# What's your novel about? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 22, 2007, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-novel-about/416520 "2007-08-22T16:53:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Elret](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Elret](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elret)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-novel-about/416520/1 "2007-08-22T16:53:29Z")
What are you writing about? Published or not, finished or not, in progress, on hiatus, a three year old Na-No-Wri-Mo, whatever - what’s your story about? ---
**Author:** ![Wonderwall6129](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Wonderwall6129](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonderwall6129)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-novel-about/416520/2 "2007-08-22T16:56:42Z")
I’m writing a story about a girl who graduates high school at barely seventeen, and has to deal with college in NYC and getting an internship at a clothing boutique. One of the issues is having to deal with not being legal when her friends want to go out clubbing. =S ---
**Author:** ![Gukumatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@Gukumatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gukumatz)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-novel-about/416520/3 "2007-08-22T18:00:12Z")
About a pair of brothers who bring magic back into the world, one of them goes missing and the other starts a school to save a few of those whose minds are susceptible to magic, yet strong enough to resist what I’ve taken to calling the low-key death. And dreams of seagulls . . . ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-novel-about/416520/4 "2007-08-22T18:00:44Z")
What happens when _all_ the lights, everywhere, go off. ---
**Author:** ![tremorviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-novel-about/416520/5 "2007-08-22T18:09:58Z")
Mine’s a long romantic epic set that begins in England around the time of WWI. Kinda looselly inspired by Jeeves and Wooster, it’s about the long ond tortorous affar between a closeted, rich member of nobility and his opportunistic valet. It spans fifty years and covers marriages, children, changing social mores, etc. It’s also insanely ambitious and will probably never be finished. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-novel-about/416520/6 "2007-08-22T18:17:12Z")
About a guy who thinks he can see everyone’s auras which tell him basically what basic ethics people are of. Of course, this turns out to be true… ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-novel-about/416520/7 "2007-08-22T18:39:46Z")
Fantasy novel about a woman who’s turned into a man, and has to learn how to be a man, while being wanted for murder and guarding a dangerous artifact that can’t fall into the wrong hands – most notably, the villain, who is a pretty nice guy overall. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-novel-about/416520/8 "2007-08-22T18:54:25Z")
Mine’s the story of an elderly, mentally ill WWI veteran and the nurse, recently returned from Vietnam, who takes care of him. ---
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-novel-about/416520/9 "2007-08-22T19:34:38Z")
Long ago I started a fantasy novel about alternate evolution where birds never lost the claws on their wings but evolved them into usable hands and developed intelligence and civilization. The Eagles are dominent and fight a war with tribes of barbaric land birds while their theocracy rots from within. (I was going to call the Eagles’ evil priesthood the Order of the Phoenix.) I have nearly finished a book of centrist essays that I’ve posted online as a blog: [Squeaky Wheels](http://www.squeakywheelsblog.com) ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-novel-about/416520/10 "2007-08-22T19:44:37Z")
A mash-up of a series of fantasy short stories about the Thallasomancer, a sea-wizard. The kingdom he resides in is dependent upon the ocean for its commerce and general well-being, much like feudal Japan. The macguffin in each story is a marine creature behaving as a real, if obscure, organism does, to illustrate the variety of biological adaptations we find in th esea. ---
**Author:** ![BMax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bmax/32/4267_2.png) [@BMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMax)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-novel-about/416520/11 "2007-08-22T20:04:25Z")
Mine’s a first person POV from a young SS soldier in the Einsatzgruppe in Lithuania, and it’s about their charismatic Lithuanian interpreter who hides a dark secret. It’s a war story about the duality of man, a mystery and a gothic horror story. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-novel-about/416520/12 "2007-08-22T20:51:16Z")
Story of a guy who didn’t turn out the way his dad thought he should, and his effort to work out his relationship with his dad after the dad dies. It’s tough going for me because I don’t have all the “dad disappointment” baggage a lot of guys have: my dad thought I was the bee’s knees. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-novel-about/416520/13 "2007-08-22T20:56:16Z")
It’s sort of a coming-of-age fantasy about a girl who is a gifted artist in a world where skilled artists can animate paintings, use them as portals, and other cool stuff (and where, consequently, aristocrats compete fiercely to become their patrons and have been known to resort to kidnapping). ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-novel-about/416520/14 "2007-08-22T21:02:21Z")
My novel is about a 15 year old mixed race girl (half Latina, half Japanese) who spends a considerable amount of time on an internet message board pretending to be a middle aged white guy named John and all the people she has tricked into believing her. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-novel-about/416520/15 "2007-08-22T21:16:34Z")
What is she wearing? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-novel-about/416520/16 "2007-08-22T21:20:08Z")
[QUOTE=Ludovic] What is she wearing? [/QUOTE] Khakis, an oxford shirt, and some loafers. No tie. Oh… and boxers, not briefs. ---
**Author:** ![Reepicheep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@Reepicheep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reepicheep)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-novel-about/416520/17 "2007-08-22T21:40:07Z")
A romantic comedy about a government assassin and his handler, it’s a madcap romp. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-novel-about/416520/18 "2007-08-22T21:47:05Z")
The first moon landing, in late 1967. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-novel-about/416520/19 "2007-08-22T21:49:31Z")
Novels are supposed to be fiction, **Voyager**. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-novel-about/416520/20 "2007-08-22T21:53:00Z")
Hey, we never landed on the moon, so that counts. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-novel-about/416520.md?page=2)