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FANFIC EDITION: All Applicants Welcome

If I had to put it in ANY Genre, I would say Drama, but I'm dicey over that, because it includes a lot of Comedy elements and eventually, some Erotic/Romantic. Because of the setting and the world-building I love oh-so-much, it's also technically a Scifi/Speculative Fiction. But those are so broad to me. I don't put a lot of stock in the importance of Genre or fitting to a Genre -- I mean, all it really means for me is how a bookstore is organized. I write whatever. At the end of the day, it's a story about a guy doing the best he can with shitty downturn in life and finding himself in social and political situations way over his head.

ORIGINAL FIC EDITION: The Inn at the Frog's Tongue

It straddles that indefinable line between general High Fantasy and Young Adult Fiction. It's set in a Fairy Tale inspired world, with a teenage protagonist who's mostly trying to survive and deal with the consequences of his past actions. Not particularly philosophical and while often scary or dealing with darker themes, purposefully low on violence. So probably Young Adult for all that, maybe with some Drama elements. Again, it was something I particularly thought about or cared to adhere to.

This is the least appealing question on the list.

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DAY 1: Name of current Project and back story of the name

FANFIC EDITION: All Applicants Welcome

The title comes from a common phrase on "help wanted" type notices and announcements. This plays up the plot of Bluestreak answering what amounts to mail-order bride ad.

ORIGINAL FIC EDITION: The Inn at the Frog's Tongue

This is far, FAR from a new project, but rather one I've been in various stages of sitting on for years. Anyway, in many ways, this is still a 'working title'. It comes from a location in the story itself; when I originally conceived the story, the Inn was an important future goal of the main POV character, who was eventually going to become a long-term employee and go through a lot of personal growth during his employment. The location was symbolic and reflective of the whimsical, allegorical nature of the world around it.

However, this ended up changing a lot as the story developed. The most significant parts of the first POV character's growth happen no where near the Inn, instead taking place after he gets waylaid and joins up with another set of companions. His original companion, who takes over as POV in the second part of the story, DOES end up living and working at the Inn for several months, but while he meets important people there during that time, his growth has nothing at all to do with the Inn itself.

So nowadays, calling the book "The Inn at the Frog's Tongue" strikes me as being like if "The Lord of the Rings" was called 'Rivendell' or something. Sadly, I remain unable to think of a better title.

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