Polly's Randoms

So, yeah. Right now I'm listening to a pop-punk concept album centered around Harry Potter by the Switchblade Kittens, a (mostly) all-girl band. It's.... interesting. Especially the pre-HBP love song from Ginny's POV, "Ode to Harry". Good times, good times. Although I'm sort of afraid of being sucked up into the world that is wizard rock. I mean, the series is OVER. Over. Although I actually like that JK told us that Dumbledore's gay. I'm glad she didn't just randomly stick it in the books just for the whole "GAY IS OKAY" factor. Jesus, I'm obsessed.

Anyway, I'm trying to work on NaNo. I've actually cracked a few of the major plot points, including exactly how Will manages to escape from Faerie. Now the plot really is beginning to resemble Rocky Horror (I always said that this was Rocky Horror meets A Midsummer Nights' Dream, but it's getting a little blatent). Eh, whatever. It fits. And is it really my fault that my plots turn out to have such apt endings that have already been used? No. (I have a WIP that ends suspiciously like Pirates of the Carribean 3, although I have no idea how it happened).

So, yeah. That's my obligitary post.

I felt purple today. So I went purple.

Yeah. I'm actually starting to see the advantages of writing every day. I'm trying to write 1000 words a day (which, considering that I've had to stay up until like three every day this weekend finishing it, is *so* not going to happen). Oh, well.

Anyway, I ordered On Writing off of Amazon. Hopefully I should get that sooner or later.

Still trying to figure out what I'm going to do for NaNo. I want to spend most of October planning it out. Even though I'm just going to give up after the third day, like I did last year. Whatever.

I'm so articulate, aren't I?

I'm going to update this a bit more.

The subject of the day: NaNo.

Yes, I realize that it is excessively early to be thinking about it (when I'm invariably going to change my mind anyway), but I think it's a side reaction to last year's failure. I had three days to plan, and I ended up quitting after 2800 words. Then, I did Script Frenzy this June, and I finished it in about twenty days. I think the main difference was that I had plotted it out thoroughly (that, and I thought that I'd lose my Internet for eight weeks afterwards). 

Anyway, I have a few ideas in mind. 

A teenage girl is abducted by an intergalactic police force. She has broken an obscure crime and will be taken to the court. Fortunately, the planet the court is stationed on has been blown up by a severely cranky warrior race. Unfortunately, the police force cannot return her to Earth -- and the warrior race is headed straight to it. Can the girl return home and stop the invasion?

Pros: I already tried to write something vaguely similar as a serious piece once, which lasted approximately three paragraphs. I would be writing it as a hugely overdone sci-fi parody, which God knows has enough material to take from. Plus, I think writing something funny will keep me from killing myself.

Cons: Douglas Adams. Douglas Adams. And Douglas Adams.

You are brilliant, Adams, but you keep stealing the good ideas.

Besides, the worldbuilding would be hell.

A preteen girl who is an outcast at her school writes a story. She becomes heavily involved with the characters and regards them as her real friends. Eventually, she begins to hear them and see them. As she progresses in the story, she withdraws from real life and eventually severs all connections. In her mind, she is living completely in her fantasy world. Suddenly, she remembers the real world, and tries to come back. But her characters start to resist her.

Pros: This is an adopt-a-plot, so I could probably butcher this as mercilessly as I wanted, since I won't be working on it after NaNo. Also, I could insert large passages of the girl's fantasy novel (which would, of course, be terrible and Mary-Suish. I mean, how could I resist?). Plus, I really like this idea. Writing delusional people is fun.

Cons: I couldn't, in good conscience, pick it up and work on it after NaNo, since it's not mine in the strictest sense. At least, I couldn't publish it.

A handsome young Elizabethan man leaves his devoted wife to pursue work in London. On the trip, he is seduced by a beautiful young woman, but spurns her advances for love of his wife. He is then taken to the fairy court by the queen, who is the young woman's mother. He is imprisoned until it is discovered that he has a gift for poetry. He is taken out as a bard. However, the fairies are a libidinous bunch, and he is forced to provide sexual favors for most of the court to spare his life. Can he ever return home?

Pros: I've wanted to play more with the fairies I created for my 1940s mystery (which I will post eventually), and since I just finished reading a nice biography of Shakespeare by Bill Bryson, I'm in an Elizabethan mood (I'm toying with the idea that the young man is Shakespeare, if I can not make it too cheesy. I'm pretty sure I'll incorporate the sonnets). Of all my ideas, this one is the most fleshed out. Plus, sex scenes. Lots of sex scenes.

Cons: I actually really like this idea, and I might not want to butcher it, like you're supposed to with NaNo. And it's not really the sort of stuff I write (but, then again, nothing I write is the sort of stuff I write, if you know what I mean. This may be because I spent most of my preteen years writing shitty teenage comedies).


So, yeah. I'll think about it.

What do I do now?