Thread: NaNo plot ideas!!

Anyone already have plot ideas in mine? I know some people just fly off the cuff. Does anyone outline before they start?

The only idea I've really thought about at any length is about guardian angels. That they are "born" only to find out that God has gone missing. There are a lot of rumors about what happened and why but all they know is that he left behind no divine instruction. So the guardian angels are divided over what they should REALLY be doing with all this free time and whether they should use their powers for good or for evil. After all, if God isn't real, neither is the devil... right?

Anyone else want to share plot ideas or whether or not they even plan anything at all??

Jeez I have tons of idea, just finding the time and energy.

I was thinking about writing a story about a surrogate mother that falls in love with the dr. Which is odd for me, I don't do love stories.

I have an angel and a demon story.

Angels aren't all goodness and light. They are more like puppetmasters. The angel Azekial comes to earth to tell the prophet, a most unwilling prophet, about a disease that will decimate man. When in reality the cure is what will kill people and it's just Heaven's way of reducing the clutter.

Then the demon one. Well Hell is more of a holding room until you get reincarnated. God and the Devil are at war for souls. God wants to start over again but he cannot until all the souls have reached Heaven. In order to reach Heaven you must be spiritually pure. The Devil loves humans, sometimes in the bedroom, but he enjoys their flaws, their character. So he wants to keep them on earth. He sends demons to earth to tempt men, so that they will keep being reincarnated and then he won't have to deal with God's new 'perfect' creations.

I have a bit of an idea.

I was free writing the other night, I just turned on some music and closed my eyes, I let my fingers do the writing. Whatever came to my mind I wrote. And in no time at all out came 2 pages of useful writing.

It's about a woman who is trapped in an abusive relationship and sees no way out. Every day is a constant battle to make everything perfect before her husband gets home, so that there is less of a chance of him hitting her. She is frequently remembering how life used to be and comparing it to how life is in the present day, always questioning how this happened to her and what she did to deserve such a life.

It's not a very defined story yet, like I said it came out of a few hours of free writing.

I usually like to have some sort of an outline before I begin a story, if not on paper than at least in my mind. I connect more to a story if I know the background of the characters and why they are doing what they are doing, and when I connect to a story I feel my writing is much better. I like to know at least vaguely what I want to happen and where to story is going to lead, that way I don't stray too much from the plot.

I have the story in my head, and a 'sort of' outline written down. I outlined the first one I did, but had to keep changing it because the story kept changing.

Holy carp, I know what I'm going to write about. An idea that actually came out of one of the Literary Maneuvers that I did a year or so ago called 'Twitch'. I started to write a novel, didn't like how I'd done it, and stalled out. I'm going to take a fresh try at it.

Nice one Foxee! Yeah, the LMs have given me really good material in the past. HAH! I just saw your quote *snickers*

Glad you liked that! I couldn't stop snickering when I first read it.

The LM is a great place to germinate ideas. I'm looking forward to getting back to that, too.

Shoot. I just realized that I agreed to judge the next one in NOVEMBER...and then I decided to do NaNo. Oh dear, I think I've been suffering from too much optimism.

I have an idea I have been working on and I am in the process of getting the characters and the outline sorted so in a week I can just start writing. I have no doubts that the story will change and evolve but I wanted something to start from.

Here is the Synopsis, let me know what you think?

This is Book 1 of a Trilogy.

p { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; } Dragon Lord : The Void


Deep in the catacombs of the Academy, the home of the Mages and the Council of Allanus, strange crystals are discovered. Found to contain memories of the last mage war from the great wizard Lomas and the Dragon Lord Xias they are studied by the two most powerful mages from the High Council. Morain gains knowledge from Lomas, a wealth of information and a link to a forgotten magic, Dian craving power is slowly corrupted by the living memory of Xias the lost Dragon Lord, infected with the Dragons lust for power Dian tries to seize control of the palace and proclaims that mages should rule all races of the world, when he is forced from the palace the Council is split and the second Mage war begins. The two side’s rally their allies and the battle for survival begins. The memories from the crystals merge with the two mages, will the world survive another war. Only time will tell.


Thanks

Graham

NaNo Username is : columbo1977

Got some good stuff, angels are all of us, we all just have different jobs, from the high light bearers, to the haulers of 'dark' (coal..hahha,) it is really good, I'm not gonna use it all here, but there is a sense that what I am going for is more akin to: 'The Dresden files'; 'Constantine'; and A classic for all "The Lexx", my favorite British, anything. Other than that I will just throw a little horror in there like "Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight" and call it a good night.

Catch ya all lata.......
WCB
(ps mr bean is the shite ..heheheh)

I signed up for Nanowrimo... it will be my first. I have a concept for a story that I might choose to try to write, but it's pretty undeveloped right now. Hopefully I can flesh it out a little bit over the summer and early fall. I can't imagine diving into writing a 50,000 word novel this November without an outline or at least a basic idea for a plot of some kind!

VS, the first time I tried NaNo I went into it with nothing more than characters who were going to drive the plot even though I had no idea what would happen. I didn't get far. This year I started with a very rough outline (I hate outlines but at least I knew what direction to go) and I found that when you're under the gun getting words down at the rapid pace that NaNo requires it REALLY helps if you have goals to shoot for.

I'll be honest, my 50,000 words didn't go well but I learned some things along the way. Might do it again this year and see if I can make a better job of it.

Hi Y'all! Been away working and writing ... too much of the former, not enough of the latter. *le sigh*

I just signed up for NaNo a few weeks ago. I do the gist of a story I want to flesh out and see if I can write something original. Unfortunately, it sounds TOO much like Sookie Stackhouse books/True Blood TV show in the sense of a talented girl and a devilishly handsome Vampire, the love sparks that fly and all the fun and scary misadventures they have. Although, I can say right off the bat that my talented girl is very different from Sookie, but my Vampire is too much like Godric at the moment. But he's perfect for my story! UGH! LOL =)

It may be a little late for me to get into NaNo, but one of my ideas concerns an out of control gang that meets its match when Death himself comes up against them with a gang of his own. I use an outline because it helps me keep my thoughts organized and the storyline clear.

I have an idea. It's Realistic Fiction.

In some post-but-not-too-post-modern society, there lived a man. The prologue begins from this man's perspective. It tells of his life story, from being put in school at a very young age, excelling beyond belief, and, at the age of thirteen, leaving home as a child prodigy, already graduated high school, abandoning his parents since they are ignorant and incoherent and their values are unsuited to his personality. He goes off to college, paying his own tuition off the countless scholarships an grants he has received, and off of the money he has gotten from being a writer.
After graduating college with a degree in psychology at the age of 17, he goes into ten years of a "rebirth" and proceeds to pursue music, his passion. At the end of his tenth year, he has vanished from the public eye, under a new name, composing music as an occupation (with MUCH free time) and observing human life, learning just about everything, absorbing information like a sponge as he did when he was a boy. He went to college again during this ten-year time period, getting a PhD in psychology.
And then he meets a girl. He had never experienced love before, you get the deal. They go out for a time, get married, have a beautiful baby girl, and one day, on her daily run, the narrator's wife is murdered in a drive-by shooting, and there are no suspects. Left with a six-month-old baby girl and a lost love, he moves.
He raises his daughter from infancy, teaching her all that he knows from the most basic elementary concepts to, eventually, widespread and broad but deeply intellectual topics. Languages, self-defense, music, art, analytical skills, comprehension, you name it--she learned it. When she turned thirteen, he told her that when he was her age, he left home and never saw his parents again. He said that she was trained by him to be one of the smartest youths alive, and that she didn't deserve the society she lived in. So she and her father discussed what to do with the rest of their lives, since money was a-plenty and possibilities were endless.
They decided to travel.

The novel is about their travels, what they encounter, and ultimately their escape of the humdrum of society and how they live life free.

NaNo is months away! And I've got enough to be writing until then that I really can't think.

Clarion's Write-a-Thon starts soon, then there's JulNo, and then I have an August deadline. And other ideas keep coming up, LOL.