Monday, January 07, 2008
13 Things I Want to Publish Before I Die
1. A book of poetry (this is the nearest to fruition, obviously, but it's also holding up progress on a lot of the others, so it annoys me a little)
2. Another book of poetry (Haha, okay, I'll stop cheating)
3. A book of short stories (I want to do prose, and this seems like a logical place to go--maybe ONE short story first)
4. A science fiction novel (My first love in writing, along with fantasy)
5. A fantasy novel (I'd like it to play with the conventions of the Tolkien-descendant high fantasy that got crammed down my throat for years)
6. A book of humor (Could be essays, could be stories, could be a parody, I dunno)
7. A children's book (Seriously, I think I'd do well at this, and not just because I still laugh at poop jokes)
8. A game (Roleplaying, card, board, strategy, script for a computer game, many possibilities here)
9. A book that crosses multiple genres so publishers and booksellers aren't quite sure where to put it (This one will obviously have to wait a while)
10. An anthology of work by my favorite writers (I would be editor on this one, obviously, and this is also a very wide open one, also obviously)
11. A how-to guide replete with all the worst advice in the world
12. A comic strip (Only if I can get someone else to do the drawing, which I realize pretty much defeats the purpose)
13. A book on resume writing (Less professional and more acerbic than a typical resume book--could be the humor book, even)
Conspicuously absent and probably always so: a memoir or any "creative nonfiction"
2. Another book of poetry (Haha, okay, I'll stop cheating)
3. A book of short stories (I want to do prose, and this seems like a logical place to go--maybe ONE short story first)
4. A science fiction novel (My first love in writing, along with fantasy)
5. A fantasy novel (I'd like it to play with the conventions of the Tolkien-descendant high fantasy that got crammed down my throat for years)
6. A book of humor (Could be essays, could be stories, could be a parody, I dunno)
7. A children's book (Seriously, I think I'd do well at this, and not just because I still laugh at poop jokes)
8. A game (Roleplaying, card, board, strategy, script for a computer game, many possibilities here)
9. A book that crosses multiple genres so publishers and booksellers aren't quite sure where to put it (This one will obviously have to wait a while)
10. An anthology of work by my favorite writers (I would be editor on this one, obviously, and this is also a very wide open one, also obviously)
11. A how-to guide replete with all the worst advice in the world
12. A comic strip (Only if I can get someone else to do the drawing, which I realize pretty much defeats the purpose)
13. A book on resume writing (Less professional and more acerbic than a typical resume book--could be the humor book, even)
Conspicuously absent and probably always so: a memoir or any "creative nonfiction"
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14. A book of poems that parody other poems. Like the one on my blog, for example. (Could do this for number 6, too.)
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