Westerns

Anyone else writing one?

Historical, serious, dramatic, Spaghetti (that's would be mine!), adventurous, over-the-top, Peckinpah-esque...whatever it may be. Any other writers in the genre known all too often as "the kiss of death?" (Who cares about that? We're having fun.)

So bring out your wandering gunslingers, your railroads, your horses and cacti, your men with no names, your desperate towns, your saloon brawls, your treasure-hunting, your bank robberies, or whatever else you have up your sleeve next to that spare ace.

I think I'm having a last minute novel change in which my pirates from a previous novel go 'round the horn and end up anachronistically in the gold rush. There might also be ninjas, just because.

Mine starts 300 million before present, but there will be a gunslinger period in the book later on. I am writing part 3 and the immortal will live through the old west. But it does not mean that the old west did not happen more than the one time that we all remember.

I am hoping to use Western themes in a Fantasy story.

Wizard duelists replace the role of gunslingers.

General magic usage replaces 'technology' in the society.

There are a proliferation of people using 'combat' magic following the 'War' (unspecified war but similar to North South conflict). The result is many bandits using 'combat' magic to push people around in small towns.

Keeping Range wars of cattle verses sheep.

Keeping Rich cattle baron verses towns folk.

Keeping organized group like Pinkertons of specialized combat mages that can be hired by the rich to help move their agendas.

Keeping the personal sense of justice that is with the hero of the story.

Love the ideas DJR_tlof. :)

I’m also working on a fantasy western. I like to think of the setting as a mix between the show Deadwood and the video game Fallout NV, but with my own unique flavour.

There will be gunslingers and ghost towns, caravans and cultists, expanding city-states and roaming gangs of outlaws. And there will be magic, the scary, dangerous kind.

I’m still ironing out all the kinks, but hopefully will be ready to go come November.

YeeHAW! ;)

Well, I'm not writing one, but I like reading them. I used to borrow them from my guy friends till they all died or moved away... Guess I need to start getting them just for me.

So, please write away. These all sound great, and I'd love to read them!

I thinking about writing one...!
I once tried to write one with a seventeen year old outlaw as the main charater. I ony got like 500 words in. (haha)
Clint Eastwood & John Wayne are my inspiration.

Part 1 of my three-part novel is an anachronistic quasi-Western set in Brazil, but with most of the usual suspects: cowboys, Confederates, buffalo soldiers, natives, railroads, and gunslingers.

I'm thinking about writing a Western. I've been wanting to write one and I have an idea for one, so I think I just might do it.

I'm writing a western set 200 years in the future on a frontier planet. My challenges will be to include the kinds of technological and cultural advancements that would be commonplace most everywhere 200 years in the future someplace it took highly advanced technology to get to in the first place, while maintaining a sense of living by one's hard work, wits and strength; and also not ripping off Firefly.

I'm reading and would recommend to anyone trying out the western genre for the first time a book called West of Everything by Jane P. Tompkins.

I guess mine's a western, in as much as no other forum genre really fits. It's a frontier/homesteader novel, though, rather than your typical gunslinger western. Also, it's YA. YA needs more historicals. In short: Maria, the daughter of German immigrants, must help save her family's homestead from corrupt railroad barons who would drive them off their land.

Not for this NaNo, but I have a Peckinpah-esque in plan.

My novel is a post-apocalyptic western--25 years after modernish times where a series of unfortunate events (hah) have basically reduced America to rubble and gotten rid of most of the technology that we rely on, and so people are back to using horses to get around, sitting around campfires, and slinging guns as they battle against outlaws, looters, and delightful things like hellhounds.

As for desperate towns we have survivor colonies who are speckled across America and the southwest (which was hit less hard during the war--due mostly to the lack of larger cities, etc), including the largest in Santa Fe.

Also there will somehow be chaps. There is always a need for chaps.

I'm doing a western! At first, I was trying to keep it very historical, but I was boring MYSELF, so now it's going to be more action adventure-y. Which is why I've all but abandoned the Historical Fiction forum and come here. Not that I don't like history. I love it. It's just... not very flexible... :/

I've trained a Pandora station to play soundtracks of Western films for me. What are the rest of you planning to listen to in November?

I'm writing (I think, I might ditch it now...) a western. If you've ever seen the My Chemical Romance music videos for NaNaNa or Sing, that's sorta the idea. Plus more westerny stuff. :3

This will be my first time working on a novel and, obviously, my first time trying NaNoWriMo, but I'm fully in the western genre with a story about a cattle drive.

I just realized that I get to use "Meanwhile, back at the ranch..." in a semi-serious context. Wheee!

This will be my third try at a Western. My outline is pretty skimpy: A Texas Ranger tracks his brother for murder. The Ranger doesn't know that the murder was accidental. And there's a bounty hunter after him, too. Who will reach the accused murderer first? Pretty lame, but I hope I can spice it up.

Here's great site for all things western:

http://www.truewestmagazine.com/jcontent/

Hi there!

I was going to write an Adventure/Romance novel, and then I spent a whole weekend watching Steve McQueen movies and his old tv show Wanted: Dead or Alive. Well, Steve should come with a warning label, because now I can't get the plot and characters for a Western out of my head.

My western is set in 1949, and the main character is a woman who served with the SOE in World War II (inspired by Nancy Wake). I'm not trying to write a serious histoical novel - it's all just ridiculous gun fights, neat horse riding, and avoiding talking about feelings. But then, doesn't that describe some of McQueen's greatest work too? :P