So, I realised that usually, when people ask what I'm writing for my novel, I tend to be rushing to class. Not the best time to discuss a kinda lengthy and potentially confusing plot bunny brigade. And browsing through every single person's author info, while potentially fun and interesting and spoileriffic, isn't nearly as fun as getting lost in here for a few hours...or days... but I digress.
Post your plots, and whatever else about your story you'd like to share, here!
Mine is about a girl that I've had stuck in my head for a few months, ever since the new companion for Doctor Who was revealed. I've only written a very minimal amount about her, but she's still there.
In this story, it's about 30 years in the future. After a poor reaction to retcon, leading to a severe case of amnesia, she has been put under the care of the recently reformed Torchwood, along with her twin sister. But things aren't right. Torchwood is having trouble figuring her out. Her mostly human biology mixed with something unknown, even to them. And her twin sister isn't as identical as she seems.
Torchwood is made up of Captain Jack Harkness, the irrepressible ex-Time Agent, Katie, one of the best doctors in the UK, who was fired after being found to be the cause of nearly 15 divorces in two years (she brings a new meaning to the phrase 'appendix removal with a happy ending'), and Nick, a kid who acts like he's just a shallow emo kid, but is hiding some real pain.
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~DarcyLyn~
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Oct 26, 2009 - 20 31
The combo of tv tropes, xkcd and xkcd on tv tropes makes this topic win.
Mine's a SF&F genre savvy genre parody. Six people from earth are pulled into a fantasy world and told that they are Destined to Destroy The Ultimate Evil. Buut things go wrong from the beginning - for one, only five people were supposed to come through. Turns out that the portal was actually a very strange black hole and that the people were chosen via a supermarket line. Their cashier, also a physics undergrad, got a little too close to the black hole (or wormhole. Whichever) and got sucked in after them.
There's a Twilight/LotR obsessed teenager, her elven vampire of a boyfriend, her single mom, a professional football player, a cashier/physicist who A) hates sci-fi and B) resembles to either Dana Scully or Kathryn Janeway (depends on who you're talking to), a jobless sci-fi fan with an anthropology degree and an old drunk buying paint thinner.
Essentially, crack!fic!
(In the end, the Ultimate and Ancient Evil has been dead for, oh, a thousand years. And the old drunk is the Ultimate Hero.)
-----------Nikki
dA | blog | twitter
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Oct 28, 2009 - 01 50
I have changed my mind on my daunting Biblical apocalypse story and am now writing a series of unrelated short stories :) Excitement!
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Oct 28, 2009 - 05 37
My story is going to be mostly M/M though it will have M/F.
It's set in a fictional city in the present.
Other than that, I don't know what to tell you. xD I don't really know much about what it's about yet myself. I just know a few scenes and events that I want to happen. I also know all my characters well.
Other than that, I'll write as it comes to me.
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Oct 28, 2009 - 17 56
Oi Nikki!
I'll see you Elven Vampire and Raise you Ex-Porn Star-turned Zombie on a quest to vanquish the Evil Unicorn Demon Renaldo!
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Oct 28, 2009 - 19 09
...that pwns my Elven Vampire. Damn, I clearly need to add more ridiculousness to my story!
-----------Nikki
dA | blog | twitter
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Oct 28, 2009 - 22 33
Daww, no ridiculousness here.
I'm still caught up on a vampire version of Sherlock Holmes named Damarian Vasilis Zaccheo who tries to seek out the mystery behind confusing murders happening in his current city of residence.
The other was a confusing frame narrative of a woman believed to be the murderer of her father, and the story behind it.
Any ideas as to which one sounds more interesting?
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Oct 29, 2009 - 20 30
I love you. And Archive Binges. Good God.
Right now, I'm planning on something I'm afraid I might not be able to finish. It's based on the concept of "fate".
Imagine a world where God's "Fate" overrules everything--- your fate, your choices, the person you'll marry, the amount of children you'll have, as well as their gender; basically, your entire life. "Fate" irrevocable and absolute, like a death sentence, and is predetermined from the moment of birth. No one knows this, of course, but even if they did know, and even if they knew what "Fate" has in store for them, they'd still be unable to change it, since it's "Fate" that dictates your every move, every act, every little comment.
However, it can still adjust. If someone tries to make a move to get away from their fate, It will just use others, bending their threads of destiny just a little, to hinder and eventually twist that person back to their original Destination. In doing so, nobody can escape their Fate.
Except this one person.
He is the one person who can change Fate. Only he can distort people's threads and untangle them from others, bring people never destined to meet together, and potentially make the world the ideal "Eden" spoken of in the Bible.
However, He can also rip people who are destined together apart, and sever all connections a person has to others in the blink of an eye. And since he is not God, he is selfish and all-too human, preferring to tend to the needs of himself before others. He's whimsical and carefree and one of those chaotic neutral people who can be kind yet manipulative at the same time. He's not a bad guy, but he's no saint, either. He's also immortal, so, uh, if you want revenge or something, good luck with that.
In a nutshell, the novel I'm hoping on finishing is a compilation of stories of interrelated people, both to each other and to that man, about how their lives have both flourished and failed; saved as well as destroyed, and their quest to find him. Among those people is a boy on the verge of adulthood, seeking for his friend, forcefully ripped from the life she should have had.
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...Did I over do it? Does it seem too much? Should I scrap it? I'm afraid I might have to, because I wrote a rough copy for the prolougue (that's how I gather my thoughts, and I didn't know that writing started on Nov. 1 until this afternoon). I'm worried.
----------Cups of hot choco: 2 a day
Writer's block moments: too many to count
Muses: Gilbert, scary ghost-lady, bej, my bratty sister, and Sound Horizon. And my ten year-old alter ego.
Characters killed: 3
Main Characters to be killed: 5
Backstories complete
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Oct 30, 2009 - 06 37
Oh god I Archive Binge all the time... I'm currently archive binging Unshelved. And I know Darcy does too considering that half her tweets seem to be 'watching Dr Who'.
That sounds like an awesome story idea! Difficult to pull off, maybe, but it would be worth it.
-----------Nikki
dA | blog | twitter
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Oct 30, 2009 - 10 20
Haha, I Archive Binge everything! I did xkcd and Questionable Content a while back. I really have too much free time.
----------~DarcyLyn~
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Oct 30, 2009 - 11 30
Oh man, QC must be epic to archive binge now! Damn, I was reading that comic since 2004, I think. Wasn't much of a binge then, XD
I love Jeph's tweets for his characters, XD They're quite possibly the best fictional character tweets evar.
-----------Nikki
dA | blog | twitter
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Nov 2, 2009 - 11 13
Basic idea follows a Neo-Krytonian (borg-like) space explorer (eventually called Petrin) that gets stuck in an ancient cyber network node, and "transported back in time". He goes through a strange process of fighting for his sanity / reality... learning to live without the hive consciousness.
He has to pass a number of demonic tests in the guise of altered realities.
Eventually the main thread of the story begins as Petrin comes out in a post holocaust Siberia, and has various adventures there. What he can remember of the future is pure genious and he ends up altering reality. However his nemesis Cryotans, an ice-like time traveling race of monsters are working against him, which makes things very interesting.
He goes through some "fascinating" adventures, such as getting locked up, locked away, having an affair with a woman with an "ugly fetish", looks for a job, has some kind of cult, meets a violinist virtuoso child prodigy, gets bitten by a snake and "dies", attempts to alter the passage of time, and generally moves around a bunch, has many philosophical discussions, does post-holocaust type stuff and such. Eventually he likely makes it out of the cybernetic reality having grown and changed.
----------"Mankind proposed that it was intellectually far superior to dolphins because it had invented, science and religion, and great technologies such as the atomic bomb. The dolphins stated they were intellectually superior for the very same reasons."