The title pretty much says it all. :-)
I'm going for a kind of thriller --> horror kind of thing this year. Last year was straight horror, the year before that straight thriller, so this time I'm going for a combination of the two.
It's going to start off with a hold-up in a restaurant going horribly wrong, some people getting hurt, some people being taken hostage. Eventually one of the hostages will offer to get those remaining out of the situation, if they'll agree to pay her price. The remainder of the story will be about them trying to cope with the consequences of their decisions.
I'm looking forward to it. :-)
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Lottie
I'll sleep when I'm dead.
38,000 / 50,000
Oct 11, 2009 - 04 06
Sounds really intruiging, cant wait to hear how it pans out, im already thinking 'whats she gonna do?' and 'What consequences?' you have me hooked!
20,472 / 50,000
Oct 11, 2009 - 05 31
Last year I did a diary of an ancient Greek girl from a wealthy Athenian family. But there wasn't a huge scope for conflict since she stayed indoors all the time.
This time I'm doing another diary, but setting it in a poorer family in a less well-off area of the city, and I'm already getting the "nasty" characters set out in my head so I know who I don't want to be nice to XD
----------Remember, you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friend’s nose.
2,585 / 50,000
Oct 11, 2009 - 06 11
Sounds interesting, if slightly heavy.
This year, I'm doing an unofficial NaNo - I'm actually editing NaNovel '08. I wasn't planning on doing anything at all, but being here got me all excited again. I really don't have time write another novel this year, but I thought I'd kill two birds with one stone - do something to be involved and editing DANTON.
DANTON was intended as a sci-fi character study of a dystopian future, involving alien governments and humans on the run. However, I threw everything at the pages, much like pasta at a wall, and got a 90k word long mess for my efforts.
It's like a new diamond mine: my exploration of character in a world I created is there somewhere, but it's also surrounded by all the mud and other minerals. Some of those might also be precious, but I've got to work on getting rid of the mud and then separating the opals, the gold and the elusive diamond...
----------34,554 / 50,000
Oct 11, 2009 - 08 39
Well, this year I've embarked on a politics degree, so I've got to try and convince myself that NaNo isn't detracting from my studies. So my novel is going to be political.
I'll be taking one of the worlds briefly visited in my last novel and looking at the shortcomings of a Market Anarchy. Every time I'm struggling for words, my characters will stop what they're doing and debate what they should replace it with.
Other intended elements include laser guns, robots, smog and, oh yeah, this one's the world which had the flying tank. Definitely getting a few more of those in here :)
----------"The greatest gift bestowed on a human is not beauty, intelligence or wealth. It's the ability to make a story live."
- Jeremy Clarkson
"If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it."
- Albert Einstein
50,105 / 50,000
Oct 11, 2009 - 10 30
I finally decied what I am going to write.
A man must make a decison for his country. Stay under the thumb on ta ruling crountry or break off and start a new country. His decision could kill his family and destroy his life.
Who knows I might throw in some NaNo Ninjas and a pink elephant that will save the day. (Ha! Ha!)
----------Take care,
Snarfgirl2007
Bad decisions make good stories.
43,681 / 50,000
Oct 12, 2009 - 00 33
I'm going to stick with the world I created last year, (a forgotten colony world, roughly equivalent to about 1900 on Earth) because it still has some mileage.
Key words : seances, pirates and kidnapping. Also, after Elyoda had been playing around with an ideas generator thingie, a secret society of ninja nuns, and also druid smuggling. (Maybe not literally included but they have sparked ideas.)
27,072 / 50,000
Oct 12, 2009 - 05 42
Which was here on the ScriptFrenzy website for anyone else who wants to enjoy the hilarious effects; it was a constant source of amusement for me as I took part.
As for what I'm writing, well I listed six ideas in my introduction - a decision is yet to be made!
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2004: Merging of Worlds: The Rising Darkness (32K)
2005: 8-I (51K)
2006: Dreamweaver (53K)
2007: Timeshift (51K)
2008: 8-I: Second Iteration (53K)
2009: Emissaries (??)
18,383 / 50,000
Oct 12, 2009 - 05 52
Owen Flint, book 5: Hate to Say I Told You So
It’s a bit spy-fi, a bit fantasy, a bit steampunk, a bit alt-history. There’s magic that behaves like radioactivity. There’s dragons. There’s weird technology. There’s government agents and gangsters and murderers. But above all, there’s a group of drunk students trying to save the world!
It’s a 1950s/60s comedy thriller adventure series set in Cambridge and other selected locations - one of which, this time, will be Yorkshire. :)
----------2005: The Last Wish of Owen Flint
2006: Insomnia and Other Ways to Die
2007: The Ipswich File
2008: Rain is Expected Tonight in London
2009: Hate to Say I Told You So
5,155 / 50,000
Oct 12, 2009 - 13 31
Romance! And it will be, in the words of Draco Malfoy (and pretty much everybody else) in 'A Very Potter Musical,' TOTALLY AWESOME.
I have nothing concrete other than how totally awesome it will be, but I'm kicking around an oldish idea of mine involving a cupcake shop in Georgetown run by Our Heroine, who is an awesome baker and half-Hispanic but will hopefully not be named Maria (because that's just too easy). Our Hero may be an uptight corporate suit (CEO? They always are in trashy romances, because alpha males don't settle for anything less) who doesn't believe in the all-conquering restorative powers of portable baked sugary goodness. Hilarity and sexy tiems ensue.
Also, everyone else's ideas are more TOTALLY AWESOME than mine, because I don't even have a title yet. I know, cry moar.
50,406 / 50,000
Oct 12, 2009 - 23 52
I hereby challenge you - because someone has to - to include, as naturalistically as possible, the line: "These aren't the druids you're looking for."
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a small nation in possession of a great Empire must be in want of a secret service.
- Jane Austen, Secret Agent
50,406 / 50,000
Oct 12, 2009 - 23 55
As my sig-line indicates, this year's novel is Jane Austen, Secret Agent (or maybe : Secret Agent; I'm not wedded to the punctuation yet), a tale of adventure, derring do and impeccable manners.
The shame of it is, I can't use that opening as part of my word count, because I wrote it a year ago.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a small nation in possession of a great Empire must be in want of a secret service.
- Jane Austen, Secret Agent
41,336 / 50,000
Oct 13, 2009 - 01 08
That's a cracking opening line! :-)
43,681 / 50,000
Oct 13, 2009 - 02 51
I hereby challenge you - because someone has to - to include, as naturalistically as possible, the line: "These aren't the druids you're looking for."
You think writing 50k words isn't hard enough ?!?!?!? Somewhere along the line someone is going to say that these aren't the pirates they are looking for, but that's as close as I think it'll get....
91,395 / 50,000
Oct 13, 2009 - 03 25
Goat Rock Mountain
This is the story of a devilishly handsome goat-man, Liberatore Terrepp, who lives in a stone hut on the side of a mountain. Eking out a living herding his animals, the goat-man never comes down off the side of the mountain - until he is discovered by intrepid geologist, Savannah Seal.
The introduction of the strange but handsome goat-herd in Savannah's life immediately begins to cause chaos and culminates in the disappearance of Savannah herself, along with her unique collection of rocks from Liberatore's mountain.
Liberatore is the main suspect: whilst he struggles to vindicate himself and find Savannah, his goats are beginning to go astray...
Ha Ha! Gammon and Spinach. I fell out with my other Big Idea in a Big Way. This seems like a lot more fun with plenty of scope for regional contests :P
----------I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Banish the Guilt Monkeys
50,406 / 50,000
Oct 13, 2009 - 05 27
It is, to a large extent, the purpose of writing the book.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a small nation in possession of a great Empire must be in want of a secret service.
- Jane Austen, Secret Agent
3,337 / 50,000
Oct 13, 2009 - 15 17
I have no idea!
As a first timer I signed up earlier in the year thinking 'Oh I've got loads of time, I'll think of something by November.' Now I've got two weeks and no definite plot! All I know is it will almost certainly be Sci-Fi (because I am a huge nerd).
Couple of ideas:
1. Near future alternate earth, where all humans except the protagonist have no capacity for romantic love.
2. High-technology (possibly in diary format) involving invention of faster-than-light travel (or AI?)
3. Time traveller returns to prevent ELE of some kind.
4. Possible combination of 2 and 3?
Failing that a space opera of some kind involving bizarre aliens, distant planets and epic battles (yes I have been playing Halo a lot recently).
----------"I am a scientist, and I can live on science alone!"
37,003 / 50,000
Oct 15, 2009 - 14 32
Belt Three
Space opera. A ruthless businessman is kidnapped by a space pirate and reluctantly becomes her accomplice, while she wages a futile crusade against the alien invaders that have nearly destroyed the human race.
It's kind of a cross between Moby Dick and Thelma and Louise, but in space.
0 / 50,000
Oct 16, 2009 - 08 34
I'm not sure, I don't want to be sure.
46,273 / 50,000
Oct 16, 2009 - 16 02
Na. :P
Guy 1: "These aren't the druids you're looking for."
Guy 2: "Sure aren't, we're looking for pirates."
[Slight confused pause.]
Guy 1: "What?"
Guy 2: "Pirates. We're looking for Pirates."
Guy 1: "Yeah, I know, that's what I said; these aren't them."
Guy 2: "No, you said druids, they're not druids."
Guy 1: "No I didn't."
Guy 2: "Yes you did."
...
As much as I would like to continue that, and I would, I'll leave that there; you get the point.
Bonus points for casually mentioning ninjas in the same dialogue. ;)
----------- Yoz -
2007: The Dust on the Wind - 50K
2008: The Rise of King Drust - 50K
2009: Terrebus Rundstadt: From Child to Lord
42,087 / 50,000
Oct 18, 2009 - 03 10
I have been totally planning to write 'Fire' as a follow up to last years novel 'Frozen'. Set in a kind of fairytale world. Last years was inspired by Rumplestiltskin and Sleeping Beauty, but this years is more likely to be influenced by Red Riding Hood. Last years leading characters will be minor players this time with two of the lesser characters from last year taking their turn.
I'm probably opening my story this year with what will most likely be a WSS contender.
Then again, I am still toying with the chick lit with violence and chaos thing - the idea just won't go away and is pushing it's way to the front. I'm trying to work out if I can somehow merge the two themes together...
----------2007: Fulfilling Destiny - 50k (unfinished)
2008: Frozen 81k
2009: Fire
0 / 50,000
Oct 21, 2009 - 08 44
Space opera. A ruthless businessman is kidnapped by a space pirate and reluctantly becomes her accomplice, while she wages a futile crusade against the alien invaders that have nearly destroyed the human race.
It's kind of a cross between Moby Dick and Thelma and Louise, but in space.
Sounds awesome. As does "Jane Austen(insert punctuation of choice) Secret Agent". I am deeply envious.
I am attempting to outline the second half of my WiP in time for Nano, but am totally failing to come up with a coherent plan for my villains to enact and my hero to thwart (or not, as the case may be).
Right now I am soooo tempted to say "The hell with it" and write something new...
91,395 / 50,000
Oct 23, 2009 - 10 02
I've changed my mind again, I think it will be something like a parallel universe crime novel in verse type thing or maybe just a poet character, but I still want to call it Goat Rock Mountain, for some reason.
----------I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Banish the Guilt Monkeys
44,014 / 50,000
Oct 27, 2009 - 08 34
I don't really know, but the hero will be a soldier. Which leads to the possibilities of sex and violence, courageous acts of derring do and a fair amount of homo-erotic male bonding. That's the extent of the plot so far but then again when I woke up this morning I didn't know I'd be writing a novel this November, so I suppose it's a start.
41,336 / 50,000
Oct 27, 2009 - 08 56
Just realised that I hadn't put my two penn'orth in on this thread, so here goes. I'm writing a near-future story of love, politics and war set amidst a lunar rebellion, complete with space battles, loosely inspired by the lives of poets Robert and Elizabeth Browning. (Really.)
"While the lunar colonies struggle to escape corporate domination, an economic migrant from a fallen Britain arrives on Ajaadii Orbital. Hoping for no more than escape, he befriends a crippled composer whose father runs the Orbital and awakens her to the obsessive nature of her father's care. But soon the three must work together to prevent the destruction of the Orbital, the colonies and their own freedom."
30,192 / 50,000
Oct 30, 2009 - 03 52
Hopefully this will pan out like I want it to. It's a mystery type story with a twist, the investigating detective dies shortly after he takes on the case. I have plenty of material and ideas that I hope will get me to 50k or beyond.
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Oct 30, 2009 - 12 29
Nuns, death and more sex than is decent. It's possible my protagonist will survive, but given that she's been captured by a serial killer, it's not looking likely.
For the record, I like nuns. I'm only beating them up because the voices in my head say I have to.
35,194 / 50,000
Oct 31, 2009 - 06 33
Having done mainstream fiction this year, I am now torn between a couple of decent ideas for fantasy and SF.
Fantasy: In the 12th-century Scottish Borders, a mercenary finds a gateway to the elf kingdoms. These are not the nice elves, more the we-torture-kittens-for-fun kind of elves.
SF: A Blade-Runnerish thing set in a near-future London, which has been largely depopulated by some carelessness with nanotechnology.
Attempting to combine the two would probably not be advisable. I may or may not have decided which one I'm doing by tonight...
----------2008: Modern Revelations 56K
2009: ???
4,004 / 50,000
Oct 31, 2009 - 10 35
Parody. Agatha Norse and the Ritual Disembowellment at the Vicarage. I took this whole thing far too seriously last year and got nowhere, so this year I plan to be entirely silly and just write stuff that's fun. I have a very nice bottle of plonk to get me started tonight, so wish me luck.
2,585 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 08 55
Ok, I'm joining at the eleventh hour. I really wasn't going to write a NaNovel 09, but an idea hit in the early hours of this afternoon and ... well, I'm in. More details to come.
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Nov 1, 2009 - 14 56
I'm writing a computer game :-D
----------It's an idea I've had in mind and on various scrappy notes for over eight years now, but never wirtten a single line of code.
So far it's not been going too well. I don't really know Python, which is what I'm writing it in. I've managed to make it display a tilemap. Next is to improve that code so it reads the map data from a file instead of being hardcoded.
[img]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b116/BarbDell/th_0019a2q2.png[/img]NaNoRebel - Writing a computer game!