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The perfect novel?

Feb 3, 2011
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Someday, I am going to combine all my favorite literary tropes and write a YA novel about a snarky British Regency-era spy werewolf rogue fighter girl and a pair of resourceful and practical-to-the-point-of-near-ruthlessness human bad boy with a heart of gold pirate fighter brothers who engage in endless witty banter and combat a villain who has relateable motives and is no less terrifying for it. There will also be a precocious child. At some point, there will be a fight wherein one or more of them sustain a somewhat serious injury that they will have to heal frustratingly slowly and naturally. Some people will fall in love. Some people will not fall in love and be okay with that. The ending will be happy.

(I reserve the right to add–but not subtract–things from this description at will as I think of even more things that make me happy when I read books.)

Now it’s your turn. Describe your “perfect” novel!

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  1. Rebekah  •  Feb 3, 2011 @3:35 am

    If you combined all of my favourite things, you’d end up with a mostly pre-industralised world whose awesome scientists invented portals to multiple other worlds, and a company of explorers who have to go and map them all, and hot air balloons, and trains, and a bookish-but-trying-not-to-let-it-show, amiable, slightly manipulative sort of guy and a no-holds-barred, does everything far too intensely, rules-are-for-idiots sort of girl and her sister, who is the same but nicer and with more of a conscience. One of them will have a mental breakdown. Some other people will have unsatisfying relationships. Someone else will end up stuck in a limbo between worlds. There will not be a villain, but people will do stupid things. I’m not sure how it will end. (Or if it will turn out to be a vaguely steampunk Eye of Argon.)

  2. Elena  •  Feb 3, 2011 @6:00 pm

    Hee! Parts of that remind me a bit of The Golden Compass and sequels. And it definitely sounds far more appealing than steampunk “Eye of Argon.”

  3. Rebekah  •  Feb 4, 2011 @3:20 am

    Tehe, I really disliked The Golden Compass. (Maybe I should give it another go — it’s been awhile. Maybe I unconsciously like it…!)

  4. Elena  •  Feb 4, 2011 @3:33 pm

    The Golden Compass just seems to rub some people the wrong way–mostly I hear that people can’t identify with Lyra, the main character. I love it, personally (not such a huge fan of the sequels though, especially the last book, which becomes pretty didactic).

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