Srsly, what's the worst idea for a novel that you've ever heard or ever had? Give it to me with both barrels. Don't pull your punches. Let 'er rip.
Somebody sulks and grumps around for three hundred pages. Neither he nor anybody else changes, and nothing much happens, and now I'm depressed just thinking about it.
I'm thinking of Honeybea's l33t speak novel. I mean, c'mon. What kind of trite, hackneyed shit is that?
Srsly, what's the worst idea for a novel that you've ever heard or ever had? Give it to me with both barrels. Don't pull your punches. Let 'er rip.
Has to be the novelization of the phone book.
I'm thinking of Honeybea's l33t speak novel. I mean, c'mon. What kind of trite, hackneyed shit is that?
I know you're a mod and all and I'm probably picking a fight but I think this goes against the respect your fellow writers rule. Wouldn't it be better to just say "Leet speak novels"? She isn't the first and she won't be the last.
As for ideas that really sucked it's hard to say. A lot of good ideas are wasted with poor execution and a lot of bad ideas are made decent with great executions. I'll try to think of an example and get back with you.
Some stupid story about da Vinci putting some code in his paintings that revealed previously unknown stuff about the Bible, and the Knights Templar, etc. But it was so full of deux en machina and stupidly convenient solutions to problems that I abandoned it.