Choosing my next story is hard!

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Hi everyone! :)

I haven’t been writing as much recently because life is seriously busy at the moment. I can assure you all that my head is bursting with ideas (a little too much actually). I saw K Griffiths post in which she asked people to vote on what she’d write next after listing her ideas. I’m going to do the same because unfortunately I don’t have enough time to write them all at once! All of these stories would be of novel length. I’ll have three months of solid writing soon so here are some of my ideas! Obviously these are only synopsis’ so any questions about the story(s) will be in the final product.

1) A young man of eighteen graduates from boarding school but fails his finals. With no hope of going to college he slips into a pit of depression as he wallows over his failure throughout the summer months. Then once September 1st arrives he wakes up one morning to find that he had changed into a twelve year old schoolgirl, ready to start her first year. In some bizarre world where he was always a girl he watches his friends leave for college whilst he is forced to repeat his second level education in an all girl’s school. This would be a story of novel length as it would follow the transformees journey through school right up to graduation. A coming of age story.

2) A teenage boy starts to have unexplainable feelings towards another boy in his class. The worrying part is that he normally despises this particular boy which is conflicting and terrifying for him to deal with. It is then that his body begins to slowly change much against his will. However nobody but himself seems to notice what is happening to him as he transitions into becoming a young sweet woman.

3) A gothic horror story set in Victorian London. A young man who works as an apprentice in a taxidermists shop (stuffing animals) in the bowels of old London loathes his master’s wife. One day in a fit of rage he accidently murders her when they are alone in the workshop. In fear of facing the consequences he does the unthinkable and skins her corpse to create a live mask and suit so he can disguise himself as her until he gets a chance to run away.

4) A story set in 1950’s Ireland. This story is a mix of recent history with old Irish folklore. It’s about a family who work the land of a small island off the west coast of Co. Galway. The youngest boy of the family is destined to become the first to go to secondary school on the mainland as he is quite bright and intelligent. But when he runs into a Fairy Fort tree one day the beautiful creatures that live inside curse him to be a girl for the rest of his days. His entire village is ultimately shocked by the sudden transformation but they continue with the plan to send him to school on the mainland where he embarks a frightening journey through an all girl’s catholic school run by the cruel clergy.

5) A psychological thriller story where a man believes he is his deceased wife. He begins to dress and act like her in public. He goes to drastic and disturbing lengths to shape his body into a carbon copy of his wife’s. His broken mind becomes something horrible and terrifying as he begins hallucinating and seeing things that only lay in the darkest part of his heart which threatens to destroy him.

6) A boy approaching his teenage years starts to notice strange things happening to his body. Things that would not normally happen to a boy approaching puberty. After a check up with the doctors they find that the boy is actually intersexed and is 99% female. After a shocking and terrible accident happened after he was born the doctors never notices anything wrong with the boy up until now. This tale is inspired by an article I remember reading ages ago.

Choose your favourite idea! :)

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Some dark themes here

laika's picture

Some of the more macabre ideas are interesting, but I like #4 for some reason. Especially if there is more than the one instance of fairy magic. An "all girl catholic school run by a cruel clergy" seems like a good place for magic to erupt- like maybe one of the fairies who thought the others had been overreacting has been following the transformed girl's progress thru some kind of remote viewing and decides she's had enough misery, and puts a major whammy on some nasty old sadistic headmaster and his minions. I also like the last one---nothing wrong with a little realism---which could really put us inside the head of someone who just found out they're intersexed and is less than delighted with the idea. Hope you can find some time to write soon.
~~hugs, Veronica

I think you've proven...

Ole Ulfson's picture

with your charlie series that reality is your strength. Are you now going to slip back into a world where anything can be justified by saying, "Oh! It's magic!"? Can you say, "easy way out, boys and girls?" I know some readers love that. And I do love fantasy. But with only two exceptions have I liked fantasy mixed with my TG fiction.

And the intersex trope is again: the easy way... No, not for the character: For the author!

Does this mean: Goodby Charley?

Ole

We are each exactly as God made us. God does not make mistakes!

Gender rights are the new civil rights!

No way is it the end of

No way is it the end of Charlie! I promise i'll follow his story through to the very end!

Lily Florette

I think 4 would be awesome!

I love Irish folklore and history (Hence my name). Sooner or later I feel like I was gonna do one, but for someone who actually is from Ireland doing it would really make my day! Plus maybe reading it might give me ideas on how to treat any future story I write in that location!

Aoife eh? I have about five

Aoife eh? I have about five friends who are all called Aoife, one called Aoife Moran actually! :) The direction i'd take with my story would be from the mind and heart of a true irish person who grew up hearing stories of fairy forts and magic from my grandmother! Where abouts are you from my friend? :)

Lily Florette

We had this discussion before I think, lol

I'm American born, usually only visit Ireland on rare occasions. Think the last time I did was Spring 2007 sadly =/

The M was for Malahan, by the way. My consider changing my name to my full name, make me sound a little more professional.

I've always like stories where real life kind of meets fantasy. Where some myths have truths hidden inside kind of deal. But I'm a dreamer, so that thing comes naturally to me!

Let's see...

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1 sounds good, as long as the lack of boys does NOT mean no romance. If the protagonist was heterosexual as a boy, and this sexual orientation is retained, there should be no problem. :)

4 would be very satisfactory if she worked out constantly, and handed any nasty people their arses in spectacular fight sequences. :D

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I just love the way you get all domestic with me in public. ^_^
Darling, my memory seems to have gone on leave. Remind me how long we've been married? = )

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