What Are You Writing About This Year?

Don't mention snow. *ugh* My friend and I just had to get a friend to give us a tow out of a tough spot at the barn. Damn little ol' trucks with out 4x4!

*ahem* back on topic. I am trying something way out of my comfort zone this year. A genre I've never written before and in a style I've never tried. I'm a little intimidated, but the story demands that I write it.

This year I am writing a fictional memoir about Jackson Walker, who goes from being a boy from the suburbs to an infamous assassin. I'm having a few issues with it since it's really not like writing a typical novel. I've got some of the kinks worked out and some of the smaller sub-plots need ironing out still (some are not even dreamed up yet). I know where I'm ending and I have an idea about the beginning.

I'm hoping this story is going to kick ass and take names, but I'm really nervous about it.

~CLicK~
NaNo 2008 Dawn of Eve - WON!
NaNo 2009 Memoirs of an Unlikely Assassin

Inspiration is a lie. Sleep is for the weak. Caffiene is a gift.
Seriously, giving up was never a choice.

snow or not, I still get on my bike and cycle in to work (its only 2k, that's a sweet little toddle. Ok there is this side of the coulee.....)

This year (first year) I'm writing about vampires. I have a three novel arc planned and this is the first novel in the story. Christine, a young woman getting an education, gets more than she bargained for when her best friend gets kidnapped. Jeremy, con-man and cad extraordinaire just wants to seduce her, and ends up helping her instead while hoping to get her in his bed. Things go a little more wrong than expected and they end up pulling a robbery, and Christine gets in the middle of a war between two vampire families which /don't exist as vampires don't exist/

Sustainability - my kidbrother chased the same girl all year -Loesje

Maybe it's just my odd sense of humour, Debbie, but the fact that you reminded us that vampires don't exist makes that possibly the best novel synopsis I've ever heard.

As for me, my novel's "Ballad of the Disco Skip", a novel about a curling team that's never curled, forced to learn the sport as they play it, while one of the members tries to clear his name after being framed at the club concession, and another tries to unravel the mystery of the Agricultural Bonspiel. Meanwhile, the skip is lost in a world of his own, where curling strategies materialize in his head mid-game as elaborate space operas.

We'll see what happens.

Denton, a.k.a. Aquadeo - ML for the Alberta::Elsewhere Wrimosaurs

I'm typing this year's novel LIVE on:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/late-write-featuring-aquadeo

I'm still looking for ideas. I want to try an espionage-thriller this year, but every plot idea I have ends up sounding like a bad James Bond rip off. (Although, Bond is one of the most successful character franchises in history so, if I'm going to rip something off, that would be a good place to start looking.)

"Because creative people aren't always in charge. And when they do their best work, they're hardly ever in charge. They're just sort of rolling along with their eyes shut , yelling Wheeeee." - Steven King, Everything's Eventual

Denton,

Glad you like! Christine is adamant they can't exist, won't exist, its all a mistake. And that pesky issue with sun she's developing by the end of the book? Sun allergy! *grins* Adult onset of course.

What is a skip? (see, I know nothing about curling)

Cheers
Debbie

Sustainability - my kidbrother chased the same girl all year -Loesje

My muses have decided to pull a 180 on me and all my planing...might have been in vain! LOL

~unrulydreamer~

*GASP*

See, this is exactly why the world needs more curling novels. : )

The skip is the coach, the manager, the strategist, the quarterback, the placekicker, and the mascot. Or, to put it another way, the skip is the player that gets to yell "SWEEEEEP!!! HURRY HARD!!!" at their teammates.

Last year, I tried to put together a curling team - and even though I had only three months of curling experience, it was still more than anyone else, so they made me the skip. Needless to say, this was a bad idea. We lost every single game we played that year, but at least I got a lot of novel ideas out of it!

Denton, a.k.a. Aquadeo - ML for the Alberta::Elsewhere Wrimosaurs

I'm typing this year's novel LIVE on:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/late-write-featuring-aquadeo

Well I finally narrowed it down. I'll be doing a romcom-type novel/possible musical hybrid which is totally out of my usual writing comfort zone. It will be called "Willowbend Tales" and here is the official semi-detailed preview which I posted on my blog:

Meet Darren Watson, a freelance writer in his early 30s. Beginning to write a novel called “The Raven Effect” – a novel which finds him coping with feeling of love and loss from his family and the one girl that got away – he now finds himself stuck in a love parallelogram. He begins to develop feelings for a girl named Emily, who the two had a “friends with benefits” arrangement; he also has an unrequited crush on Sally, a single mom in her early 40s with a questionable reputation, and then along comes Julia – a woman who he had an off-chance encounter in a bar in Edmonton, and all signs point to them being kindred spirits. If only he wasn’t seemingly competing for her heart with a British musician Liam.

Women aren’t Darren’s only problems. Living in Willowbend Apartments with his roommate Phil Brookes – a combination of smarmy and charming at the same time Straight-Edged filmmaker and confidant, the two of them aspire to open a book/video store in their home town of Vegreville once any of their big projects pays off. A bit of a recluse and misanthrope because of his past, Darren is also pestered by another friend named Rocco – a total musclehead training for mixed martial arts combat and womanizing cad – to live life to the fullest. And if that isn’t enough, Darren is plagued by surreal dreams involving his pet rabbit Mozart – who can talk in this subconscious state of mind and puts on elaborate musical numbers involving people from Darren’s past and present.

So, how will this all play out? Will Darren finally settle down and find true love? Or will he allow his past to drag him down? What roles will Phil and Rocco play in this tale? How many more characters will be profiled? And what other wacky shenanigans will occur? Only way to know for sure is to read “Willowbend Tales” – a possibly not-so original take on relationships and love in the modern world.

2007 Novel: Apocalypse Wow! Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The End Of The World.
2008 Novel: Apocalypse Wow! 2!: Electric Boogaloo
2009 Novel: Willowbend Tales (working title)

http://dwamomentarylapseofreason.blogspot.com/

My novel will be fantasy. My writing is always fantasy, except for a small series that I keep totally to myself. This year I have decided to write about fairies. They are 6 inches tall, live in the jungle, and one of them rides around on a lemus because he just lost his wings. Some of the details are still be ironed out but there are basically two plots, the first half and the second half.

In the first half my main character, Quinn, will loose his wings becaseu he turns down the wrong bedmate and she gets angry and curses him. Quinn will then leave home with his lemur, Kimball, in order to find a way to restore his ability to fly. Along the way he will save Avery, another fairy, from being eaten by a goblin and through hilarious disasters and other unfortunate events, the two of them will fall in love. Quinn will then get his wings back.

In the second half Quinn will return home and here is where things get a little fuzzy. Someone is going to kill his aunt, the queen, and try to take the thrown. Somehow Quinn and Avery are going to prevent this, all the while pretending they don't love each other because they are both guys and in this particular fairy world that is not acceptable.

I don't think I will have any problems with the first half, but the second I will definitely be lurking around the forums more hoping for inspiration to strike.

2004 - Angel Moon (Win)
2005 - Untitled (Fail)
2006 - Silver Wings (Fail)
2009 - And Who He Would Become

Well, originally I thought I knew what I was going to do. I had this complex idea, and at least two generations of story plotted out. Every character had a personality and a purpose, there were twists and turns and "OMG NO WAI" moments. Or, at least, I thought there were.

Then one day right before work, something popped into my head. This "thing" happened to be two characters, a setting and a snippet of dialogue. There was a girl who can't tell lies but can always tell if others are lying, and an inspector. They were in an interrogation room, and while they talked about other things, there was one phrase that stood out: "You're lying"

So...now I don't know. The first idea definitely needs more work than Nanowrimo is able to give me, so I'm thinking that perhaps I'll give the second, undeveloped story a go and see how that works out. At the moment, though, I don't have anything but the characters and the dialogue. I'll brainstorm at work today on receipt paper, I guess.

I'm in the midst of planning a strange sort of mystery/psychological thriller/drama.

You see, Caroline dies, and Landon, who is in love with Caroline, strongly believes she was murdered and goes on a knife-wielding rampage trying to find her killer. Meanwhile, all proof points to suicide. From then on we explore our own concepts of sanity, how different people grieve over those they love, and how we can fall in love with someone despite not knowing anything about them.

And some other important plot details and themes that I'm too lazy to type right now.

I don't have too much of a plot at the moment. All I know for sure is there is a time-travelling stenographer and a disgruntled kids' party entertainer (aka Boffy the Birthday Clown) involved in the mix. I was inspired to venture into sci-fi for the first time after listening to the song "The Stenographer" (also my working title) by Relient K and watching various sci-fi TV shows with my husband. :-)

I'm writing a YA novel, which is actually one of the genres that I struggle to complete a project in. My teenage characters always manage to pull a story in so many more directions. But this plot's taken over my head, so I'm stuck with it.

Danielle has just turned sixteen when her younger sister commits suicide, and she learns the day after that it was her words that were the final trigger in Brynn's decision to kill herself. Months later she can function again, but she's a different girl. Danielle is cautious, and thinks out each of her few words before letting them escape her mouth. Tristan Taylor Garvan is older, eccentric, and mysterious. He doesn't take an interest in anyone; so Danielle's not sure what to make of it when he gives her the time of day. He encourages her to live life, be spontaneous, and just let go of the guilt; but when he's not around to distract her anymore, will the self-doubt return or will she learn to live with the decisions she's made?

And that is a HORRIBLE summary. But my brain's all fuzzy.