Hands up

[annathepiper]

Who thinks I should tell the computer industry to go fuck itself, make up a flowery pseudonym, and start writing steamy bodice-rippers?

Hell, if I can just reverse-engineer whatever bodice-ripper-generating software Danielle Steel must be using, add in some extra "Make the Plot Suck Less" code, and fire it up, I'd be golden!

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[avram]

Go for it!

None of the Murkworks folks had posted in a few days. I'd been wondering if your household had been taken by the enemy. (Though your house presents broadsides to the neighbors, which ought to work to your advantage.)

[annathepiper]

Aww, I'm glad to hear you thought of us. :) And all has been quiet on the northern front since Friday... though we have heard that there is an active effort to do something about a different incident that house was responsible for, which is not connected to us. Which is reassuring.

[princessheacock.livejournal.com]

You're a good writer (I'd prefer not the steamy stuff so I could read it to)

However.
You'll need to figure out a way of writing faster. Without losing quality. if you hope to catch up with Danielle Steele.

[annathepiper]

Well, part of the idea here would be that if I actually decided to pursue writing as a means of generating income, I would be devoting a good chunk of my day to it. Though I may not make a formal decision on this until March, at which point, mizkit is in theory supposed to bang me over the head and make me participate in the informal NaNoWriMo challenge she and a couple others of us on the McAnallys list have discussed.

I figure if I can actually develop enough discipline to crank out a 50,000+ word novel in one month, I could consider trying to write as a means of generating income.

We'll see. Till then, I am going to be putting serious consideration into what story I want to tell. I have a few rolling around in my head, some of which could be romance-oriented and some of which wouldn't be (though any story I'm likely to write is going to have at least some element of romance in it, just because I'm like that).

What actually got me thinking about this is that there are a couple other authors on the McAnallys list besides Jim Butcher himself, one of whom is actually a romance writer.

[jessicac.livejournal.com]

*rip, rip, rip*

[annathepiper]

So are you saying you think I should start in on ripping the nearest bodice, or are you ripping one of your own?

[rmd.livejournal.com]

Who thinks I should tell the computer industry to go fuck itself, make up a flowery pseudonym, and start writing steamy bodice-rippers?

this is me with my hand up.

[annathepiper]

Whoot!

I have in fact had it suggested to me that I should write a trilogy! About three brothers who happen to bear a strong resemblance (though I would certainly not be so immodest as to point it out explicitly) to Russell Crowe, Mel Gibson, and Harrison Ford. And bizarrely enough, all three of them would have a strange affinity for short, brainy, flute-playing, inwardly poetic introverts.

And in the third novel, one of them would say to his brothers, "Guys! Have either of you noticed that our girlfriends all look alike? Either we've been dating triplets, or we've stumbled into an alternate dimension where every woman in town is a short, brainy, flute-playing, inwardly poetic introvert!"

And the second one would reply, "Either that, or we're all dating the same girl and she's very, very agile."

[poetry-lady.livejournal.com]

Write it! I could relate to the female character...with just a little imagining, I could *be* that girl.

Good luck!

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[annathepiper]

Heh. Thanks.

I have a bunch of thinking and note-taking and research to do over the next few months.

[ssha.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think there could be a successful niche market for totally self-aware, no-irony-need-be-added bodice rippers. Hee!

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[annathepiper]

Hehehehe. I'm not sure I have enough snark to maintain the tone for a whole trilogy, though. ;D

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[annathepiper]

Hehehehe!

Though I'd have to do mine in PHP or Javascript. ;D For example:

function CreateHeroHair()
{
switch rand(4)
{
case 0:
$hair = "Sun-drenched blond and frequently tousled by the breeze";
case 1:
$hair = "Warm chestnut brown, long and glossy";
case 2:
$hair = "Midnight black with a sheen of blue";
case 3:
$hair = "A muted shade of red, like the last ember of a campfire on the horizon";
}
return $hair;
}

See? Simplicity itself!

Two Words.

[kathrynt.livejournal.com]

Krystyle McMoynahan.

Re: Two Words.

[annathepiper]

I don't think you have enough y's in that pseudonym, Q!

[mnemozine.livejournal.com]

Okay... writing under pseudonym is a good thing - but perhaps not in romance. The only reason I say this is that Harlequin has been known to "copyright" someone's known alias so that they can have the rights to their works. Or something like that. Big scandalous warning in grad school about that.

Use your maiden name?

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[annathepiper]

My maiden name has occurred to me. If nothing else, it has also occurred to me that I very well may want a pseudonym regardless, not because of not being proud of my distinctive name -- but because I fear the nightmare of having my first shiny new novel printed...

Only to have all the covers printed wrong because the typesetters choked on the apostrophe in "Korra'ti"!

Then again, I think I should actually write something, then sell it, and then worry about what name they want to print it under. ;)

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[mnemozine.livejournal.com]

Well... write something, then worry, then sell it ;)

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[annathepiper]

Sounds like a plan. ;) I'll have to see which of the story concepts I'll be taking notes on will grab my attention the most.

[starfallz.livejournal.com]

For some reason I thought you were saying that the computer industry should make up a flowery pseudonym and write steamy romances. My mind just isn't right.

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[annathepiper]

*laughs!* Well, it's a logical place to jump to after talking about steamy-bodice-ripper-generating software. ;D