Gah! What project next?

I want to write another M/M contemporary romance over the Spring/Summer and I was wondering what types of stories people would like to read out there . . . No promises, of course, this is mostly to get the ball rolling . . .

Some ideas I had: (All of them would feature a slow-burn romance--since slow-burn seems to be my thing ;) )

College Based story featuring a deaf romantic interest. Written from two perspectives maybe? The deaf guy is studying Law at Otago uni and he's quite wealthy and wants to go "flatting" but he's finding it really hard to find a flat that want to take him in. He has some deaf friends, but doesn't want to live and do everything with them, he just wants to live a normal a life as possible. So, it could be there is one flat that really quickly need someone to pay the 100 bucks a week because their old flatmate ditched them and wasn't paying his rent, so the not gay flatmate just says yes to him living with them. The 'gay-but doesn't quite know for sure really yet' flatmate is ambivalent about it. He's not sure it's a good idea because neither of them know sign language and how would it work? (For example, this guy needs deaf guy to do something/watch out for something for a minute, but he doesn't hear him knocking on his door--oh the embarrassment when flatmate just flings door open . . . hehehe) anyway, the overall story would be about flatmate coming to terms with who he is and accepting a relationship that has its difficulties. Maybe there'd have to be more there--like the flatmate is actually flatting with his younger sister (instead of straight guy) who he is trying to put through college? Maybe he doesn't want her to get taken from him and given to their uncle who flatmate can't stand. . . . .
I don't know, I have a mixture of ideas flying around with this one . . . could be interesting though . . .

Overseas year abroad . . . a guy just finishes his studies in NZ and decides to take a year overseas before settling into a job. He wanted to find some work in Berlin but ended up finding some work in a small german town instead, where mostly he feels so foreign because so, so few speak English .. . There he bumps into a guy who while a little rusty, can speak English and they develop a friendship that surprises them both when it turns into something more . . . (would need more backstory and conflict -- maybe guy that left NZ was getting over something .. . )

Or, I had this weird idea sort of, of a guy who just turned thirty who has a 15 year old son. (I think the backstory is pretty obvious here, lol). He's just managing, doing okay, but pretty much has had NO love life at least nothing meaningful over the last 15 years and now that he's turning thirty, he sees he's missed out on his twenties and wants to claim some of it back. This would be the reverse coming out, not son to dad, but dad to son, lol.

Or I could follow the story of a guy who's only ambition is to put his graffiti art on every green door building in Berlin (or a part of Berlin, at least) I had this image of him tagging a building and the caretaker of the house keeps painting over it after the third time he camps out to catch him in the action -- Well, the slow attraction romance would start from there. . . . . Guess he'd be the broken soul kind of character who maybe lost his best friend to suicide? Now he's sort of lonely and just hanging to living himself? I don't know, might be too dark. This could be the backstory and the actual novel could be more 'mending' and hopeful, and hopefully romantic!!!

Thoughts . . . ?
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Published on March 16, 2013 06:41
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message 1: by BevS (new)

BevS Anyta...why can't we have them all??? I'm a greedy sod I know, but they all sound so good!!

If I do have to pick a winner, it would be the German option, the overseas year abroad...I have a lot of friends on GR who are German, and I'm sure they would love a story revolving around their homeland.

PS Many thanks to you and Andrew Q. Gordon for (Un)masked...outstanding!!


message 2: by Anyta (new)

Anyta Sunday Bev wrote: "Anyta...why can't we have them all??? I'm a greedy sod I know, but they all sound so good!!

If I do have to pick a winner, it would be the German option, the overseas year abroad...I have a lot of..."


Hey thanks, Bev!

I think I will end up writing all of them at some point. I keep seeing scenes for each story and that is usually a sign it needs to be written. :P My husband told me he was most interested in the coming out to the son story, so this week I started that one--it's an interesting one for me to write too, because it's written in the first person present tense, which I haven't braved before. I like trying new things! :)

BUT . . . actually, the story I just finished (that is currently in the re-writing/content editing phase) is a story set in a small village in what was once East Germany. The village is inspired by the place where my husband grew up. ;)
So there is most definitely a few stories coming up set in Germany!

I like the overseas year abroad too. I can really relate to the experience as well. Seven years ago, when I first moved to Germany and barely could pronounce 'Auf Wiedersehen' I lived in my (now) husband's small village (1000 people) for a month before moving to Berlin. No one but my hubby spoke English and boy was I lost in translation. . . . So, yeah, I'm sure at some point this story will get written as well.

:D

Oh, yeah, and you're totally welcome for (Un)masked. We enjoyed writing that together.

I like your emoticons! I need to figure out how to do that. . . .


message 3: by BevS (new)

BevS Hey thanks for your reply....I don't really mind which story, they all sound good. As for the 'smilies' or emoticons, you need Mozilla Firefox and download the 'Koloboks' add-on, and Bob's your uncle!! Enjoy. X


message 4: by Andrew (new)

Andrew Gordon I'd buy them all, so I agree with Bev, you should write them all. :-D


message 5: by BevS (new)

BevS I wonder why you would say that Andrew....love the pics on your page by the way, such a cutie!! And as I've already said to Anyta, many many thanks for (Un) Masked....one of my fave books this year so far, recommended to me by a fellow author of yours Tom (TA) Webb. All the very best in the future. X


message 6: by Andrew (last edited Mar 23, 2013 12:10PM) (new)

Andrew Gordon Bev, are you accusing me of being biased where Anyta is concerned? :-O

Okay - guilty as charged. :D

Thanks for checking out the family pictures. She's totally the cutest thing in the family


message 7: by BevS (new)

BevS No, no bias whatsoever Andrew (whistles politely). All kids are different, so you may by-pass the terrible twos and threes altogether as I did with my son....but you can bet your life, they'll get you later on, somehow, some way - sure there must be a song there somewhere (?). Hope the rest of your weekend is peaceful. X


message 8: by Lixiaolang78 (new)

Lixiaolang78 If I had to pick one (but only if I REALLY had to pick one, otherwise I'd love to read all of them), it'd be the college based story. I remember how I loved 'Social Skills' and I can imagine lots of great situations and sweet misunderstandings and I think the idea of 'replacing' the straight flatmate (poor guy, he didn't even make it on paper that we're already talking about replacing him, lol) with a female character might bring a different and more exciting angle to the story.
:-)


message 9: by Anyta (new)

Anyta Sunday My husband wanted me to write the story about the dad with the 15 year old son, who wants to reclaim his twenties. So I did that for him and it resulted in the story Taboo For You.

For another blog post on this see here.


message 10: by BevS (new)

BevS Yay, you went with Smashwords!! Pats herself on the shoulder...I really like them. Off to check out the story now.


message 11: by Anyta (new)

Anyta Sunday I thought I ought to branch out. Not everyone has a Kindle. ;) A new learning curve for me. :D


message 12: by BevS (new)

BevS Anyta wrote: "I thought I ought to branch out. Not everyone has a Kindle. ;) A new learning curve for me. :D"

No, Amazon just think that they have. Story bought and up on the kindle with Andy's 'Purpose'...someone called Anyta rated it 5 stars!!


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