writerly way

[cornerofmadness]

Since i'm still rampagingly busy this isn't going to be all that long or even coherent. I am getting literally nowhere with camp nano other than to use it to help complete my short story, the demon hunter holiday thing. I'm not getting much if anything done on Riding with Strangers but that is more of a lack of time thing. I just finished finals. I have to get more lectures finished in the next two weeks and then class starts again. Seriously may/june would have been better camp days for me. Then again I don't care if I win this. It's obvious that even nano isn't taking this TOO seriously (or at least cheaped out and didn't bother with forums)

I did make progress and finally recovered all I lost but it took three days and a lot of whining. Now to get my ass moving to get this done. Somehow TEMPLE of all people is going to solve both mysteries. I'm not sure how that happened. It still has NO holiday theme so if you're looking at this on the original fiction filter thoughts would be welcome.

You know what I want to see in a dystopia? FEMALES taking over. In almost every dystopia I've ever seen, the females get slammed back into the middle ages, kept only for breeding purposes and this has always bugged me. I would like to see (especially since there are so many women in power these days) women saying, okay we have the power and since we're the ones bringing forth the future generations WE have a say in what happens.

Has this been written? I think there was one like this. Then I realized that I had written it myself back in 1988. I was young then and it was not entirely realistic in the end. They weren't quite human. They were induced ovulations (i.e. sex= egg release) that could store sperm and the males were killed after copulation. This began several hundred years before and records were lost showing that the males were actually the caretakers of the kids. It was told from the pov of a young male on the run who finds the ancient records and brings them to light (probably not that realistic in that they didn't just kill his ass afterwards but eh, I wasn't quite 21 when I wrote it and it no longer exists that I'm aware of being written in the days of those big floppies)

I'm not sure that I would ever go back and try to rewrite something like i t. I'm not a huge fan of dystopias but as I've said before they're apparently all the rage in YA fiction.

yearly word count -

54517 / 125000 words. 44% done!

camp nano -

8999 / 50000 words. 18% done! (yep I'm behind)



demon hunter holiday

8737 / 15000 words. 58% done!

Comments

[likeadeuce.livejournal.com]

I think the Hunger Games series does a pretty good job of being a dystopia where men and women are basically equal. Though that may be partly because it's the sort of sterile YA fic that barely acknowledges the existence of sex at all. And the comic series Y: the Last Man deals with a female-dominated world though. . .out of necessity rather than choice. I'm not sure I can think of one that works the way you suggested but I'm sure they're out there.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Yes I read the Y-man for a while but didn't care for it. Ditto HUnger games (too much of a rip off of Battle Royale and Running Man for me) though I might still finish off the series

[spiderling.livejournal.com]

I've seen it done on TV. An old Twilight Zone (I think) where a woman from the 60s (I guess) is transported years in the future where humans are all female and the breeding 'queens' where super fat like termite queens. There was a racier new Outer Limits where all the men had died and women had created a great civilization without them. Then one guy gets defrosted and the women turn into murdery bitches and fight over the guy.

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

I think I started one of those dystopias once before.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yes i do remember that

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i must have missed that Twilight Zone and I never did watch all that much Outer Limits but it's good to know they're there. Some many dystopias are all about women with no rights

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Wonder if I can find it again.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

hmmm

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Hmmmmm.

[spiderling.livejournal.com]

*coughahandmaid'stale*

You should write that though!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yes that would be one of them. For thamatter the new one, Incarceron/Sapphique while good fall into that mold.

who knows i may

[spiderling.livejournal.com]

Aww, I had my eye on Incarceron, now I'm less interested....

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

luckily the main female breaks the mold but still, it's there