Alright, so I thought we could get to know a little more about our novels so that we can give each other specific encouragement when we meet for write-ins or chatrooms or what have you. So! I thought we could
I guess I will start
Working Title: Where Moths Consume
Genre: Realistic (non-magical) Fantasy w/ elements of divine (or not *giggle*) interference
Themes/Topics: Inner struggle, brotherly love, family conflicts, betrayal, exile, homosexuality, revolts, colonies (I think the latter two go hand in hand *wink*)
Synopsis: She stumbled.
The unsteady foot of a priestess is the sole determining factor for the future of illegitimate child, Ransohm Tekoa. He lives his semi-luxurious life in waiting, anticipating the time in which his foretold prophetic visions will come to fruition. His father is the newly installed king of the country of Forthe, a traitor's bargain in return for aiding their enemy nation lay claim of Ransohm's homeland territory.
But the Tekoa family's existence is a fragile one, threatened to be broken by a looming rebellion of the people whom they rule over. Ransohm's still dormant gift triggers rumors as a good omen for the villagers, who come to accept him as a source of confidence in their anticipated freedom from a treasonous throne. Is this what he was destined to do, or is his godsend more of a fallacy than anything else?
READ MY EXCERPT. It's short and fun and doesn't explain anything about my novel.
50,382 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2007 - 12 47
Working Title: Fairytale in Mauve
Genre: Comedy/Fantasy
Themes/Topics: Gods, Time lines, Historical error, Love, Paradox, Sex, Homosexuaity, Human nature, Friendship
Synopsis: When Tandem Kavanagh went to the New Year's party, he was expecting just another night of taking care of an alcoholic sister, dealing with an emotionally psychotic friend, and a bad hangover.
Well, at least he got one of those things.
When Time comes along demanding Tandem's help, how does he say no to a God? Especially one with Death as thier lover? Along with his only friend, Desdemona, and one of Time's numerous ex-lovers Aeneas - a greek man frozen for millenia for dumping the deity for another man, Tandem has to fix her mistakes and 'save the world'... or maybe just his own skin.
EXCERPT Finaly up!!!! Whooo!!! Mostly chose just because the last line is my favorite so far.
----------Steph -- Flagstaff Co-ML
24,487 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2007 - 14 40
Double post. Gomen. *pokes the site with a spork.*
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2006: Emryana, 58K, 48% completion
2007: Sayonara, Sanity! (working title)
24,487 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2007 - 14 37
Dude, you *had* to ask. XD
Title: Sayonara, Sanity! (A tribute to Genichiro Takahashi's Sayonara, Gangsters)
Genre: Fantasy, Comedy (Cometasy?)
Themes/Topics: What constitutes reality, dealing with pressure, sanity vs insanity, and hey, a few angel-like entities thrown in for good measure.
Synopsis:
When Joshua got off work at Arby's today, all he expected to do was to go home, eat pancakes, and watch T.V. Instead, in the middle of an alley, he finds two very odd people. The first is Spinach, a slightly insane, very geeky boy who had been rumaging in the garbage after a rare Japanese toy.
The second is Amaranth, a pink-haired, pink-winged angel-like entity from another universe, who happened to land directly on Joshua's head.
And, as if their presence in his life wasn't irritating enough, now the entire fabric of space-time is disintegrating, and it's up to Amaranth to fix it all.
Too bad she's too stupid to do it by herself.
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My except is up! Wow, I actually have an excerpt this year. I couldn't pick one last year. This year, though, it includes a description of Amaranth passed out on Joshua's couch, and Spinach makes a reference to the Doctor Dememto "Dungeons and Dragons" bit.
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2006: Emryana, 58K, 48% completion
2007: Sayonara, Sanity! (working title)
24,487 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2007 - 15 04
Squirrel on crack! YES. XDDDDD (read your excerpt, obviously.)
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2006: Emryana, 58K, 48% completion
2007: Sayonara, Sanity! (working title)
24,487 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2007 - 15 06
Your excerpt may not explain squat about your novel, but it's got purty imagery. <3
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2006: Emryana, 58K, 48% completion
2007: Sayonara, Sanity! (working title)
55,499 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2007 - 00 16
Okay, I'll play all the way from Tucson.
Title: Lana's Pack
Genre: Science Fiction
Themes: Loyalty, ethics in science, law versus ethics
Brief Synopsis: (Copied from another forum where I posted it before I began writing)
The prologue will open with Raymond Bittman, a U.S. Marshal, at a research facility off of Highway 50, east of Carson City, Nevada. He's trying to find out why his team has been ordered in to recover animals stolen from the facility by an upstart animal rights group. U.S. Marshals typically track down fugitives, not stolen property - even if that stolen property is living.
Meanwhile, the upstart but rather inexperienced animal rights folks' van has broken down near Lower Echo Lake, California, just south of Lake Tahoe. They release the animals and abandon the vehicle. Ray will learn this piece of information in a later chapter.
Lana Tovara is finishing a weekend hiking trip with her old friend and former roommate, Cece, in the Desolation Wilderness just west of Lake Tahoe. Back at the parking area, just after Cece has left for her home in Reno, Freki and Geri show up. Surprised that two such nice looking and obviously well-cared for dogs would be running loose, and unable to believe anyone would dump them, Lana calls to the two dogs to see if their owner contact is on their collars. This is when her life suddenly takes a very odd turn.
When Ray and his team arrive at the abandoned van, they find that most of the animals have stayed fairly close to it and are soon tracked down via the collars they wear. The two Malamutes, though, are nowhere to be found, and the director of the facility is particularly insistent that Ray and his team devote their full effort into finding and recovering the dogs. Resentful at wasting their efforts on a job he feels is better suited for Animal Control, or at most the FBI, Ray has nonetheless been with the department too long to risk his retirement arguing about it. While he has tracked down rapists, murderers, drug lords, embezzlers, kidnappers, con artists, and all manner of other criminals, the more he learns about his current targets, the more he realizes he's on the case of his life.
Excerpt: Over on my Profile page: http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user%252F139727
----------"We do not quit playing because we grow old; we grow old because we quit playing."
2006 - The Daedalus Child - Winner.
2007 - Lana's Pack - Winner.
75,022 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2007 - 10 40
I would read this immediately! Hoomi, you're amazing!
----------Art | Blog
51,372 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2007 - 14 14
Joined: Nov 1, 2006
Location: Flagstaff, AZ
Posts: 2
Posted on:
Nov 7, 2007 - 14 11 So the title is something like Teton Ice Cave Ghost Cloud. This is the third book in a young adult fantasy series set in very real national parks.
Themes include the physics of magic (& magic in physics), nature, adoption, loneliness, friendship, outdoor adventure, conservation, and hopefully enough humor to keep it going. It is also my goal to portray 'bad' guys who do 'bad' things but are not EVIL. Hopefully I'm avoiding the whole cosmic good v. evil thing.
Synopsis-- I'm not sure yet. The novel opens with a good guy turned bad climbing the Grand Teton in the middle of the cold November moonlit night for an undisclosed reason which includes snowboarding from the summit on a magically aided board. He meets a shadowy stranger who sets him on a strange traverse to encounter an enourmous grizzly high on the mountain. A strange cloud covers the mountain and the climber stumbles away from the bear and falls to his death. The scene then cuts to a trailerhome where the old "bird lady" runs a foster home for poor but uniquely gifted boys. They return to a conservation charter school run by a magical shaman of unknown origins. After strange events they're off to Wyoming for adventures in an ice cave and escapes from the spirit cloud that inhabits it. There will be a stunning climax at the top of the mountain and good will triumph but EVIL might not turn out to be quite so evil-- more like lazy with a little sleeziness around the edges.
There is an excerpt on my user page.
Here we go again!
Mike
22,154 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2007 - 22 10
Okay, here goes:
Working title: A Sparrow Falls
Genre: Fantasy, taking place in a world where I don't bother to convert out of English (I have yards, pounds, feet, ounces, etc) though it is nothing like our world except that people are people no matter where they live. No Elves! No Dragons!
Themes/Topics: Redemption, sacrifice, love, family. Basic trope would be: World in danger, heroine must act to save the world, learns life lessons along the way.
Synopsis: Destructive immortal who can manipulate matter wishes to destroy the world and recreate it in his own way. His family, also immortal, must find a way to stop him. His sister, who can manipulate time as easily as he manipulates matter, provides the key element needed to prevent him from this destruction, and in the doing, loses all she loves, only to gain a greater love. (I hope that makes sense)
The exerpt is on my profile page.
55,499 / 50,000
Nov 9, 2007 - 08 51
The Word Count Widgets are back! w00t!
----------"We do not quit playing because we grow old; we grow old because we quit playing."
2006 - The Daedalus Child - Winner.
2007 - Lana's Pack - Winner.
75,022 / 50,000
Nov 9, 2007 - 14 50
Hoorah! *dance*
----------Art | Blog
55,499 / 50,000
Nov 11, 2007 - 06 58
The Flagstaff forum is pretty quiet. I hope that means everyone is having a grand time writing their novels and hence doesn't have time for forum browsing!
I'm stuck at work today, providing "Maytag Repairman" coverage in case something breaks here. They asked for 8 hours, though I'll check close to noon and see if anyone is staying for more than 6. If things stay as quiet as they are so far, I should get a lot done on my story, and contribute a decent amount to the Tucson - Phoenix Word War this weekend.
----------"We do not quit playing because we grow old; we grow old because we quit playing."
2006 - The Daedalus Child - Winner.
2007 - Lana's Pack - Winner.
50,030 / 50,000
Nov 11, 2007 - 12 47
My novel is... pretty intense, I've been mostly writing descriptions, this year's novel has no plot like mine last year did, because when I started with a plot preplanned, I finished my plot in about 20,000 words.
This year, my plot is working itself out while my characters explain the worlds they come from, and why they do the things they do, etc. It was about 6 or 7 thousand words while I explained how my germophobic character became so.
So I'm at about 22,000 words right now, and I'm not entirely certain where my plot is going, but when I start editing, I'm going ot have a whole lot of crap I'll be able to cut out, or at the very least, I'll have the world really well-defined to use for next year's nanowrimo.
50,382 / 50,000
Nov 11, 2007 - 14 52
My novel is... begining to fail me. *sigh* I went along at full speed ahead until I hit 15k, where I finally introduced the guy who is my absolute favorite character... and now i don't know what I'm doing anymore!
Haha, I knew I should have actually tried to write out a plot this year, but I just kinda went with it. I haven't fallen behind yet, but I'm not on my 2k a day plan anymore, which is bad because I know I have to take off two days this weekend to go visit my dad and that plan was going to put me far enough ahead not to be behind after doing that.
So... catch up weekend, everyone!! Seriously, this is what weekends are for in Nano land. I fully intend to be insane this weekend and not sleep. Also, word wars at monday's write in, anyone? Those things are saviors. I'm hoping we'll get a good turn out again, yes yes?
----------Steph -- Flagstaff Co-ML
55,499 / 50,000
Nov 13, 2007 - 13 05
Hey gang... if you need something to point south and laugh about, check this out...
http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/1061663
The results of the Tucson - Phoenix Word War...
----------"We do not quit playing because we grow old; we grow old because we quit playing."
2006 - The Daedalus Child - Winner.
2007 - Lana's Pack - Winner.
50,382 / 50,000
Nov 14, 2007 - 21 00
Whooo... almost to the half way point guys! No giving up now!!!
Also, shameless plug for my new excerpt over on my author's page =D http://www.nanowrimo.org/user/83506
----------Steph -- Flagstaff Co-ML
