What story will you be writing?

I'm doing another story set on my plante of the dinosaurs world, probably. It's about a girl who's family joins a group of nomads making a living out in the plains and woodlands, and what it is like to grow up in a post-modern nomadic society which juggles a difficult outdoor life with the social mores of a modern world. While fending off large predatory dinosaurs. As the luck of the nomads begins to fail and the group becomes more regressive my heroine decides she has to leave the group and return to society- but the group doesn't want her or any other young member to leave.

^Sounds like a good story to me!

I'll be writing about how my female lead is tricked into an alternate dimension and how she has to survive in a world where everything is stronger and smarter than her, and everything is out for her blood (and hair, and toes, and tongue, etc, etc) Of course she survives because 1 - there is a shapeshifter around who claims to be her guardian, and 2 - she allies herself with the really, really bored creatures of the dark who couldn't be bothered to terrorise her, but helps her because they like to spite everybody else. And she eventually finds her way back home. That's what I'll be writing. The rest of the time I'm going to spend time revising the rest of the novel that's already done.

I'm writing the second story in a series about an immortal detective. This mystery she is trying to solve is one about her best friend 's(one of two) girlfriend's murder. She's immortal because her grandfather Nicholas Flammel made himself and his wife immortal as well as every second generation of that family.

I was going to be writing about sa tripper/pole dancer gains the ability to body snatch, taking complete control of others using only the power of her mind upon receiving her first tattoo, a marionette.

My problem is I can't see it making it 50k, it's just not that kind of story. So I'm back in the game of coming up with an idea.

Im writing about more angels.

I'm not addicted, I can quit anytime...

Most likely about a summer, a few years ago, that really changed me... or hyper-dimensional, chainsaw birds who cut down large trees after they've chased small villages into them. One of the two.

Something about werewolves and vampires and that sorta stuff. It'll get more interesting the closer we get to November, I swear...

My story is basically about a guy who starts seeing things, sorta like his dreams start coming out of his head, and how that's percieved by his nearest and dearest. I guess it's kind of an 'old' story, but I'm hoping to make it more interesting by the perspectives that it's viewed from.

Oh dear, I didn't do a very good job of explaining it, but... what can I say, I've still got over two weeks to refine it! (Thank goodness)

MMC is in a car crash with MFC et al, MFC et al die.

A few days later they wake up in hospital, in the body of MMC.

MMC, once the poor idiot figures it out, is very put out.

On the way, I'm going to poke holes in every multiple personalities trope and cliche I know.

I am planning on writing a story set in a sort of alternative history, though socially it will be similar to the Regency period.

It is about two young women who both end up marrying men they hardly know, one of them to the current king of the made up country, and the other to one of his advisors. The focus of my story will be the relationship between the two women, and their respective husbands, especially within the political pressures they are facing.
Also, one of the women will commit a murder, and I want to explore her motivation and also the reaction of the other characters to a woman murdering someone.

The original idea for my story came from a fairy tale book I read at Welling City Library when I was about 10 or 11 years old, though my story has gone off track from what I remember of that story. I have tried to look for the book in the library as an adult, and I found lots of other fairy tale books I read when I was that age, but not this book.

What I remember about is it was about the girl being the "Wisest girl" in the kingdom or something like that, I think she was a Miler's daughter, but I could have that wrong. She ends up marrying the King, but somehow everything turns against her and her father is put in jail. She is going to leave, and asks if she can take the thing she loves the most. They say she can so she drugs the king and takes him away with her. That is all I can remember about the book, if you know what the story is, I would appreciate you helping me find it as I would love to read it again. I might even bring my plot more in line with the story if I can find it.

in the not too distant future a triumphant new form of democracy has swept europe - political parties have merged with corporate sponsors to initiate the 'unique government of the individual' - voting is now a personal subscription and the government's mandate upon you is purchased like a cellphone plan. Your subscription purchase is the new form of taxation as your chosen ideology offers the full range of private/public partnerships covering your health, education, housing - even the laws that govern you. Humanity has never been so free to choose, the billboards pronounce. Government has never been so efficiently sculpted to the wants of the people.

But why is the conservative subscription offering massive subscription discounts if you are injected with the nanobots? Why does the CEO of the reds look so young at 80? Where did the new virus sweeping the green subscribers even come from?

Well I'm writing about a planet where the only land is islands floating in the sky. There is no sea like ours its more of a thick mist that gradually gets thicker the lower down you go. The main food source is a type of fungi that grows up from the mist. This fungi also (somehowmagiacallyawizarddit) how the lots of stuff floats. It rains almost constantly and often great storms rage. I will work out the science later... or maybe never. If anyone has any ideas on how it might work feel free to help out.

This is going to be half story half history. If anyone has read Brian Aldiss's Haliconia trilogy, its a bit like that, cept less science more silly. Its going to start with the discovery of the planet and the first 4 people to live on it, the arrival of the colonising ship and the news of a plague spreading through the galaxy. Then it will skip many thousands of years into the future, the planet has been isolated for so long that earth is almost a legend and a corrupt emperor rules over the few inhabitable islands. Here we meet Vindice the grim Gipsy come Pirate who wants revenge for the wrongs the crazy ruler did him (only genocide). The blind prince, the emperors younger and forgotten son, kidnapped by pirates for ransom. The ghost that haunts the mad ruler, taunting him with memories of his dead love. The sentient entity residing in the depths of the pirates artificial island, who is starting to wake up. Oh yes and the man himself, the Emperor, who can read minds, control fungi whales and generally kick ass (due to a genetic ability and drug use), oh and did I mention that he is nuts. And inbred, all good evil rulers should be inbred.

Oh yeah and this isn't the only planet in the system with life on it...

:D so yeah, just fun wee scifi romp.

Wow, all of your ideas sound so amazing. This year I'll be writing based on something that happened in real life, but only using the situation as a base and making up all the characters and events within it.

My main character is 17 when she is told her cancer has returned and she has to make a decision to go through chemo for a 3rd time with no promises of any quality of life at the end, or she can go home and enjoy the final weeks of her life. She chooses the latter and returns home to try and make her mark on the world in the short time she has left while battling the effects of getting sicker.

It sounds like it's going to be really depressing when I write it like that, but I think most of it will hinge on making the main character as complex and interesting as possible so she is able to be positive, laugh and enjoy life while dealing with everything she is going through. Have some research still to do on cancer treatments, effects and the way things work in hospitals, etc. so will try and get that done over the weekend.

Only 3 days to go...

A story resurrected to test if it will be better off left dead...

Fiction and history mix in a modern-day thriller.
Natalie Siever, a beauty with a dark secret and a reluctance to form relationships, wants to do something crazy with her life.
Alex Barry, captive to unrequited love, a corporate lawyer with an interest in history, discovers a collection of old letters and a puzzle that has remained unsolved for a hundred years.
Frank Redwood, a crooked businessman with a ruthless streak and a weakness for corrupting young women, intrudes in their lives and seizes his opportunities.
Campbell, a mist-shrouded and lonely dot of land in the Southern Ocean that has hidden a secret of its own until Alex makes his discovery.

Some kind of fantastical adventure. Hoping to try to work in some ideas of gender identity and differentiating sexualities. :)

There will also be swashbuckling pirates and dubious gentleman with impeccable manners thrown into the mix. Just because I like that sort of thing.

Hong Kong, 1941. Thomas Stephenson arrives to a British society that is at the height of imperial grandeur, arrogance and snobbery. Escaping from the confines of this tight-knit community, he begins exploring the native chinese society and meets Anna Chen, the niece of Madame Xiang (think Mrs Robinson combined with Miss Havisham). The two become enamoured before the onset of Japan's declaration of war and Hong Kong is taken over; Thomas taken to Stanley internment camp, while Anna survives on her own outside with the help of Liang, their mutual friend who is originally an anglophile but through the course of the novel begins to accept his chinese heritage.

Trying to explore cultural/ethnic identity, the woman as a strong character (don't want her to be a cypher for the male characters), historically informative, Hong Kong as a character itself and a thriller element. Currently, it's more of a case of directly pilfering information from history books that help to add character and using them as my word count...