Meme in the Morning

[leahbobet]

Above is set to be my first finished novel in two years or so. Stolen from katallen, jmeadows, stillsostrange, and stillnotbored, here's a list of the unfinished novels and idea-stage stuff:

Saturnalia (~600 words) This is most likely next in the barrel.
The Patron Saint of Nothing (36k) ksumnersmith is frequently after me to pick this back up, but that would require a plot. It sits in the corner until it puts out the plot.
Rosemary, For Remembrance (15k) A direct sequel to "Lost Wax" and "The Sorceress's Assistant", about a girl who hits her head and the revolution that eventually follows. Put it down for not doing things sufficiently interesting to me, but it is likely I was being too harsh.
The Victorian Book/Pritchard (25k) I will likely scrap this for parts. It had an overarching plot that can only be charitably described as stupid.
Toronto Book 2 (71k) Well, I couldn't do much with it without selling Toronto Book the First. Although now that I'm rereading it it's not at all bad, and maybe I should.

And in the idea-and-notes stage...

The Roof-Sheep Book (250) Wherein Six and Joe and Angeline's parents, young and able-bodied, walk across Canada in the wake of the apocalypse. Why? They haven't told me yet. But it would have lots of tasty survivalist logistics. Mmm.
Caravanserai (500) Exile, desert worlds, a beautiful woman king who was once a shit disturber, ancient bone cities, and (I think) war.
The Enchanted Generation (notes) Too nebulous for me to even comment on yet.


And now I shall go to my job interview, even though the rain it raineth today of all days.

Comments

[fearsclave.livejournal.com]

Mmmm... survivalist logistics.

I can't claim to be anything more than a mildly zombie-obsessed occasional prepper with ambitions of homesteading, not a hardcore survivalist (you need a shrine to Ronald Reagan for that, down in your bunker next to the pallet of ammunition and five-year pile of MREs), but I can point you at some resources in the area if you like. In particular, John Wesley Rawles, the guy behind survivalblog.com (http://www.survivalblog.com), not only has a pretty good, if alarmingly right-wing Kentucky Fried Christian blog on the topic, but has also (self)published an apparently literarily godwaful novel titled Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse (http://www2.xlibris.com/bookstore/bookdisplay.asp?bookid=35549) that he claims receives rave reviews from his readership (small praise, since they're mostly guys who can't tell survival manuals from Shakespeare). It apparently involves a couple of upright Christian Republican gun owners hiking home across a post-Collapse America...

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

(you need a shrine to Ronald Reagan for that, down in your bunker next to the pallet of ammunition and five-year pile of MREs)

Heeee. I think I'll downgrade my particular goals to 'homesteading' too, then. *g*

I can imagine that book being utterly hilarious if written from a non-ideological viewpoint, but alas, I am sadly sure it was not.

[karenthology.livejournal.com]

Oooh. Ancient bone cities! Exciting.

[ruthannereid.livejournal.com]

I must say that Patron Saint of Nothing is a title that would make me pick up the book. Now you've got me curious!

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

It's got all kinds of cool stuff in it, just...none of those things is a plot. *g*

[sora-blue.livejournal.com]

Saturnalia sounds like an eager novel with a lot of shiny, but I am also a fan of Roof-Sheep and a survival plan in book format for how to get to Toronto after the apocalypse.

But that list for Caravanserai would make me pull it off the shelf and read the opening page.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping it's one of those two that gels next. :)