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Novel Idea Vox Pop

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  • 31-10-2014 1:47pm
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    Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov
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    Hey, college is getting difficult so I was thinking about ways to make money if I drop out.

    I've always been a talented writer (2006 national write a book finalist, B1 in leaving cert english at higher level)

    I'll need to fund this project through kickstarter or some such crowd funding source so it is a necessity that I tap into the zeitgeist.

    Main character: Nancy, the plus sized woman with the plus sized heart

    Plot outline: Nancy lives a normal life by day but at night helps people without them knowing:

    Just wondering if anyone would read this or not


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    Generic Dreadhead
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    I wouldn't personally, but you should follow your dreams, lots things are not for many people, shouldn't stop you being creative and expressing yourself. Best of luck with it


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    Birneybau
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    Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov wrote: »
    Hey, college is getting difficult so I was thinking about ways to make money if I drop out.

    I've always been a talented writer (2006 national write a book finalist, B1 in leaving cert english at higher level)

    I'll need to fund this project through kickstarter or some such crowd funding source so it is a necessity that I tap into the zeitgeist.

    Main character: Nancy, the plus sized woman with the plus sized heart

    Plot outline: Nancy lives a normal life by day but at night helps people without them knowing:

    Just wondering if anyone would read this or not

    Just did, want my money back.


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    SEPT 23 1989
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    how does the tub of lard help people?


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    smash
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    Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov wrote: »
    Main character: Nancy, the plus sized woman with the plus sized heart

    Plot outline: Nancy lives a normal life by day but at night helps people without them knowing:

    In what way does she help people? I'm guessing it's something to do with sitting at a computer because lets face it, if she was a superhero she'd be out of breath in no time!


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    It BeeMee
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    Nancy would read it

    But you'd never know about it...


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    Birneybau
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    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    how does the tub of lard help people?
    smash wrote: »
    In what way does she help people? I'm guessing it's something to do with sitting at a computer because lets face it, if she was a superhero she'd be out of breath in no time!

    She eats what's in their fridges thus saving them from obesity, with quirky results.

    Also, she should have her enlarged heart checked out.


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    Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18 ✭Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov


    Birneybau wrote: »
    with quirky results.

    This is what I was going for, that quirky vibe is in right now and I think bigger women need a literary role model,

    Lady Galadriel, Hermione Granger, Jayne Eye, Katniss Everdeen, Lyra Silvertongue, Lisbeth Salander all skinny.


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    FunLover18
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    Did anyone else expect the OP to have a novel idea for a vox pop?


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    [Deleted User]
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    When are you going to vox pop this novel idea of yours? And what makes it so novel?


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    Birneybau
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    FunLover18 wrote: »
    Did anyone else expect the OP to have a novel idea for a vox pop?

    That IS what I was led to believe. But hey, he got a B1 in Honours English so who are we to question him...


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    sbsquarepants
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    Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov wrote: »
    This is what I was going for, that quirky vibe is in right now and I think bigger women need a literary role model,

    Lady Galadriel, Hermione Granger, Jayne Eye, Katniss Everdeen, Lyra Silvertongue, Lisbeth Salander all skinny.

    Nah, what they need is slimfast.
    Sorry rodion, fat chicks don't sell movies.
    And who the hell is lyra silvertongue - sounds like a porn name!


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    Duggy747
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    The Nancy Adventures: Volume 3
    Nancy Learns She Has Diabetes


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    FunLover18
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    Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov wrote: »
    This is what I was going for, that quirky vibe is in right now and I think bigger women need a literary role model,

    Lady Galadriel, Hermione Granger, Jayne Eye, Katniss Everdeen, Lyra Silvertongue, Lisbeth Salander all skinny.

    What the fat lady in the portrait guarding Gryffindor tower?


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    [Deleted User]
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    Duggy747 wrote: »
    The Nancy Adventures: Volume 3
    Nancy Learns She Has Diabetes

    I like where this is going ..
    The Nancy Adventures: Volume 4
    Nancy Has Her Foot Amputated.


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    Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18 ✭Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov


    Chapter 1 extract.

    Nancy wakes up at midnight to check her blood sugar, it's at normal levels, her alarm purrs like the engine of a 67 caddy. She walks downstairs and is confronted with her inner demons, she is craving a snack and eats some haribo reminding herself they are low fat. Nancy walks gingerly to the toilet and empties her bowels before she embarks on her night of helping people. When emerges from the bathroom her energy levels are awfully low. Nancy returns to bed, her confidence at an all time low. An eery glow appears from the window pane, in the place of the tree outside an eery figure appears eerily. Nancy reaches for her glasses and realises the eery figure is the ghost of Constance Markievicz, 'don't give up on yourself Nancy and believe in yourself and be confident in your own skin', the ghost on the countess disappears as quickly as it arrived. Nancy gets dressed again and walks out of her house to help people....


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    FunLover18
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    OP there's a Creative Writing forum here


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    Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov wrote: »
    Chapter 1 extract.

    Nancy wakes up at midnight to check her blood sugar, it's at normal levels, her alarm purrs like the engine of a 67 caddy. She walks downstairs and is confronted with her inner demons, she is craving a snack and eats some haribo reminding herself they are low fat. Nancy walks gingerly to the toilet and empties her bowels before she embarks on her night of helping people. When emerges from the bathroom her energy levels are awfully low. Nancy returns to bed, her confidence at an all time low. An eery glow appears from the window pane, in the place of the tree outside an eery figure appears eerily. Nancy reaches for her glasses and realises the eery figure is the ghost of Constance Markievicz, 'don't give up on yourself Nancy and believe in yourself and be confident in your own skin', the ghost on the countess disappears as quickly as it arrived. Nancy gets dressed again and walks out of her house to help people....

    B1 in the Leaving, you say? That reads more like D2 quality.


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    Whosthis
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    The Nancy Adventures: Volume 6
    Nancy Passes a Gallstone


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    Frito
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    I'm speculating here but could Trent and Nancy's paths ever cross?


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    osarusan
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    Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov wrote: »

    I've always been a talented writer ....... B1 in leaving cert english at higher level
    :pac:

    Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov wrote: »
    Chapter 1 extract.

    Nancy wakes up at midnight to check her blood sugar, it's at normal levels, her alarm purrs like the engine of a 67 caddy. She walks downstairs and is confronted with her inner demons, she is craving a snack and eats some haribo reminding herself they are low fat. Nancy walks gingerly to the toilet and empties her bowels before she embarks on her night of helping people. When emerges from the bathroom her energy levels are awfully low. Nancy returns to bed, her confidence at an all time low. An eery glow appears from the window pane, in the place of the tree outside an eery figure appears eerily. Nancy reaches for her glasses and realises the eery figure is the ghost of Constance Markievicz, 'don't give up on yourself Nancy and believe in yourself and be confident in your own skin', the ghost on the countess disappears as quickly as it arrived. Nancy gets dressed again and walks out of her house to help people....

    :pac::pac::pac:

    sorry OP, I was going to post that it's impossible to judge anything from such a brief summary, and that if you believe in it you should go ahead instead of wondering later if you could have written it.

    But honestly, if I was leafing through books in a shop and read that paragraph, I wouldn't read any further.


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    Frito
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    osarusan wrote: »
    But honestly, if I was leafing through books in a shop and read that paragraph, I wouldn't read any further.

    Give it some time, this could be brilliant.


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    Generic Dreadhead
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    Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov wrote: »
    Chapter 1 extract.

    Nancy wakes up at midnight to check her blood sugar, it's at normal levels, her alarm purrs like the engine of a 67 caddy. She walks downstairs and is confronted with her inner demons, she is craving a snack and eats some haribo reminding herself they are low fat. Nancy walks gingerly to the toilet and empties her bowels before she embarks on her night of helping people. When emerges from the bathroom her energy levels are awfully low. Nancy returns to bed, her confidence at an all time low. An eery glow appears from the window pane, in the place of the tree outside an eery figure appears eerily. Nancy reaches for her glasses and realises the eery figure is the ghost of Constance Markievicz, 'don't give up on yourself Nancy and believe in yourself and be confident in your own skin', the ghost on the countess disappears as quickly as it arrived. Nancy gets dressed again and walks out of her house to help people....

    Is this trolling? I'm not sure :confused:


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    smash
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    Cormac... wrote: »
    Is this trolling? I'm not sure :confused:
    I think he wants Nancy to be the new Trent :rolleyes:


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    --LOS--
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    not eerie enough


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    FunLover18
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    smash wrote: »
    I think he wants Nancy to be the new Trent :rolleyes:

    Trent would have had sex with and killed Nancy twice by now


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    SuperGrover
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    It's about a killer robot driving instructor who travels back in time for some reason. Ron Howard's attached to direct!


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    Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18 ✭Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov


    A possible review.


    If we were to ask the great leading women themselves what makes them great, they would no doubt cite their superior powers of reason,beauty and seduction. But in this novel Nancy's signature display of virtuosity, after all, is to be comfortable in her own body and to help others become more accepting of their own.

    But go back to other novels with women in the lead stories and you may be surprised by how often the solution to one of their predicaments hinges on beauty: disguises, seduction and gratuitous sex. Granted, such gambits – and the deployment of hearthy levels of bust and ass – make for more exciting storytelling than a woman preaching about positive self image despite weighing 19 stone, but, still, it is striking how few of the tales are actually just softcore pornography instead of ripping yarns.

    Besides, do we really enjoy these leading lady's stories for the stories themselves? This is a question that comes up a lot when reading RRR's nouveau feminism revivals-cum-pastiches. He is the only novelist who dares to empower women, he's the novelist our daugters' need

    Girl power (working title) is a sound mystery novel, with wit, charm and a message that pulls at our heartstrings. It is a remarkably melancholy affair, though one not bereft of humour. it's a responsible comedy. This novel can do what 'an inconvenient truth' did for global warming for femimism.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Hey Errybody.

    This nice person likes to post things that aren't quite the truth. There's nothing wrong with lying of course, when you're on the internet like, but just thought I'd let ye know in case any of you get maddened by what he's posting. No need - sure it's all lies :)

    Carry on.


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    blade1
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    FunLover18 wrote: »
    OP there's a Creative Writing forum here

    What would he want going there for?


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    Call Me Jimmy
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    Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov wrote: »
    Hey, college is getting difficult so I was thinking about ways to make money if I drop out.

    I've always been a talented writer (2006 national write a book finalist, B1 in leaving cert english at higher level)

    I'll need to fund this project through kickstarter or some such crowd funding source so it is a necessity that I tap into the zeitgeist.

    Main character: Nancy, the plus sized woman with the plus sized heart

    Plot outline: Nancy lives a normal life by day but at night helps people without them knowing:

    Just wondering if anyone would read this or not

    Would read. May not contribute but definitely would read. I liked the 'plus sized woman with the plus sized heart' especially

    EDIT: replied before reading it the trent ripoff style. I take it all back


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