So what is everyone planning on writing...
Genre: Fantasy/Modern Fairy Tale
Working Title: Enchanted Beauty in the Suburbs
Blurb:
leeping Beauty is real.. and in todays world she's still sleeping
Four fairies have been set to guard Sleeping Beauty and her castle, hiding it from the evil fairy and to find the 'prince.' The prince has been reborn several times throughout history and has failed due to the evil fairy's meddling. The 'prince' is now found amongst a group of three, two boys and a girl. They aren't sure which (and it can be the girl, i haven't decided) is destined to be Sleeping Beauty's true love with the power to wake her up and defeat the evil fairy's spell. They've hidden the palace in the perfect place, a rich district in the suburbs of an American suburb.
Once Sleeping Beauty is awaken, the three are cursed to forget which of them did it. And all will fade unless the matter is resolved.
And can Sleeping Beauty fit into todays world??
BTW you know other people can start threads... I'm just a nobody too..
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NaNoWriMo Participant 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Winner 2005, 2006, 2007
Script Frenzy Participant 2007, 2008 Winner 2007, 2008
53,614 / 50,000
Oct 4, 2007 - 18 32
no real plot yet... just characters! but thanks for the push...
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If I'm a two-time novelist, does that mean I've cheated on my first novel?
11,042 / 50,000
Oct 10, 2007 - 04 20
No plot or characters. Yet. They generally wait for me to dig them out after 12:01 a.m., November 1st. :/
50,463 / 50,000
Oct 10, 2007 - 10 37
"That's the innocence your tasting!" - Sandy Bratzel
Genre: Mystery
Working Title:...um...not a clue (that's not the title...I just don't have a clue)
Blurb: A weekend at a sci/fi convention goes horribly wrong when a body is discovered amongst the Guests of Honor!
Investigative journalist MC (she's from my first nano novel and I have to refind her name), is there to help find the killer.
She comes across, geeks in the corridors, snakes in the consuite, bad filking and a plethory or ...interesting folks all with workable motives!
The twist is that the snake did it to keep warm and many other crimes were discovered in the mean time.
I have also thought about making it one of those weekend parties at someones house where someone is killed.
This will be in the same style as my first nano novel which used a quote for each chapter and somewhere in that chapter the quote must be dealt with. The quotes are all ones I've overheard or been given to me. For instance: If I'd known it was my wedding, I would have worn a fancier dress!
Cheers Tiff
----------p.s. I have started some others...and your not a nobody, your a nanobody!
ML - Detroit
159,118 / 50,000
Oct 11, 2007 - 19 18
I was just working on a one-paragraph summary this afternoon, doing the whole Snowflake thing. It needs a bit of work, I think, because I'm going for the sort of sprawling, overly ambitious story that's surely going to blow up in my face. And leave me rocking in the corner, huddled under a blanket, muttering my wordcount under my breath, I'm sure. But, ugh, I need this story out of my head so I can fit some others in there.
Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Working Title: The Ant Queen and the Wolf
The grand prize of hegemony, and with it, control of the world, is - at long last - within reach. Consolidation, the crush of historical forces and technological advancement, has left few claimants standing. The crafty and scheming Empress, now settling uncomfortably into the autumn of her years and struggling with the question of succession, rules a collective of nations and races stitched together from the southern deeps. While the mysterious and brooding woman known as the Wolf has grabbed the reigns of power in the northern lands her family calls their own even as she tries to groom her petulant daughter as her heir. Childhood friends, they find themselves on opposing sides, rushing towards a final conflict. An uncertain future rests on which side of an uneasy balance will remain. Will the ever bustling hive of the Empire's industry swarm over yet another obstacle or can the Wolf bring the most dangerous prey of all crashing to the ground? What is certain is that, if it comes to fighting, only one will survive while the other passes into the pages of history. Now, a war-weary people and a battle-scarred land will find itself the unexpected battlefield for the inevitable showdown. And it's anyone's guess just what the outcome will be. Because the greatest game has matched its finest players against one another. And they might just have thrown the rulebook away and started to play for their own stakes.
50,016 / 50,000
Oct 12, 2007 - 12 52
I had no clue what to write; I've written a good number of short stories so I was thinking, 'Are there any I'd like to expand on?' When my thought came back as, 'meh... not really.' I decided to write a prequel to a novel I'm working on. So that's what I decided to do. =]
50,017 / 50,000
Oct 13, 2007 - 18 02
I am very scared now.
I just sat down and banged out two pages of notes-- characters, plot points, scenes, etc. It looks like this idea that I have had since before last NaNo (it almost was last year's NaNo) might actually get written.
Of course, everytime I write down notes like this I end up changing my mind the last week of October!
So, for right now:
Working Title: Practical FX
The story focuses on a small group of people who set up and run a haunted attraction.
Things go horribly wrong.
The location is generic mid-west, so I can throw in some "city guy who does not understand small town people" and a dose of "Bible thumpers who are not happy with the whole Satan thing." There will be questions regarding the owner (very mysterious -- does he have some real supernatural connections or is he just a cook with a lot of money?), the location (are any of the old rumors true or are they urban legends?), and a healthy dose of new romance (between two of the main characters with the possibility of a jealous ex/triangle thing).
The other thing that scares me is that this has the potential for the lowest body count of any NaNo to date!
I have been accused of having body counts which rival my word counts.
So, that is what I have banging around in my head right now. We will have to see what I actually write 1 Nov.
M~
----------Build a man a fire and he will be warm for the night. Set a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life.
37,500 / 50,000
Oct 13, 2007 - 22 34
Genre: Young Adult
Title (for now):Fifty Stories to Tell at my Funeral
Characters:Kira, Caleb, Elias <12 at beginning of story, get older, 14,15 by the end
Plot: Kira's best friend dies in car accident, Kira determined to make life meaningful. With Elias and Caleb (I'm not sure if his name will end up actually being Caleb. He's a lot like Edward from Twilight), they do tons of crazy things, at least one of which will involve them getting locked in Ikea all night long. Heh. Along the way they learn meaningful lessons or something.
Notice the lack of climax? Yeah, me too. Don't really know what to do about that, but I'm sure it'll figure itself out eventually.
----------~Zorka~
New Goal: Replace every copy+paste with real story.
Fifty Stories to Tell at my Funeral 50,489/50,000
50,735 / 50,000
Oct 14, 2007 - 09 56
Okay, here goes... I had planned to write a novel about just who decided the 21st century started in 2000, but then an offhand comment on an e-mail list sent me off in a different direction.
Genre: Satire
Working Title: Grand Theft Cambridge
Blurb: During the dot-com boom of the 1990s, new companies using the Internet to get big fast were followed by companies that did just enough to go through the motions of success. Carter Hayes and his handpicked MBA buddies at E-Style have a foolproof business plan: do a little work to make their software "shopping assistant" real enough to get noticed by big retailers, then ride their stock options to riches when some big, old-line company opens its wallet. What they don't realize is that all the other E-Stylers have their own extra plans, from Suresh and Ganesh, their tame MIT engineers, to Leticia, the admin who takes a lot of notes, to financial angel Silvio, who runs his venture capital business out of a strip club.
Okay, I admit this is cribbed somewhat from The Producers, MIcroserfs and all of those "new ways of doing business" books from the era that turned out to be completely wrong. But, hey, anything I can dream up won't be nearly as bizarre as stuff that actually happened.
11,042 / 50,000
Oct 15, 2007 - 15 48
The other thing that scares me is that this has the potential for the lowest body count of any NaNo to date!
I have been accused of having body counts which rival my word counts.
Dude, you are a creating a murder factory into which hundreds--maybe thousands--of hapless victims will pay to enter... your writer mind continues to have big plans for body count! ;)
461 / 50,000
Oct 16, 2007 - 04 47
This is my first NaNoWriMo. And in fact, I only just started writing about a month ago. I figured I would give it a shot, and what better way to practice then to tackle 50000 words.
Genre: Mystery/Suspense/Memoir.
Title: Unknown?
Basic ideas:
----------George is a banker, who tells the story looking down the barrel of a gun held by a bank robber. His whole life has been turned upside down in the past year, and this is the icing on the cake. His whole life, his best friend has been there with him. Things go awry, his friend pins his drug business on George, sleeps with George's wife(of 21 years, and has been sleeping with her for 15 years), etcetera, etcetera. In other words, the etc - I don't know what else will happen.
The twist? The bank robber is actually the best friend who isn't there to rob a bank, but to kill George.
And I think I might kill George in the end of the book.
Haha.
mymusic on myspace
my writing on blogspot
25,889 / 50,000
Oct 16, 2007 - 05 47
Hey wow...it's October! I guess I'd better start thinking about the plot...
Namaste,
----------Carole
2005 Winner: "Inching Toward the Purple Hat"
"We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little." -- Anne Lamott
50,017 / 50,000
Oct 16, 2007 - 06 14
Only a handful of people died last year! And don't forget Thursday Welles, a character who started out as fodder and ended up living (and setting up a potential sequel!)
Of course, a lot of people STARTED the book already dead. I guess last year's count wasn't all that low, if you count the zombies.
----------Build a man a fire and he will be warm for the night. Set a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life.
50,040 / 50,000
Oct 16, 2007 - 08 35
Welcome back, Carole! Good to see you!
----------__________________________Vicki___
finding what it means to be the girl who
changed her mind and changed the world
51,389 / 50,000
Oct 18, 2007 - 03 53
I am new at this, but I have been writing for quite some time.
I listed mine under "Other" since there wasn't a catagory for speculative fictin, which it is, but it is neither sci-fi or fantasy.
It takes place in a place not unlike our earth but no magic.
Working titel for now Sirocco (it is simply the name of the mc)
Returning from war a young (mid twenties) prince finds that his grandfather has overturned the rules of succession and named one of his many bastard sons as heir. When the newly named heir is murdered Sirocco tries to locate the killer as well as keep peace among his many uncles and cousins as everyone now strives to attain the throne.
He is aided by a female mercenary that joined his command during the war but she has secrets of her own and a private agenda.
51,020 / 50,000
Oct 18, 2007 - 06 52
Still deciding on some plot points, but here are the basics:
Genre: romantic suspense
Title: Jackknifed
Story: Hero Jackson has a cable TV show, he's a minor hit, big enough to have gained a stalker. After his co-host, a pretty blonde model, dies, probably by the stalker, police decide he needs protection. Since his co-host died, they get him a new co-host: Alicia, ex cop on disability after a horrible job-related injury, who is not a model and has stagefright.
So far, that's all I've got.
0 / 50,000
Oct 19, 2007 - 21 54
Unlike last year, where I knew I wanted to write a Literary Fiction novel about a man who meets his father for the first time, this year's plot has been changing almost daily. One of my ideas really needs a lot of plot planning and character development, so I think I'll save that one for next year, as I don't have the time to plan for it this year.
As of tonight I'm leaning toward the following:
A group of surreal scenes, with each chapter being influenced by one particular song. Some of the scenes are connected - including at least one grouping by album, and one random grouping. But the connected scenes aren't located sequentially adjacent to each other in the timeline of the book. Because this is how my m/c layed out the playlist that he was listening to when he fell asleep and started was dream.
There are going to be some zombies in my book, but it's not going to be a zombie book. I'm going to have a multichapter section where my m/c, and three characters that are modern versions of Dorothy's friends from "The Wizard of Oz", deal with the themes of the songs of the Pink Floyd classic "The Dark Side Of The Moon." And lots of other random bits of goodness.
50,030 / 50,000
Oct 20, 2007 - 09 27
I'm new here. I've decided that I'm not going to let my plot bunnies fight anymore. I'm just going to write!
Genre: Fantasy
Working Title: Third Rite
Blurb: There are three rites to become a village leader. First, the Run. Second, the Fight. Third, the Kill. Kill a dragon. Thus, their extinction is drawing near. Amiri Hadden follows one to its lair in order to kill it. Once there, he seeks to kill it and finally become the village leader! His task is interrupted the Speaker obsessed with protecting them. She shows him that dragons are not that different from people. Can Amiri and the Speaker stop the Third Rite and prevent dragons from going extinct?
----------2007: Flight and Fire
25,889 / 50,000
Oct 21, 2007 - 06 40
Hey there! How are you, hon?
Namaste,
----------Carole
2005 Winner: "Inching Toward the Purple Hat"
"We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little." -- Anne Lamott
10,095 / 50,000
Oct 21, 2007 - 08 25
Oh, mine doesn't have a title yet! I tried to think of one, but nothing good has come to mind!
Genre: Sci-Fi (it's about a futuristic society- think "teen Farenheit 451")
Summary (kinda): It's about a futuristic society. This story goes between 2 main characters (Marcia Reed and Bobby Adelle, which I later noticed were also from the Brady Bunch- oops!). To Marcia, life is perfect, like everyone else, she was assigned a clique. She's Popular, the highest ranking cligue there is. She has everything she could ever want. Everyone loves her. Bobby Adelle is quite the opposite. He opposes new technology and their society as a whole. He's a Dreamer, the worst class of people possible. His own classmates push him down the stairs and burn his personal belongings because of his assigned title. Bobby wants to change the world. Marcia wants nothing to do with Bobby or his "conspiracy theories". But somehow, she finds herself helping Bobby on his quest to overthrow their leader.
Yeah, okay, so I'm not quite sure of the plot yet, so my summary sucks at the moment. That's a very general outline. I didn't mean to pick names from the Brady Bunch either, I had the names first. Then, I was jsut sitting around my hosue and it struck me. But I was too attached to the names at that point to give them up!
0 / 50,000
Oct 21, 2007 - 22 18
Genre: Comedy
Working Title: Mother, Wife, Daughter, Sister, Aunt...Are there any other job titles involved?
A tale in the life of one woman and the steps she takes to do it all and all the "fun" she has on her way.
More to come... :)
50,030 / 50,000
Oct 22, 2007 - 18 24
Edit: Plot change to something oddly more simple. The extinction of dragons from the dragon's point of view.
----------2007: Flight and Fire
50,189 / 50,000
Oct 22, 2007 - 19 02
Working Title: Keep of the Phoenix
Genre: Adventure (possible sci-fi influence)
A small town in the future is scraping along, many years past a cataclysmic event that decimated the earth. Following his mother's death from an illness that could easily have been cured in the past, a man gathers a group of locals together to go in search of a secret military base that is rumored to have existed. They don't know what they'll find, but decide that they can no longer try to survive in isolation. But they aren't the only ones looking for it, and it becomes a race to see who can find it first, and what they'll find once they arrive.
This is actually a REALLY old plot idea of mine (almost 20 years old), so I'm hoping that I'm not too attached to it to be able to give it a fair shake. On the plus side, 20 years worth of pondering should give me plenty of ideas to work with! :)
2,051 / 50,000
Oct 31, 2007 - 21 26
Hello Detroiters...
I am new to this event...however I have been writing for a while...I have a couple Ideas drifting around my head one I have been pondering for a few months that may prove quite useful as it seems you let me know if it is worth writing on....
Genre: Mystery, thriller, suspense
Title: Extreme Insanity...
First Paragraphs.....
She walked down the muddy river bed with only the reminisce of the last tune she heard in her head. Her hair glistened like the stars flickering in the moonlight. While streams of water spilled down her rosy cheeks. Her name… Becky… Vera… Rosalie… Any name really. For her birth name she despised… Elizabeth. She heard the searing…sounds of hell…every time she heard it the echo became louder. The dark red color covered her eyes like a blanket. Only engraving the name further into her mind; the cent of smoke filled her nose and heightened her anger.
1,094 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2007 - 14 27
I'm new to this too, though I've been keeping an eye on NaNo for the last few years.
Anyway, I'm somewhat undecided to the genre but my plot's focusing on a travel blogger whose site is all made up, and what happens when she meets a fan, who is under the impression that it's all real.
20,305 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2007 - 06 57
I am writing a mystery.
Blurb:
Detroit PI Joe Hooks is hired by a Hollywood actress to pick up a package from a billionaire's home. When Joe arrived, he found the billionaire tortured and dying. Before the man died, he said, "Little... Lost... Doll..." Soon afterward, Joe is being chased by several individuals for the package. To save himself, Joe is forced to discover the secret of the package and the billionaire's final words.
8,618 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2007 - 08 39
Title:?????
Genre: mystery
3 kids are being chased thru the forest but why? And who is chasing them? One of them may know EXACTLY who and why they are being chased? One is the reason for the chase and the other is just in the wrong place at the wrong time. But what will happen to the 3? Will they all live??? maybe not?? Will they get hurt? Will they get caught? Will the one who knows what is going tell? And will the reason for the chase end happy...well that is yet to be determined.
But there sure will be some unanswered questions and you will keep guessing.
2,881 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2007 - 10 12
Genre: Modern Fairy Tale
Working Title: None
I am doing a mixed up modern fairy tale. Several fairy tales mixed together in the modern world that is. Sadly, I haven't started yet.
4,152 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2007 - 11 21
Working Title: None
I am doing a mixed up modern fairy tale. Several fairy tales mixed together in the modern world that is. Sadly, I haven't started yet.
Starting is always hardest. I perosnally write the ending first or start in the middle. Regardless, good luck!
50,493 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2007 - 09 41
More than a week into this year's NaNo, I have decided to write a novel that exemplifies the difficulty I've had in doing so. Basically, I have a prelude that outlines the amazing novel I plan to write and, a few chapters later when I run out of steam, I add an interlude about how this always happens to me and perhaps I need to choose a more interesting setting, a more intriguing set of characters, a different point of view, etc. Then I start writing a different story until that one fizzles and dies, then the cycle begins again. So far, I'm on my second "short story" (if you want to call it that) and it's working out pretty well. I don't have a title yet, but so far the genre is romance, though that may change as the story does.