What is your great unwritten work?

[judejuggs]

Do you have a story that lives only in your head? Something that you think might never make it to the page? Nothing more than an outline and a few scattered scenes? Less? Shake off that dusty old idea and show it some light!! Perhaps it will be just what you need to reignite the spark of inspiration...


Here's mine:

Archdeacon Tuccio Farnese takes on a cleric named Beneccio to be his aide. Both men are ambitious and eager to climb the ranks of the Vatican. Tuccio quickly falls in love with Beneccio's idealism and enthusiasm for church reform. He showers his lover with gifts and helps him to build a reputation in the church. But Tuccio is conservative, more concerned with clinging to what he has than challenging the status quo. Disappointed in his spineless lover, Beneccio finds his own way to create change- a high clerical position in the courts of Spain.

Desperate to keep Beneccio from leaving, Tuccio sabotages his lover's career. Beneccio finds out about the sabotage and they have a really messy breakup. Tuccio copes badly by having a series of disastrous love affairs.

Years later, Tuccio is a Cardinal and Beneccio has found his own road into the Vatican. The two of them meet head to head on a heated topic - the right of clergy to marry. Tuccio supports the church's stance that clergy should not marry, while Beneccio heads the push to grant clerical marriages. The fighting gets dirty. Beneccio attacks Tuccio directly by exposing his long trail of sodomy and simony.

Having at last gone too far, the two of them meet to broker peace. And then....................... idk.

The End

I've been knocking around this story for 3 years at this point, but it is too complicated for me to actually write it. I would need a year of free time to do all the research and plot weaving required to see my vision fulfilled. I want it to be a high stakes political drama with lots of twists and turns, but I just don't feel like I know enough about how the politics of the upper church worked in the middle ages. All I know is from Borgias and Conclave and they aren't contemporary to my idea at all. Sad. Too busy reading about monks.

[themediaevalmonk]

Archdeacon Tuccio Farnese takes on a cleric named Beneccio to be his aide. Both men are ambitious and eager to climb the ranks of the Vatican. Tuccio quickly falls in love with Beneccio's idealism and enthusiasm for church reform. He showers his lover with gifts and helps him to build a reputation in the church. But Tuccio is conservative, more concerned with clinging to what he has than challenging the status quo. Disappointed in his spineless lover, Beneccio finds his own way to create change- a high clerical position in the courts of Spain.

I would 100% read this.

Right now the story that just lives in my head is Cellanus and Hervör's reuniting after their HUGE fight in the marketplace. Volume V is on hiatus now while I work on the rewrite and it will be ages until I get back to it. (If it is even the same after all the rewriting I am planning to do for the other volumes!)

Also so many Benet stories live in my head and may never see the light of day. I enjoy playing around with him, but I am never quite sure what will be 100% canon with him in the stories in my head.

I also have a road trip adventure with Gunter and Roderic that I will write, eventually.