Hello and welcome to the first Preptober post! This is for my NaNoWriMo competition, which more can be found about here:
https://www.theguardianherd.com/messageboard/herd-chat/nanowrimo-competition
Preptober is optional to any of the participants, but is strongly recommended so that you can get a good idea of what you want your story to look like. I will probably be making Preptober posts 1 or 2 times a week.
This is our current participant list for the competition:
Autumnshade
Lightray
LionSpark
Lunarflame
Firesong
Thunderheart
Windfeather
Iceberry
And me!
Information About Today’s Challenge-
Since today is the first day of October, today I wanted to create the very basics of your story idea. What would you like it to be about? What is the major issue that the protagonist is going to be faced with? Are there multiple protagonists? What genre do you want to write in? Try not to think of how the story will resolve. It can be helpful to use a random word generator to get your ideas flowing.
Another thing to think about is your Major Dramatic Question. This is the thing that is driving your story. It always begins with ‘will’, followed by the protagonist’s name. For example, in Starfire, this could be ‘Will Star survive his first birthday and unlock his powers?’ At this point, you don’t even need to know your protagonist’s name. Try to stay general in your ideas.
My Example-
I plan to write my story about two sisters living in very different villages that are at war with each other. It will be a fantasy fiction story, as both characters will have magical powers.
My major dramatic question is: Will the two sisters reunite and find a way to end the war?
I would love to see your responses about your story ideas and major dramatic questions in the comments! However, you do not need to post here if you do not want to. Also, feel free to put out multiple ideas if you haven’t decided on a single one yet! You can ask for other people’s input to help you narrow it down.
Before you guys wonder why some random person sent a request, my NaNoWriMo is Mirror21 ;)
(Continue of my first comment!)
Twilight Sparkle has been captured, Cadence has cut off all contact with anything that is not the Crystal Empire, and Celestia and Luna are way out of reach! So, Solar and Lunar must find Twilight. Will they be able to, with the threat of civil war rising? Only one way to find out!
Word goal: 1,000 to 10,000 words.
Actually my story will just be my Preptober story... My NaNoWriMo official story will be this: (goal of 50,000 words)
A girl has been selected to go to the most prestigious school in the world that teaches to round up and disable a disease so terrible, it's host must be thrown in a dungeon and left to die. Little does she know the school has a secret, and it turns her life to ashes and rebellion.
I plan to write about kind of an MLP add on-thing. The main characters name is Solar. (I'll write more soon, night guys! And sorry I'm late!)
I seek to write a story about WW2 and a small cat that plans to save a girl he cherishes in concentration camp (nothing gory will happen I promise)
Major Dramatic Question: Will the cat so small be able to save the girl from the Nazis, and uncover the secret to his missing family?
My story is about a boy (Jack) who's parents were killed, so he was raised by Mafia leader Malcolm Halloway. Jack becomes a really good agent and is sent on many different quests. However, Jack learns of a big plan that could provide his guardian with millions, but Jack and his 3 friends are to become scapegoats.
(Of course I have some details to work out/fine tune and might change some of the circumstances, but the overall plot is the same)
My major dramatic question:
Will Jack, Remi, Lochlan, and Ray be able to evade CIA capture, simultaneously ruining 'Uncle Mac's' plan and turning him over to tbe authorities?
It's going to be Mystery/Crime with a good dose of comedy.
(Also my NaNoWrMo user is Literary_Legend :))
I plan to write about a girl who wakes up with no memories on a battleship... but don't have time to write more here. Sci-fi.
I am planning to write about my first oc Rain who is a strong and smart mare. The story takes place in a island(land) untouched by humans called Equuleus. In this story she will be a supercomader (second ruler next to the king) and the conflict will be the rescue mission for horses that live in our land. So there will be spying, war, action and injures.
So please dont steal my characters or plot (not that you would) bc i have been thinking about this for litteraly like 4 years (planning to write a novel series when im an adult on it.
Will Rain be able to save the band of horses or will this mission destroy her troop and herself.
this will be an action/adventure/ spy fiction.
I plan on writing an add on series of Defenders of Anok, in which Cesar has another power mishap, but instead of trading the present and the past, he accidentally sends present Rayne into the future, and brings future Rayne to the 'present'. This story will revolve around Rayne in the future, and how all of the monitors who are younger in the present, have changed in the future. The major issue is trying to find out how to survive in the future until she's glitched back to the present, when literally every question Rayne asks could result in this strange future to change. I wouldn't say there is many protagonists, and I think the theme would be a mix of Sc-Fi and Fantasy.
Will Rayne be able to get back to her time without saying something that could destroy this fantastic future?
I think I could write this with 25,000 words :)
I'm writing about two friends, a warrior and a doctor, in a city hit by biological terror attack. In some ways, it is fantasy fiction because there is magic in the story, though it has elements of dystopia and science fiction because of the nature of the anthrax outbreak of the attack. It's also a fanfiction :)
Will the two friends save their city from the anthrax attack and stop the perpetrators of terror?
THis should be interesting :) I plan to write my story about two girls who meet under unusual and trying circumstances and have to work together in order to save the planet. It has a Sci-fi feel and one isn't exactly human but lives in a land not granted to many.
Will they manage to come together for a common goal, or will their souls forever be torn?
(That was harder than I thought it would be XD)