Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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The Mosaic Novel

Here's an interesting description of a mosaic novel, consisting of many tidbits that are not tightly connected but do form an overall pattern.

I've helped write one, The Great Cybermind Novel.  It was existential, techno-surreal fiction composed by a team of folks on the Cybermind email list during NaNoWriMo one year.  We had great fun.

I suspect that this type of novel would also work great for Torn World.
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ysabetwordsmith

Go for it!

ysabetwordsmith

May 14 2011, 04:40:54 UTC 10 years ago

>>I have a number of story fragments floating around that I think may well end up accreting into something like this, something between a short story collection and a unified novel.<<

That would be cool.
mdlbear

mdlbear

May 13 2011, 22:35:33 UTC 10 years ago

Sounds like the kind of thing I could actually pull off; I'm not so good at plot.
natf

natf

May 17 2011, 23:32:00 UTC 10 years ago

This made me think of the film Pulp Fiction and has reignited my interest in my second failed NaNo that I could see working as a cross between what it is now (stalled and stymied by an author that is not good at long-form plot), Pulp Fiction (sequentially linked short sub-plots with different protagonists) and a few similar things that I have read in the past but of which I remember the barest details.

TL;DR, this has grabbed my writer-brain's curiosity and fed the plot-bunny farm inhabitants.
ysabetwordsmith

Yay!

ysabetwordsmith

May 17 2011, 23:56:17 UTC 10 years ago

I'm glad I could help.