Carrie's Nano?

[Avery]

Note the question mark, because I honestly have no idea if I'm doing Nano or not. I'd give it like... 50/50 odds, if that. I want to do it but I have so much going on and my muse is a cruel mistress so, well see. >_>

Yay?

[Kathleen]

D= *encourages your muse*

[Zylaa]

*threatens your muse with a sharp object* Kathleen's the carrot, I'm the stick. =D

[Avery]

So I have the shell of an idea. Though honestly, I'm not even sure calling it a "shell" is appropriate. It's more of a strange, empty tangent, a vague concept. It is wishy-washy and not at all fleshed out and it is in the same vein of many ideas I've had in the past that have imploded.

I have no idea if it's even worth pursuing, honestly. :/

[Avery]

I am still unsure of it my vague shadow of an idea is worth exploring further. I can't even really get much of a summary written up of it. I just kind of feel like plotting or anything is a little... pointless... given my Nano track record and the tangent of this idea. Meaning, I have attempted many stories of this subset, this general idea, and none of them have succeeded. Yet the fact that I keep coming back to these paranormal, grim reaper-esque ideas says something, I think? In that, maybe somewhere in my brain there is a story in this vein that will work. And I just haven't found it yet.

But I dunno.

I'm not much of a writer anymore. *shrug*

[Avery]

So I sort of have a summary, but it honestly seems like the kind of story I would summarize and then... not actually write. Or have extreme difficulties with writing. Bleh.

SPOILER: Click to show

Chloe Karsten’s last living memory is standing at the edge of Holbrook Bridge—very angry, very drunk, and very oblivious to the shadowy man moments away from pushing her into the icy waters below. Chloe doesn’t know what she ever did to deserve such a sudden and tumultuous ending to her life. In her first semester of university, she was finally breaking out of her shell—in the honors college at her dream school, at long last over her cheating ex-boyfriend, and away for the first time from her overbearing single father. Then came the fatal shove, and just like that, Chloe’s life is over. At least, life as she knew it.

Danny Lord’s assignment was very clear, as all his assignments have been for the past year and a half. That was when Danny’s own life came to an abrupt end in a car accident and the powers-at-be decided he ought to spend his afterlife as a grim reaper. Unfortunately for those powers-as-be, Danny’s recently made a very intriguing discovery: until he ferries souls off into the afterlife, they’re really not quite dead. In fact, if he so desired, he could breathe life right back into someone, put them in a strange state between the living world and the afterworld. He’s been too chicken to try it, but then he’s assigned to reap Chloe Karsten. Pretty, promising Chloe Karsten. Danny knows it’s a bad idea, but he can’t resist. If ever there was a girl who deserved a second shot at life, well—Chloe seems to fit the bill.

Unfortunately for Danny, Chloe’s revival doesn’t quite go as planned. Sure, he rescues the girl from her watery tomb, but she’s not as thrilled about it as he thought she would be. In fact, she’s downright hostile, convinced Danny must have been the one to push her from the bridge in the first place. After all, who else would have been out at the river at 3am on a freezing January morning? Then there’s the fact that being brought back from the dead has imbued Chloe with some ah, interesting traits. She no longer feels pain; her hair and fingernails have stopped growing; she’s suddenly invincible from maladies that would kill any normal human.

And that’s not the most of Danny’s problems. Remember those powers-at-be? Well, they’re not very happy about Danny’s decision to play Frankenstein. Nor are they prepared to let the immortal, invincible and very angry Chloe run around unchecked.

[Sabre]

That does sound very interesting. :3 *would read that*

[Zylaa]

That sounds really cool! It's unique, and I'm really interested to see what happens. ^_^

Please stop talking yourself down. If you're constantly worrying about whether or not you can write, it could turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy. I have faith in you.

[Avery]

Derp, like two days from Nano and still no idea what I'm doing. Ha. This will be interesting.

[Avery]

ZERO WORDS.

Do I win yet!? Huh!? Huh!?

[Avery]

I have 2,000 words.

It's going... mediocre. I guess.

I keep getting stuck. And I alternately hate and like it. I hope I can get to quota today but not entirely sure I will.

Ah well. xD

[Avery]

So I restarted. I figured I would eventually-- either that or give up-- because I just could not stand the story I started. It was SO slow to write, it would take me hours just to get a few hundred words.

So I started over. About 5-6 hours of intermittent writing, and I'm already at 4,600 words. Still behind, yes, but given that I only got 3k of the first Nano in four days of writing, I'm good with it. XD

I'd write up a plot summary but I'm not entirely sure of the plot? All I know is it involves a post-apocalyptic society, and cults. And stuff.

Yeah.