Adopt a Plot

Quote:Lydia Towers, the only child of an extravagant gentleman, lives in Sussex. At 18, she has recently accepted a position as a governess and has no prospects. Her hair is jet black, and she wears it in elaborate styles. She is independent yet sometimes indulges in gossip. Her greatest joy comes from riding her horse. While caring for a sick grandmother she meets Benedict Gerard, when he offers her his umbrella as it starts to rain. He is an earl and has been very depressed of late. At first he finds her rather gauche and she questions his motives. But when he is challenged to a duel, she realizes that she cannot live without him. Throw in a Christmas snowstorm and things really get interesting. Are they meant to be? It's all up to you.

I think I'm going to adopt this one and see where it takes me. I've always like historical romances, and this is just really interesting. Probably going to work on it after NaNo, because I'm neck deep in planning with the one I have now. Haha.

Not that I need another regency romance plot, but I'm stealing the both of them, for future use.

Narian has been raised her entire life by a mentor, Tim. Suddenly, something happens, casting her into a different world where Tim can't get to her. Trapped in this dark and strange world of endless night, the one the mysterious woman called Death's realm, Narian must try to find the answers to the reasons she is here, escape the forces trying to kill her, and find her way back to her own world....

When trying to think of a plot, I thought of a bunch that I do not want to use, but others may:

The year is way ahead in the future. For whatever reason we can think of - the world is in anarchy. Teenage girl lives in a group of badass girl 'bikers' (hoverboarders? c:) that travel around to each city trying to survive. They used to be a group of girls that went to elementary/middle together before whatever disaster caused this to occur. Before the disaster, she also had a boyfriend who she lost contact with. She presumed him to be dead. But one day she finds a clue that he might still be alive, and she tries to get the whole group of girls to help find him.

A curious girl who hated the outdoors, loved the indoors. One day her family makes her go camping because both the parents and her brother (optional) love it. When they are at the campsite. Either her family asks her to do something, or maybe she needed to do something, or whatever reason you pick: She gets lost in the woods. She panics and can't find her family. After X amount of time, she runs into a little forest-boy. They dislike each other, but eventually become close. Or, he could have a family and the family are hippies or foretpeople, and she stays with them. Then you can take the story from there c:

A girl who lives on her own in high school - her parents either died/left/whoknowswhat at a young age and she didn't wnat to be adopted, so she figured out some way to keep the house and live on her own, which happened to be work as a prostitute for this big buisness man. He doesn't treat her the best, but doesn't abuse her. After a while of this, the big businessman hires a new secretary, or worker, or it's his SON! Either way, there is now a man who is working/helping out the big business man, and he is always seeing her and thinks she is beautiful and wants to hlep her out, and then the story goes on from there however you wish it.

i was going to use this one, but i did a twin theme last year..dont want to repeat!!!

Iris Kelly is a normal girl, brown hair brown eyes maybe a little less then perfectly skinny, and its halloween. Her and her friends decided to play the Qouij board becuase its halloween and a teenage boy a few towns over just died of mysterious causes. The girls obviously dont know the Qouij board can actually work, or they never would have tried, but they do contact the spirit of the dead boy, John. John comes out of the board, although the girls cant see him and he sees Iris. the girls eventually give up the Ouiji board because they are tired, but they dont properly say goodbye, so John is still among them. In the middle of hte night Iris wakes up and John makes himself visable to to her, and such and eventually John and Iris try to find out who killed him, and they somehow fall in love a bit...

now when i was going to do this i wanted to make the killer john's twin brother, and have john kill him and posess his body so he and Iris could get together, but thats just me :) enjoyyy

Like the first one and am copying for future reference. It's open for a very quirky story.

Something for those if you who are equally last minute.

2 sisters are really close. One falls pregnant, but loses the baby pretty late in the pregnancy. Now the other is contemplating falling pregnant with her husband. What about her sister's failed pregnancy affects her? Is there any jealousy? How will this affect their relationship to each other and their husbands?

I'd love to write it, but as it's partly based on real life, I'm a bit too close to it (except in reality my sis had a second baby that she carried to term before we were thinking about it)

Well, I've had this idea forever, but I'm having a hard time writing it.

MC is a teenage/young adult/adult girl, and she is in love with her boyfriend/fiancee/husband. Most of this book is told through flashbacks--when they met, their first date, etc., etc. You get little pieces of the present throughout the book, but only at the very end do you realize that her boyfriend/fiancee/husband is now dead. It's a romance with what i have always pictured as a heartbreaking ending.

I love this! I think I may adopt!

Love this one! May adopt as well!

I think I might try this.

My heart went all ba-bump when I saw this, because it's frightening how close this is to my idea for this year, and this filled in some nice details. So thanks for this.

Yay! I'm sure you'll all do wonderful things with it!

Reminds me of Nikita :)

This is being adopted to my "waiting plot babies" notebook. I'll let you know if I take it further!

Definitely saving this one for future use!

I'm stealing this one, too. Thanks!

Adopted as a possible sub-plot! Great idea.

Jumping the bandwagon and saving this to my notebook, but I won't use it for NaNo this year because... well. Everyone else is C: Thank you! <3

Thinking about integrating this into my plot though currently unsure how. I think mine needs a kickstart.

Reminds me of Kingdom Hearts and the organization XIII with people who have lost their hearts and have been trained to be extremely good fighters :)
-Ninaizawsum11

May be adopting :)

i liiike it! dunno if it'll work with my current cast, but i think i might try to tweak it!

This is just my speed! I had my idea all planned out, and then I came and saw this. I think I may adopt, if I can manage to leave my other baby! :)

I might put this in my potential plot file. I would tweak it obviously.

Adopting !

Thank you for this. Joining NaNoWriMo this year was on very short notice so I had no inspiration what to write about... until I saw this. :)

Might adopt this for another story. :)

It kinda sounds like Gunslinger Girl! Awesome anime!

Hmmm, might give it a spin, at least in part...thanks for the inspiration.

I am totally adopting this. It's amazing.

I might adopt the "organization that creates catasthropes" for my plot. thx. ^^

lydiasarah wrote:
Here's one I thought about:

An organization recruits people who've lost everything through some sort of personal disaster (car accident, disease, murder, etc.) to train them as elite fighters. Throughout the book, I imagined the organization seeming very kind and benevolent, but in the end the MC discovers they're the ones staging the catastrophes in order to recruit individuals they feel are especially promising.

Pretty bare bones, but could make for a good thriller.

Im adopting this and tweaking it... it fits well with my concept

i will definitely take this just for the gist of it, but will definitely tweak it.

Whoa! Very nice plot! I'm totally digging it....

Yoink! Snatching it for a creative writing project that's also due at the end of November.

Love, it. Would love to adopt.

well, I think I might tuck this one away for a project later on as well, I think it might just fit into one of my still on the verge of being an actual idea ideas. So thank you... adopted!

adopt <3

lydiasarah wrote:
Here's one I thought about:

An organization recruits people who've lost everything through some sort of personal disaster (car accident, disease, murder, etc.) to train them as elite fighters. Throughout the book, I imagined the organization seeming very kind and benevolent, but in the end the MC discovers they're the ones staging the catastrophes in order to recruit individuals they feel are especially promising.

Pretty bare bones, but could make for a good thriller.

Hmm. mind if I maybe add this in to my plot now? my writing fire is BACK!!!!!
THANK YOU!!!!
BLB <3

Ooooh, this is very cool, I might adopt!

*Gasp!* That sounds a lot like my novel...I may have to do something with this especially since a couple of my characters are orphans.

This looks cool. I'm taking to have a go at after NaNo has finished :). If it works out I'll let you know how I get on but I am slow at writing outside of NaNo so it might take me a while.

Thanks

Taking this too. It's amazing, I'll give it a go. Thanks!

Ooooooooooooooh I like this idea. I'll save it and give it a look after NaNoWrimo is done and I have my other project out of my hair.

I might add this to my already budding idea

This idea is fantastic! I might have to try this out after NaNo - Thanks for sharing ^_^

Using!

I might take this and twist it to use in my Steampunk setting. Definitely a possibility!

I like this one as well...

Hmm...this sounds promising...maybe a few tweaks here and there....hmm.....

I'll be using this as well, probably after nano though. I've got a plot developed for it already :)

Oh, this one has quite some potential. I think I'll adopt it and tweak it a bit. I hope I do it justice!

I'm so borrowing this, at least in part. It gives me a good role for my main heroine!

i like the part of Animal guides...being a Native American I understand the importance of such. That said, I may not steal the whole plot, but the using of animals in my plot might just work on some level. thank you for the inspiration! Pen

Oh, nice! Adopting for the future!

guardian-hope wrote:
Some people said the animal spirits live within their people. They are there to guide a person in life and occasionally protect them. Some people say the animals don't exist, that they are just stories from a past that need to be let go.

When dark magic attacks, both sides of the argument are going to learn a painful truth. The Animal Spirits are real, and they are very angry.


I tried to give this fantasy a good home, but it just isn't working for me. Hopefully someone else will see it's true worth.

This is the basis for an RP charrie I've been playing with for a few years. lol! Just thought that was a neat coincidence. *goes back to plot hunting*

This is great. I think I'll try my hand at this one. Thanks!

Adopting this for after NaNo - thank you!

Has a very Native American feel to it. I might just take the basic concept of this and tweak it a little bit....

Number 1 is similar to something I already have in the works so I'm going to take to add to the mix of that story :). If it ever gets finished I'll let you know how I did with it.

I like this! Reminds me a bit of Mastermind. Adding it to my plot stash!

I think I may have to adopt that first one. Thanks!

I really like 2. If you don't mind I'd like to add it to my plot stash.

I love the first one. I'll be adding it to my list. :)

When nano is done I think I will have a go at number 1!

I love Number 2! Definitely adopting this one. The potential is just amazing! Thanks so much

I am adopting #2 to my "waiting plot babies" notebook. I love the idea! I am still a little indecisive about my Nano 2011 story, maybe this will hook me in the next few weeks. I'll let you know if it makes it's way out of my notebook and into something bigger!

A fellow troper, FTW!

The second reminds me of Sky High, a disney movie from like 5 years ago. But the smart villian twist is TOTALLY different, but perhaps you could get some ideas from the movie :)

I really like Number 1, but fear my knowledge of mythology (of any type) is too rusty to use it this year. I can foresee a good chunk of my text being placeholders and/or me spending a lot of time in research instead of actually writing. Definitely parking it in my plot stash, though, and maybe I'll use it next year. Thanks for the idea!

So adopting number one!!!

Totally adopting the second one. :)

Adding #2 to my list of potential ideas.

#2 is delicious, I'm stealing C: Thank you!

Love both of these. I'm taking the first one and seeing what I can do with it.

I may take 1 I already have a title that would work good with this. Thanks =D

I may adopt number two.

Love the Greek gods plot!

I had an AWESOME plot device like this, only involving the Endless from Neil Gaiman. And they werent reborn as mortals, per se, the children were conceived/formed in their realms.....Maybe an idea to go back to?

I may have to adopt them both and combine them.

That first one is actually an interesting idea. Don't usually see that with all the other Greek God based plots thrown around. I may have to try that...

I love the first idea! I might tweak and adopt it, not sure yet. But it's a really good one!

Adopting the second one! Can't wait to get started!

I LOVE the second plot. I'm saving it for future use, if that's ok. Thanks!

Love this idea! I may use parts of this :) Thanks so much!

I'd like to take #1 for some other story outside of NaNoWriMo.

Janking 1. Ideas are a flurry in my head. Thanks!

Bah I forgot to mention I may switch it to the Norse gods and I know them a bit better from Lecture.

I could kind of incorporate number one in to my existing plot so am going to adopt with a bit of a face lift if you don't mind. Thanks!

gonna have to adopt the first one :) sounds cool. not sure for NaNo but definitley using it

I like this one, but perhaps the twist is that the MC is the Villain to be... His/her main obstacle is fighting a system that's rigged to fail the villain... could be quite fun!!

Love #1. Adopting!

Bishu wrote:
1)The Greek gods, due to some sort of divine accident, are stuck as mortals and are reborn anew each time they die. The way I imagined it was from Athena's perspective (she's my favorite...but you could pick another if you like) in modern day high school as she grows up in her newest life. She's had her memories back for a while and knows who she is, but is only just starting to find her divine family scattered across the modern world. I thought they'd probably be trying to find a way to break the cycle of mortal reincarnation and get back to their god states, something they'd been trying and failing to do for centuries, but do with it what you will.

Fyi, wanted to share that I did actually snatch this one and it's going well thus far. Much thanks. <333

Definitely stealing the first one!

Sky High, anyone?

OMG I LOVE THE FIRST ONE!! I'm so going to use that. C: Maybe publish it or something when it's done because this plot is, like, gold.

Definitely adopting the second. Thanks for the idea!!

Bishu wrote:
2) A parody of the superhero story. In this world there are quite a few people born with powers, and there are schools to accomodate these people. Villains go to villain school, heroes to hero school, and sidekicks to sidekick school, where they learn all of the techniques they need to do their job.

The only problem is, the schools teach ridiculously over-cliche and dramatic techniques that always seem to result in the same epic battle with the villain making the same mistakes and losing. The way I imagined it, the MC1's parents forced her to go to hero school even though she didn't want anything to do with the whole hero business because they're such quacks. MC2 wanted to be a hero more than anything but only got into sidekick school, due to his powers being less than spectacular. Both are upset, and wind up being assigned to one another as part of a school program to create teams early.

MC3, the villain, is an actual genius and realizes what idiots the villains are for always making the same mistakes. Properly equipped with the Evil Overlord list, he starts to break all of the established rules and cause real trouble. The heroes, faced with a real threat from a cunning adversary, start to panic. MC1 and MC2, as two of the only halfway normal people on the hero side, are the only ones who might be able to stop him.

I really love this one. I've been looking for a "not depressing" story (as my dad likes to say), and this fits the bill PERFECTLY. Thank you for this. Camp NaNo, here i come!

I like this! I just may adopt!

Ooh. Cool idea! Definitely giving inspiration!

Love this!!! It, like many others, is being adopted to my "waiting plot babies" notebook. i'll let you know if I take it beyond that!

I can dig it. It sparked an idea. Thanks for posting!

I love this, thank you! Adopting as of today.

I think you might have been channeling a little bit of Nora Roberts there :D Nano_Bot

With a little switching of the sexes, this could work... toying with the "return home to heal" theme for this year's nano sci-fi write. Thanks for the inspiration! Pen

NaNo_Bot wrote:
Rachel's life was turned upside-down when her father was murdered, now she's back in her home town to heal and to try to get her life back together. Former town bad boy, Emery, has been waiting for years for Rachel to return, to meet her as an equal and to win her respect and maybe her love. But it won't be easy. Especially as someone from Rachel's past thinks she knows more about her father's death than she's letting on... and will kill to keep old secrets buried.

Totally adopting this!

since I fell in love with this plot my original one needs a new home...

6 year old Lily Tretcher and 10 year old Grace Tretcher set off on a world of adventure as they drift off into a sleepy wonderland of sweet adventure. Mount Carmel is under seize by an evil dentist who has made it her mission to rid the world of this happy sweets filled city. Led by Mayor Carmel follow Lily and and Grace's adventures as they travel through the many towns of Mount Carmel and take back the city!

Adopting this!

I may adopt this plot and tweak it a bit to fit it in with my ideas! Thanks!!!

NaNo_Bot wrote:
Rachel's life was turned upside-down when her father was murdered, now she's back in her home town to heal and to try to get her life back together. Former town bad boy, Emery, has been waiting for years for Rachel to return, to meet her as an equal and to win her respect and maybe her love. But it won't be easy. Especially as someone from Rachel's past thinks she knows more about her father's death than she's letting on... and will kill to keep old secrets buried.

I'm going to adopt this one :)

May I take this to add to my list of stories to write outside of NaNo? When it gets written (although it may take me a while) I'll let you know, if you'd like to take a look.

I have fallen in love with this. Her name will be Amelia Abbott. His name, Ben Noble. Is that ok?

I may possibly adopt this to intertwine with my current NaNo idea. I'll let you know if it works out!

I sort of adore this idea! It's going into my notebook of ideas to choose from! :)

Might use this for my NaNo, unless another idea hits. It's certainly going on my plots list!

this reminds me of the video game "Catherine" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_%28video_game%29 ].

i may adopt this to do for NaNo. If I do, I'll let you know!

Oooh, this is going on the list of potential ideas for NaNo 2011.

Ooh!! I would like to write this as a side-project outside of NaNo :) It sounds so adorable!! (stashing away~)

This is going in my plot ideas notebook! :) If I do anything with it, I'll let you know.

I might use this! (:

I love this! Going in my list of choices :D

Taking this to put in my plots folder, If i ever get to it i'll let you know how it turns out

wow i love this! stealing!

Oh, I am definitely stealing this for something outside of NaNo. Steampunky short story, here I come.

Snagging this to mess around with sometime. :D

Not taking, but just wanted to say that I would love to read this should it ever get written.

good one... could be translated into sci-fi easily enough. Won't work for the plan I have for Nano this year, but will tuck away for future use. Then, again....maybe a duel of some sort will appear...who knows, the story hasn't told me what it wants to do, yet. Thanks for the inspiration. Pen

This will absolutely end up in my novel! Thank you.

I'm going to steal this for outside NANO. Thank you. :)

*gasp!* This has sparked an idea!!! Snatching it :3

This is giving me ideas! Not as the actual plot, but if I'll ever write a story based on a side character's POV, it would end up like this :)

Hmmm...this is giving me interesting ideas. My main character is a boy - can I borrow the best friend killer and the girl (if not crack whore, at least trouble in some way)?

I think I wrote this book, minus the crack whore part.

OMG, I want to read that one.

I'm going to put number 3 in my plot stash :)

It's looking like I might be taking #5 for this year's NaNo . . . expanding on it and tweaking it, too.

I'm going to incorporate parts of #5 into a story I tried to write for NaNo back in '09. I think, using that, I may be able to fill in the missing bits and make the story workable. :D

LOVE 3 and four!

I'm going to put either number 3 or 5 in my plot stash. thanks.

Number three looks amazing~ Might use this as a way to balloon my word count with monologues. OTL

I may put #2 into my plot somehow

number 1 speaks to me. I might epxand and tweak it a bit, but looks like a great idea.

Number 3 is great. I am going to adopt it for future use. I am already set for this year.

Thank you for #1. I am adding it to my 'Plot Nibbles' file so that I may refer to it. It may or may not be a novel. If it does become my NaNo, I'll let you know (and credit you, of course)! Thanks again!

I'm think I'll adopt #3 this year. That seems like it will be such a good story. Love it!

I've adopted #3. Thanks!

Love no 4

I'm going to take 3, as a possible plot to use this NaNo, because I have absolutely no plot this year and this plot feels rather good...

i LOVE Idea 2... definitely using it and thankful someone was creative last minute because i couldn't be :)

i might take #3....i was having trouble getting started but this is giving me some ideas.

Loving number three *snag*