Tell us your plot/story in 2 sentences or less

In 2065, Gus Fuller is barely making a living as a low-level government-employed superhero. But when disaster decimates the ranks of superheroes worldwide, Gus finds himself thrown into responsibilities and situations well beyond his abiliites and experience.

2009 -- A Hero Over His Head
2008 -- {sat out}
2007 -- {sat out}
2006 -- Power in the Blood (won)
2005 -- CUL8R (lost)
2004 -- {sat out}
2003 -- Nowhere Man (won)
2002 -- Soulmates (won)

The Answer:
My novel is a love story about a woman whose prayer is answered. The plot thickens when she develops the ability to hear the prayers of those around her.

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General Request for Assistance:
I need your help with understanding more about why people pray and I'm hoping you'll be willing to share with me what you pray for (please note that this novel will not be specific to any religion).  The more specific you are, the more helpful your input will be. Please NaNoMail me any thoughts you have on the subject. Thanks!

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How about you Pookielocks? What are you writing?

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
-Albert Einstein

2009: The Answer

My novel is about a group of five kids ranging in age from five to seventeen who were all kidnapped over the course of eleven years by the same people. It focuses on their relationships with each other and their abductors, as well as what happens when they accidentally end up back where it all started.

NaNo '04: Band is Such a Soap Opera
NaNo '05: Life in the Bubble
NaNo '06: 101 Ways to Kill Your Roomie
NaNo '07: Good Idea at the Time
NaNo '08: Disfunctional Novel
NaNo '09: The Missing

The world is completely overrun by hungry vampires, thanks to those darn kids and their romanticizing of the creatures. Most of the world's population is killed off and wackiness ensues.

Anne

"Blank pages can't be edited, but bad prose can."

adelekta, LOVE the plot! now I want to read it! LOL

My answer:

Teenagers create their own secret society, and Jamison's father comes back. Chaos ensues.

So many words, so precious little time.
ML Columbus, Ohio

A small-town-turned-city-girl views life through the lens of food. An exploration of where she's come from to what she's become.

Lead Vocalist Jordan of "After midnight" is gay but keeps it very discrete and out of the public eye; however, the object of his affection, Andy (guitarist and backup vocals for opening band "The Longest Mile) is bisexual and has never been able to find a man who can hold his interest. Nicole is a groupie of Jordan's and she'll do anything to have him in her life and no one knows, especial them, what will happen when worlds collide, decisions are made and lines are drawn.

Welcome to the world of Pandora's Box.

**Take the Walk, make a change, do something tangible to change lives**

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these all sound intriguing! i'm afraid mine is still little more than a snippet of a thought.

Adult identical twins realize that they're not twins at all; one of them is a clone. Who did this to them? How does this effect them? I haven't decided any of that yet.

A research company in Seattle has accidentally discovered time travel while testing a new gadget. The coming technology has made it possible for a team of explorers to venture into deep cover in the Klondike Gold Rush, Bohemian Paris and British Raj where they research, snoop and occasionally lead high dollar tourists on adventures.

The Centurion Research Company - A SteamPunk Adventure.

"I was once the self appointed inspector of rain storms and snow storms, and I did my duty faithfully."

I'd read this. Heck, I'd even buy this.

2009: The Cell

"It's not the thing you fling, it's the fling itself."
-Chris in the Morning from Northern Exposure

I'd read this.

2009: The Cell

"It's not the thing you fling, it's the fling itself."
-Chris in the Morning from Northern Exposure

yatsu's novel has been summed up in the following sentence:

a renegade scientist, on the lamb with a stolen time/space machine, lands in modern America and drags a (probably) innocent bystander into a trans-dimensional cop chase.

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yes! i need to read this! (^_^)

being fairly loose about any personal relationship i may (or may not~) i have with god, i would say my definition of "pray" includes normal things i do every day, such as discussing the stupid driver in front of me ("Really, Jesus, could you teach the guy to drive?") or thanking him for something cool ("This pie is awesome! Jesus, you rock!") (the pie was lemon meringe, p.s., and it was awesome). i definitely have done the standard "praying" thing, such as when my battery tried to die on me in the middle of nowhere and i had to stop for gas so i could get home and i was thinking the car wasn't going to turn back on ("Ok, Jesus, you do whatever you have to do to make this car turn back on. Just do it. Please.").

i think being able to hear people pray would be different depending on where you go. if you hang out around people who don't normally pray, or people who are non-religious, you're not gonna hear much. also probably not many requests to be heard in relatively stable places, or around people who's life is basically alright, but possibly a lot of thanking and gratitude. if you're in a church or a homeless shelter, or someplace where people are more highly emotional, you're gonna hear a lot more. i guess it depends on what you consider "praying." i would define it as being "anything you say or think that is directed towards god," and in that case, you're going to get basically everything, not just people asking for things. and of course in a church service, you'll get probably everything, from people asking for help with sick relatives and bills, to people asking god to just do whatever he thinks is best for them, to people praying for the health/wellness of people they've never met in places they've never heard of.

... yeah that's all i've got. that was a seriously rambling two paragraphs, sorry. (^^;) i would say praying could include whatever you want to include. of course there's nothing that you're /supposed/ to pray about, but i'm not even certain that there are things people /normally/ pray about...

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Mine? Really? I had a dream about it last week. I'm really excited about it!

"I was once the self appointed inspector of rain storms and snow storms, and I did my duty faithfully."

This is the general idea, though I haven't set everything in concrete, yet:

When William Fischer strikes it rich in the Gold Rush of 1849, he decides that California is the land of his dreams, and he sends a letter back home asking his fiancée if she's willing to come out west to live. Louisa Stevens can't wait to see him again, but she's not about to wait around for him to travel back down the Oregon Trail to fetch her-- she's going to leave on the very next wagon train.

All of these ideas sound like SO much fun. :D

You're a snap-snapdragon,
Clamped down tight on me.

i think mine is evolving to be a cold case murder that is being re-investigated. part of the plot will reveal that the twins are a human & a clone. the genetics of the formula will be part of the cause of the initial murder. sound ok?

Wow, compared to all these wonderful ideas, mine looks so simple and boring! XD But I'm fine with that because it's been something I've wanted to write for quite awhile.

I don't have too much in the way of concrete PLOT yet, but this is the little synopsis I have so far:

Melanie's life as a happily married stay-at-home mother of three is interrupted when an old flame's surprising presence in her life ignites a bout of nostalgia.

Wow, compared to all these wonderful ideas, mine looks so simple and boring! XD But I'm fine with that because it's been something I've wanted to write for quite awhile.

I don't have too much in the way of concrete PLOT yet, but this is the little synopsis I have so far:

Melanie's life as a happily married stay-at-home mother of three is interrupted when an old flame's surprising presence in her life ignites a bout of nostalgia.

Celeste Woods and her friends go away to her family's cabin just in time to survive the end of the world. Now they are on their own in a world gone mad, struggling to survive the nuclear winter.

2009 Aftermath - Survival

Karen M. Gross
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ok, i'll play. i'm still just trying to figure out this forum thingy....

A guy's live-in girlfriend moves out unexpectedly and he's left wondering WTF?! He spends the winter alone, trying to figure out what happened to his seemingly perfect relationship and a long the way he learns a thing or two about himself.

I'm pretty sure this is two sentences...two long sentences....that overuse ellipses... :)

"A team of scientists is conducting research on the surface of Europa (Jupiter's second moon) on behalf of the Sylvan Terraforming Corporation in order to see if it can be made into a successful human colony. The major stumbling block is the tenuous atmosphere, but STC has a solution for that...one that will forever alter the moon if the mysterious life discovered in the icy depths of Europa's oceans allows it to happen...."

Mine is as follows:

Magic is real, and totally screws with your life, particularly if you happened to live in Singapore, Los Angeles, Chicago, or one of about two dozen other cities totally obliterated in the magic war of 2025. Also, particularly if you're giving birth, which in one notable case resulted in a chaotic burst of magic hurling a handful of teenagers going back in time to before the war, where they are stuck with a baby, a potential traitor in their midst, a very confusing biography, and just fifteen years to save millions of lives and a world they're not really sure they like very much now that they've seen it for themselves.

Technically the overall story covers a lot more ground (I have plot established from the day the kids all meet through to about 10 years after they pass the point in time they originally traveled backwards from) but this novel will focus on the first five years of the life of that kid born, hopefully, on page 4. Not from her perspective (that would be dull,) but she comes in and out of focus over the course of the narrative.

Sarah Marie Parker-Allen

Around chapter 8 my main character has to decide whether or not to undo the events that led to the total annihilation of Austin, Chicago, Lima (Peru) and Vancouver/Seattle. It's harder than it sounds, okay?

By all rights she should be dead and buried by now. Her lives had been plentiful and diverse. Gwen is now sixty years old and, due to divorce and illness, finds herself alone and living off of disability. The government finally came through for her and she has no guilt at all for accepting their assistance. At the moment there seems to be a little peace and normalcy in her existence, but, of course, there is always that push -- from where it comes, who knows -- to better one's experience on the planet. Life has taught her that it gives the semblence of choice but it is really an illusion. Knowing this, though, makes no difference. She clings to having that choice. Hasn't anyone told her that freedom of choice is a dangerous thing?

This was my 20 word synopsis I used on a different site:

Cameraman on a dance competition/matchmaking show deals with his crush on the host while contestants rebel against the judges.

The alternative story I was going to do (and still might be doing if I change my mind in the next couple days):

Shapeshifting superhero falls for invisible supervillain she's never seen, and vice versa. Too bad they're the same person.

I'll post the very, very basic summary I gave to a few of my friends yesterday:

A girl finds out that she is the anti-Christ. Hijinks ensue.

i wrote a short story that is similar. this sounds interesting.

Here's my one sentence synopsis. A young slave girl on a Georgia plantation becomes the vessel for a religious miracle, shaking belief systems on both sides of the color line and ultimately transforming a small Southern town.

Being that it's NaNoWriMo, I'm using the time to write the vampire novel that I can't dare to take seriously with the advent of Twilight.

A vampire is traveling through a post-nuclear-war America in search of a woman she once knew. The vampire has unfinished business with her that must be laid to rest.

A zombie story from the point of view of the zombie... okay the intelligent zombie. He has to be able to tell a story and he meets up with a lot of odd zombies in a quest to get zombies' "human rights" recognized LOL. Meant to be humorous.

Not so good at the plot thing . . .

A woman discovers she is not who she imagined herself to be and struggles to reconcile the life she's created because of her idea of who she thought she was with what she really wants to become.

i'm just trying . . . it's all i can do

A man is driven to investigate the catastrophic damage done to the world. At the end of his journey he is tortured and medically/magically transformed into a god of sorts.

Ammon Anderson
ammonswriting.blogspot.com