What's It About?

I decided to write a multiple-choice-endings fantasy book! The main characters are all good looking young faery princes. If it's any good when I finish, I'll use the book as a script and make it into a graphic novel. (Then I'll become a snazillionaire when I sell it to legions of Japanese schoolgirls.)

Genocide.

Okay, so maybe that was a little blunt. But that's basically the backdrop. I've got these two different peoples living in the same country who have been fighting for a long time over things they can't remember, and the current king decides he's sick of the other group and decides to get rid of them. The story will mostly center on his son and the woman from the other group he captures, though. And I know I'm going to kill one of them, but I'm not sure which one yet.

It's a little (okay, a lot) darker than what I usually write, but I felt like a challenge.

BASEBALL!!! IN SPACE!!!

Somewhat fictionalized autobiography of the last year of my life... break up of my marriage.. done entirely in dialogue...

My novel is an adventure/horror story about a girl who's brother has been murdering people, and her struggle to stop him.
xD I have a LOT more planned than that, and though it may not sound very original . . . trust me, once it's actually written, it won't be difficult to tell if someone rips off my ideas xD
I like gorey writing, so . . . yeh. I would say more, but it would ruin the surprise >D

I'm intending on writing a steampunk variant, likely set in the 1890s involving a Lady agent of the British Empire paired up with an investigator as they attempt to stop a man using strange and radically advanced 'pure science' to invade the technomagically advanced United Kingdoms.

I actually hope it's more interesting than it sounds. I've got characters, I've got basic plots, and now I have 32 books checked out from Bellingham's public library on the Victorian Age. Here's hoping I can make this not suck.

It's the Pacific Northwest in the 1870s. A French savateur is traveling to Seattle, and becomes caught in a battle between gold miners, railroad barons, and ranchers for control of the town. But then things turn weird when a UFO lands, and an alien invasion ensues.

I'm trying a pure fantasy this year called "Tales from Dungheap Fortress" about a fortress that is supposed to protect the human lands but is such a laughingstock for the orcs/elves/whatever that they are actually piling mounds of feces up against the walls, thus the derogatory nickname. The plot will be about a tough-as-nails commander who is sent in to clean it up (literally) just as a major magical event happens.

VAMPIRES!! WITH!! GUNS!!

Well, actually, that's just a small part of it.

It's high fantasy, in the ginormous world I've created. Book 5 in a six book arc.

According to the Prophets and holy books of the Genarchy, every now and then a Day of Trials takes place. The Holy Father allows Ishierdi (roughly, the devil) to ride forth with his consort Strife and cause chaos. Sort of like Noah's flood, but with less death and more violence. To give humanity a chance, the Father sends the Hand and the Feet of the Prophet, a guy and a gal who get to defend humanity.

That's the framework of belief most of the main characters are operating under. Unfortunately, there's more than one Ishierdi-- one of whom reluctantly accepted the role, but he's hiding in a jungle and doesn't know everyone's waiting for him. The other one wants nothing but to be a real little boy. :-P The woman everyone thinks is Strife says she's the Feet, and the Hand has his doubts about the god he's working for, or at least the priests who tell him what to do.

For a decade, the Council of Purity has worked to rid the Genarchy of necromancers and the minions of vampires, and hopefully prevent a Day of Trials. Horaci has been named the Hand of the Prophet, but the Purges he has been ordered to assist have taken from him his wife, his sister, and many of his closest friends -- all good people, he believed.

Across the sea, where many necromancers have fled for their lives, the Eoca Empress -- the vampiric leader of a huge, powerful and mysterious empire-- is planning on invading the Genarchy and eliminating the threat she believes they present. (Genarchy wants to kill vampires, her land's kinda full of them. They're very nice as long as you don't mind being forced to bathe).

In order to make this go smoothly, the Empress inserts herself into the Genarchal belief system, and declares that her general, the Princess En Li, is the Feet of the Prophet, destined to protect the Genarchy from themselves. The Day of Trials is upon us, En Li says. No one actually knows where Ishierdi is... but that's a minor point. He's in the hearts and minds of the entire Genarchy!!

Zombie horses, ships of madmen, fireball-throwing trannies! All this and more in... The War of Trials.

-Lisa C

I knew I could count on you to come up with something brilliant! I love it already.

Leave it to you to have a summary ten times longer than everybody else's. ;)

My thoughts exactly— though, it sounds fun.

Me, I'm not sure. It's not so much a lack of plots as an overabundance. I just need to pick one and PLAN. Because I'm lazy, if you want to see the options I'm debating, copied from another thread. Feel free to give opinions. I'm a Gemini and can't decide ANYTHING.

1. Set in 18th century Poland, based on the possibly historical, possibly legendary figure of Count Valentine Potocki, who, the story goes, was a nobleman who converted to Judaism and was burned at the stake for it. He also had connections with the famous rabbi, the Vilna Gaon, so I thought it would be amusing to have him meet the Baal Shem Tov (he and the Gaon had a rivalry). This is a good candidate for NaNo because I don't feel very invested in it, or rather, not as something I'd want to get published, so if/when it turns crap I wouldn't be heartbroken.

2. Loosely based on a folk song called "Lowlands of Holland." The MC is a young Scottish newlywed whose husband is impressed into the British navy and is sent to Holland during the Anglo-Dutch war of 1665-67 (I forget which one it is, second or third?). When his ship is lost at sea, her father forces her to marry a man who is well-off, but has some sort of physical deformity (am thinking cleft lip, but not sure). Then she receives word that her husband did survive; she hurries off to Holland to meet him. When she gets there she finds either that whoever sent the message was wrong, or he has since vanished without a trace. Somehow she gets caught up in political intrigue and is arrested on suspicion of being a spy. The ending needs more planning, but I have vague notions of the second husband coming to help her and/or her old hubby appearing on the scene and showing himself to be less than ideal.

3. Murder mystery set in modern-day Burma/Myanmar, with the "detective" a Buddhist monk; the murdered person is one of his fellow monks. The social unrest there would tie in closely with it. (Very vague. Has a title though!)

4. A group of young yeshiva students (i.e., Hasidim probably, or Orthodox Jews) travels from NYC to Seattle on a Greyhound. Three very long days, including one spent with a college girls' soccer team. Lots of dares will be used. You might notice this one has very little plot— it would be entirely made up of conversations and as dialog is a strong point of mine, there's a certain attraction in that.

5. Heaven is a la Tony Kushner, urban decay, very film noir. Which leads us to the plot. Basically, hardboiled angelic detective fiction. I have no plan whatsoever, but with the bonus that it wouldn't need much research. (as opposed to the historical pieces)

It's Lit. Fic. about a lie and the impact it has on a community.

I am pro -1 and 5.

My vote is for #4. I love that kind of story.

#2 and #5!

I changed my mind--somehow I missed #4 when I was first reading it.

I'm putting my vote with Hannah's.

Well I don't really know what it's about yet, but there are three Queens, three Princesses, three ladies-in-waiting and one sorcerous.
It's set in a medieval fantasy place, and one of the princesses is blind. I think it'll be interesting.

7 women in one palace with nothing to do but bitch and backstab.. hope you like writing lots and lots of dialog!

(ducks and runs for cover)

I am tossing around this idea involving Irish mobsters, a snuff film, and ghosts.

I figure when i can't look at that anymore, I'll screw around with my World of Warcraft fic.

I have no idea what I'm going to write, I figure I'll have another week and a half to decide, but my computer is chafing at the bit and wants a running start....

(Heck, I don't know why she's fretting. I just finished an 80,000 word novel on her earlier this week.)

What kind of book was the 80K one?

Anthropomorphic crows.

I'm actually going to finish the second half of the novel I started last year which is a supernatural mystery involving a necromancer, a dead thief and an exile from Faerie. :)

Hmmm...it's hard to describe....about the spiritual journey that can come from extreme trauma.

Starts off in the convent. May or may not end there. Only have about the 1st third of it outlined.

Dark modern world, urban decay, war between angels and demons with a secret society fighting to keep things in one piece.

5 friends whose other friends is pregnant and a fugitive alien has taken over the fetus (unbeknownst to them) to regenerate while a massive armada of alien ships is flying to earth to attack the planet and get the fugitive back. From taking care of their friend and spending time around the fugitive alien the five friends develop low-scale manipulative powers that only work when they're apathetic.

What a wonderfully diverse group of topics!

I'm new to Bellingham, and thrilled to a member of the *best* regional group :)

Mine's about the desert, and sisters.

~B

Hmm. It's about life, doing what you actually want to do, conformity, Converse All Stars (can you tell I'm from Bellingham?), philosophy, learning, england, and the end of the world. I don't actually, as such, have a plot yet. But I'm not about to let that stop me.

The Thuggee Cult and adventures therein, set in the Modern Era.