Thread: So What Are You Writing About ?

I'm focused on writing Fiction and Non-Fiction. I'm working on 2 volumes of a book called "A Journey Into Unknown." I think it will be somewhat of a memoir. It will focus on one main character who goes through life searching for the ultimate truth. I'm not sure what that truth will be, but I know it's somewhere deep in me.

I'm going to write a story about two very different men in the year 2019, locked in a conflict that could decide the fate of the world as we know it (or at least, as the characters in the story know it).

The protagonist will be a wet nosed detective, working with a group of police men and FBI agents within a city to track down and capture the antagonist.

The antagonist, who I have dubbed Stark, will be a mysterious individual whose identity is unknown to everyone. He is not really evil, but is very idealistic and believes that the world needs to change. So basically he takes up that responsibility himself and bands up a "terrorist" group. Throughout the story, he taunts the detective and the agents, all while "testing" them and trying to prove his points to the world. Everything will lead up to one final moment, where the fate of the world rests upon the shoulders of the rookie detective, and one chance face to face encounter with Stark.

I can't wait

I'm writing about a military gorup in a future psudo-America, where the country has split into five, and the average tech and medical level has fallen, but there is still advanced tech in the Military and in the big cities (there are about 8 big cities, about the size of Tokyo). The government is a bit of a shakey thing, and the military is a completly seperate entity, which gets payed by the job, instead of being a loyal (or semi-loyal) entity.

I've finally chosen my nanowrimo story. It's called Dark, Dark Moon and I guess it would be classed as urban fantasy. Trying to make it more psychological rather than a gore-fest. It's YA and I'm loving plotting it all out. I really enjoy researching stuff and I know nothing about gardening, so for the past few weeks I've been reading up on gardening tips/tools. One of the characters is a serious gardener BTW

Unless I get derailed in the next couple weeks, I have my story planned, except the ending!

My story is about an 11-year-old boy that is sexually abused by an older brother, and the affect it has on him in the rest of his life. Maybe. Oh, God, I'm so wanting to get going on this!

starStuff that sounds like a really awesome idea! My idea is also set in the way future, after the next Ice Age. The "Change" plunges the world into chaos and the rich and affluent barracade themselves into Supercities (there are about 5-7 scattered across the world), where they still possess rudimentary electricity and basic technology, though it is far less than what we have today. The rest of the impoverished world struggles on the outside, forming nomadic tribes and the like. This story focuses on the region in Africa where the Supercity has contracted with a roaming militia to keep the barbarians in the outside world at bay. The protagonist is a woman who was born in the outside world and sold into slavery as a young girl. She meets a contracted trader from the Supercity and he decides to take her there, to ask for citizenship, to "save" her. Well, I won't ramble on but it gets a bit political as something goes awry with the contracted militia and it involves a quest to the Supercity in the North.

Some people may have read a previous version on the boards (it has been through two complete versions, this will be the third completely new take on it.) It's called Blood Fields of Eden.

Anyhoo, some really cool ideas here so far. Can't wait!!

I thought that sounded somewhat familiar, Raging, It'd be cool to see what new direction you've taken with it though, so good luck!

Mine's about about a teenage boy, who becomes orphaned when enemy soldiers burn his house down. He manages to get out all right, but his parents and his little sister don't. The boy actually tried to save his sister, so now his hands are permanently scarred and extremely sensitive to pain. When he beats a man nearly to death because of a caustic remark about his mother, the boy ends of serving a sentence working in a dragon breeding compound alongside other criminals and prisoners of war.

While he's there, he ends up growing quite fond of the animals he works with and even makes friends with one of the enemy prisoners who is an orphan like himself. Because of this, he finds it difficult to want revenge when he learns that what's happened to him has happened to many 'enemy' families as well.

Wow, T, that sounds good!

I'd totally forgotten about nanowrimo and had planned for this to be my first year!

So I'm now all panicky. But I think I'm going to base it on a poem of mine, and have it observe a family who are losing their youngest and oldest kin simultaneously.

T, that sounds like it has room for a lot of really cool subplots and twists Looking forward to it!

bryn, heh heh. Welcome to the CHAOS! I'm actually itching to get started now that I've been brewing the idea for so long. Your storyline sounds like there will be lots and lots of tears! I don't write grief very well so I'll be interested to see how you go about such an emotionally intense storyline. Good on ya!

Cheers,
Linz

Well, this year is going to be my first, and I'm extremely excited about it. I'm going to take one of my oldest stories that I have been working on for just over a year now, which used to be called, 'Citadel of the Dead'. I've decided to expand it and make it into something I never thought would come about from a small piece of writing that it is.

The basic idea behind the whole story is that one of the main characters, The Old Man, is a puppeteer, and can make them come to life. After the king of a far away country on the other side of the ocean finds out about his gift from a spy, he calls for The Old Man to voyage across the ocean and into his kingdom, were he becomes the kings main source of entertainment. But later, as the story progresses, the king has The Old Man, in secret, begin to build a puppet army to use to wipe out a neighboring country. But, only after the king finds out that they have discovered gunpowder.

There's more to the plot, but that's the basics. I've been writing out an outline that seems to continue to grow by at least two pages a day, as I'm anticipating the first few seconds of Nov. 1st, in which I can begin to write.

~Rodney

Originally Posted by bryndavis

I'd totally forgotten about nanowrimo and had planned for this to be my first year!

Oh blast, same here!
But I have a scketch I always wanted to write.
It's about a failed artist who starts living, along with his sister somewhere at the shores of Baltic Sea, because of a chance to succeed, and the sea movements acts as a metaphor, and it's somewhere about that, I think.

It's not too late to sign up.

I don't think it's ever to late to sign up, is it?

~Rodney

After the deadline is too late.