This Film Has Not Yet Been Rated

You know, if books were rated the same way that motion pictures are, everything I'll ever write will get at least a hard R rating, if not an NC-17. A lot of my ideas just lend themselves to sex and violence, and a lot of both. I'm not criticizing or anything. That's just what I enjoy. But the chances that I'm ever going to write a sweet little book for kids might be a longshot.

Let's take book one (working title: All Fall Down, even though I know that's been used before. I have an alternate in mind, but I have to check into how copyright stuff works because it's also a song title.): it's probably the least violent book I'll ever write. However, there's a lot of rough stuff in there. We know what happens to Emma in her chapter already. Another major character takes a severe thrashing around about Chapter 12. There are other fights, very near fights, a few people take a serious pounding, and there's a whole lot of sexual content and foul language. Chapter 1 might get me that R rating just for it's tone.

Book two (working title: Bloody Cigarettes): This is the one I mentioned before that comes as an offshoot of the Shannon and me thing. It's going to be much more violent than the first book. I won't be holding back this time, and the blood will fly. If it comes off like I think it might, this book could get me one of my subsidary goals: to hit the 'banned book' list. It's got a shot.

Ok, so what else? My mom is after me to write a mystery book, based on a fairly hilarious conversation Colleen and I had a couple weekends ago. Ok, so my mom has also said I should write a science-fiction book and a children's book, too, but nevermind. It's possible that I could drum up a decent mystery type something for Book Three, but I doubt I'll do it in the standard gimmicky style that's all the rage. It'll be a lot more Pulp than that. I even have some idea who my detective character could be, and since I've spent so much time portraying her online, I know her pretty well. Besides, a sarcastic, anti-social, alcoholic private investigator sounds like a lot of fun to write. She even comes with most of the supporting cast intact. This could be a real idea, and it could work, so don't judge me.

There's also the matter of the fifteen or so stories I wrote for the Batcave dealing with my own super-villain characters, which I am saving for myself from there while I'm pulling the rest of it apart. I think they're viable, and most of the overriding story is complete in my noggin. I could make some money off of those girls, either in prose or in comic book form. I'm not going to abandon the concept, at any rate. And keeping with the theme of this post, any book that I create out of those characters will be *obscenely violent*. The proof of that is in the body of work I've already put out there.

Maybe I have some issues?