Rorschach Title Meme: January

[ravenswept]

First one of the year! I'm planning on doing one of these once a month, just to keep the process going. They're fairly simple to come up with, but it's still a creative endeavor, so I'd just as well like to keep it up. Even if I'm not writing something more substancive, this little bit keeps the whole thing flowing.

Same as before, 5 to 10 new titles that don't go to anything. List whatever genre you feel the title would fit, even a one sentence synopsis if you'd like. Go back to your own journal, list your titles, and pass it on (if that's how you roll).

1. Magpie's Collection

2. Lord of Day

3. If Boredom Can Kill, I Must Be Immortal

4. Broken Flight

5. Your Shallow Complexity

6. Angel With the Voice of an Devil

7. Long Yawn Shawn

8. Hollow Run

9. Shy High Girl

10. Fallen From Below

Comments

[ravenswept]

1. Magpie's Collection - Fantasy thriller, which collect's people after she shrinks them

2. Lord of Day - New Weird, man chosen to be supreme ruler of light, which he doesn't want in any way

3. If Boredom Can Kill, I Must Be Immortal - Children's chapter book, kid bored despite exciting things around him

4. Broken Flight - Military/fantasy novella

5. Your Shallow Complexity - Teen romance dramidy

6. Angel With the Voice of an Devil - Political fiction mystery

7. Long Yawn Shawn - Classic Americana, in the vein of Tom Sawyer

8. Hollow Run - Apocolyptic YA

9. Shy High Girl - YA urban fantasy, girl can fly when smoking pot

10. Fallen From Below - Paranormal horror

[outlineofash]

I LOL'd at your #9 response. :D

[ravenswept]

Coming down can be quite literal if you aren't careful >.<

[outlineofash]

Sweeeeeeet.

1. Steampunk short story anthology.

2. High fantasy about a dying god.

3. Magical realism short story.

4. YA paranormal romance about an angel with amnesia and the girl who falls in love with her.

5. Chick lit.

6. Urban fantasy about Satan using a normal human woman as an unwitting decoy.

7. Horror about a serial killer who cuts the jaw muscles of his strangled victims.

8. Cyberpunk.

9. Children's story.

10. The sequel to Broken Flight.

[ravenswept]

4. I am intriged

6. A decoy for what?

7. Ew

[outlineofash]

4. So am I, actually. NOOOOOO NOT ANOTHER PROJECT. (No. Really. I wouldn't. YA is something I struggle with.)

6. A decoy for all those crazy priests trying to banish him from Earth.

7. Yeeeeah. Well, see, it reminded me of some name Stephen King would give to one of his serial killers, so it quickly went grotesque after that.

[ravenswept]

4. Heheh, you're turning into me ;p I'd say still keep it in a notebook. Just because you aren't going to use it, doesn't mean it's not a good idea. Though why do you say you struggle (I'm guessing on the writing part of it), harder to bring the ideas down to a YA level?

6. There seems to a be a priest/child joke in there, but I'm letting it go.

7. A serial killer who was bullied and had a alcholic father and who saw some unexplained thing happen to his mother as a child and lived in Maine.

[outlineofash]

4. You're just a bad influence, I suppose. ;D

Yeah, I'm not sure how to simplify the writing without dumbing them down -- when I was YA age, I hated books that obviously talked down to me. I s'pose I could begin studying authors who write both adult and YA novels, like Tanith Lee, Robin McKinley, etc. and see what they change about their styles... GAH, I'm talking like I'm going to try it.

7. Yes. And who possibly continues to haunt his town post-death by possessing a big St. Bernard.

[ravenswept]

4. You say that like you don't like it ^3^

Maybe it's because I'm style/genre-phobic, but I don't notice a lot of difference in writing I guess. Well, that's not true, I do notice, but I adjust to what I think it needs. YA needs to be more simple than, say, China Meville, but there's nothing that says it can't speak at the level you want it to. It just not may not be able to use the same (intense) imagery (*coughsnakepeniscough*) or vocab.

7. Who drives an old cadillac from a junkyard placed on an old indian burial ground.