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Post by Avery on Sept 30, 2009 0:57:18 GMT -5
So. This will hopefully be year 6. I say hopefully because I am not sure at the moment if I will have the time for Nano, nor the ideas, because I've been really fail with writing lately but... I hope I can do it, because I've won 5 years in a row and I really want to win another.
So yeah. No ideas right now, not even sure if I'll be able to do it but... let's hope, eh?
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Post by Sq on Oct 1, 2009 0:39:00 GMT -5
GOCAREY I <3 YOU I HAVE FAYTH.
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Post by Rikku on Oct 1, 2009 23:43:10 GMT -5
YOU CAN DO IT! =D
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Post by Avery on Oct 2, 2009 0:00:52 GMT -5
I have an idea!  At least... the ghost of an idea. Which I will probably totally get rid of later, but... still. IT IS AN IDEA. BACK OF THE BOOK TEASER: One balmy August day in 2004, 13-year-old Magdalene "Maggie" Kent bicycled away from her family's suburban home and was never seen of or heard from again. That is, until over 40 years later, when one stormy day, Lee Kent—Maggie's little sister, now a fully grown divorcee with a daughter of her own—opens up her front door and discovers a sopping wet figure on the porch.
The blonde girl Lee ushers inside is a spitting image of Maggie Kent—or at least, how Maggie Kent would have looked at 17-years-old. The teenager’s personality, too, is an eerie shadow of Lee’s long lost sister, and the girl knows information about the Kent family that only Maggie would. But how could this be possible? If alive, Maggie would be halfway through her fifties, not an ethereal, evasive girl in her mid-teens.
Soon, though, facing overwhelming evidence that the mysterious foundling really is her long gone sister, Lee must toss aside all preconceived notions of time and aging in order to piece together the puzzle of what really happened to Maggie that August day so long ago. But the stakes are higher than Lee ever could have imagined, and as an omnipresent figures closes in on her own daughter, Lee must decide what price she is willing to pay to solve the mystery of Magdalene Kent once and for all.
PLS TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK~ Be honest. XD |
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Post by Avery on Oct 2, 2009 1:53:45 GMT -5
I am already having issues. XD A whole 2 hours after I thought up the plot. Epic, I know.
Mainly, my issue: the 40 years thing. Is that too long? I have reasons I want to do that, mainly because it would open up options for me, but also... I don't know. Ahh. INPUT?
Also.... I really need to figure out why Maggie still appears to be a teenager, or if it's even Maggie at all. I have a few ideas but don't like any of them. What do you guys think? <3
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Post by Trilly (18426 words) on Oct 2, 2009 22:14:49 GMT -5
Umm... personally I think this sounds really awesome. ^^ Like the kind of thing you pick out at a bookstore because of the pretty and interesting cover, read the back of the book, get riveted, and buy the book. That kind of awesome.
I don't know--you could probably do a bunch of things to explain the time span. If you want a sci-fi, have time travel. Modern fairy tales/fantasies can have magic or mysterious fairy kidnappings. ^__^ Or if you want, the Maggie could be a fake for some kind of government plot connected to her family or something. Or she could be a robot.
This sound so awesome, though. ^^; Sorry for my lame attempt at brainstorming; I have all the originality of a withered cactus.
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Post by Rikku on Oct 3, 2009 0:42:24 GMT -5
I think forty years sounds quite ... significant? Forty's like three, or nine, or seven. Nice, meaningful-sounding number. Plus there are lots of charactery things you can do with that, and it's more interesting Maggie looking the same than if, say, she'd been missing ten years.
... Cryogenics. =D Or a changeling. Or a cryogenically frozen changeling.
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Post by Avery on Oct 4, 2009 1:13:37 GMT -5
So, I've got it sort of, kind of figured out so far. It's going to be separated into alternating chapters, with some taken place right after Maggie's disappearance (ie: the aftermath), and the others taking place in 2045, after her reappearance. Haven't completely figured out viewpoint so far, but I'm think first person (Lee's perspective) for the 2004 portions, some degree of third person for the 2045.
My current problem is still figuring out exactly where Maggie has been, and the true identity of the foundling. I have a vague idea-- something involving the supernatural, and a hell-like place called the Hollows (or Hollowlands, haven't decided)-- but it's... vague. Very vague. I kind of need someone to bounce ideas off of, so I can formulate them, but I don't really have anyone, because I feel awkward just pouncing my ideas on unsuspecting people. xD
I have a basic list of characters so far: Maggie and Lee, obviously, and then supporting-- Lee's 15-year-old daughter, Rebecca, who I have yet to decide the importance of; Lee's ex-husband, Benjamin (likely not too important); and then Maggie and Lee's parents, Joseph and June, who are dead by 2045 but obviously have importance in 2004.
So, yeah. Still very vague an idea, but I hope I'll be able to build on it by November.
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Post by Craig on Oct 4, 2009 19:18:28 GMT -5
I have to say, this is a really intriguing idea. Definitely a great starting point. I know you don't have all the details ironed out, but what you have so far is awesome. I'm excited for you.
Forty years is a good number. It's a Biblical number, certainly. xD Definitely significant. Besides, I think having your main character as a mature adult for most of the story will make it easier to contrast the youth of the foundling as well as her own youth in the chapters that take place earlier.
I can't say I have any suggestions for the plot, though. I'm not very good with that sort of thing. >_> I'm excited to see what you come up with!
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Post by Sq on Oct 6, 2009 0:23:32 GMT -5
The idea sounds epics. <3 Good luck figuring out everythang~
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Post by Hera on Oct 6, 2009 8:55:09 GMT -5
I love the idea so far~
It's very... interesting, and just filled with that aura of mystery.
(Sorta makes me excited to see what would happen xD)
Good luck with all the brainstorming over there ^^
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Post by Avery on Oct 17, 2009 1:16:32 GMT -5
Have so not thought enough about Nano this year. :/ I'm nervous, I have no idea if my idea will work or not or if I have enough time or ugh.
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Post by Avery on Oct 27, 2009 11:57:56 GMT -5
Less than a week to Nano, and still no idea if I can do it. D:
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Post by Chao on Oct 27, 2009 13:49:07 GMT -5
Don't worry, you have managed five times already, which deeply impresses me, and you never could have known for sure if you had enough time. So you'll do a decent job this year.
Forty years sounds just right. It makes the question where Maggie has been all the more interesting, plus her evirons (family, friends) can't appear ignorant about her disappearance. It if was only three years, her not having aged properly would not have been so significant. And with her younger sister having a child about Maggie's age adds a bit of spice, simply because what happened to Maggie could happen to her niece, too.
A hell like place sounds scary, but intruiging. It would be the kind of story I would read but never watch as movie. The one, you read when treating yourself with a luxurious bath, complete with candles and nobody disturbing you, while you read on and on. *g*
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Post by Zylaa on Oct 28, 2009 21:14:01 GMT -5
Less than a week to Nano, and still no idea if I can do it. D: YOU CAN DO IT. I believe in you. =D |
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At least... the ghost of an idea. Which I will probably totally get rid of later, but... still. IT IS AN IDEA. BACK OF THE BOOK TEASER:
