Am I blogging...or am I pitching my existence?
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Monday, October 31, 2005 The Pitch: It's like The Draughtman's Contract meets Drowning By Numbers! See? More.(Double-bonus twee points for those of you who added "Glass" to the end of that para.) One of the other things mentioned at the dinner on Saturday was posting the novel I was writing on this blog. I'm very reluctant to do this--for one thing, I barely finished Nano last year and if it hadn't been for quiet days at work following Thanksgiving (allowing me to have three days where I wrote 36,000 words total), I wouldn't have. The idea of agreeing to post my blog, and then having everyone look in each day to see nothing makes my soul itch. I'm also loathe to do the huge amount of typo fixing it would take for me to post this stuff. But, you know? I might do it anyway, convert one of the blogs I'm not using to do so, or create a new blog so that I can post from oldest to newest and not make you scrawl through pages of digital photos. In any event (and I will let you know, I promise), I'll tell you a little bit about what I want to write this year; if nothing else, it'll allow you to take vast amusement at how differently things'll turn out. This year, I'm writing a murder mystery: to drop some obtuse high concept, I'm looking for it to be Great Jones Street meets Silence of the Lambs, although if I can get Meeting People is Easy crossed with The Hardy Boys and the Mystery of the Old Mill, I'll be happy. The protagonist is the lead singer of a successful rock band on tour--they've been big for a while, so they know how to tour and survive. An FBI agent comes to the band with letters from someone who says they've been killing people after the band's shows, and that they'll keep killing until the cycle's complete. The FBI agent, a fan of the band, managed to get himself assigned to investigate the band's tour since the easiest way for the killer to pull this job off is to be a member of the band's road crew...or a member of the band themselves. And then hijinks ensue, yadda yadda, killings, blah blah blah. Having done Nano beforehand, I know that I'd need, if I wanted this to be remotely possible, to do a buttload of research and a lot of planning. So far, I've done the planning--I have my obscure plot hatched, the killer picked, the red herrings assigned. I'd like there to be some doubt about whether the narrator might themselves be the killer, but you know, whatever. Part of me would be just as happy to write:
Yeah.... that would probably do me just fine, actually. Okay. Work is for working (or looking like I'm working). That's enough for now. posted by Jeff Lester | 8:57 AM | |
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