Next: the magical land of Omnomnom

[squeequeg]

So sigerson and I got to thinking. And when I say "thinking," I mean "emailing each other in capslock and never quite making sense and trying to get each other to laugh uncontrollably in the middle of the library/office." Occasionally this produces good ideas. This is not one of them.

We've come up with a series of books about a young girl in a land that's only loosely connected to the flow of linear time, a land called the When. In the first book, she'll be coming into her own, learning the truth about the When. In the second, she'll have to disguise herself, possibly as a nun, to discover the threat against her home. In the final volume, the inhabitants of her home will have to rise up and defend it.

The titles are, of course, MAID OF WHEN, MAID OF VEIL, and FOR THE WHEN.



Please don't kill me.


I suspect the second book will have at least one nautical interlude, just for the VEILBOAT.

Comments

[cincodemaygirl.livejournal.com]

*giggle*

[stealthmuffin.livejournal.com]

Remember, puns only do subdual damage.

[coraline]

did you ever realize that WTF and FTW are just backwards of each other? :)

[stealthmuffin.livejournal.com]

This explains so much about the internet.

[coraline]

doesn't it though?

[jadasc.livejournal.com]

I remember when FTW was "fuck the world!"

[tshuma]

That makes me so much happier, you have no idea. Because of WTF, I have never, ever been able to automatically turn it around for FTW="for the win". Instead it always comes out "Fuck the What?".

Now, when that happens, I can make it be something that makes a little more sense to my poor head.

[stealthmuffin.livejournal.com]

No, see, FUCK THE WHAT is the unauthorized parody of FOR THE WHEN, with more boobs.

...sorry, brain in wrong space again.

[gtrout.livejournal.com]

I dunno -- I think might be one of the most famous pieces of slashy FOR THE WHEN fanfic: not parodic, but booby nonetheless.

[geekosaur]

You mean like this?

[tshuma]

Exactly like that. Hee!

[keshwyn]

*laughs* There needs to be a Puss-in-Boots companion for her in there, somewhere, just for the sake of her reaction when he says, "oh hai"...

Oh, by the by, you are made of win. Thank you for the suggestions. Now I get to rewrite, thus proving that even a simple query letter needs at *least* three drafts.

[stealthmuffin.livejournal.com]

Well, yes. But he's part of the magic of the When, you see, the part that keeps it sealed against the outside, and...you can see where this is going, can't you.

Yes. He's the Sealing Cat.

[ellinor.livejournal.com]

Yees, yes, of course, he watches the boundary between the When and the magic land of Omnomnom.

[keshwyn]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...

*dunks hed in bukket*
*feels better*

[ellinor.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes. And for those who do not know the references, perhaps you can explain that she lives in the misty fens of the When, in LURKMOOR.

[stealthmuffin.livejournal.com]

Right next to K'Thnxbye.

Oh, now I want a story set in Lurkmoor Manor.

[stealthmuffin.livejournal.com]

No, no, I've got it. K'Thnxbye is a member of the warrior tribe of Plzkthnx, on the high plateaus guarded by the Invisible Sand Witch.

I think I need to go to bed.

[osirusbrisbane.livejournal.com]

<3

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

Would book 4 be about her experiences as a mother, rocking the child of a hero to sleep?

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

Or would that have to follow a prequel dealing with the sagas of When's past?

[heatmhub.livejournal.com]

I have a friend who loves puns that make you groan, but I am uncertain as to how to explain this to her . . . .