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Genre: Literary Fiction
About Joan_of_QuarkLocation: London, UK Home Region: Age:43 Website: http://joanofquark.blogspot.com Favorite novels: never static: some things I've read in the last few months: Home, The Penelopiad, The Towers of Trebizond, Wolf Hall, What Was Lost, Engleby, The Power and the Glory, Mariner's Star, Angels and Men, Brideshead Revisited Favorite writers: The Divine Jane, Margaret Atwood, Virginia Woolf, Kate Atkinson, Philip Roth, Jasper fforde, Helen Dunmore, Jared Diamond, Iris Murdoch Favorite music: the sound of someone other than me singing Non-noveling interests: programming computers, eating rare steak, walking outside on autumn days (especially en route to Anglican Evensong), lifting weights, putting them down again, painting, drawing, sculpting, cooking |
Joined: October 5, 2008 This Year: Official Participant NaNoWriMo History: NaNoWriMo posts: 35 NaNoWriMo buddies: 12
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Brief Author Bio: I heard about NaNoWriMo on the Ship of Fools website last year, after starting to write fiction in the summer. Tried it, "won" it, found it helped me get a practice of daily writing, and had a blast. I created a first draft for one of a series of novels about the aftermath of an ecological/societal collapse. Since last November I've done two short writing courses and variously kept up my other writing. Previously doing computer programming and nothing but, this year I've been on an extended sabbatical to rebalance my life between computing, web design, painting, and now writing. My new career directions are now starting to take shape. This November I plan to write a self-contained contemporary novel. I am still working on my trilogy/tetralogy of novels set in a possible dystopian future, and recently finished a second draft. |
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Synopsis: The Rural Nietzsche Experiment
The novel starts with a knock at the door: the police, to tell the narrator, Andrew, that his wife has died in a car crash. A scandal is uncovered and the peaceful rural idyll in which he thought he was living turns out to be a cover for deceit and betrayal.
Eventually, Andrew will find peace and reconciliation, but by the end of the story he is a very different person from how he saw himself at the beginning.
I am concerned with the disparity between the magazine supplement view of rural life and the reality, also the image of the country and of love in the typical Aga(TM)-saga. The underlying themes and issues will include the effects of betrayal even on a modern person, the nature of forgiveness and redemption, changing expectations of families, love and work, and creativity and its causes and blocks. This being a Quark production, Lurve is not on the cards and any happy-ever-after is more likely to be about creative endeavours.
(Background village photo: Stillingfleet Village Green, Image Copyright Graham Hermon from geograph.org.uk, work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic License. All other images (and apple pies) created by me.)
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