Post by ♥ Azzie on Sept 30, 2008 22:33:55 GMT -5
So I thought I'd give this a try. I'm not sure about which of my umpteen dozen unwritten plots I'll use. I'm considering one which I'll put in a spoiler, or another one. I've written character descriptions and parts of the plot out, but am too lazy to try actually writing the story. Until now. I'm tentatively thinking I'll do this plot, but it's written in sand rather than stone.
I like it, even if no one else but five-year-olds will.
This will be an old, funny, patheric fantasy story with some modern twists. There is a boy named Kendall who wakes up in a strange place a long way from where he lives (a town in southern Quebec, Canada.) He knew he sleepwalked, but he;d had no idea. The first people he meets are Jack and his sister Tunie, who are perfectly friendly but who terrify poor Kendall because they are faeries. He soon begins seeing all kinds of faerie creatures, including flying people with tails and gigantic birds big enough to ride on. Then he meets the only ordinary-looking person he's seen: a girl in a poofy green dress who introduces herself as Princess Philena.
Then the story stops being just from his point of view as we hear about Philena's feeling of insignificance and worthlessness since she came to this place (by way of flying on the back of the great bird Benaj) and saw all the wonderful flying and swimming people. She takes an instant liking to Kendall, who like her is perfectly human. Philena and Kendall both wonder if they could leave this strange, nameless place, to which the somewhat-mysterious Reyhan responds "Do you want to know the way to leave of the how of leaving?". They don't understand until weeks later. Benaj agrees to take Philena and Kendall to Philena's palace for a visit, but Philena finds life there dull and decides she wants to go back, understanding Reyhan's words at last. She leaves a letter for Benaj stating that she wants all her friends to come to the palace for a celebration and all of them leave the day after. The great horses and giant birds transport most of their faerie friends there, and the animals promise to return in the morning to take them all home.
Sounds corny and dull, right?
Well, imagine the friends' dismay when, the next morning, nobody came to take them all home. Or the next day, or the next. Imagine their worry when they cannot reach them mentally. And then there's the annoyance from Philena's parents when they see they have about fifteen or twenty new house guests- in addition to Kendall, whom they don't like. So eventually the group packs up and wanders/flies/walks (they can become normal for as long as they need to, but it isn't exactly easy to figure this out.) to a little seaside town where they live in the woods and begin attending school (this is Eliska's idea and a bad one, but to be fair Philena does agree.) There are a whole bunch of little details which are fairly irrelevant to the plot, but a girl named Jenna hates the newcomers and they meet a lady named Rebecca and her son. They tie in crucially to the plot, but I won't say how...
Then the story stops being just from his point of view as we hear about Philena's feeling of insignificance and worthlessness since she came to this place (by way of flying on the back of the great bird Benaj) and saw all the wonderful flying and swimming people. She takes an instant liking to Kendall, who like her is perfectly human. Philena and Kendall both wonder if they could leave this strange, nameless place, to which the somewhat-mysterious Reyhan responds "Do you want to know the way to leave of the how of leaving?". They don't understand until weeks later. Benaj agrees to take Philena and Kendall to Philena's palace for a visit, but Philena finds life there dull and decides she wants to go back, understanding Reyhan's words at last. She leaves a letter for Benaj stating that she wants all her friends to come to the palace for a celebration and all of them leave the day after. The great horses and giant birds transport most of their faerie friends there, and the animals promise to return in the morning to take them all home.
Sounds corny and dull, right?
Well, imagine the friends' dismay when, the next morning, nobody came to take them all home. Or the next day, or the next. Imagine their worry when they cannot reach them mentally. And then there's the annoyance from Philena's parents when they see they have about fifteen or twenty new house guests- in addition to Kendall, whom they don't like. So eventually the group packs up and wanders/flies/walks (they can become normal for as long as they need to, but it isn't exactly easy to figure this out.) to a little seaside town where they live in the woods and begin attending school (this is Eliska's idea and a bad one, but to be fair Philena does agree.) There are a whole bunch of little details which are fairly irrelevant to the plot, but a girl named Jenna hates the newcomers and they meet a lady named Rebecca and her son. They tie in crucially to the plot, but I won't say how...
I like it, even if no one else but five-year-olds will.
