Tales of the Parodyverse - Nope. That wedding's a very different story.

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Subj: Nope. That wedding's a very different story.
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 at 08:20:39 am EST (Viewed 2 times)

Reply Subj: But the bride wasn't marrying SPOILER, was she?
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Ooo lookit- a Tanner tale too! Sweet. And we learned a bit more about him, and the Laundry, and vinnie of course. What's not to like? Well, aside from elder brother de Soth.

As described, this is part of a lengthy and rambling novel-length Vinnie story I'm sporadically working on. I'm not sure why, because I don't see who'd want to publish this one, but it is fun to do.

The problems are:

1. To be true to the Vinnie style I have to pull in lots of weird characters, some that I've used on the PVB, some elsewhere, some new. It has to feel like there's a complicated arcane social structure out there. But that requires a lot of info-dump and it can come across as weird-idea-of-the-chapter.

2. The main story follows Vinnie and our (brand new) heroine meeting up. She becomes his client as he tried to work out what the baddies have done to her and how to fix it, while the baddies (led by a certain knight with an affinity for chains) hunt her down for their own purposes. But its quite a while before much happens to Vinnie and Claire, so I've interspersed each Vinnie chapter with a flashback story showing how things got to the point where this book starts. Vinnie's in some of them - this posted story is one such flashback; others feature Tanner, Ursula (Urthula was just a tad too silly), Mr Li, Belladionna Rouge and the Shapeshifter's Guild, the baddies, and a few random victims and supporting cast. But I don't know how well the tone flows from light Vinnie mystery to plot-heavy sometimes-gory history.

3. The whole plot is taking a very long time to unfold. That'll make it a very long story. I'm pushing 90,000 words now and I reckon I'm getting to the first of three major plot twists. That's already a full-size novel for the small-press publishers my stuff is usually bought by.

So this project, while interesting to me, might not actually see the light of day (as per 70% of the other stuff sitting on my hard-drive).

10% of Parodyverse readers demand more Tanner!

Don't sell yourself short. I'd say you were a good 18% of Parodyverse readers.

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