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?
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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!
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."