A Novel Idea

I’ve been thinking of writing a novel.  Because, really, lots of people write novels, dammit.

I don’t want to write a quasi-autobiographical meditation on Elvis Costello and my personal dysfunctions and failed relationships; there are several Nick Hornby books available to suit that niche.  So, as an exercise, I tried to think of some interesting topics for a novel.  I’ve come up with two.

The first is a supernatural romance.  It’s the 15th Century, and werewolves live on the moon, so that they can be in their dazzling wolf-man hybrid forms at all times.  These space werewolves fight an ages-old feud with space vampires who have some communicable form of space-AIDS and subsist on the dreams of others instead of blood.  It’s difficult for them because nobody dreams in space.  Anyway, a space werewolf from the moon and a space vampire fall in love and try to find a place that will accept them and it will be a seven-book saga full of smutty lycanthropic coupling.

The second idea was that strippers solve a murder.  I’d want it to be super-realistic, so I’d have to do a lot of immersive research that I’m not looking forward to.  However, friend of the Axe and playwright-in-potentia Cory Brin (who has no Web site for me to link to) tells me that an overwhelming majority of his fellow MFA students have been writing crime thrillers about strippers, so it seems once again that fate has beaten me to the punch.

I’d also like to write an autobiography of the Cosmic Cube, but I don’t think Marvel would actually let me do that.  It would be about 3000 pages long and feature a budding romance between the Shaper of Worlds and Kubik.

I don’t know which of these ideas I should go with.  What do YOU think?