erm… Cyber-Punk?
When I started with this storyline concept I knew I wanted The Punk in Pink to be a cyberpunk novel as I have always wanted to write scifi horror stuff but tended towards distopian close futures or alternated societial structures and then I tended to write them in a style remaniscent of The Big Sleep – this was unsuprising as I loved and was maybe alittle obsessed with those types of films as a child.
When I started to show my work to people they told me I was writing cyberpunk – this was a genre I had never heard of and so presant arrived of Snow Crash and then Nueromancer – both of which I absorbed and wanted more. Another friend had already given me a few penguin classics of Raymond Chandler which I have in pride of place on the book shelf!
Anyway part of my issue is that the things surrounding this novel – the world in which it is built is stretching back and back into the mists of time to our earliest existance. I also know a large stretch of the book is based in the Elizabethan period so how the hell is it a cyberpunk novel?
I definatly still want it to be a cyberpunk novel and the main protagonist has to be The Punk in Pink so now I’m thinking that it maybe the first in a series of stories and that there is something importantant hiden or found out about during the Elizabethan period that is relivant to the futuristic Punk on her flying bike.
This then leads on to interesting questions about the structure of the novel itself.
For a start do I write it in first or second person?
Do I do all the historical and then all the future bits or do I do a crossing backwards and forwards or just do flash backs by the main character?
It’s starting to take shape and like with everytime I try and write a novel it splits itself into a huge mega series – I’m hoping that this time it will actually get written!
Posted: Sunday, October 4th, 2009 @ 10:14 am
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