying to build some semblance of a life in the process.
Now, I know this is triggery for many, and the maxim usually follows that if it's not already been done, there's normally a reason. So I'm wondering if this is just one of those subjects that just wont be published. Should I just treat it like the exercise it started as, free-write, finish it up, and not waste the colossal effort of creating a solid product at the end of it?
Any and all thoughts will be gratefully received (even just "Eww, DUDE!")
