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

[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.