Unfinished

[pjthompson]

Recently, someone posted a list of her unfinished story projects and because I'm a magpie and must steal ooo! shiny! objects from others and put them in my own nest (and, admittedly, because I'm something of a masochist) I decided to do the same.

Going through my ideas folder was too depressing, so I've only listed things that I'd done some work on—at least a scene or two, though in some cases considerably more. (That was somewhat depressing, too, but I'm hoping this may be a goad to action.) Some of these stories are so close to being finished, but I just can't seem to get them there, either because I'm missing some key plot element or because the character isn't coming together as wanted, or whatever. I threw in the unfinished novels, too.

Some of these stories and novels are creaky ancient and may never have their day, but many others are actively being worked on/thought about/added to here and there. Many of the stories are from the Dos Lunas County cycle, as noted, and I haven't decided if they are stories in their own right or writing exercises to help me understand parts of my worldbuilding/characters. Certainly all of them started out to be stories in their own right. Other stories are connected to other novels/worldbuilding.




Unfinished Stories

The Bone Handler
Drowned Men
Like the Things of Man/Consider the Radiance - Dos Lunas
Moon Maiden - Dos Lunas
Anne of the Daisy Chains - Dos Lunas
The Buried Crosses - Dos Lunas
The Persecutors - Dos Lunas
The Gift of Hands - Dos Lunas
White Ladies, Black Dogs - Dos Lunas
Ramona! The Chickens! (though this has largely been subsumed into Venus in Transit) - Dos Lunas
The Story Shaman - Dos Lunas
The Smell of Feathers/The Last of My Eggs
Ghost Flesh
Green Horse Bone
The Green Ones
Heart of the Western Tide (though this shows novelistic pretensions)
In the Black - Dos Lunas
Jim Doesn't Bring Me Flowers
Coyote Beautiful - ashers
Crimson's Story - ashers
Release the Hounds - ashers
Windows and Doors - ashers
Attack of the Leech Women
The Bargain
Distant Fire
Goblin Mountain (again, novelistic pretensions)
Karaoke Moon
Milas/My Beautiful Revolution
A Singing in the Blood - vampires
Spider House
Van Helsing Was a Friend of Mine - vampires
The Zen Vampire - vampires
A New Face on Morning
Nightingale in Blue
The Psychometrist
The Glass Bouquet
Step Through
The Old Vampires' Home - vampires
Beckoner

Unfinished Novels

933 Cherokee Street
The Great Awakening (sequel to A Rain of Angels)
A Taste of Night - Vicki Petersson used that title, alas
Beneath a Hollow Moon - Dos Lunas
Blood Boogie - vampires (sequel to Blood Geek)
Boho Jungle/Looking for Elijah
The Bone Chapel (novella largely subsumed in Shivery Bones I sometimes think of making an Annia Sabina novel) - vampires
Burn
Midnight Ragas - vampires
Moving On - vampires
A Little Bag of Dreams
Red Demon
Rough Magic
Seven Veils/The Ice Wizard
The Confessions of Thomasina
Time in a Bottle
The Guardians (that one's for jmeadows if she happens to read this)

Comments

Depressive Masochism, uh huh

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

Um. Wow. You have a ton of ideas. o.O You are going to need lots of goads to get to all of these!

Re: Depressive Masochism, uh huh

[pjthompson]

Yes, realizing all the goad necessary is the depressing part. OTOH, some of those are so very, very old. There may not be goad enough in the world...

Re: Depressive Masochism, uh huh

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

On the older ideas, do you feel you've outgrown them or do they just not spark in you like they did before?

Re: Depressive Masochism, uh huh

[pjthompson]

I may have outgrown some, some may not spark me like they used to, some I just haven't figured out how to do yet. Even a few of the old ones are still "brewing" in the psychic teapot. My ideas have always been more ambitious than my ability to execute and sometimes it takes a long damned old time to figure them out. I may never figure some of them out.

Re: Depressive Masochism, uh huh

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

sometimes it takes a long damned old time to figure them out

Time, yes, that most fleeting of commodities, that enemy of ideas... except when it is the aider and abettor of ideas. :D

Re: Depressive Masochism, uh huh

[pjthompson]

Time usually helps with the ideas, brewing away. But time is definitely the enemy of getting them all done. I probably haven't got enough life left to finish all of the ideas, even if I live to be 100.

O writer, o mortal!

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

*lol* Yes, I actually meant to say "enemy of writers" in the sense that our days our numbered. But I was too lazy to edit the comment. :P

[kmkibble75.livejournal.com]

Holy cats that's a bunch of ideas...
At least you never have to worry about being without one!

[pjthompson]

That is the one thing I probably never have to worry about. As I said, these are just the ideas that actually had work on them. I have a large ideas folder, too. Not all of them are great ideas, but I can spin scenarios faster than a thing that is really fast.