What's your genre? What's your story?

I WAS going to write a YA urban fantasy I have planned it since August, even did notes sporadically for 2 months. Instead, I am doing a more screwed up tale that was my second nano last year. This year is basically the same characters (with some changes) and redoing it entirely from scratch. Keeping the title, because I loved the title. It will be about time travel, messiahs, destroyers. And popsicles.

Nano #1: Roadside Attractions at the End of the World
Nano #2: The Adventures of the Miskatonic Elementary School Kids #1
Nano #3: Shadows of Never
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I'm not entirely sure if it's gonna be YA or just something else entirely, but it's about a high-school boy who dresses and behaves as his dead twin sister...

I'm not really sure of more than that though.

I...am doing erotica. And on a dare, at that! Hoo boy.

Early this year, after a few beers, I was talking online with a few close friends of mine -- one of those group convos. We started talking about NaNoWriMo, and I started kooshing them to dare me to do crazy-and/-or-stupid things for my fourth WriMo. There was a unanimous vote for "WRITE PORN" which was then toned down to "WRITE CLASSY EROTICA". So here I am.

I summed up the plot in my Novel Info like this:

If the Devil came calling, requesting your soul in return for a life of luxury, debauchery, and wealth, would you be able to turn him down?

This is the story of Gunnar Zahid Amundson -- a man who couldn't.

(Which, I may point out, doesn't exactly lend itself to CLASSY erotica, but this is NaNoWriMo, and we take what we can get. I know it's certainly going to make me find out PG-13 ways to talk about my novel in public!)

NaNo '06 - Love of the Unordinary: Won!
NaNo '07 - Child Of Moon And Night: Won!
NaNo '08 - Untitled: Failed at 30,000 words. Project dropped, lesson learned.
NaNo '09 - Whispers In The Dark: Won!

Alamaris! I had the entire kitchen I work in convinced I was writing erotica last November. They wouldn't believe me that I wasn't...when I got back this year (it's a school-work job) they asked me if I ever finished that 'that erotica I was writing last year.' I told them no, I just got so caught up with my plotline I didn't have time to write all that sex.

Credo ut intelligam.

Eh, first year doing this in victoria, and after a few years actually after a crushing defeat a few years ago.

But I plan to take up the mantle and try again this year doing a modern day/fantasy combo, not exactly sure how it will work out, but I have some ideas turning in my head that hopefully can get me across the finish line. Combined with work, and this my life will vanish rather quickly.

my story is a suspense thriller in which i stalk & kill women. Why, because I can.

:)

Well, because there are so few active threads in here anyway, I hope nobody minds if I bump a three-day-old topic. I would love to see what more locals are writing about!

My genre ended up being fantasy, and the story is set in a rural village in a non-specified location/time period (technologically, perhaps very early 20th century). The aesthetic and culture is based very loosely on Slavic/Russian folk tradition, but most of their traditions and customs revolve around death, burial and afterlife. One of the cultural figures in the village is a gravesinger, who presides over all of the funerals in the village. Basically what happens is that a baby is mysteriously abandoned in her graveyard, and she has to take care of it and raise it. The baby grows up into a very strange little girl and the villagers think she is bad luck. Eventually the little girl runs away and then a whole bunch of weird stuff is going to happen, and then my FMC gets to wander around in the forest with a crazy hermit and all sorts of strange creatures. I am looking forward to it!

Please, fellow Victoria writers, post about what you are working on! I am so curious to see what everyone in town is getting up to with their NaNos (because I am nosy like that). In the meantime, as always, best of luck to everybody with your stories!

And for nano #2 (which was based on my offhand comment in a writing chat on the 5th that if children could cook ants, they can cook vampires with the same mentality and gusto), it led to the idea of vampires kids dealing with town kids and a hero-to-be who ends up siding with and having to save the monsters of the town from elementary school students while the adults wage magical witchcraft battles between the PTA and the Bridge Club

"A story about Argleton, Arkham County and the kids at the elementary school as they deal with evil monsters (the older girls), snarling demons (the bullies) and even vampires, werewolves and a host of creepy and crawly things as magical wars rage about them, unspeakable names are written in the boy's bathroom and Clayton Rags and his friends try to find a way to survive Elementary School with both their grades and sanity intact."

And there is also a perfectly normal, sane teacher from the regular world who has managed to convince himself Deep One hybrids were kids with a skin condition (and needed better food) and the zombie in fifth grade is just a boy with bad complexion and BO. It should be quite fun to see where all this leads me.

Nano #1: Roadside Attractions at the End of the World
Nano #2: The Adventures of the Miskatonic Elementary School Kids #1
Nano #3: Shadows of Never
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I don't really post a lot around here, but I figure I'll share what I'm writing about since it will probably make everyone else feel better about their own stories :D.

I decided on a whim and as per a suggestion from a colleague to write my NaNo on the colour black.

So everyday I sit down and ramble on about one single colour, although eventually I'll probably run out of objects and mythological references and emotions to associate with the colour, not to mention that nothing actually happens. I figure sooner or later details such as actual plot will work themselves out, and if no plot emerges I'll just call it "post-modern" and "stream-of-consciousness" and hope for the best.

My story is Historical Fiction/Urban Fantasy, set in war torn Britain. Two soldiers form a bond in the heat of battle and have to deal with the consequences afterward. There are dreams and myth involved, but I'm not sure how yet. Anyhoo, those are my basics at this point. Yay!

Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world. - Oscar Wilde

My story is about an eighteen year old girl who murders her sexually abusive step-father while on a family vacation in Los Angeles, and than spends the next eight months in LA hiding from her crazy mom and apathetic younger sister, who are only looking for her because its the 'right thing to do'. She (rather reluctantly) starts turning tricks, and ends up seducing the detective her mom hired to look for her.

Yeah, its kind of angsty, but its a plot I thought up years ago and never wrote that I thought I should give a chance. It's going okay so far.