I am planning to participate in NaNoWriMo[National Novel Writing Month], an attempt to write a 50,000 word story during November. But I can't decide which story to write. I'd appriciate any opinions or advice, especially since I should decide by November 1st, less than two weeks away.
Skye
format: 1st person
Structure:Two parts
1.Kestrel
2.Skye—after Kes’s death
Opening: Kestrel’s story/dream of the fire and escape
Main Characters:
Kestrel—18, homo avius with brown eyes and wings
Sky—15, homo avius with blue eyes and wings
Hannah—60s, homo sapiens with blue eyes
Minor Characters:
Lark, Cardinal, Swallow, Sparrow, Wren—
female homo avius
Hawk, Heron, Raven, Jay, Oriole, Finch—
male homo avius
Masks--scientists
Background:
Homo avius [Keslings] came from another world. Adonai opened a door into ours. Some younglings lost at separate times and were caught by scientists. The ‘Masks’ fed them on kibble like beasts.
Plot:
Kestrel and Skye escape and are found by Hannah, a compassionate older women. Kestrel and Hannah try to convince the scientists to let the fledglings go, but they are murdered. Skye returns six months later and sets them free.
Inspiration:
Not Maximum Ride, but a dream
Untouchable
Format: 3rd person
Opening: Kimaya driving Pari and Kelvyn away from a wedding
Main Characters:
Kimaya—17, JaThal’s daughter who foolishly [secretly] lost magic
Hasani—15, crippled left leg ‘since birth,’ Miłjǎtaan
Pari—12, lost magic to save boy
Rađmœr~ mage, restores magic
Minor Characters
Æva; 14, granddaughter of cleanser, kept in isolation
Aulis, 19, Kimaya’s brother, falls in love with Æva
Background:
All women born with potential for growing magic, which wakens from ages 5-8. It is ‘lost’ by touch between individuals. Most high class women wear gloves and veils. But one village, Miłjǎta, ‘cleanses’ girls as toddlers, to avoid ‘evil’ magic.
Plot:
Kimaya, Hasani, and Pari set out to find a mage—Kimaya to restore her magic, Hasani to kill him, and Pari because her father ordered her to. Kimaya’s father has Æva pose as Kimaya, but Aulis falls in love with her.
Source:
An abandoned group story on a forum
Comments
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I was also considering expanding Three Dark Roses instead. At this point, that seems most likely.
Formerly Kestrel
I would do Untouchable or
I would do Untouchable or Three Dark Roses. They both sound really good.
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hey, I'm doing NaNo too!! Cool!!! :D
I think you should do whichever one you are most excited about, whichever is giving you dreams at night or has scenes playing out in your head. Whichever you can really get into the whole mood and atmosphere of the story, whichever is like.... you have had the idea for a long time, but haven't been able to really write it.
At least, that's how I chose which story I am going to do. I'm going for Layers of Shadows becuase a while ago I wrote a first draft and then chucked it out the window due to the fact that the beginning scenes bothered me, and the whole thing was just not capturing the way I wanted the story to feel. Like, it had no atmosphere. So for NaNo I am starting over with some fresh ideas to transform the story. I'm going to just write my heart out and really feel it. So maybe you want one with a lot of feeling that would be better captured if written in a wild whirlwind of time.
So to sum up my feelings, I really like both. (and I don't think your first one is really like Maximum Ride so much....) I think that whichever you sort of know better is the one to go for. Then you can really get into the story without having to stop and worry that you don;t know where to go next. So both ideas sound really cool, though, and I would certainly read both stories! ;)
Those are both awesome ideas!
Those are both awesome ideas! I really liked the second one a lot, but as I said before, they're both really great!
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