Writing a Novel, Give me ideas

[hansapplegate]

I am writing a spy novella in the style of Clyde Allison.
It will be very spoofy and glib.

What sort of things should I include.

Give me a wish list of things you want to happen in it and I may include some of your requests if I can work it in.

Think sexy smutty version of James Bond, but a little bit satirical of the Spy movies out there.
Maybe more akin to Austin Powers set in a modern 2024 setting.

List out things you want to have happen and give as many ideas as you want.
I make no promises. I have the first chapter nearly done.
I can include your ideas starting in chapter 3 to 8.

[Ric delCampo]

Obviously, there have to be henchwomen. Preferably henchwomen instead of henchmen.
But they shouldn't be ineffective henchwomen, such as the women villains in the movie "In Like Flint." Whose scheme was co-opted by male villains. They should be true villains to be taken seriously.

The greater the odds against a lone hero, the greater hero he is as he overcomes all odds. The better villain(s) the greater the hero is as he overcomes the villain(s). The hero, overcoming a cowardly, or ineffective, or stupid villain(s), isn't as great as a hero who overcomes a serious villain(s).

Perhaps the hero can be tempted by a few honey pot traps. That is: females who try to seduce him in order to defeat him. He recognizes the trap, uses the female(s) for his own pleasure, before thwarting their trap. Perhaps by killing them. All the while it is obvious to the reader that the hero sees through the trap.

Three suggestions.

[xj900uk]

Have the 'hero' a bit of an anti-one. Have him really smug and self-assured, unbearably so - he is a true rake and cad, he has the money and the looks and he knows that all women will just go weak at the knees the moment he walks into a room.

[JohnVillain]

If you’re planing on having any action scenes in clubs/party’s with lots of innocent hotties around make sure to have a few bystander babes get caught and killed the crossfire of the action scenes with lots of sexy women becoming collateral damage. Some more specific suggestions:

Bad guys or the hero using there lovers as human shields or even grabbing a few random innocent girls (or escorts) to be used as shields

2 lovers on each arm of the bad guy in a booth or hot tub with all 3 getting lit up by automatic gunfire

A hero’s dodging gunfire running past a group of cowering hotties as they unintentionally get lit up by stray bullets

The audience and hero finding out about a shootout by hearing a gunshot and watching a hot party girl going down from a stray bullet

If there’s scenes in strip clubs have the dancers on stage get shot nonfatally and have them bleed out in the background as bullets whiz past them.

Those are just my suggestions good luck on the book

[Xukpi]

Hi hansapplegate,

You could read the viewforum.php?f=8 pulp thread.

It will help you. We have some talented writers aboard.

[bogeybob]

There was some manip artist, I don't remember his name but I love his stuff, where he did a bunch of manip comics featuring james bond offing a bunch of hot, sexy, evil female spies, and often the vixen's body was recovered and later stuffed and mounted, decorating the spy HQ. I think that'd be a delectable trope to feature in your novel!

Maybe some inter agency rivalry with who can bag the femme-spy with the biggest "trophy rack" to mount in their office.

[Makmut]

The idea of having the protagonist being like the character Austin Power, or maybe the character of Leisure Suit Larry, sounds very humorous! Always somehow able to get one over on the hot, buxom, vixens he has to put down! Could have some very hilarious deaths mixed in too!

[hansapplegate]

Great ideas everyone!
I think it will be a short novella of only 8 chapters. Something like that.

You you would like, I may post the first chapter here as a freebie.