So, Newfoundlander NaNoWriMos, got an idea yet? 8D
Why don't we share the rough idea we've got for our novels? Or, what we're thinking about doing for those who haven't decided yet, haha. Anyway, this is a place to chat about your writing as ideas come to you, so fire away!
Mine's a superhero fiction novel (under speculative fiction, sometimes mixed with other genres, too) and you can read a synopsis on it in my novel info if you're so inclined. My main character's Jacoby--and Noel, but to a lesser degree--and he's an intern...a superhero intern, to the biggest superhero organisation in the city, the GTH (the Gelvelle Trust of Heroes). His love interest goes missing, kidnapped by a 'villain'--that'd be Antiquarian--so he's like "screw the pay raise, I gotta save her!" Then he finds out Antiquarian didn't actually kidnap her.
Things kinda go downhill for him from then on.
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Oct 11, 2009 - 17 12
My novel's still waiting for me to plot its course. I haven't had any time to figure out anything except the base idea and four characters. See, it's a sequel to an alternate ending to my actual Non nano novel wherein there are two worlds; the physical world and spiritual world. The physical world is where beings like Bob and Joe live - or more precisely Majoron Alosyn, the MC of the novel. In the Spirit World you get entities like Wind, Battle, Reminisce, and more importantly Intelligence.
In this sequel, someone is taking over both worlds, starting with the Spirit World and the first spirit to fall is the spirit of intelligence. All the other spirits try to bless humans with access to their powers in order to beat this usurper, but they're short on time as they're all succumbing one by one to this dudes power. So, in the physical world you get a lot of half powers and stupid ideas. Everyone is a little more brain dead, and have brain dead powers to go along with it. For instance, this one guy has super strength, while lifting light objects.
So that's the baseline in a nutshell. It's a comedy about brainless superheroes with half cracked powers trying to save a world of fools. Doesn't it sound fun? :D
----------Inspiration is about as easy to get as the sun...
Good thing anything is possible in a novel.
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Oct 11, 2009 - 17 20
Sounds fun to me. 8D
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Oct 11, 2009 - 17 34
My synopsis in my profile isn't so great, so I'll give a longer one here.
My novel is a historical fiction (I guess) young adult about a British big game hunter in early twentieth century India who is hunting down a man-eating tiger that is terrorizing the rural villages.
I guess that wasn't so long after all.
There is going to be a sub-plot with a half-Indian, half-British girl in the village that he meets.
I'm pretty excited about it.
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Oct 11, 2009 - 17 53
My novel is called the offense.
The basis of the novel is evil vs evil.
It's basically the top criminals in the world put onto one island, basically to get rid of them.
So they are battling each other, and have made a very complex city, divided, each part belonging to a 'warlord' of sorts.
All these warlords are insane, and have personality issues.
Going to be good times.
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Oct 12, 2009 - 04 11
So far everyone's novels sound great. 8]
My novel involves a rich girl who is a thief and doesn't want to be rich (make sense of that yourself), a rather dorky boy who likes reading but doesn't know how (and who is also in love with the girl, my MC), a lovable old man who runs away from them both (leaving them to live alone on the streets of a very very very poor city), and pirates (since I recently realized it had no plot and decided to throw them in there somewhere).
Basically, in this 3/4 poor, 1/4 rich city, some important man that runs it dies. Considering he is going to be replaced soon, and he had been blackmailed and bribed thousands of times by the scum that lived on the poor side of time to leave them alone, everything goes to hell as people run away from the city, or simply get as much crime done as possible before some new guy comes along. My MC, a very very good thief, is employed by someone who wants her to steal something in the castle, and then ends up getting caught and thrown in a prison...well, almost. The city then gets attacked by pirates, and then she uses them as a distraction to get away.
Eventually she joins the pirates and her lovable sidekick best friend gets left behind. And I have no idea what happens after that, but the plot that I do have should get me a good start. Week one is planned out, maybe a bit of week two depending on how long I can drag it out. :P
----------2007 - Tarian - 20k-ish
2008 - Jeu de Role - 53k - WIN.
2009 - Chance?
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Oct 12, 2009 - 14 55
'cause dragging it out is what NaNo's about! (Rhyme not intended)
:D
Remember how I mentioned the "superficial plot" and "epic plot" in these kinds of novels? You need to figure out at least some of your epic plot to get past your beginning. Think about what the treasure was for, why the guy was killed, if he was actually killed, why the city was attacked, et cetera. Basically just take all the big things that happened and try to stitch them together and you'll find an epic plot. :)
*Goes back to talking to you on msn*
----------Inspiration is about as easy to get as the sun...
Good thing anything is possible in a novel.
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Oct 13, 2009 - 09 30
I just decided I want to change my entire nano. This seems like a bad idea. xD
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Oct 13, 2009 - 09 56
XD Dude, Coralie, I changed my idea for NaNo four times already.
----------I'm hoping my idea that I've got now is gonna stick with me til' the end of the month.
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Oct 13, 2009 - 14 55
Heh, I like Coralie's idea. It sounds great. But if she changes it, that's fine too. :)
My Novel is complex, which most of my work is, heh. It is a Historical Fiction ( A far cry from my usual Genre), and involves a lot of plot twists and character development. I haven't got it all down yet, but I'm the type of person who thinks out the bones of her Novel and then fleshes it out as I go. ^^
Plus I'm very descriptive. It's fun.
My Novel is called " Thief Of Mine". Here is the Synopsis:
A young boy is found half dead and frozen outside the small Victorian town of Vellsmere, which is known for it's hatred of Thieves and suspicious people.
----------Mirabelle Frost, a little albino girl by the age of seven finds him and brings her to her small cottage home located in the outskirts of the town with the help of her also albino brother, Mitch Frost.
They soon learn that this young boy has no recollection of his past, but seems to have a certain attitude towards Nobles and people with authority.
As young Mirabelle grows up, his memories start to slowly return and he realizes who he is: A Thief with no name.
Mirabelle names him Chase, for he was always chasing his own truth.
" Heheh...What is 'Evil'? If I'm loyal to what you say is right, is that all it takes to make me 'Good' ?" - Bakura, King Of Thieves ( Yu-Gi-Oh!)
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Oct 13, 2009 - 20 08
Mine is called "Six Gun". It's kinda a Western set in 1970s America. Maxwell Edison is a mechanic whose birthday gets chosen for the Vietnam War Draft Lottery. He decides after finding out about his cousin being killed overseas to just leave, and run away to Canada to live with his mother's siblings and cousins. Along the way, he gets involved in a murder scheme (by accident - wrong place, wrong time, and someone who doesn't want to do the dirty work), and then finds himself working for a mob boss who goes only by the name of the Walrus. The next decade, he works as a hitman, until he and his femme fatale significant other (I have no idea if they get married or just stay boyfriend/girlfriend yet) decide to go renegade just before the mob gets busted by the Feds. And... um... still working out the last third of the novel.
It is going to be filled with all sorts of classic rock references (especially Beatles and Bad Company - almost all the characters are named after Beatles songs). (I call it a kinda Western because Max is very much the classic gunslinger, and while he doesn't ride a horse, he does drive a Mustang. I'm using some Western tropes and modernizing it a bit.)
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Oct 14, 2009 - 04 25
Hey peeps. Sorry I haven't posted my idea yet. Life is busy, and my brain can't decide.
I'm debating between two (main) ideas:
1. Restarting my NaNo 2007 attempt. The world has flooded, leaving a small population on the smallest of islands. They live off of technology created during the flooding that is powered by sodium. The machine fulfills any hunger or exhaustion, but has strange side effects, and shortens the lives of the people dramatically.
On occasion, the group sees a floating mass of land which eventually turns out to be a city of privileged. The latter half of the novel is based on their ascension to the isle.
I'm intrigued with this idea because it's fantastical and mostly character-based (like most of my work) and has the ability to have a sequel, in which the isle falls.
2. I worked in banking for about three years and have thought about forming a fiction based on events and people that I met during my time there.
I'd like to create a central character--a slow-but-eager bank teller--to be involved in the different escapades. Throughout, his story would also develop, being that he thinks that exerting 150% will get him to the top of banking. He's a rather naive character, which would lend itself to the humorous nature of the book. It would be rather Coupland-esque.
Anyway, that's them. Any thoughts?
----------To settle is to fail.
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Oct 14, 2009 - 17 53
Sounds like you've got your fantasy trappings down pat Jam. The first idea is incredibly intriguing. Though I find myself wondering how many are in a "small population" as I'm sure you know would severely effect the dynamics of the novel. Would it be just a handful, or over a hundred?
----------Inspiration is about as easy to get as the sun...
Good thing anything is possible in a novel.
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Oct 17, 2009 - 11 21
So this turns out a bit similar to aquenze's:
What happens when *you're* the damsel in distress? Katie Williams is wishing she didn't have to find out. The only good part about getting snatched from her customer service job is that she doesn't have to deal with the complaints anymore.
Instead, she has to deal with a megalomaniac lunatic who's convinced she's supposed to tell him something important for his quest to take over the world.
When she sees her friend Davis again, who apparently is a superhero and never mentioned it, she is totally going to kick his ass somehow.
Still needs a good deal of plotting. Letting it tumble around and jotting down ideas as they come.
----------The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing it well or you're doing it poorly, it LOOKS the exact same... that's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing. ~John Green
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Oct 19, 2009 - 11 38
Otay. Here is my new idea.
Effie is pretty quiet and slightly a loner and just kind of keeps to her self. She normally isn't seen at lunch times and most people just ignore her, and assume she isn't all there, or is just some strong silent genius. In one of her classes, she sits in the back, but her class is rather full so a newish boy had to sit near her. Not knowing anything about her, he observed and found her slightly interesting. Slightly.
He sees her in a shop downtown (This is set in Newfoundland mind you) and he speaks to her and she kind of says something, nothing really. But his interest is still peaked, not anymore, but still wanting to know more.
They were taking part in a field trip out of town and he sits with her cause they were asked to fill all the seats. She is doodling and he badgers her until she speaks to him and this somehow falls-out to them going on a grand adventure to find what Effie calls "her happy place". Fari (the boy) assumes shes insane and goes along with her to be a gentle men.
This is told out of first person point of view via Fari. It shall be good times. Oh, and Fari has a fascination with fire. A healthy obsession really.
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Oct 25, 2009 - 06 42
This sounds like a lot of fun!
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Oct 25, 2009 - 06 47
I continue to fail at Synopsises. And spelling that word. Oh, and grammar. But I shall ford ahead nonetheless!
Five teenagers are recruited by a mysterious organization which claims to act as the arbitrators of fate. Some of the teenagers believe in this, some are sceptical, but either way this is better than being stuck in high school, so they're going along with it. And then they find that life-changing offers always have strings attached, and someones when you run with wolves you have to howl with them. I'm still undecided as to how dark it is going to go, and how many people survive. ^_^ Should be fun!
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Oct 26, 2009 - 11 38
Mine has little to no plot as of now - I want to practically wing it with nothing but a zombie description and some character names and see what happens. But this is what I have so far:
----------Jordan, the main character, is given a trip to NYC for her and two friends as an eighteenth birthday present. Unfortunately for her, that weekend just happened to be the weekend chosen for some nice, fun biological warfare. As the virus starts to take hold of the population, they turn into something disturbingly similar to the pop culture zombie we know so well. Jordan soon finds herself barricaded in a five star hotel with some interesting characters (to say the least), and learns that a crush just can't be crushed by something as insignificant as a zombie apocalypse.
This is gonna be fun. :D
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible,"
-Walt Disney
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Nov 3, 2009 - 01 51
Shortly after learning her true nature, an adamant young werewolf is blackmailed into rescuing her estranged Father from the people she's trusted the most...her family.
----------“The more syllables a euphemism has, the further divorced from reality it is”.-George Carlin
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Nov 3, 2009 - 21 45
I'm doing a re-imaging of the Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion main quest--again. I think I like it because it gives me a nice world to build off of while allowing me to pretty much wing it with characters and plot (the game's main plot is big on the "Kill this and get loot because of Big Evil Demon A" without much character interaction or the like, so it gives me a lot of breathing space). My problem is that when I write fantasy, I *need* to have a massive, complex, fully-built world to write in, and to be honest I'd need more than a month to MAKE said world XD
So, yeah. Insofar my character has spontaneously developed a rapier wit, which I'm having fun with. And of course, mad sword skillz. Writing without mad sword skillz being involved *somewhere* just feels wrong to me at this point.
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Nov 4, 2009 - 07 31
I have nothing planned at all, and am loving it so far. :D I missed out on writing yesterday due to work / MMO related pastimes, but was slightly ahead of pace after Sunday and Monday.
It starts out with the protagonist reminiscing about last Hallowe'en, the night that his wife and son went missing, just completely disappeared without a trace. Then a young trick or treater comes to the door, or so he thinks that's what's happening, and it's his young son showing up out of the blue. He leads him to another house up the street and when they enter it's empty, just a portal to... where? What happened to them? Where the heck is this going? I have no idea! :D
Hoping to catch up for yesterday and do today's goal later on today after work, am having a lot of fun so far with it. :)
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Nov 4, 2009 - 17 27
This is my first year writing NaNoWriMo and I'm doing so away from home. I'm from Town but I'm in Ottawa for a year.
My story is called Darcy and the Vampires of St. John's. I've been playing with it for a while and now I decided to get off my lazy arse and write it... in a month. I can always go back and edit Dec 1st.
It's a quirky little tale I'm trying to mash together dark fantasy with good old fashion Newfoundland satire.
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Nov 4, 2009 - 21 22
Mine's actually fairly embarressing. It's a young adult novel that's pretty cheesy. Think Twilight only with psi-powers instead of vampires. And less creepy stalking.
It's not so terrible I guess. Girl's life starts to fall apart when her Dad loses his job. To make a bit of money she volunteer's for a grad student's project, part of which involves testing for ESP and junk. Up to this point she has also met handsome stranger who has started going to her school. She has to chose to go with the science side and become a lab rat or... the other side which I'm not sure what it is.
Stuff happens. She lives happily ever after.
----------The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
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Nov 4, 2009 - 21 33
I've been writing short stories around Gerald Doyle's annuals for a few years now, but this is my first shot at something longer.
My novel is an alt-history starting in the last decade of the nineteenth century wherein the protagonist, a would-be engineer from Ferryland designs an engine which revolutionizes shipping, powers the Newfoundland Railway locomotives, and eventually gets incorporated into airships.
No need for Joey Smallwood in this variant. Suddenly not just the Land of Fish, the Republic of Newfoundland (complete with the tricolour!) votes for its independence and becomes a major regional and international player in the world of commerce.
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Nov 5, 2009 - 18 07
My novel is about a young man who accidentally kills a girl he didn't know very know.
HE comes back to haunt him and gain revenge for her tragic death.
After a while of her hanging around they end up being friends and in turn, he starts falling in love with her.
But its very hard to love someone who isn't even there.
32,092 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 18 07
My novel is about a young man who accidentally kills a girl he didn't know very know.
HE comes back to haunt him and gain revenge for her tragic death.
After a while of her hanging around they end up being friends and in turn, he starts falling in love with her.
But its very hard to love someone who isn't even there.
32,092 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 18 07
My novel is about a young man who accidentally kills a girl he didn't know very know.
HE comes back to haunt him and gain revenge for her tragic death.
After a while of her hanging around they end up being friends and in turn, he starts falling in love with her.
But its very hard to love someone who isn't even there.
32,092 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 18 07
My novel is about a young man who accidentally kills a girl he didn't know very know.
HE comes back to haunt him and gain revenge for her tragic death.
After a while of her hanging around they end up being friends and in turn, he starts falling in love with her.
But its very hard to love someone who isn't even there.
32,092 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 18 07
My novel is about a young man who accidentally kills a girl he didn't know very know.
HE comes back to haunt him and gain revenge for her tragic death.
After a while of her hanging around they end up being friends and in turn, he starts falling in love with her.
But its very hard to love someone who isn't even there.
32,092 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 18 07
My novel is about a young man who accidentally kills a girl he didn't know very know.
HE comes back to haunt him and gain revenge for her tragic death.
After a while of her hanging around they end up being friends and in turn, he starts falling in love with her.
But its very hard to love someone who isn't even there.
32,092 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 18 07
My novel is about a young man who accidentally kills a girl he didn't know very know.
HE comes back to haunt him and gain revenge for her tragic death.
After a while of her hanging around they end up being friends and in turn, he starts falling in love with her.
But its very hard to love someone who isn't even there.