Naked Hobo

So, I did the National Novel Writing Month Challenge.  The challenge?  Write 50000 words in a month.  For a while there I didn’t think I was gonna pull it off, but a couple of huge Sundays pushed me over the top, 50028 words.  Of course it is mostly crap, but I got it done.  Practice, that is what is supposed to make you perfect, right?  Well, that was a shit ton of pratice in a short time.  I guess one could say I may have cheated the system a bit.  Everything I did is just a rehash of an old story I had started years ago, but I did actually write all 50000 words, so it is an old idea but all new material.  I don’t think it will go anywhere, but I am still glad I did it.  Probably not gonna do much more writing before the end of the year, working retail during the holidays doesn’t leave much time for anything else.  But, I hope this can be a springboard for next year.  I proved I can write a large amount of material.  Now I just need to combine that with some quality.  Whatever happens, I just gotta keep on writing, published or not, I have to do it.

A little help

I have been working on too many different things lately when it comes to my writing. I need to focus on just one right now (don’t worry Randy, this doesn’t include the Mistrunner game).

I was hoping I could get some insight and feedback from my friends, many of which read the types of book I am trying to write. Which of these ideas appeals most to you? These are just working titles, so don’t pay much attention to them.

1. Demon Eater

Either set in an apocalyptic future, or perhaps just an alternate earth. The planet has been overrun by demons (the type from hell and such). Mankind has been thrown back technology-wise, almost kind of a dark ages type of thing. The demons control just about everything, except for Ireland and some other islands off the European coast. Demons themselves must inhabit a body as a host to stay on earth. The host body can be killed, though it is much stronger than a normal human, but the demon itself cannot die. If the host body dies it merely returns to hell for a time, regaining its strength until it can come back. There is one group of people that can help turn the tide of the war, the Demon Eaters. When a host body is slain the Demon eaters can actually consume the spirit of the demon, trapping it inside themselves. A demon Eater is, in essence, a walking demon prison. A young girl and her father, a demon eater, join with a small band of Irish warriors to try and put an end to the war.

2. Soul Thief

This is the classic tale of boy meets girl, boy becomes a girl, boy gets girl, with demons and fairies thrown in. The Faye do not have souls, something that they envy mankind for. One rather sinister Faye has devised a way to steal the soul from a human and give it to a Faye. This is bad for several reasons. The human that loses their soul becomes a shell of what they were, they still go about their lives, but there is something missing, the spark that makes them human, that makes them who they are. The other bad side is that the Faye are not meant to have souls. Faye do not experience emotion like regular people, however, once they attain a soul they are bombarded with a flood of emotion. Imagine if you lived thousands of years and never felt remorse, joy, sorrow, regret, and then bam, all those years of pent up feeling hit you at once. It kinda drives one crazy.

Enter the boy. A normal boy that finds out there is another world, a magical world (I know this old and cliche, but there is a bit of a twist). He soon finds himself embroiled in trying to stop this Soul Thief and possibly the start of a war between mortals and the Faye, something that hasn’t happened for over 10000 years.

3. Loginus, the Roman soldier that pierced the side of Christ and is doomed to walk the earth until the second coming. He has done much in the last 2000 years, much of it geared towards trying to redeem himself from what he believes is the ultimate sin, the killing of the savior. He is a warrior for good, fighting the evil that lurks in the shadows, vampires, demons, monsters of all sorts.

This is my least developed idea, an idea that I wanted to do in comic form, but seeing as I can’t draw, that never happened.

So, any ideas on what sounds best. I am stuck and can’t make up my mind, I just need a nudge in the right direction so I can focus my efforts on one of these and maybe get a rough draft banged out by the end of summer. Thanks.

I keep having ideas for stuff.  Projects that I want to do.  I just need to get off my butt and do them.  I really want to start doing film work again.  I have a ton of ideas for some shorts.  Many of them are zombie related.I have an idea for a Marine Corp zombie flick, “No guts, no gory”.  Don’t know why I want to do it, I just like zombies, okay.  Which leads into several other shorts I want to do that have zombie-centric themes.

Now, I’m not a one trick pony, I have other film ideas.  Some involve ghouls, some involve vampires, not just zombies.  I run the gamut on undead type things.

Seriously though, I have other ideas too.  “Law and Order, Duluth”, we still need to do our “Over Pain” series of shorts, plus “Lull Alibi.”  The latter is a kind of noir piece where the lead character is such a badass because as a child his dad hired hobos for him to beat up.  I also have another supernatural noir film, but that may be a bit longer.  I am still working out a script for that one.

On a related note, go buy “Better Off Undead”, made by some guys in Oshkosh, WI.  Fun little zombie short by some fun guys.  Support indie films man, don’t ask questions, just do it.

Now, I just need to find people and the time to do all this stuff, along with working on my rpg, my card game, walking sticks, miniature terrain, Warhammer 40K, and working, all while leaving enough time to spend with my lovely wife.  I need about 20 more hours in each day.  When you physics type work that out, let me know.