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 Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 9:32 pm
The great novel oracle! Do you use one? Which one will you use this year?
I don't usually have one but I think I'll use Wuthering Heights this year.
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Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 10:02 pm
Mine, if any will be I Am The Messenger. by Markus Zusack. Wuthering Heights is my favourite books though, great that you're using it!
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Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 10:44 pm
What's a reference novel?
If it's what I'm thinking it is, then I'm totally using Lynn Flewelling's Nightrunner series as mine.
All five of them.
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Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 11:03 pm
Supinelu What's a reference novel? I should have expanded more in the OP. Basically a reference novel serves the same purpose as Strunk & White. You can go to it with any basic questions regarding grammar or style without getting yourself tangled up in reference texts on those topics by flicking through your reference novel to see what an author you like and admire chose to do. It's also useful as an oracle. To quote Baty in NPNP: Quote: Sometimes plot decisions requite a helping hand. In these cases, I've found my reference novel doubles as an invaluable fortune-telling device to help guide the masterpiece-in-progress. It works like this: You: (picking up the reference novel) Oh, Great Reference Novel! I have a question! Book: ( . . . ) You: My main character has the personality of a wood chip. Should I kill her off now, an re-centre the story on the time-travelling family of chipmunks living under her front porch? You: (flipping through the pages of the book, stopping on a random page, and reading the first complete sentence on the page) Book: The accordion prove to be Angeline's favourite instrument, much to her parents' dismay. You: Thank you, great book. She will die at noon.
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Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2011 4:40 am
It depends on what I'm writing I think. For character interactions I like to use the Justicar & Escalla trilogy of D&D novels (White Plume Mountain, Descent into the Depths of the Earth and Queen of the Demonweb Pits) all set in the Greyhawk universe.
If I'm doing steampunk then I like the first of the Hungry City Chronicles by Philip Reeve with a bit of Jules Verne on the side. If I'm doing a Japanese power rangers type story then I have my Japanese super hero photo books and encyclopedia plus lot of video.
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Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2011 5:51 am
That's what I figured. So mine would be the same answer. Well, books instead of book but if I had to be specific, the first two.
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Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2011 9:36 pm
Generally, my ref novels are those by Brandon Sanderson (mostly for dialogue inspiration), but I shall be using the Bolo novels for some AI tweaking and some weapons ideas for my novel.
And some Louis L'Amour books for references on location.
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