Hi!
I'm pretty sure I've got my plot for November, but while watching LotR the other day I started speculating on what fun it could be to intentionally throw the markets off kilter and mash-up genres just for the fun and the challenge of it. I remember reading somewhere that J.R.R. Tolkien welcomed the idea of his fans adding to the world he had created, whereas another favorite author of mine, John Norman, hates the idea. If I'm ever lucky enough to create a story and a world that people like so much that they want to live in it, I hope to be secure enough to welcome them to help be co-architects of it, like Tolkien. Here are a few of the ideas that were running through my brain:
I like ghost stories and the paranormal. I also like Hobbiton. How about a haunting in a Hobbiton like town of hobbits, halflings, or similar people?
I also like historical fiction, and historical fantasy. How about a world of Elves, Men, Hobbits, Dwarves, Wizards, etc... but based on Aztec mythology instead of Nordic mytholigies the way a lot of LotR seems to be? Hmmm. A "Good" God who demands human sacrifice followed by cannibalism! Goodness. My protagonist would have issues.
A re-definition of Rocky Horror Picture Show: Ansel Adams travels into the Rockies and discovers a cabin filled with murdered bodies and has to solve the mystery before the killer gets him! Must also be a musical, of course.
Anyone have any other ideas for intentional genre mash-ups?
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Oct 5, 2008 - 10 07
My novel seems to be shaping up to be a wuxia (fantasy+kung-fu) slice-of-life centered around food and taking place in a parallel universe. There may also be some mystery/suspense involved... I always wind up with weird genres because I create characters before I create plot.
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Oct 5, 2008 - 10 31
Mine is a combination of horror/suspense, with a little bit of mystery and romance mixed in. The idea started out as a short story midterm project for my creative writing class this semester, but I keep on finding out more things about these characters.
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Oct 5, 2008 - 11 21
I'm writing a weird sort-of fanfic non-fiction thing.
I play World of Warcraft, and I'm in charge of guild fellowship in my guild. So I'm writing a guild fellowship guidebook as if I am my character, and using guild members as characters. But it's meant to be functional, as well, for others who need a little guidance in fellowship for WoW.
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Oct 7, 2008 - 03 50
I've got a kinda modern day crimey mystery novel, with all the usual BS themes (sexism, racial prejudice, goverment control, only included as an excuse to write some kick ass gunfight scenes), but its modern day in the future? I figure that with Sci fi, you can do pretty much anything that you want, so why not do a 'traditional' novel in a sci fi setting. Its just so much more free.
----------throw in some fantasy and bit of erotic horror herre and there and you've got a cracker. waddya think?
If you travel faster than the speed of light, do you get where your going, and see your self comming?
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Oct 10, 2008 - 07 21
i'm seriously considering a parody/spoof made up mostly of dares i've been collecting from the forums but haven't used. So mashing up genres sounds like it would fit perfectly. i might take that as an additional dare. See how many genres i can cram in... hmm... i might have to go browse wikipedia for some of the more obscure '____punk' genres,
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Oct 10, 2008 - 10 26
teehee!!
Check out this page I was fairly amused when I ran across a while back:
http://www.ursulakleguin.com/AlternateTitles.html
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Oct 11, 2008 - 19 31
Evening Scribe, all of those ideas remind me a bit of the Bizarro genre!
Haha... if you look at the synopsis for these books, you might see what I mean. This is totally what I'm doing this year; writing wacked out, mixed up stuff... which I call Bizarro. It will be so much fun. XD
http://www.bizarrocentral.com/books.asp?offset=50
(there are tons of pages of these synopsis' and they're all awesomely weird)
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Nov 1, 2008 - 03 02
I'm attempting mash-up of Vampire Sci-Fi Thriller (or Comedy -- but that may be a bit much)
Usually the confusion eases after the first few pages of chapter one are down on paper.
I'm still open to suggestions...it has to be a three genre mix, two seems unbalanced to me for whatever reason.
Cheers!
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Nov 10, 2008 - 13 18
I think my book is mainly horror but its also got a pretty big fraction related to romance, mystery, drama, some comedy, a little bit of sci-fi and definately tragedy. I really can't tell at all what it is really anymore, so I figure my story is one big mash up of practically everything, but then again, most of my plots are like that anyways. Yay to mashing genres up!
[You really can't tell from my exerpt though, just how much i mash things up.]