Today's TWO LUMPS
Nov. 21st, 2011 09:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
filkertom... seems to have nailed Young Adult fiction.
What's your prospective YA blockbuster about? I'm thinking of something written from the point of view of the 15-year-old friend of the almost-16-year-old Dalai Lama, who has been reincarnated as a youth from mid-Ohio and has been keeping the secret his entire life because he doesn't want to be involved in the politics of the whole thing until he feels he's ready, i.e., after maybe a college education and perhaps enjoying his youth for once. There might be a girlfriend. Or maybe the DL should be the girl...?
I've also got my teenaged-minion-of-Nyarlothotep (who was going to be a minion of Cthulhu, but found out that Cthulhu would just eat him/her, and at least Nyarlothotep has a human form).* Eventually he/she starts realizing exactly what this would mean as a career move.
And there's the fantasy epic about the noble infant born with prophecy saying that he/she will defeat the bad guy, so the bad guy invades and has the entire castle burned down. He then sends in a minion, who has been abused by the bad guy for years, to make sure everyone's dead. Minion finds the baby still alive, hesitates in killing him because the baby's too cute, and then gets nearly killed as the bad guy launches another attack on the burning ruin ("It would be a pity about Minion, if I hadn't been looking for a good way to get rid of him for months now"). Minion manages to escape -- everyone thinks he's dead -- and he plots his revenge by raising the baby to be the slayer of the bad guy. Thing is, he's got a very twisted and one-sided view of what a "hero" should be. Does he try to raise the kid as a hero, or as a villain, or as a Grey in-between? Does the kid discover his own heroism? Does the gorgeous warrior princess/ruggedly handsome young warrior prince the kid meets when they're both in their late teens/early twenties see past the darkness in his heart, or does s/he get off on it?
(Implied question: Do any of these sound good? Do they suck? Do they sound like something you've already read?)
* Firefox spellchecker for Nyarlothotep gives me "Charlottetown". That's the minion's name, Charlotte Towne.
What's your prospective YA blockbuster about? I'm thinking of something written from the point of view of the 15-year-old friend of the almost-16-year-old Dalai Lama, who has been reincarnated as a youth from mid-Ohio and has been keeping the secret his entire life because he doesn't want to be involved in the politics of the whole thing until he feels he's ready, i.e., after maybe a college education and perhaps enjoying his youth for once. There might be a girlfriend. Or maybe the DL should be the girl...?
I've also got my teenaged-minion-of-Nyarlothotep (who was going to be a minion of Cthulhu, but found out that Cthulhu would just eat him/her, and at least Nyarlothotep has a human form).* Eventually he/she starts realizing exactly what this would mean as a career move.
And there's the fantasy epic about the noble infant born with prophecy saying that he/she will defeat the bad guy, so the bad guy invades and has the entire castle burned down. He then sends in a minion, who has been abused by the bad guy for years, to make sure everyone's dead. Minion finds the baby still alive, hesitates in killing him because the baby's too cute, and then gets nearly killed as the bad guy launches another attack on the burning ruin ("It would be a pity about Minion, if I hadn't been looking for a good way to get rid of him for months now"). Minion manages to escape -- everyone thinks he's dead -- and he plots his revenge by raising the baby to be the slayer of the bad guy. Thing is, he's got a very twisted and one-sided view of what a "hero" should be. Does he try to raise the kid as a hero, or as a villain, or as a Grey in-between? Does the kid discover his own heroism? Does the gorgeous warrior princess/ruggedly handsome young warrior prince the kid meets when they're both in their late teens/early twenties see past the darkness in his heart, or does s/he get off on it?
(Implied question: Do any of these sound good? Do they suck? Do they sound like something you've already read?)
* Firefox spellchecker for Nyarlothotep gives me "Charlottetown". That's the minion's name, Charlotte Towne.
