add as buddy
send NaNoMail
visit website
About synthetic_jessoLocation: Arlington, Texas Home Region: Age:24 Website: http://community.livejournal.com/jessowrimo Favorite writers: Douglas Adams, Rowling, Tolkien, George MacDonald, CS Lewis, Susanna Clark Favorite music: We'll have to see what this November chooses! Probably Muse. Non-noveling interests: Knitting, video games, Intertubes, my cats, cooking, sleeping |
Joined: octobre 2, 2004 This Year: Municipal Liaison NaNoWriMo History: NaNoWriMo posts: 147 NaNoWriMo buddies: 24
|
|
Brief Author Bio: I'm Jesso, and this year I am writing my novel entirely by poll. You can check out the polls here on Livejournal and here on Twitter. Please vote! The more votes I get, the more interesting my novel will be! This is also my second year as ML. If you're in the DFW area, pleas come to a write-in and say hi! Write-ins are the BEST way to get motivated. I work an office job by day, and go to class some nights. Other nights, I run write-ins. I also like to spend time doing other things, but I don't see that happening a lot until December. I never really know what to say in these little boxes. La la la la la. I'm me, and I like being me, and I like that I like being me. |
|
Synopsis:
I'm writing my novel by poll, and as of November 1, here is what those polls have decided:
Lorelei lives in a world where the Norse gods are real, and they introduced modern medicine about 500 years early. All the fancy pharmaceuticals we have, and a lot of the medical techniques, have been available for 500 years. Humans still think it is magic, though- doctors are raised from a young age to join the profession, and their training is all memorization. They memorize basically a grid of symptoms and drugs/treatments, which is passed down from the gods. It's considered an honor to be picked for this career, because you are serving the gods.
Lorelei is 26 years old, and in the final stages of training for being a doctor. She is the daughter of Loki, but she doesn't know that- though she does suspect she's a little different from those around her. She does take a bit after her father- she's crafty, for sure. As she goes through her training, she starts to figure out that the medicine isn't really magic- there are scientific principles behind everything, and anyone can do it, not just the gods. Living in the training facility, she only has her cat to talk to, so she does.
Once she figures this out, she begins to make her own medicines to help people, which upsets the gods. They confront her, and try to get her to stop, so she goes public with the news that medicine is not magical, but science that anyone can understand. Unfortunately, instead of inspiring people to do things on their own, it makes them think that all magical things are a lie, and... [insert results of Poll 7 here]
synthetic_jesso's Writing Buddies
|
|
