So, What'cha Writing! ^^

I'm doing Gay Space Pirates. Rhade looses his partner, an older man who took him under his wing type thing. Three years after that he meets Milloe and spoiled rich kid who works his way into Rhade's heart. So far it's going good.

I'm writing a fantasy novel.
Shimra is mysteriously released from prison when someone bribes the duke with a large amount of gold. After traveling to the capitol, Keloria, and attacking a shopkeeper, Darian, she learns who sent the letter. A religious group called the Order of Valkara, located high in the mountains. Shimra travels there to learn why they bribed the duke, but instead, she learns of a mysterious, evil artifact known as the Kar Chlia, that holds essence of the dark god. And now, an evil cult has found the Kar Chlia, and have discovered a way to unlock its unholy powers...
That's about it right now. I hope it goes well.

Nice stories :)

Mine is also a fantasy novel, based on some of the characters and background from my short story called "Battle Cleric."

Emerald was a battle cleric and is currently the High Priestess of the Temple of the Maker in the high elf city of Shemara. She is approached by a rogue of the underworld of the city with information that there is a Scroll that contains a prayer to the gods which will unleash an enormous amount of magic. This magic will resurrect anyone, no matter how long they have been dead, something that has been unheard of before. Up until now, battle clerics could only do battlefield resurrections on the spot for someone who has been dead for less than an hour.

At first, Emerald refuses to believe the rogue,yet at the same time half hoping it is true and that she may find the Scroll and resurrect her long-dead lover. However, after having her quarters ransacked, and facing a particularly nasty session with the Shemaran Council about donations from the rogue and his underworld cronies in return for unknown favors, she decides there must be some truth to what the rogue has said. She journeys to the Sage of Shemara's tower and is told that there is a possibility that the Scroll exists. It might be found in the ruins of the old city, and she must find it first before the maligns (the bad guys) find it. What if they resurrect a mighty leader to lead the bad guys into battle against the good guys? It would be a disaster for all of good-dom.

The story goes on to work with the quest, with a lot of twists and turns. Strangely, not only does the outline have twists and turns, but my characters are adding their own, surprising even me. For instance, I didn't know that my MC had lost her eyesight during a fight with the undead in the past and now has sometimes failing vision, nor that that was the main reason she resigned from the army and went for the post of High Priestess. The things you find out about people when you write about them, eh?

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Raya - (getting crazy in Esterhazy!)
First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him! - Ray Bradbury
2002 - Witchcanery - won
2007 - Battle Cleric - we'll see :)

Sounds like some good stuff! :-)

I'm writing a dark Fantasy tale about the coming of a magical plague to the warring elven and dwarven nations of my world. Basically it's mostly elves and dwarves, and all the characters from the two nations end up finding about the plague, and fighting it. It's a story where the two races are to eventually put aside their enmity to fight the greater evil.

The plague affects magic, causing a "magic sickness" amongst spellcasters. Usually it appears much like the black death, and exacts a heavy toll, not being able to be cured by the typical magic. Also those who die, and go unburned, transform into an alternate state: slimes, ghouls, pustules, corpse zombies, otherworldly fiends, and even wighten -- a joining of bodies.

So far many elves have died in battle, in a border war, and the plague is raging across the lands, sweeping in from the east. It takes out most of the elves from both armies, and continues on. The main elven characters Jecszara the druidess warrior, Lorelli the critical painter / former adventurer, and Cortina the battlemage are hooking up around the halfway point of the novel.

The dwarves have apparently been struck by the full plague earlier on, in the midst of a rebellion against the "recent" monarchist rule of Babylos The Pure. The dwarven 'hero' though he doesn't like to be thought of us such, Dagin Tottentatz, has discovered the location of a magical item that can have some impact on the plague -- he thinks. There are 9 more to collect. He will soon be visiting a sage to discover how useful his researched have been, and put his head together with a few others to see if the plague can be stopped.

There are also many manners of strange goings on, including an influx of undead.

I will stand out in the crowd. I'm not writing fantasy, but a mainstream story about a guy who owns a small-town bar in Saskatchewan. The old hotel no longer lodges visitors, but one old man lives in one of the rooms. Paco looks Mexican, but he's acually a Hungarian immigrant who witnessed his parents' murder in the hotel in 1921. He's kept what he saw a secret for decades, despite the unsolved status of the case.

It's not a mystery, but actually focusses on the bar owner and the challenges he faces in operating the first business of his own.

This is my first legitimate shot at noveling and I've come further along plot-wise than I ever expected. It's amazing how the characters are taking on a life of their own and I'm going in directions that are so much better than I can plan out. I love this process and I now love NANO.

Cheers and good luck to every one.

Relief! Mine's mainstream too. Protagonist left her husband years ago and returns after his death when the new wife is selling the family lakeside home. Ist wife has to sort out the legal issues relating to the cabin on the property which belongs to her. She is thinking of renovating the cabin and living there but is viewed by the community as the witch who left her popular husband when he needed her most. She finds friends who accept her, all of them sharing a past that will not forgive them: a potter and her emotionally damaged companion, a Sri-Lankan immigrant family, a singer and a garage owner whose secret threatens to tear the friends apart. The setting is cottage country, the characters very SK.
Everything in No Plot No Problem makes sense, especially this ditching of the editing monster who wants to sit on my shoulder and peck at my confidence. Yes, characters are popping up and living their own lives. Love this Nanowrimo!
Cheers!
Anjou in-the-snow, by the lake

Mine's kind of bending the line between fantasy and not. It's about a kid who finds himself on the street in New York after too many years with an abusive mother. He's taken in by a massive group of other street kids who are all centralized between these two warehouses that are owned by twin brothers who used to live on the street before managing to work their way up and out. So now they're trying to help kids out where they can.

But it turns out that the main reason, which is also a secondary reason/bonus, is because they're looking for a certain kid. There's too much involved there to explain it properly just here, but it has to do with the soul and the quality of each one. The twins know that there's someone on earth who has a soul comparable to Jesus' and so they're doing whatever they can to find this kid before anyone else can so everything's a big secret. Hush hush. Only one of the other kids knows what they're doing and is helping them.

Something something. I'm still not quite sure of the plot, but I know the direction. Everyone else's stories sound awesome!

geez.... well I do have a minor plot in mine but it not all that good. but I will cover what I can share. The rest is will come from the mind a busy and longing furry who want nothing more then his muse and mate back.

My story is fantasy based novel
Rating: M or A (AKA R)
The just: It is one man (Well what you could call a man) has banished himself from his own people in order to protect himself from his kin, He is a [i]Ro'Kar.[/i] Ro'Kar are murder upon birth for they are view as threats to their way of like. Human fear the Ro'Kar for they look like there kin save one lady... she found out the truth and was going to be murder by the head master of the mages school, to be saved the Ro'Kar. that all teh plot of have for now...

definitely a classic romance for me. Mine is about a girl who is pretty much a slut and she meets this boy. The boy is a good, Christian, abstinence-until-marriage type of guy. Funny, nerdy, attractive, but not topping the scale. Basically they fall in love, things get out of hand, they sleep together, the boy freaks out and dumps her. She is heartbroken and I'm not sure where her heartbreak leads yet, but they meet up after a few years and get married. Have twins, suchnot. It's a cutesy romance meant to make everyone feel better about themselves :D