Sum up your NaNo Novel in Two Sentences

I seem to be able to manage either the three-word sell o the many-paragraph multiple-character thesis, so I'll stick with my quicky: vampires in space.

This might not make sense, but hey, that seems to be par for the course around here...

Semi-depressed business owner cuts ties with mistress who dies, fakes amnesia (complete with head wound) to get out of the mess. Murderer/business partner tries to convince MC that MC committed the crime, MC must prove that business partner actually did it without being dismissed as forgetful nut job.

Cheers!

Located in the middle of Europe, Berlin is a place where some of the most important history of the western world has happened, especially in the 20th century. What happens when you see those events through the eyes of the people who lived there instead of the narrative of the historian who knows all the hidden facts.

GP
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2006 NaNo winner - Berlin, Witnesses at the Crossroads of History

I think this is my first post here.

A cop works the murder scene of an ordinary girl. He goes home to bed and wakes up two days later on a coroner's table, about to be autopsied, with no memory of the previous day.

What happens when superheroes die, when the world really needs superheroes, and what happens to the friends, families, and fans of the new superheroes when they realize that they are and aren't different from everyone else.

In one sentence: Pulled out of my assss-phault. >.>

Let's just say... page one, a young alien drops the earth and breaks it. Page two, two stupid teenagers run over the Doctor with their car and kill him. Yes, as in Doctor Who.

I'm going to hell.

My life begins in a box, and for a while I leave that box. I prefer my life to end in that same box.

A couple who are Holocaust survivors and survivors of other genocides discover they're immortal. I think there might be a road trip involved too.

A wise man put down a prophesy two hundred years ago about a hero that would save the known world from the peril it faces.

Unfortunately, that hero just died.

Death seems more prevalent when it is up and walking around. Life gains meaning as it is torn away.

Wow...I just realized what a boring summary sentence this is:

The lives of two lovers from the turn of the century to World War 1.

So I think I'll replace it with this:

A romance about the death of Romanticism and the eternity of two people's love.

That's way cornier but also more suave. ;)

Juicy plotiness! Hopefully this explains the two interweaving plotlines sufficiently.

Jesse discovers his newly-acquired ability to turn into pure energy, albeit with little control, comes in handy in his job as the bodyguard to one of the most highly respected political figures in their sector of the galaxy and as a spy for said political figure. As he tries to save his homeworld from alien terrorists with plans on blowing up the planet, he also tries to save the marriage of his cousin, who is married to Jesse's ex-wife but cheating on her with an exotic alien dancer.

My working title right now is "Campaign" and the two-sentence summary goes a li'l somethin' like this:

Angered by the political direction of his country, a blue-collar electrician launches a campaign to run for Congress against an entrenched incumbent. He discovers that his love of strip clubs, beer and atheism are seen as weaknesses too horrible to overcome - so he decides to turn them into strengths.

I also changed my genre from "Literary Fiction" to "Satire, Humor & Parody". Just because I'm writing some inspired, funny funny stuff. Hey, at least I'm laughing...

OK, let's see:

A young couple juggles their failing marriage and the secret life that each of them leads - his is a torrid affair with a coworker; hers, a spiraling addiction to prescription medication and alcohol. His mistress, meanwhile, has an agenda of her own that she is determined to fulfill.

Here goes!

Thirteen hundred years into the future, the world government rules with an iron fist and women have no rights and are used as breeding machines, because the government killed off too many women a hundred years prior during the witch hunts. Now a sixteen year old girl who was kept under lock and key so she'd reach sixteen as a virgin to be sold off to a rich man, an onryo, the sole heir to the long dead royal family, a man raised by yamamba with a Neil Gaiman quote tattoed onto his back, Paracelsus, a girl revolutionary whose entire philosophy is based off the only book she's ever read The Wizard of Oz, a male prostitute, a necromancer, a woman who can travel through mirrors, a jerk, a guy who killed his brother, a guy whose father was a sadistic serial killer, Adam, Eve, Lilith, and a few others are all going to end up changing the world. Oh, and it's a re-telling of Arthurian legend.

Man, that was hard.

It's about me and the shit I done did.

A recent college graduate, desperate for work and low on self-esteem, takes a job at a creepy corporation full of dysfunctional wackos. He discovers that there is something supernatural about the organization and the employees, and that he is expected to find a way to turn around the failing business.

Neil Harmonica's dreams and ideals are shattered by 9-11 and the dot com bust, so he decides to go east - Far East, with a road trip from San Francisco to the Atlantic Ocean as the first step in a journey to India. But when his car breaks down and wild bears begin to rampage a small Iowa town, Neil is forced to reevaluate his plans and values.

No matter what anybody says, it all comes down to the same thing.
A man and a woman, a broken heart, and a broken home. —John Lee Hooker

Frequency -

After two friends bound for Tolland's Academic Acceleration Academy free themselves from a disfunctional train, they quickly discover nothing about their new world is quite right. A sureal game of despair and mystery seems to surround them, and when that strange ecosystem begins to suddenly and violently begins to collapse, their only chance out requires them to master the forbidden frequencies of their own senses.

The working title for my Nanovel is "Into the Next Room". A hospice nurse becomes a patient in the facility that used to employ her; because her pain is unusually challenging to manage, she persuades her former colleages to try alternative methods that produce phenomenal results.

A young boy, tormented by his peers, wishes for extraordinary powers and is whisked away to a phantom planet where he is forced to help them in exchange for said powers. A phantom is grafted to his soul, he returns to earth blessed with power but cursed with horrific luck and has to use his newfound powers just to stay alive.

A modern re-telling of the Mahabarata set in Portland with prostitutes.

or

A historical fiction following the rise of the indie subculture in the late 90's.

or

A modern re-telling of the Mahabarata set in Portland with prostitutes that follows the rise of the indie subculture in the late 90's.

A novel about zombies attacking Downtown Portland and slowly trying to take over the state.

There's werewolves, vampires, and faeries, but nobody knows that for the first 25k.

Two teen girls wake up in each other's bodies, and realize that life in someone else's shoes isn't ever easy. Issues of social injustice, prejudice, racism, and classism are explored.

What would the effects of an industrial revolution be on a group of ne'er-do-well adventurers? Do they work with the new world they find themselves in... or against it?

20-something girl tries to find her own identity apart from her hometown orgins. She daydreams a lot about Super-Cheese Girl and her faithful dog, Munster - and how much easier it would be if reality were like that, until she learns better.

:-D

Here, I'll try to do my best:

Skye Cyrus finds his believed dead sister on a mission for the Second Resistance and after several attempts rescues her at the risk of his own life. His powers over electrical energy begin to evolve as he once again heads out to confront Murdock, once again, as revenge for her imprisonment.

PS: This is the second book in the BS trilogy, so there's a lot here that's unexplained.

I love reading every one else's descriptions!

At the dawn of story-telling time, Anansi bargains all the stories from the sky god and begins throwing them down to a planet populated almost exclusively by narrators. The world is thrown into turmoil as the narrators discover their newfound freewill, and fate.

Marine biologost fails to tell his girlfriend that he's going out to sea on a secret mission. Did he go willingly and did he have anything to do with that body with the myserious tattoo that went overboard?