Poll Results:
If I were to write a serial knitting story, what should it incorporate?
- a mystery (bodies, stalkers, etc.): 5 votes
- Boston: 4 votes
- romantic interests: 2 votes
- cats: 7 votes
- interpersonal drama:5 votes
- supernatural fiends: 4 votes
- attempts on my part at knitting patterns: 5 votes
- description of food and/or yarn that verges on the obscene: 5 votes
- other (please specify in Comments): 1 vote
7 comments:
well knitting mysteries have been done, as have knitting interpersonal relationships and love interests, so why not mark you own territory with supernatural fiend rooming the streets of boston, that can only be brought down by a silver 12" size 8 needle through the heart? (or of course you probably much more creative idea)
Hehe, you have a point...
I don't have any good comment, but I voted! I'm sure that whatever you write will be great...check out
http://domesticoverlord.blogspot.com/
over in the sidebar there is a link to the prolouge and ch 1-3 of what she has written, it is amusing.
They say that there are only X stories in the world anyway (okay, I forget the number) so write what you want. I voted helpfully anyway. Supernatural fiends scare me.
I've read a few knitting mysteries and frankly they were a bit lame. I'd really like to see a knitting mystery with more interesting characters and plots. So, please - have at it and I'll be a fan for sure!
-H
What is it that makes them lame? Shallow characters? Predictability? Transparent mysteries?
christine - what makes them lame is that although they were written for adults, they reminded me of mysteries written for youngsters. the writing style and situations were too naive for me.
what i did like was the friendliness of the people learning to knit and spin wool. how those activities were what brought most of the characters together. some the characters made me want to know more about them. but it was hard to wade through much the lightweight dialog. many "oh, please" moments. :-/
-h
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