MERMAID LAWYER ACTION GO!
I'm trying my hardest to decide on what novel idea to work on this November for National Novel Writing Month. Too many ideas....
1.) The first one was a kind of romantic paranormal invesitgation story, featuring a demon hunter and his current girlfriend (read: true love) trying to solve the demonic happenings and mysteries involving a demon-infested day care facility that's also a portal to Hell... This story involves a dry sense of humor, fast-paced action scenes, DEVIL MAY CRY shout-outs, and slight poking at childhood icons (e.g., fairy tale story books come to life and torment the living.) -- a more whimsical, supernatural feeling to it; something I could have fun with and a lot like last year's project.
2.) The other idea was a courtroom drama/murder mystery that focuses on the interaction between childhood-friend lawyers and how they feel about their cases/clients, and possibly each other (omg LAWYERCEST!). The plot involves a body being discovered in the girls' lockerroom at a high school, jealous rivalry between sisters, and a teacher-student love affair that ends with mutiple accounts of tears and blood shed. -- a more serious story dealing with the darker side of humanity and characters that go along with all the Law Studies I've been taking, the courtroom dramas I've recently developed a sweet tooth for, and all the Phoenix Wright I've been playing (all three games).
3.) My third idea, the one I've done the most planning on, is a yaoi adaptation of The Little Mermaid. I've actually gotten the characters, plot, conflict, and dramatic structure all outlined and figured out; it's the story of a young merman who is learning to become a scholar and scribe with a college major (LOL) in Human Studies that falls in love with a human surfer (who may or may not also be a law student). I retain some of the basic elements and switch things up, and in the end it's not really happy but it isn't sad, either, and it leaves room for a sequel. xD -- This story is pretty much developed enough to write on November 1st, except that the opening lines and such will prevent my progress; it's going to be a fluffy, happy, light-hearted love story for the most part.
4. The fourth idea, my current brain child, is screaming at me to write it... it's a combination of my obessession with lawyers and merfolk. You got it: "UnderSea Felony: MERMAID LAWYER ACTION- GO!" xD It's orignial, but other than the fact that the lawyers are merfolk and the court proceedings take place under the sea, I have no idea where this story is going. It's orginial, though, and quirky to say the least -- I just don't think it can go the distance of 50,000 words. -- Humourous, parody-like writing, with massive satire on the legal system and all those courtroom dramas on tv.
Sooooo....
I'm having problems deciding which one I wanna write! I want lawyers, but I also want to write mermaids, and then... well, number 4 keeps happening because I can't make up my mind and I'm tempted on splicing.
Also, I have the hankering to write but once again, I don't know what... I want to write dialoge though, that's the thing I'm craving...
Annnnnyways, this has been a strange writing-related rant. Stay tune for more NaNoWriMo 2008 blurps...
(I really would appreciate some feedback here!)
-The Soup