Main projects.

Exactly What It Says on the Tin.

List your main projects here. Not necessarily the one you're pouring most of your energy into, but the one you consider to e your 'main', for whatever reason.

Include a short summary. Feel free to comment on other people's projects from what they post here.

And, yeah. Feel free to post more than one, but no more than three, and if you're posting more than one, don't make any of them very long -_-

• TheGalsOfGaladay - the story of a girl who must use recently acquired demonic powers to fight off other demons
• Joan's Bosom - The heartwarming tale of a girl who finds out that two twins have fallen in love with her own set of twins
• Rise Of The Reaper - Zombie Apocalypse

edited 9th Jan '11 5:57:29 PM by SandJosieph

Thirteenth Sage

edited 9th Jan '11 5:52:50 PM by MrAHR

My screenplay called Round Trip had been my main project for a year, but I finished it a few nights ago. To put it briefly, it's a psychological thriller about a college kid who's plagued by ghosts from his past, and who may or may not be losing his mind.

Right now I'm in the process of outlining another screenplay, a pseudo Cyberpunk (in that it takes place 10-15 years in the future and has many elements of Cyberpunk, but it also has more similarities to our own world than differences) Film Noir. It'll also be something of a deconstruction of the Amateur Sleuth trope, and in doing that I want to explore the question of whether traditional ideas of heroism have any place in the real world.

I'm curious to see what projects other tropers have going.

EDIT: I guess it would be more of a neo noir than a straight Film Noir...

edited 9th Jan '11 6:10:24 PM by tilitzd

Guess I should list mine, huh?

Hmmmm...

Black And White: A story themed around the conflict between Angels and Demons. The two main characters, Kate- an Arch Angel- and Veritas- a High Demoness Assassin- are forced to partner up when the machinaions of people more powerful than them draw tight, forcing them to dance to strings.

The trilogy will explore grey moralities, showcasing things like Light Is Not Good and Dark Is Not Evil. It also shows the struggles of two people with incompatible mindsets as they try to learn to get along, so that they can survive.

Black Skies: A story themed around a secret invasion of Earth, by a species of demons known as the ~name forgotten~.

Six teenagers are given magical power... But then it all goes horribly wrong. Because really, would you trust a bunch of teenagers with super-strong magical power? Hell no, they wouldn't do as good a job as an adult would.

Oh well. At least they do a better job than the eleven-year-olds that came before them did.

Tropers are really into fantasy, apparently.

Black and White sounds like it could be really interesting, I'm curious to see how that turns out.

I don't hve very much of it written :/

Just an early 500-word scene.

Well, stick with it! :)

Just to clarify, it's going to be a novel, correct?

eh. Black And White is a trilogy, actually; three novels.

I have only one project, which has been in the planning stages for years. It has no title yet (I'm counting on an editor or somebody to provide one), and it's a Philosophical Novel involving a mix of realism and fantasy.

Main Projects That I'm Working On:

Island Song. A High Fantasy novel that involves a VERY non-European medieval fantasy, and deconstructs (then reconstructs) common fantasy tropes.

The Fair-Folk Tale. An Urban Fantasy screenplay where The Fair Folk moved to America with the people, and Northern California is stuck with The Wild Hunt. A deconstruction/reconstruction of many fairy tale tropes. The main couple is the somewhat sheltered half-Seelie Lir and the ill-tempered, somewhat traumatized half-Unseelie Morgan. This started from two questions: "What if Lir got the girl?" Which mutated into "What if the hero arrived ten years too late and had to deal with the princess becoming a Knight in Sour Armor?"

edited 10th Jan '11 5:51:34 PM by Sharysa

Already Been Chewed News. The pilot's been in production for four years—last Friday was the anniversary—but you know what? I'm glad. The original script was repetitive, sophomoric, had a cast of three and pretty much consisted of lots of sketches where Seth starts calm, has an odd realization, and then suddenly freaks out.

My writing's gotten better, my cast has expanded, the repetition has been lost save for the relic running gag of the Title Drop, and we actually have a set that's not my fucking bedroom. Moreover, the damn thing's smart—the first episode alone tackles media bias, apathy to violence, and insignificant topics getting a lot of screentime, all without poking at current events or picking a side politically, while still maintaining the maniac lunacy and gleeful carelessness that defined the first draft.

So, thank you, camera malfunctions. Thank you, computer viruses. Thank you, faulty editing suites. Thank you, the general inability of my cast to keep a freaking schedule straight. You may not know it, but all you setbacks led me from goofing around in front of a camera and calling it comedy to what could be argued to be my magnum opus and the most fun I've ever had doing anything. Because each time a production falls through I rewrite the script. Sometimes even in the middle of a production.

Happy fourth.

edited 9th Jan '11 7:21:07 PM by Wackd

Untitled: A girl is trying to discover what she did wrong in the past and what she can do to fix it. It's told in two viewpoints, one, the aforementioned girl, and a past incarnation of her, the one who did / will do the thing that she's trying to fix, who wants to leave her cult and figure out what exactly they were right about. I plan on it being novel-length. It'll be the first in a quartet, each one focusing around either the past, present, future, or time itself.

edited 13th Jan '11 6:14:12 PM by AlacritesAsandara

Endless Conflict: A long-brewing interstellar war boils over across our corner of the galaxy. Meanwhile events in motion prove the current conflict itself is only a backdrop to an even bigger struggle. As the belligerents battle it out, will they ultimately choose to see this bigger struggle through and come together? Or be cast aside, too blinded by their own hatreds and conflicts?

edited 9th Jan '11 8:38:50 PM by MajorTom

BoyAurus: Immortal boy walks the earth being obliviously optimistic about the Crapsack World he lives in.

Landon & Wolff: A vampire and a humanish FBI agent. They Fight Crime!! And sea foam green unicorns.

The Object of War: Fighter pilots shoot down dragons.

Est Machina- a story of a mechanical soldier and his colleagues overthrowing a country and getting themselves into more trouble than they expected.

Spirit Song: An instrument maker who dreamed of being a bardmage, follows a bardmage in his quest to end an eternal spring. Meanwhile a knight errant from the north is searching for a quest to get himself immortalised. Dancing between them is a lost gypsy girl with a grudge against magery.

Alan Harrison and the Apprentice of Death: After losing his family, Death offers Harry the opportunity to ensure his younger self has one. Catch is, it's a secret. So the Boy Who Lived has vanishes, as does James Potter's corpse. Sirius isn't happy, he's got a godson to rescue.

I'm A Rebel: A high school black comedy/ deconstruction focusing on two leads: A Snark Knight with a morbid sense of humor, and a lone wolf with a hidden bloodlust. Romance, bare knuckle brawls, misadventure, Seinfeldian Conversations and Character Development ensues.

Most of you have probably heard about my main project, but here it is along with a couple others:

• The Kelgrave Chronicles: A series of books set in a fanciful, Steampunk flavored 19th century world. They concern one man's life journey (with him as a supporting character in each book). There are currently 4 noted down (two are half done) in chronological order they are: Blood & Gold, Pieces of Virtue, The Ultimatum, and The Silver Circle. An as-yet unnamed fifth book may precede them if an actual good idea comes to mind.
• Stakes: A black comedy concerning vampires. It's set in Vegas. I'm envisioning it as either a movie or a TV show, and I'm collaborating with a very old friend on it. We're trying to do for vampire myth what Zombieland did for zombie flicks.
• Chosen: A modern fantasy RPG. People are randomly given special powers by unknowable god-like entities and have to deal with having them. The powers are driven by faith, so being neutral is impossible. The game's themes are more about the politics and deconstructing the meaning of faith rather than running around with super-powers kicking ass. Very sketchy, not at all complete.

"When You Call Him . . .": A Lovecraft parody/wank piece intended for Literotica. It attempts to fit together as many biologically impossible fetishes as possible, ranking from CTF to having your mouth turned into a vagina. The entire story leads up to the last line.

"Lovers' Duel": Also for Literotica. Two lovers of unspecified gender, about to separate for an uncertain period of time, spend their last night together roleplaying a helpless princess and the evil demon lord who's captured her. Then the "princess" reveals that she's escaped her chains, the demon lord reveals he's set a trap in case she did that, and the two lovers battle back and forth in a friendly manner while drawing closer and closer to intercourse.

"His Good Right Hand": A pickpocket loses her right arm in an accident, and worries about what will happen between her and her accomplice. I've actually finished this one, but I have no idea what to do with it, since it doesn't have any sex.

Forgotten Lore: A story of two roommates who end up in posession of a tome of magic and, to their suprise, find out that magic actually works. After some messing around with it, they find themselves sharing their apartment with a demon and fighting against supernatural threats they didn't even notice existing before (because nobody else seems to notice them). Meanwhile, an ancient and evil entity is weaving complex plots that somehow involve our heroes.

Zaran il Legio: Romankhis'asa Zarangora il Legio Ered'nash (aka.Zaran) is the daughter of one of the demon Overlords who rule the Netherworld. That means she will eventually inherit her father's throne, but much to his frustration, she isn't really interested at all about becoming a proper Overlord. It's a comic consisting of short episodes where she does something. Eventually I migth do longer stories where she does something, but with more plot. Notable for having way too much background that never appears in the comic (I like worldbuilding). Also notably in that I've actually started drawing this one. You can find the finished comics on my deviantart account.

Doom of Farallon: Setting for a novel, but haven't come up with stories to go with the setting yet. Essentially, it is a combination of a regular fantasy universe and Lovecraft-esque griblyness. So humans, elves and goblins share the world with horrible thing from beyond, body horror and inevidable doom of all living.

I'm sure everyone already knows about it but

Things of Darkness- When fourteen year old telekinetic Skye Stryke's parents are murdered he and his little brother are sent to England to live with their grandparents. They find out that their father was from an ancient family of people gifted with unusual abilities.(Psi). Skye starts investigating a weird series of murders by organized crime members who he thinks are responsible for killing his parents. He finds that they are working for another family of Psi and eventually is faced with a nightmare from his own past.

I have many projects, but my main ones are;

Blue - Basically The Western (verging on Cattle Punk) meets slice of life with some added intrigue for kicks. Takes place in what aspires to be a fantasy setting, only it has no magic, sufficiently advanced technology and a the main character is The Medic.

The War Maker - David Ignattets aspires to be a new CEO of Thewhan, a major corporation specializing in wars (starting and prolonging, not ending), but finds himself in the refugee camp of Thewhan's latest money making venture after a plane crash and a mixed schedule.

It also details the journey of David's grandfather, Marik Ignattets as he makes his way from the war torn Nadeshian Empire to the rapidly expanding New Swera. The journeys parallel each other and explore life from at the top to life at the bottom.

Lastly is Bon Apétite the simple story of a boy who moved to Paris and fell in love with entire the wrong man. Yes, man.

Of all these B.A is the only one with major writing done to it, but it's the easiest to write because it takes place in Paris of the early 2000s and not a made up world.

edited 10th Jan '11 4:50:00 PM by AwayLaughing

The one I am attempting to get finished and then published is 'The Banished': Earth kids accidentally find themselves in a world that was once part of ours. This world is ruled by a dictator that has been around for about four thousand years and would like to 'branch out' into new worlds. The main goal isn't to liberate the world he rules but to somehow stop him from getting to Earth, because of he does Failure Is the Only Option.

Any advice on how to make it less Chronicles Of Narnia meets Lord Of The Rings?

Don't worry deathjavu, I've been sitting on this one since 2006, that I can remember... also at least one other book before that

edited 10th Jan '11 8:37:16 PM by StolenByFaeries

This is pretty fascinating, a lot of these sound like things I would read (although descriptions don't tell you much, but that's usually all you have to go by at, say, the library. That and recommendations).

Let's see, my main project is still untitled. It's a fantasy world where the first thing that happened was god split himself into pieces and then died to push back the devouring void, and...

Ok, let's try again. It's a fantasy world where a personification good and evil fight a never-ending conflict, but neither is quite as they seem-evil is much more pragmatic than usual in such a work, and good has some disturbing tendencies, and they both have a brother that personifies physical existence who tricked them into making the universe, and then people live out their (generally unhappy) lives in this universe while playing as pawns to the aforementioned gods schemes...

Damnit, this isn't working. I'll just take the easy way out and say "The Silmarillion and Lord Of The Rings, only sometimes funnier and sometimes darker, and also with less black/white morality."

I think this just came from reading too many fantasy stories, and thinking I could do it better, or wanting a fantasy world of my own. The idea itself is old enough that I couldn't even tell you exactly when I came up with it. 20002-ish, maybe? When I was 12?