Yeah it started off with the idea that the snake was Lucifer and the apple was sex, but I thought rather than have it be all about lust, it should be about love.
My difficulty will be trying to not have it become the next teen girl franchise, I definitely want it to appeal to adults and guys. Thinking maybe lots of swearing, blood, sex, violence etc. But then do I really want to ostracise the teen market? Must find happy medium.....
The best thing about NaNo being a first draft is that you can write it purely for you. And if that means ten pages of hard fucking every chapter then go for it. My second novel that was meant to be a YA thing had a massively protracted hardcore sequence at the end where I was getting bored of writing what I was writing and wanted to spice it up.
I think that the best way to steer away from Twilight territory would be to go darker and harder with it. Give us horrific violence and sexy sexy times. Teens will love it, but it won't be utter shit.
Shit, it's Illuminatus, isn't it? D'oh.
Yep, I'm a fully paid up Discordian. My daughter's middle name is Eris, ferrchristsakes! If it had been a boy, I'd have insisted his middle name was Hagbard.
Oh really? That's totally awesome! Eris is a really pretty name actually, I might suggest that for a couple years time... I have a friend (who I was going to write about in that weird friends thread, also called Andy) who I completely warped by lending Illuminatus to. He was all about discordianism for quite some time afterwards, kept talking about fnords and 23 skidoo and reality tunnels and all that jazz. I gave the book to my wife this year but she got 300 pages in a dropped it, I was most let down.
That's... that's insane. Dig he genuinely believe that? The conspiracy set can be genuinely scary. I remember reading a story about a couple that lost their child during pregnancy. The only way they could cope with it was believing that Fourth Dimensional Shape-Shifting Aliens had swiped it. They still campaign for the baby's return to this day... fucking tragic.
Yeah he totally believed, he said that he saw the transformation (also saw her transform into an 8 months pregnant woman as well). And he wasn't even outwardly that mad, a professional stand up comic, spent most of the interview talking ribald sex stories, and then comes out with this shit at the end.
I find the conspiracy stuff so interesting in that it's out current society's mode of expressing these fringe ideas. In times past it would be faeries or monsters or demons, these days it's aliens and shit. Also interesting how with the reptillians we're going back to some of the oldest archetypes that exist, all the stuff with the serpents and stuff goes back past biblical times even to the Sumerians and proto humans. There is something in humanity that constantly has these experiences though, that's what's interesting to me.