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Post by Agent Double Oh Zero on Mar 20, 2013 20:23:49 GMT -5
Okay, someone -- you know who you are -- gave me this idea. Basically, write a synopsis of your story...in the style of a Douglas Adams blurb. Find the ridiculous! Bring it forth!
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Post by Siana Blackwood on Mar 21, 2013 22:29:14 GMT -5
Is it cheating if I just say something like this?
"Seeker: a trilogy in four parts."
(Hopefully that doesn't turn out to be a curse that makes Seeker grows a fifth book, then spawns a sixth book written by someone else...)
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Post by Agent Double Oh Zero on Mar 24, 2013 21:34:01 GMT -5
/snrk/ Totally counts.
I'm going to do this on a character by character basis, because that's how they're coming to me.
Millions of years ago, a formless evil began to kill off all sentient life, stealing any brains it found, and replacing them with marmalade. Then it found and did the same to humans.
Who didn't notice.
Millions of years later, dumped on a dead end space station with a bunch of android space hippies, brain-wiped hero Michron Nebulon is happy enough working the mines that supply, yes, cheap artificially intelligent digital watches to all corners of the galaxy. Then a freak chicken bomb accident simultaneously sends the Corporation under, and attracts the attention of a band of vagrant space elves who just want to party, and possibly steal the Patent Secret Digital Watch Formula. Only slightly less terrified of saving the world than he is of birthday parties, Michron Nebulon hurtles off into a quest to save the world from the imminent glut of cheap AI knockoffs that threatens humanity. Accompanied by Crais Tandoraen (who may either be the secret agent who wiped Mike's brain and locked him up for life...or a surfer dude), Ante ark Helain (who doesn't have MPD -- she really is a set of twins who got accidentally locked in one body), and Renavni Kletvakian (who's completely normal. too normal), and a pack of his beloved Doritos, Mike sets out to confront the Emperor of Humanity, save the space hippies, and eventually, unlock the memories that were taken from him. But something is rotten in Denmark II, and humanity blinks, as an ancient evil smells the toothpaste, and awakens. Why does Ante crave cherry preserves? How come Mike never turns his iPod off? Where is Crais getting his knowledge of ancient apocalyptic prophecies? And why is Rena always one step ahead of the bad guys? Pelted with mysteries left and right, and pursued by a psychopathic cyberpunk scientist who seems unusually fixated on Mike's Doritos, the team must scramble to assemble the Mighty Celestial Maguffins into the Correct Order before the space elf frat party brings on the apocalypse.
Again.
Oh, and don't call him Mikey. Ever.
Yes, I know, it's horrible. This turned out to be a lot harder than I thought it would be, especially in trying not to reveal spoilers!
Also, I think I'm just really bad at writing synopses.
Too many threads opened, leading to loose ends and no...well, ends.
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Post by Siana Blackwood on Mar 28, 2013 23:12:19 GMT -5
First part of one for The Taipan, the Kangaroo and the Yellow Spoon: What do an outback town, a scientist with a thing for sexy coats, the world's deadliest snake, a tourism-minded publican, meteorology, kangaroos with opposable thumbs and a mysterious yellow spoon have in common?I have no idea where to go next. I may need some characters  . |
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