Your ideas?

I'm planning on doing a young adult novel (intended as part of a series) about several girls at two rival barns trying to win at the highest levels of junior comeptition. The girls all have their own personalities, backgrounds, etc, plus there is the barn rivalry to keep things going. So far I have:

a wealthy girl who's family life is a mess and riding is an escape
a girl who likes science and wants to be a vet but rides more casually
a girl who works to pay for her showing and lessons but is tallented and is making it work
a girl who doesnt fit in and considers her horse her only real friend
a guy who is the only boy at his barn, but loves being surrounded by girls all the time
and a girl who would be a really great rider if she would work hard instead of party and goof off

My story this year centers around a squirrel who goes looking for his brother/sister, who is taken by a giant, four-wheeled beast (a car). His travel takes him out of the woods and into the city, but that's only the beginning. At some point, he ends up getting carried up by a bunch of balloons into the sky, eventually ending up at this really weird city that turns out to be on the inside of the moon. There're many ways to get to the city, including being attached to a left sock that gets lost in the dryer, and also getting lost in the Bermuda Triangle. It should be fun.

I actually just came up with mine a few minutes ago based on reading the plots of my previous stories. (I plan to use the same character pool, I just want it to be from a slightly new perspective). Basically my main character is a girl who goes crazy, specifically she hears voices and she attempts to make sense of reality. (e.g. the voice in her head giving her a new perspective on the world and its inhabitants, and her friends and family who are convinced she is crazy and trying to get her to subscribe to this belief.) I'm a philosophy minor, and you can see it in the idea since the central question of the plot is: What is reality?

I hadn't really thought about it, but then again, I can't imagine doing anything else besides this sci-fi idea that hasn't left my mind since it formed as an homage/ripoff of a favorite anime series last July. XD Luckily, I've had plenty of time to flesh it out so that the only thing it has in common with said series is a similar setting, and while I'm not sure it's best-suited for novel form, I'm damn well gonna try.

Man just reading these great ideas gets me all fired up for this year--I really like the Lost Sock Deus Ex Machina!

I am not being nearly as optimistic as I was last year--in fact, based on the frustration of last year when I attempted to write the Great American Novel and work out my Father issues AT THE SAME TIME, I am keeping it very simple.

This year I am writing Deck, the Autobiography of a Chaise Lounge Chair.

Thanks, David S

I have to say: your title made me laugh out loud.

I'll be writing a historical fiction novel based on my grandfather's history. It's about a young man who lives with his mother in Russia in 1917. He finds his three other brothers have joined the Bolsheviks and the novel is about how he deals with it, what they do to him and what happens to the mother. Their father usually travels back and forth from Russia to America to trade and stays in America long periods of time. At one point the mother figures the father is dead so she remarries. The three older brothers do not like the new guy nor the decision their mother makes so, knowing their younger brother and their mother have a strong relationship, they kidnap their younger brother and take him to America.

I'll be forcing myself to sit down and get out the next chapter in my paranormal romance. It centers around three brothers (a series) who are genetically infected with a form of vampirism. After witnessing a car accident, the middle brother finds his redemption in the form of a woman who touches something deep inside him (yeah, yeah - bring on the dirty jokes!) The plot will be suspenseful once the stalker who ran the heroine off the road comes back to kill her.

I've got the first 3 chapters done but haven't be able to get further than that.

If that doesn't work out, I plan on working on another romance where the heroine acquires an ancient box, then opens it. A demon possesses her soul and it is up to the hero to vanquish it without killing her. Once the demon is gone, the heroine's eyes opened and she joins forces with him.

Plan 3 you ask? A shape shifting series about a half witch/half shape shifter agent who discovers herself, true love (which she denies) and some awful betrayals. The story kicks off ten years after a wide spread attack of werewolf’s. Lycanthropy has become an epidemic and the world divided between true shape shifters, the bitten, and humans. Our heroine has no idea she is a witch, or a shifter until her past surfaces.

Yeah. Maybe that’s why I can't sit down and write, I've got too much going on in my head!! So, I have two weeks to decide which plot will consume me.

I think I have finally settled on an idea. I am going to write a story about 3 sisters. Looking at their life through each of their lives. It's a story that I have played with for years but it never really amounted to anything. So I thought this would be a good time to throw away the old stuff and start fresh.

I like your second idea better. The guy thinking about the relationship has no hope, just sappy sadness. Yuck. Go for the story that has a bright and quirky future.

I'm gonna do a cruise ship mystery. The maids did it.

Amy

I love it.

My ridiculous story has not been mapped out AT ALL. I just sat down one day and started writing, with absolutely no idea what I was going to do. Stupid as it might seem, I believe it is working.

My plot--if I am permitted to call it such--is centered around a boy who loves to paint people's houses blue when they aren't home. He gets arrested and is rescued by a girl who likes him until she succeeds at rescuing him and then she's just annoyed. A rat-man escapes from jail with them and ends up following them around and tormenting them for no reason that anyone can figure out.

And I already have 16,000 words.

Hm. It sounds worse now that I've written it down so simply. Dammit.

Just keep on going with it and do not over think, let the process show you it's wonderful and absolutely mysterious ways, it's SO cool!!

Cheers,
LSM (...20,023 words, how I do not know! :)

Neemarita, which idea did you end up going with? I ended up writing a skating story too -- and it started as creative non-fiction about fandoms, so it just goes to show how writing can take you where you least expect it!

:)