Hero Stuff: Teasers, Shorts, and Random Stuff

A Novel Queue, Story Brainstorm, Rambling, and... Vampire Stuff

"My name is Fortunato, which means when I grow up a friend will chain me in their cellar and leave me there to starve and rot. Good going, Mom." 

Character bitter about their strange name + Murderous friends = Story idea

My google drive is overflowing and if I open another doc it'll sink happily into oblivion with a dozen other of its friends, so I'm just gonna post this here and hope I'll remember this after I finish my queue of like, five novels. Or is it six?

I should type out my queue. Here we go.

1. Damsel[ed]: Some Rescue Required—okayyouguysimalmostdonewiththisiSWEARjustgivemeacoupleofweeksifitgoesoversixtychaptersiwillbeveryveryveryunhappyandwillcrymyselftosleepforaweek. 

2. Stolen Souls— Off topic, but I wish I had a genre for this. (Skip this is you don't feel like reading a rambling clump of randomness...this is your warning...) It's a vampire book, but it just doesn't fit the genre right. It's not sexy enough or gothic enough or...anything of the sort. (I'd kill to write a sexy, gothic, vampire yarn, but alas, not in my author's canon.) But anyway, Stolen Souls is turning out to be more of action book than anything and weirdly a reverse Damsel[ed] (MC Shiro is short, bold, and as broke as Angelos is rich. His powers are weakening and killing unlike Angel, who, though unlucky, gets quite strong. And hot.) but I plan on there being more of a quest plot, so that would make it an adventure, I think. And even more random: all of the main characters are LGBTQ, but I don't know if I should tag it LQBTQ or even boy x boy for my main romance. It feels...irrelevant, and I don't know if it's really worth mentioning or not.

3. Clockwork and Cinders— Itching to write and properly finish this story. My poor babies, all alone, drowning in their google docs folder. Basically, the story's a steampunk cinderella retelling, where the protagonist is "cursed" to transform into a clockwork automaton at the strike of midnight. Three chapters, ten thousand words, and an eight-page synopsis float in the Google Drive Vacuum. And honestly? I just want to give my guys their freaking happily ever after. The prince is a prisoner in his own home. My beloved sweetheart and the 'Cinderella' of this tale has been mistreated his entire life and every time I write the guy I just want to give him a hug.

You see, I do have a conscience. Sort of. Not while I'm writing though, only after I step back from the Chromebook then do go, "Man, I suck." After which I torment some more protagonists with a psychopa—er, writer's glee to cheer myself up. I'm sure you guys can relate. Am I write?

(Eh heh heh. Puns)

4. Coffeeshop Heroes—I've reimagined this book at least a dozen times. Right now it's a The Little Mermaid retelling. It's probably gonna be reimagined again, but right now, I kind of like it. There's a lot of violence and chick lit in it, but I love me some violence and chick lit.

5. The Prince's Guard—*Gasp* You mean the story that's been on your profile since July of last year? Yeah, that one. It's my failed Camp Nano book and it's terrible. I've been putting off rewriting it for such a long time I might just drop it. I mean, I didn't know I could make a 20s gangland style story x high fantasy with elves x a manhunt x dangerous crush boring and cliche. But I did. Gold star, Michelle, gold freaking star. *bashes head into wall and screams*

6. Something New...or maybe a Damsel[ed] prequel—Honestly? I really want to write a Damsel[ed] prequel, but it would take a lot of research since the story begins in the nineteen-fifties and the POV characters, Heaven's dead parents, are civil rights advocates. Not to mention Fallout is a weapon during the cold war, a lot of the superhero characters are fighting with the racism/sexism/homophobia of their era (some of which leads the villains mistrust and hatred of their government and non-supers in general), Since there's lots of history and alternate history intermixed, it'll take a lot of planning and documentary watching and memoir reading and not scribbling, but I'd love to write it.