Saturday, September 27, 2008
Calendars, Banners and NaNo, OH MY!
Hey all, I actually decided to post again this year! So Lynn has been busy distracting herself with various projects as she anxiously counts down the days until NaNo. belonw are some of her completed projects:
Friday, September 26, 2008
NaNoWriMo '08 Baby!
So yeah, I didn't write much last year. Period. Not during NaNo, not ever. I'd like to say I'm going to change that, but I'm not going to make promises I doubt I'll keep. But anyways, it's a little over a month until National Novel Writing Month starts up again. This will be my second year, and I think I'm a lot more prepared for it than I was last year. I have also convinced my awesome writer friend Julia to do this insane project with me. We both did ScriptFenzy for the first time in April this year, and decided to go at NaNo the same way.
And my story this year? Well, let's just say that I've been watching Disney's Treasure Planet WAY too much lately. My story is close enough to be a parody [without the funny of course, because Lynn epicly fails at literary humor] and the main difference is that the male MC has a love interest. This is basically Lynn writing herslef into Treasure Planet, since her favorite character and obsession is Jim Hawkins. I am however adding a plethora of new material to the story, and making it darker and less Disney, to the the joy of everyone on the planet I'm sure. They're still "traversing the entire galaxy" on their hero's journey in 17th century rocket propelled gallions, but Lynn's just happy that she's de-Disney-ing an amazing story.
The main plot follows as such: instead of the MC being the angsting teen Jim Hawkins, it is a young female teen who loves life and above all, reading. She stumbles across a book that transports her into another word. This is where the angsting Jim-character is cued in. The two end up sailing across the galaxy, Rei, the female MC to find out how to get back home, and Ian, the angsting male MC, to find his long lost brother, who ends up being the antagonist. Much of the book takes place on the ship that they are sailing on, because the journey takes them a couple of months. Through this time, the two teens, both employed as "cabin-brats" on the ship, get to know each other better and ultimately end up-you guessed it-falling in love. But they realize this only after an epic battle, Ian nearly dieing, and Rei actually being sent back to her world in the middle of the climax and fighting. Some sappy stuff happens after Rei finds a way to return to Ian, including Ian's brother becoming good, Rei refusing to leave Ian's side, and a repaired relationship between Ian and his brother.
The part I love the most and find ingenious is the very end. But I'm not going to tell it here, despite the fact that I know no one reads this blog. I love the ending so much; Lynn has never before had an actual ending to anything she writes. Not a good ending anyway. In another book she's working on, Lynn had to plan out an entire sequal to the original because she could not, for the life of her, give it a just ending. And in the end she ends up killing off her favorite main character anyways, so it's all just one giant pile of epic fail.
And my story this year? Well, let's just say that I've been watching Disney's Treasure Planet WAY too much lately. My story is close enough to be a parody [without the funny of course, because Lynn epicly fails at literary humor] and the main difference is that the male MC has a love interest. This is basically Lynn writing herslef into Treasure Planet, since her favorite character and obsession is Jim Hawkins. I am however adding a plethora of new material to the story, and making it darker and less Disney, to the the joy of everyone on the planet I'm sure. They're still "traversing the entire galaxy" on their hero's journey in 17th century rocket propelled gallions, but Lynn's just happy that she's de-Disney-ing an amazing story.
The main plot follows as such: instead of the MC being the angsting teen Jim Hawkins, it is a young female teen who loves life and above all, reading. She stumbles across a book that transports her into another word. This is where the angsting Jim-character is cued in. The two end up sailing across the galaxy, Rei, the female MC to find out how to get back home, and Ian, the angsting male MC, to find his long lost brother, who ends up being the antagonist. Much of the book takes place on the ship that they are sailing on, because the journey takes them a couple of months. Through this time, the two teens, both employed as "cabin-brats" on the ship, get to know each other better and ultimately end up-you guessed it-falling in love. But they realize this only after an epic battle, Ian nearly dieing, and Rei actually being sent back to her world in the middle of the climax and fighting. Some sappy stuff happens after Rei finds a way to return to Ian, including Ian's brother becoming good, Rei refusing to leave Ian's side, and a repaired relationship between Ian and his brother.
The part I love the most and find ingenious is the very end. But I'm not going to tell it here, despite the fact that I know no one reads this blog. I love the ending so much; Lynn has never before had an actual ending to anything she writes. Not a good ending anyway. In another book she's working on, Lynn had to plan out an entire sequal to the original because she could not, for the life of her, give it a just ending. And in the end she ends up killing off her favorite main character anyways, so it's all just one giant pile of epic fail.
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