I thought i would start a thread to encourage anyone who hasn't yet thought of a story or planned anything,
I'm guessing at least getting a vague synopsis might be a great way to kick off.
If you have a story in mind, post your synopsis here! (and on your page of course)
heres mine:
Novel Title: New World
Genre: Science Fiction
In a time of rising pollution, global warming, and looming over-population the Japanese government discovered a new planet with similar living conditions to Earth while experimenting with teleportation technology. They called it 'New World'. Soon after selective evacuation of Earth had begun, terrorists had had a field day. Within months the destination cities had become battlegrounds. So the governments resorted to their last defensive option: Immediate deactivation of all portals between Earth and New World. Anyone unfortunate to be stuck on the other side had no way of getting back.
And that’s where Sarah’s people came in, The Peace Keepers of New World. Humanities armoured angels. As a last ditch effort the American and Japanese governments had created a combined crime fighting force to send through the active portals to New World. Only they have access to the portals that can get them back to Earth. But it is their duty to remain, safeguarding New World in case one day the portals can be reopened and the world’s united again.
let me know what you think :)
Tom
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O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear;
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!
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Oct 25, 2009 - 18 27
sorry about the double topic post :S
----------I don't know how it happened and there's no delete option
O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear;
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!
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Oct 25, 2009 - 21 05
Hey, pretty good synopsis. The only thing I think you need changing is just one word. Humanities should be humanity's, right? Other than that, great set up for a sci-fi novel.
I'm unfortunate on two counts. One, I don't think my blurb skills aren't quite there yet. And two, I've got two stories to choose from for NaNoWriMo since I want to write both of them. The first synopsis is the one I'm swaying more towards, the second's pretty much everywhere, but I'd like opinions on which story would be more of interest.
1.
- "There's only one rule you'll ever learn...
- ... kill the animals that they are."
Baskerville
Mainstream/Other genres/Have absolutely no idea what genre this could be yet
Constance Miller is a recent cadet fresh from The Academy - a training facility for the 'gifted'. With uniform in check and her gun at her disposal, she is ready for the real deal when she joins a band of men codenamed Baskerville and meets the reclusive and reputable team leader Michael Gray, a veteran on the field and a man with a personal vendetta.
Constance soon realises the level of danger her new life brings outside of the safety of The Academy. With a gun loaded with quicksilver bullets, she must abide by the team's one objective:
To hunt down werewolves...
... especially those marked by Gabriel...
2.
Beyond the Parallel Door
Fantasy
“What I gained in being human… I lost a friend along the way…”
“What I gained in talent… I lost my natural-born gift…”
“What was once my happy life… I had lost it to the truth…”
“What we lost was a home… when all we wished was for a little adventure…”
“What I lost was every part of me… when all I have are memories…”
Would you?
Could you?
Lose a part of you?
There is a world away from here – a world where your deepest wish can be fulfilled. But wishes come with a price, one that must be paid in full in return for such a mighty request. Many had made their way there but are now trapped by its vicious beauty, living with their desires… and their burdens. But there’s only one way of entering this world:
Look to your reflection…
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Oct 25, 2009 - 22 18
I nuked the other post... as far as we can.
So here's my Synopsis. Some may find it a little detailed.
Synopsis: Netbattletech Hardcore - Pseudonym for Armageddon Book 2 - Ground War
In the tumultuous future of 3070, humankind has spread out across hundreds of light-years, colonising literally thousands of worlds. At one time, the known galaxy was ruled over by a benevolent regime – The Star League - based on Terra – old Earth – but no more. The human sphere fragmented, resulting in literally hundreds of large and small factions’ battling over the planets of an area of space called the Inner Sphere. Into this ever changing warzone came the Clans, genetically engineered warriors from far off toward the galactic north, the remains of the Star League Defence Force that left the IS when it all went to hell. Bread for war and with far superior technology, they fought their way into the IS, claiming that Terra was their birthright, and they would not stop until it was reclaimed.
The centuries preceding 3070 saw great leaps forward in the arts of war. The pinnacle of this refinement became the Mechwarrior, trained in the piloting of devastating weapon systems called Battlemechs; stories-high humanoid combat machines with the destructive output of a battalion of regular tanks. A few short decades before, a lance of four ‘mechs could take over an entire planet, however with great improvements in manufacturing after a ‘dark age’ of technology in the IS, hundreds of these awe inspiring combat machines could clash on any of hundreds of worlds, laying waste to each other, and often to the planets themselves.
One such world was The Stepps, a near barren, desert planet, once in the possession of The Minnesota Tribe – a relatively small government in the grand scheme of things – but recently conquered by the Outworlds Alliance; and the Tribe wanted it back! However MT were stuck on the Northern Nadir jump point, unable to breach the naval defence cordon OA had set up around The Stepps and begin a surface campaign, until the unexpected arrival of a derelict ship gave them the leverage they needed to proceed.
The ship belonged to an old ally, House Jurai – the governing body of the Tortuga Dominions - another relatively small government, in a rather large galaxy. Jurai - until recently also at odds with MT – found itself stripped of a large portion of its Mechwarriors after a natural disaster at a far off Nadir point. Thrown headlong into the battle between OA and MT, the surviving Juraians decided to assist the Tribe with advanced naval technology and their few remaining pilots, in return for continued assistance with defence of their own realm.
Now the leaders of MT have the daunting task of assaulting a planet well defended and provisioned while they were delayed in landing, and the HJ leader in-system, Tokomi Arizona, wonders what is so all-fire important to MT that they’d throw so many men and machines at a planet that seems like so much dust and sand. And then there is Arizona’s family problems; a pregnant daughter, with a temper to match her father’s, racing off across the galaxy in pursuit of her wayward husband, who just happens to be one of the MT pilots dropping to contest the planet below, although Arizona has yet to discover his identity. But that would only be a matter of time... and then...
It would all end up as one hell of a furball, or Ari didn’t know his F.U.B.A.R.’s!
----------NaNoprogress Tracker!
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"May the muse be with you!"
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Oct 26, 2009 - 00 33
MeiSetia, I love the fantasy worlds you have in mind! As I'm not so sure what the second one is actually about I can't help you choose, but i like the synopsis, and a squad of people hunting werewolves sounds very cool :)
----------Maxtac, you blew my mind. I have no idea how you could possibly have thought all of that up, your clearly very good at this. Must have taken you a while. Great stuff!
O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear;
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!
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Oct 26, 2009 - 02 38
Actually, I cheated. It's partially the fluff of a tabletop wargame come computer game called "Battletech." There was also a roleplaying section called "Mechwarrior." I've been playing it for many years. It's almost fanfic, except it's about the people that make up the units that are playing the game still, after 8 years. We call it "RP."
If you want to read nearly all of book 1, go here: http://www.netbattletech.com/hpguplink/viewtopic.php?t=25126
Book II starts Nov 1. :D
Ray
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Oct 26, 2009 - 06 22
Soooo, i haven't really planned yet, but this post can be my starting point =b
It's a steampunk/ science fiction story, with gay robots (i think.)
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The system is stagnating.
It's a small corner of a universe unimaginably large, peopled and prospering, but it's stopped moving, lost sight of the finish line.
One day, it will fade away and die out, spin apart and drift into obscurity. There's not much anyone can do to stop that, but there's not much anyone can do to stop from trying, either.
The program is supposed to be a Hope- brilliant and blinding in a thousand late afternoon suns, ships setting sail to map out the corners that Ancestors had brushed by, parts of the universe still young and untainted by their own histories.
But the crew of this ship- the men made of metal and the men hiding inside it- know that they're not coming back. They're a nod to fundraising and glance at PR offices.
Between the moment of creation and the moment of their death, the ships are a home to men of flesh and blood and men of metal and circuitry.
They might find something out there, before they rust and fall apart.
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And that's all i've got.
I don't really know what's going to happen =b
Meisetia- i think your first blurb sounds like you know more about where it's going than the second one, but they both sound interesting.
Tom and Ray, you both sound like you have a lot of your nano stories worked out XD
They sound excellent (and somewhat bloodthirsty.)
=)
-Trill
----------sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity
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Oct 26, 2009 - 16 46
wow, everyone's synopses sound really cool.
meisetia: i agree with trill that you've got a better handle on the first idea and given that this is a time limited thing, i'd be going with that.
so...is it like a requirement to write fantasy/sci-fi?!? lol
is anyone here not doing sci-fi? cuz if i decide to partake, i for sure won't be...
-alicia
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Oct 26, 2009 - 21 42
LEDfreedomTB, it definitely isn't necessary to write fantasy/sci-fi!
----------I have actually been wanting for a few months to just do a love story, but I'm now running out of time and i know more about my New World universe and its characters than any others so i am going to run with that.
I've written a tonne of short stories on my LiveJournal this year and the New World ones have been the only sci-fi ones, the others are about childhood and relationships. (shameless plug :P - http://cheekofnight.livejournal.com/ )
Tom
O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear;
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!
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Oct 26, 2009 - 22 10
Yeah, my last two efforts weren't sci-fi/fantasy. The first can probably be classified mainstream fiction, and the second was thriller/murder mystery.
Anyhow, here's my blurb:
Winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction
Soon to be a major motion picture!
In a mystical world where bloodlines separate the rich from the poor, two outcasts set off on a journey that can change their kingdom forever, while a young royal must prepare his nation for a horde of the living dead. What they will all soon learn is that zombies
are an overused plot devicedon't discriminate."A harrowing tale that examines the human spirit. And zombies." Time Magazine
"Four stars." Rolling Stone
"Can this be the best book ever? Yes it can." Barack Obama
"Headlessclown is a literary genius" William Shakespeare
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Oct 27, 2009 - 14 49
still have no plan, no synopsis and no ideas. probably won't be writing sci-fi. even less likely to include capital letters.
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Oct 27, 2009 - 22 33
Hahaha nice. You should add more praises like...like...um...*searches for ideas*..."Yo Headlessclown, I'm really happy for you and Imma let you finish but...you know what? I'm just going to read it."
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Oct 27, 2009 - 23 54
I have four nanos, but I'm not happy with the synopsis of the fourth one so here's the other three:
LUCIDITY:
Sometimes, reality isn't what we think it is.
All she knows is the hut by a lake in the middle of a desert, and the endless cycle of fishing and sleeping that she goes through every day for countless years. She doesn't know her name. She doesn't even know she's supposed to have one. All she does is forget: why she's here, who she is, what this place is...
And just as her thoughts numb to nothingness and she forgets how to think, it all vanishes. She's pulled from her prison into the dream planes where she is the identical twin of a missing psychotic dictator, and best friend to a stranger who says he knows her. Now people are out to kill her - her only crime being related to the sister that is now in hiding. All she can do is avoid them, and aid the friend who says only she can help him as they try to save the very fabric of existence itself.
As it all begins to unravel, it feels like being imprisoned again as she loses her grip, feeling lost as dreams and reality become indistinguishable from each other. Does the waking world truly depend on the dream planes? Is the waking world even real? Or is this just the dream of a mad forty-year-old woman?
As it all falls apart, reality begins to warp into something it never should have been...
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UNTITLED:
Asric spends his days well enough: investigating criminals with his questionable methods, poking fun at the one-eyed peacekeeping draenei whose patrol he runs across every morning, and drinking at the World's End tavern after his shifts. It's normal enough, even if he likes to drink to the damnation of his grandmother every evening.
That's before the Powers That Be give Asric a new partner: the one-eyed draenei who's far from amused at the idea of working with his arch-nemesis. He's even less amused when the eye jokes intensify. Expecting to hate this new case and the partner he can't stand, Asric finds himself stunned as their banter and rivalry provides an anchor in a new world of uncertainly as his life explodes.
Suddenly the stability he knew is gone, those he loves most are taken from him and old enemies are reappearing to kick him while he's down. As he spirals into the hell he wishes his grandmother went to, a single lifeline remains: the steady presence of a certain draenei.
If only he wasn't so. Fucking. Annoying.
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DIVIDE & CONQUER
As the Clones endanger civilians and take lives trying to collapse their oppressive government, all the Nightravens want is to make the lives of innocents comfortable during this hellish war. Anjelie has never looked forward to going home so much, a place where nobody knows who she is, even if her unknowing husband is upset she's away so often. Some prices have to be paid, after all.
Her resolution to keep her Nightravens out of the Clones' way is thrown out of the window when a Clone mission endangers the lives of civilians and politicians alike on a transport vessel to the Solar Space Station. On a mission to rescue as many people as possible, Anjelie comes face to face with their leader for the first time - a man known as the Rogue, who's decided that Anjelie's enough of a pain to try to kill her. Twice.
Then comes an enticing offer from a third faction, involving a plan to end the war once and for all. It looks good - until Anjelie sees it involves working with the Clones and involve fighting. And yet, it's the closest thing they've got to a plan that might end this conflict...
Before they know it, both factions have fallen into something far bigger than themselves and can only rely on each other.
----------Nanoing with the zombie muse, Daramor!
2005: Musical Scales (53K)
2006: Myra (50K)
2007: Dark of Day (50K)
2008: TKH, SS, FW & CaP (200K total)
2009: Lucidity, ??, DaC & ?? (Going for 200K again! \o/)
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Untitled
Genre: Urban Fantasy
A boy from California’s southern beaches travels across the world following his genealogical roots in search of the answer to a family riddle.
The key promises to open all doors and reveal unimagined riches and knowledge. However, when an American musician follows the mystery of his Welsh family’s heirloom all the way to Australia, he learns there are some doors best kept closed. Behind this door is one man’s desperate attempt to preserve a fallen empire at the cost of disrupting the balance of nature and the forgotten spirits of the Ancient World.
1st Synopsis ever, 1st novel.. I have a few character sketches drawn up. I have a few plots. I am hoping to mix it together and make a half way readable story out of it all! :)
----------Cheers,
Donnie
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"As the days go by, we face the increasing inevitability that we are alone in a godless, uninhabited, hostile and meaningless universe. Still, you've got to laugh, haven't you?"
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Oct 28, 2009 - 15 29
Above
A tree contemplates the mysteries of his existence as the inner city traffic of Sydney rushes below him in the same, ritualistic manner every morning and afternoon. When his centuries-planted grudge of humans and their destructive ways clashes with the ideals of a drug-addict who uncovers his sentience, an unlikely relationship forms between the two where both start to question the confines of society and reality.
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Short, but I think that would do since anything longer won't fit on a book cover :p
I've worked out a few chapters in draft form, but I think they'll actually be functioning in the story if it gets finished. If anything, I'll just subtract them (~5000 words) from the final amount. Oh yeah, and I'm sort of troubled what genre to put this in. I'd put it in romance - since the idea was initially sculpted with that in mind, or fantasy - since there are a few fantasy elements here and there, but I don't think it belongs in either...
Anyway, concrit would be appreciable :]
----------We live to be pulled unwillingly out of moderation.
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Oct 30, 2009 - 17 58
Okay, this is a first draft of a blurb.
Genre: Fantasy.
Title: One Small Stone (but this could change)
Everell and Durshan have been best friends for as long as they can remember. They grew up together, get drunk together and now serve together in the local garrison. Now they're finding out together that what passes for their country is slowly being taken over by the lord next door, fortified outpost by fortified outpost.
Soon they also start discovering that every move of their own garrison is being anticipated, despite all attempts to locate traitors. It's in turns frustrating and bewildering just how the enemy knows. Slowly they get drawn in to their own lord's attempts to figure it out.
Then they discover the legend of the enchanted gemstones. Immensely rare, these gemstones from literally a previous eon are portrayed as many different things, bestowing great wisdom and beauty in one story, blind ambition in another, and other traits as well. But the one thing they all have in common is how difficult they are to control. And then the rumours start that one of them has been found...
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Nov 1, 2009 - 23 18
Well, this one is mine it's a little sketchy so bear with me?
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Conflicts of clatome.
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In a secluded island, just of Australia's coast a community is in turmoil. Taylor and Jake have been best friends and neighbours since before they can remember, growing up together in the city of Clatome. on a day that seems like any other foreigners attack the city for reasons beyond the pairs intelligence. Bombs and fire surround them as they grab Jakes little brother Danny, and try to find safety, only to discover there parents dead and become seperated in another attack. Two years later and the city is now devided, the rebes have little resources but work to protect there little town whilst the others work together with the foreign enemy, trying to fully capture the land and be rid of the rebels. Jake has moved up the ranks with the enemy and Taylor has become a trained assasain. Supposing eachother dead the pair meetin order to kill eachother and a seperated world one again collides. In a woven Tale of Taylors great grandmother, whose tale reveals why the foreigners are here, and why Clatome- made as a safe haven is in the midst of a conflict.
so yeah, any thoughts?
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Nov 5, 2009 - 16 26
Uh. It's so sketchy, and not all that great. But at least I'm writing something, hmm?
The title's still under revision. Any ideas?
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My generation is unique. Long before I was born, medical scientists managed to perfect the art of genetic modification, and began the process of creating a new race of humans, far more evolved than their natural counterparts. The resulting babies were never really human, however. Instead, they were brought up as 'Angels', beings far surpassing humans in matters of beauty, intelligence and health, whose only weakness was the touch of steel.
They soon advanced, and became the literal leaders of the free world. Steel appliances were replaced with old fashioned brass, and new technology arose - mechanical wings, zeppelins, and everyday appliances that were far more efficient than they ever had been before. Clocks became a new obsession - a sick representation of the countdown to global perfection. The extinction of the weaker human race.
The Brass Cog became the international symbol of perfection.
This is when I was born. A filthy, weak human in a world of Angels. I was allowed to attend a government school, if only for the respect my Blue Blood demanded.
I began to fit in.
I almost belonged.
And then I was framed for murder.
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Nov 5, 2009 - 18 06
Dude, I would read that ^^
----------Very sweet,
Kind of reminds me of Northern Lights (The golden compass) with a modern world using new versions of old technology like zeppelins and what not
O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear;
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!
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Nov 6, 2009 - 18 07
Slow start, better late than never...
Genre: Horror
Dead Nanna
All the clocks on the Australian Eastern Seaboard flicker at midnight. Big 12 hour clocks chime for a whole minute.
Bedside clocks set for 12 hour show 13 for 1 am for one minute. 24 hour clocks show 25.
Everyone close to death dies.
The minute ends.
And the dead... aren't.
The 'post-fatal' are rounded up, quarantined, studied and in some cases eventually sent back to the care of their families.
But most are just warehoused - for the public's safety.
Except the dead don't like being ignored.
They get angry.
And a little peckish....
Revenge for them will be served raw and terrified.
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Nov 6, 2009 - 18 47
Excellent thread idea! I've really enjoyed reading these and seeing what other Sydneysiders are writing about :)
Title: Leopold
Genre: Literary Fiction
Synopsis: Two strangers meet through the walls of their dungeon cells and make a pact to tell each other one secret every day. One is female, one is male, one is innocent, one is guilty, one knows the secret to happiness and one will do anything to find it out. They lost their freedom, but found each other.
----------2009: "Leopold"
http://www.youtube.com/theravenofpoe
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Nov 7, 2009 - 00 57
This is such a cop-out, but it amused me enough I used it: It's more or less accurate though doesn't really go into details - excerpt has much more insight.
In a world of Science, eminent scientist and devoted father, Sebastian Keene set out on what was supposed to be a routine mission of exploration to an alien planet. There was only one problem: He never came back.
His son Joshua had a good life, and a good artificial intelligence unit that looked after him. Everything was fine until the message from Sebastian entered their lives. When they crash on the planet, Joshua sets out to find the wreckage of his father's ship - Now he's about to find out what alien planets are all about!
For anyone that's ever had a dream. This Summer.
Shimmer.
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Nov 7, 2009 - 04 23
Well haven't got a title but Genre is strongly Chick Lit with a bit of new age.
It's the story of three sick of being single women in their early thirties and their attempts to determine what
makes men tick and the escapades they have trying to find out.
Sort of like Around the World in 80 dates meets Sex in the City minus a female .
Clare