I thought it would be interesting to hear what everyone plans to write this year, if you even know yet. ;)
Personally I'll be working on my scifi young adult series involving alternate universes and alien worlds. And yes, I already have a first line:
"Kelsey Hale discovered a new lesson in life after the second hard landing: The saying "it could always be worse" never makes the reality any easier to deal with."
Anyone else?
----------
***
Julieann Dreamer
Creator/Writer/Artist of free webcomic "Dreamers Cove" - http://dreamerscovestudio.com/comic
Nano 2008: The Phoenix Eggs
Nano 2007 : The String Weavers: WON!
50,509 / 50,000
Oct 5, 2008 - 12 08
Personally I'll be working on my scifi young adult series involving alternate universes and alien worlds. And yes, I already have a first line:
"Kelsey Hale discovered a new lesson in life after the second hard landing: The saying "it could always be worse" never makes the reality any easier to deal with."
Anyone else?
I love it when there's people like you, Dreamers Cove, who take the lead and set examples for the rest of us. I'm such a slug and procrastinator that I probably won't have any solid ideas until a week before, let alone an opening line -- grins--
I am thinking about it, though. I'm leaning towards a murder mystery - love to read them but never wrote one. I had done some character sketches for someone who is in my current novel in progress but many parts didn't fit him for this tale. I still like the sketches and may use them for another character in this year's challenge. I'll know more as the countdown gets closer to reality.
Jeannie Leighton
----------NaNoWriMo ML, Prescott AZ
2006, 2007 NaNo participant
"We don't know who we are until we see what we can do." MARTHA GRIMES
Jeannie Leighton
NaNoWriMo Co-Municipal Liaison, Prescott AZ
2006 "Two Degrees" 38,000 out of 50K
2007 "The Pirate from Peru" 13,000 out of 50K
2008 "The Pirate from Peru - The Completed Story"
"We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.
3,263 / 50,000
Oct 6, 2008 - 09 37
I've got the same basic theme as last year; a young girl goes to Alaska, but instead of moving there to stay with a relative, this year she has run away to Alaska. It will be about the adventures she has and discovering herself.
----------Desert Holly
8,710 / 50,000
Oct 7, 2008 - 07 49
This year I will be continuing with the mystery that I started last year. As I was writing last year I realized that there was a book that needed to come before the one I was writing on. So this year I will be writing how it all began in the little Alaskan town of Salmon Run.
----------Remember the mighty oak tree was once just a nut that stood its ground.
2008: The Town That Wouldn't Die
2007: Gone With the Fish - WON!
0 / 50,000
Oct 7, 2008 - 12 58
I have several options I am considering. The one that I think is most promising is an idea I have had for a little while of a Mossad agent fighting against an evil communist plot in America in the present day. Its crazy, but it will make sense when I finally set it to paper.
50,723 / 50,000
Oct 8, 2008 - 09 44
I've got sci-fi over here. Some parts of the science are solid enough to maybe push it over to hard sci-fi, but the social implications are the most important aspect just as in soft sci-fi--so what does that make it? Flocked sci-fi? Sci-fi in a thick down jacket? I don't rightly know. I've also got some cyberpunk flavors in it.
----------150,408 / 50,000
Oct 8, 2008 - 10 03
As someone who doesn't like to ready hard sci-fi without good characters, so me it sounds like you're trying to do hard sci-fi DONE RIGHT! After all, of what interest is it without the impacts it has on society much less the characters of the book? If I just want to read technology, I'll go get a scientific journal. ;)
Yay, someone else is doing sci-fi! Last year I felt all alone.
----------***
Julieann Dreamer
Creator/Writer/Artist of free webcomic "Dreamers Cove" - http://dreamerscovestudio.com/comic
Nano 2008: The Phoenix Eggs
Nano 2007 : The String Weavers: WON!
53,867 / 50,000
Oct 18, 2008 - 09 29
I think I've finally decided to run with my fantasy plot bunny this year, though it could probably be considered a drama, too. I've already done some loose character sketches. And I have a first line- I don't know if it will survive November, but here ya go:
"As ridiculously awkward as the morning after always was, Bryce was still amused by the fact the the it never seemed to prevent the night before."