Alright, this is my first NaNoWriMo, and I've decided to dip into my favorite genre (Science Fiction). Unfortunately, I have three distinctly different ideas, either of which is good, but I absolutely MUST choose one and stick to it! I'd love some input:
1) Aliens visit and offer to rocket us into the Golden Age, in exchange, they want our kids (12-18) as vessels for information, to teach them, to make them the next generation of the new human race. But there's a bit more to this than meets the eye, and things quickly get complicated.
2) The life of a race, from the it's single-celled origins, all the way till they reach the depths, and possibly discover whether God does or does not exist (This was inspired by a particularly interesting run of Spore, a recent video game)
3) A nigh-omnipotent alien being decides to perform a social engineering experiment on the human race to test a hypothesis. Unfortunately, the experiment has rather disastrous, apocalyptic results for us. The only surviving (and unwilling participant) of the experiment becomes the world's hottest commodity, as he may have somehow inherited a portion of this rather awesome power as a result. Let the race begin.
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"I don't know if it makes any difference, but I know what I believe."
18,000 / 50,000
nov. 1, 2009 - 19 55
The first one sounds the most interesting to me-- there seems to be the most conflict and plot going.
just my 2 cents.
Max
37,110 / 50,000
nov. 1, 2009 - 20 16
I like option 2, the whole does God exist or not is interesting to me... but only because I hate God and if I were writing the story, it would turn into a tedious exploration of why God is a complete idiot. But that's just me.
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"You are God in this universe you create, so act like one. BAM! There I said it."
Athlaos
5,205 / 50,000
nov. 1, 2009 - 22 15
1 sounds like probably the most well-developed (and potentially really creepy). But 3 sounds very interesting, too.
----------"Knowledge=power=energy=matter=mass; a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read." --Terry Pratchett (Guards! Guards!)
34,478 / 50,000
nov. 4, 2009 - 04 06
1 sounds good, but rather like Torchwood: Children of the Earth (tv miniseries) perhaps?
----------If a picture is worth 1000 words, would 50 pictures win NaNaWriMo?
30,617 / 50,000
nov. 4, 2009 - 08 17
I dig #1 also. I'd like to explore how different groups and individuals in those groups view the "offer". Maybe rightwing religious groups as a whole denounce it, crying "False god!" and so on. But maybe there's an individual in there (ooh, a preacher who is himself a parent of a 13 year old?) who views this as a message from the Almighty.
Or maybe a group of the world's leading scientists see this as an opportunity that the world cannot afford to pass up, but those who themselves are parents or grandparents of the target age are completely unwilling to participate.
Doesn't our President himself have young daughters...? :D
For me, the aliens and what they represent are less the story than the social upheaval and personal stories that come out of it.
----------2009: Shunt
60,983 / 50,000
nov. 4, 2009 - 11 41
1 sounds a bit Torchwood: CoE. Not that that's a bad thing, and if you haven't seen it then you're probably original; but personally, I'm still getting over the trauma from that.
2 could be interesting, sounds a bit old-school-hard-sci-fi, which I love. But, could get tedious - you gotta keep yourself interested for 50,000 words! Plus, lots of research would be essentially. Sounds like too big a project, overall.
3 - I really like this. Reminds me a bit of Isaac Asimov, but only in a general sense. I kind of want to know, especially as it's a *social* engineering experiment (whereas most authors would use genetic engineering in this case).
By this point you've probably already decided...just wanted to get my two cents in...
----------Title: Weirdness Magnet
Pages: 200
Semicolons: 175
Nights spent dreaming of story: 7
Geek references>plot?
Capes/Badass longcoats: 6
Status: One character just stormed out, claiming that alien rats in the computers are absurd.