Welcome! Who are you? Whatcha writin'?

Howdy All!

Welcome to NaNoWriMo 2011 and the Religious, Spiritual, and New Age fiction forum. So who are you? Watcha writing?

Allo, allo! I'm Jen. I'm a co-ML for Pomona Valley (California) this year.

I am thinking of doing a story that work in some Jungian concepts, such as Synchronicity, collective unconscious, and the wounded healer. I'm also interested in the theory that people on the autism spectrum are actually the next step of human evolution. Mine is a hybrid of science fiction and spiritual/new age. I am greatly influenced by Tim Kring, the show Alphas, and the new age/spiritual/self-help writers Sera Beak and Gabrielle Bernstein.

Hi, I'm Jo. Highschool student, South Carolina. Planning a story set in a fantasy universe about faith and communicating with the divine.

I've been writing myths set in this universe for over a year now, and working out some of the theology. Now I'm ready to put that to use in a larger story.

Yo, I'm Aire. I've been researching/evolving/playing around with a story idea for several years now and I'm hoping to kick start the process of writing it this November (I do better with immediate need and motivation for action). Its set up in a parallel world linked to our own where the gods and goddesses of ancient myth walk alongside mortals (Asgard). Pretty much, the first half of the story revolves around the search for the mortal Child of God who fell from Avalon into somewhere in Asgard, and how everyone wishes to use him to enter Avalon; or in the case of the villain (Lucifer) who was the reason for the fall, wants to see him dead or within his control.

The story is an amalgamation of several sets of mythologies and religions using key similarities to link them within the context of a fantasy/adventure story. I have pages upon pages of character and story notes... I just need to motivate myself into writing--thus Nanowrimo.

White Lily here ....

I'm going to write the second part of a trilogy called Destiny. It's a Fantasy story inspired by the story of Moses and the Exodus. Some parallells are probably still discernable (like the prince discovering he's of the slave people and along with his true brother sets out to free his people) but it has grown far beyond that.

Religion and myths has always interested me (a member of Swedish Lutheran church) and in this story I try to explore how religion has evolved over time. Basically I have one truth... and the three religions in my fantasy world all have a grain of that, but mostly they're all wrong and my MC's need to figure out the basics of the truth before they can succed in destroying the beings that now call themselves Gods (but are more like humans evolved into demons)....

Hi I'm Cassandra432 also known as Jennifer

Here's what I'm writing. Honestly, I don't know where this idea goes. Could be a lot of things. The initial idea was to talk about different types of death and how it determines their story in the afterlife. The story would focus more on what happens after they die. I have it where upon their death they go into an afterlife much like their death. They must learn something to move forward on their journey. Here they will meet those with opposite deaths, they will have to learn and understand each other, and help each other move forward. There they will meet people with other deaths and together they have to learn something to move forward. Eventually they will end up in my idea of where we ALL eventually go when we die and after we've achieved some sort of transformation. For example, I have a Holocaust victim (they had a forced death) paired off with a suicide victim (who chose their own death). I was also thinking about pairing poison and illness together and making that the first book. The fact that this involves death and that the people will be of different eras is confusing, along with the overall theme of transformation, which could be religious. Could someone help me? Otherwise, I'll just chose "other".

Much of what I've written in the past could be considered religious fiction, but the religion is Islam and there is no formal classification for that. This year my novel will be more secular on the surface, but much more symbolic.

Hullo,

I'm Katie and I usually write fantasy stories but this year I thought I'd broaden my writing experience and write a novel about a small youth group that gets disbanned because of low membership and their experiences in the last summer they get to be an official youth group. It's all about them seeing God in a different light and growing closer as a group and to God. It's partially based on my own youth group so I'll be drawing on experience from that but I'm real excited about NaNo this year and can't wait to start.

Happy Noveling!

Hi! I'm Jacquelyn. This year will be my first time trying an overtly religious plot. The story is not fully developed yet (that is what October is for!), but so far I am heading in a Christian suspense/adventure direction. The setting will be the near future, extrapolating from current events a future United States with a government-sanctioned religious persecution of so-called "homegrown terrorists", who are actually just good, law-abiding citizens of a minority faith who do not adhere to the popular, mainstream, "approved" religions. The main character, a university student, will be doing some digging in the Bible, theological discoveries, and running from the law. There will be some real church history, theology, and American history included and no "sugar coating" of historical facts.

The premise of the entire novel is freedom of conscience (the right of individuals to follow their conscience in matters of faith and religion) and standing firm for one's beliefs despite persecution. It is meant to be slightly abrasive and make people second guess what they thought they knew about Christianity, American and world history. Though it will focus more on the issues that divide and unite the vast factions of Christendom, I am hoping that it will have a broader reach. This story is a huge undertaking for me as I am used to writing action-adventure, semi-fantasy stories, but I wanted to give it a try.

I'll be writing a suspense book whose main characters are Christians. Voices of the Dark is about a trauma counselor who is taking care of a toddler who was found during a drug raid. But eventually they realize drugs were only funding a much bigger operation--human trafficking. I hope it will not be just an exciting read but will help spread awareness of the sex slaves hidden in the darkness right here in the U.S. (and other major countries).

Hey All,
Names william, please to meet you all.
My story is set in the future where the very first domed city is raised up and populated by all types of people with their own morals and beliefs. As the first generation is passing away, the third generation is about to take control of the city, One girl 18 year old Mary longs to see the outside. To find her family and to expose the secrets behind the dome.

i am working on the plot and the characters right now. As of now i will be writing the story in letter form, mostly letter, and some diary entries from mary and at the end work in a few (maybe) from the outside.

Still coming up with ideas and sub plots.

great writing to you all and God Bless,
william

Hi! Barbara, nice to say hello to all!

i usually write Christian fic/romance, but I'm doing a sort of "It's A Wonderful Life" and "A Christmas Carol" type thing, it's been fermenting in my brain for a few years now

Someone gets their second chance through an angelic intervention, but they will be taken to the brink, so to speak :-)

Hi everybody! My name is Katheryn. I am also in the Pomona Valley region of California (Jen, I plan to attend the Pomona Valley Kick-Off in Upland -- as well as the LA Kick-Off in Pasadena :-D).

I am writing an alternate history -- a romantic political thriller set in a counterfactual 1953 Paris in which the American Revolution never happened, the French Revolution occurred in 1906 and the Great War took place from 1914 to 1942. (There was no Holocaust and no bombing of civilians.) I am in this forum not only because the FMC and her husband are devout Catholics (the FMC's husband decides to enter diaconate training during the course of the novel), but because the plot is set when the President of France signs a concordat with the Vatican after some 45 years of France being an officially secular and anticlerical state.

I hope my alternate history shows a 1950s in many aspects better than OTL 1950s, even though there is still a lot of casual anti-Semitism and racism. My FMC is kind to Jews because she believes kindness from Christians will make it easier for Jews to convert to Catholicism: "Christian love works wonders where pogroms only make hardened hearts", she thinks without realizing how condescending that seems to Jewish people.

Hi, I'm Charles aka Harold Thing. Since my cast list includes not only God but also the Holy Ghost (not least to give God someone to talk to) I thought I'd better case this forum & see if I fit in here or in LitFic.

My actual story (such as it is) is not religious or theological (have you read Gail Godwin - specifically "Father Melancholy's Daughter"? - Wow!) but I hope it will, in much the same way many of Salinger's stories do, have a kind of spiritual/uplifting subtext.

*finally realizes her novel could also fit into this genre, after posting in 3 other genre forums*

Hello all! I'm Riella. And for my *first year of NaNo* ( :D ) I'm writing a novel that apparently is trying to stick itself into as many genres as possible! including this one!

My book is a suspense/action laden LitFic involving characters who get kidnapped, escape fires, dodge murderers; all the while thinking about how they *feel* getting kidnapped, escaping fires, and dodging murderers. ;) (It sounds dumb, but it'll look much better on paper. Really.) And of course, most of the things they *feel* during those times leads to the questions that lead to religious issues. There's lots of "good people" who are Christians, "good people" who are atheists, "bad people" who are Christians, and "bad people" who are atheists. And of course, it's all about looking deeper and finding out why we are who we are, and what religion has to do with it all.

Fun. :D

*waves at Barb!*

I'm writing the impossible. Christian fiction about pirates. Italian pirates. Who are not Catholic. Which makes no sense. however, they can't be-- although one may sort of be still... or he may have been converted by a Huguenot pastor who was a pirate with them for a while. Not sure.

Basically, I somehow have to make sense out of all this nonsense.

*waves back at Chautona!*

non-Catholic Italians is a near impossibility for sure! ;-)

I'm Kae! I'm writing a novel purporting rock 'n' roll as not only a philosophy to live by, but also kind of a mystical quasi-religion. I suppose it's a crossover between a spiritual/new age and a young adult...

Hi, I'm Adam. I'm beginning a novel which does not , as of now, have a real title. I'm just calling it the "Dr. Skultz Story" for now. It is Christian fiction based on a simple premise: dealing with our own greed.

Wow! You all sound great and impress the socks off this first time NaNoWriMo'er.
My first offer is labled "mystery". I wanted to put in a category of "Religion mystery" like Amazon does but did not see that as an option. So being the first timer that I am, found out later that I could have put it in this category.
It is a mystery titled, "The Pastor's Daughter" which is a story about a pastor and his fifteen year old daughter who struggle with trust in friends, the church, each other, even God. A story of betrayal and reconciling past sins.

The story line is easy. Writing it is another. : - (