Plot Brainstorming and Help Post #1

[alison-sky.livejournal.com]

Ok, so over 50% of the group has stated that they would like the plot helping post once a week, while the rest wanted it daily, or have no idea what a plot is supposed to be.

I'm one of that last group!

Anyway, a few comments caught my attention, and so here's what I figure. I'll do one on Monday for the week, and then another one on Friday for the weekends. That way people who will end up doing most of their writing on weekends because working 9-5 M-F jobs SUCK during NaNo... will not get lost in the Monday posts.

That's going to be the best I can think of. And when I get around to updating the profile this week, all the posts will have the tag "2007: plot help" (just like this one)

Just so you can click on the tag and find the last one.

I will also make sure that I remember to link the TAG in the word count / snipit posts come November. If I forget, PLEASE someone comment with the reminder or link so that people can find it.

Help me help you... and I won't be insane by November 30th.... well... more than I already am.


So here you go! You asked, and I deliver! Got a plot that you need help with? Need a plot? Step up and comment and let the community help.... if you dare.

Comments

[coaldustcanary.livejournal.com]

Just wanna say - I think that's a great idea. *thumbs up*

[figliaperduta.livejournal.com]

Tasks for an eleven-year-old slave boy in a Victorianesque society, whose Master neither owns land nor runs a business. Not actually plot, but he needs something to do.

Details
--He was sold into slavery as a war-captive at the age of six, when his country lost the war.
--He's unused to outside work; foreigners were regarded as particularly exotic and were shown off (and occasionally offered) to guests.
--He's currently a jaded, sad, skinny little thing.
--His current Master has owned him for about a week, and had no intention of buying him. However, he just couldn't resist the combination of cute and sad. He's a torturer, and he has no desire to expose the boy to the brutality of his work.

So. Hardly plot, I know, but still something that's catching me up. Thanks!

[virusq.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to write a role reversal story where a woman has to face her demons to rescue her prince from a dragon. I would like the story to be modern, so I'm looking for modern "demons" and "dragons."

I've considered the obvious: addiction, work, parents, cultural expectations, self-image, etc., but I was hoping for some ideas a bit more outside the box. What defeats a person before they start?

time travel assistance!

[theoreticalpixy.livejournal.com]

Alright. I need help figuring out how to create some sort of time anomally/loop.
I have time travelling victorian steampunks who mess something up in a modern society somehow because of their travels.
it's supposed to happen while their trying to return one of the charcters to his correct time, but they miscalculate and arrive before he leaves and have to spend a few days dodging people.
I'd like a time loop but I'm fuzzy on how to make one occur besides 'just make up a reason and justify it in novel with vague science-y talk'

any other ideas about time travel paradoxs/issues/things that could be made EPIC are appriciated, I need an epic and drawn out final event. Right now all I know that the mc and her antagonist work out some sexual tension in the middle of it. whatever 'it' ends up being. haha.

eugh. I should probably just go watch some doctor who...

[illyria-godking.livejournal.com]

I have no plot, no characters, and I think my infant daughter stole them... Help. :-D

[verity-viridian.livejournal.com]

Okay, I need help with two things. My plot is about a high school band that is secretly a group of crime fighting superheroes with instrument weapons and super cool musical powers. I need to figure out two things:

1) What sort of costumes they should have
2) What sort of super powers they should have/how that should be determined

I've got a few ideas already but I want to hear a few others!

RE: The slave idea

[angelita-madre.livejournal.com]

Just for an input on the slave thing. Perhaps the lady of the house cannot have children, thus the lord of the house keeps the slaves for breeding purposes, perhaps, bringing the children into the home under false pretense. OR uses the male ones to try and get an heir on the Lady. Just a twisted thought I know. But nonetheless a thought. :)

Help with Language talents...

[littledupont.livejournal.com]

So, my main character can slip in an out of languages at will [not a super power or anything, she was taught as a little girl to speak dozens of them] but doesn't know she can [thanks to a sickness when she was a teenager leaving her basically memory-less]. How do I introduce it then? Any thoughts? The first she speaks is Russian in Moscow.

[mauvedragon.livejournal.com]

I suppose I really should have posted this here instead: http://community.livejournal.com/nanowrimo/1621236.html

Contemporary Romance

[rednuck.livejournal.com]

I'm totally blocked on plots for some reason this year. Does anyone have any ideas for a contemporary romance? Maybe something you wish had been written, but hasn't yet?

Picking A Plot

[evenstar-brego.livejournal.com]

Okay, I love writing and I'm always got a ton of ideas in my head. I recently lost all my writing data when my flash drive crashed (word of warning... don't trust flash drives... not to mention it cost $6000 to get the data off them). Here's a few of my ideas and any input would be appreciated.

~ Sometimes... ~

Patrick Donovan has always been jealous of his twin brother. Christopher Donovan has spent several years traveling the world and has returned home with his new wife, Amy. Patrick is mostly okay with his brother...until he meets Amy.

Patrick decides that he must have Amy for himself and the only way to do it is to get rid of Christopher. He starts to plan and even draws Amy into his web, convincing her to shoot Christopher.

This would be like a standard suspense/thriller. Amy doesn't have any feelings for Patrick, but he often pretends to be his brother.

~ Kill Zone ~

Katherine Winters had been looking forward to her first "real" field assignment from her father's company. Unfortunately, the job requires that she go undercover with her boyfriend, Aidan Murphy, and for them to pose as a husband and wife team of assassins.

Within a few days, their fights risk exposing their true identities. But when the hit the company assigns them ends up being a young boy--one that Katherine knows personally--what is she going to do? Can they still pull off the job...or have they become someone else's hit?

This would be more of a romantic suspense because of the Kat/Aidan subplot. Kat's a trained computer hacker as well as very capable of handling a knife or gun. Her father worked as an assassin for many years and he took many procautions to make Kat safe. Aidan also works for her father and was at one point her bodyguard.

~ Untitled ~

Basically anything using Kat and Aidan. They're two of my favorite characters in my head. As mentioned above, they're both involved in less-than-legal pursuits. It's the family business...but the company policy is that only their own kind can be killed. So if an assassin goes on a streak, striking out at innocent civilians, they'd have to stop the assassin. The company, J. Carter and Associates, was started by her father and specialized in assassinations, esponiage, and computer hacking. They like to keep all the other companies like theirs in check. Basically anything that could be illegal...they know how to handle it.