Plot Help! October 29th - November 2nd

[alison-sky.livejournal.com]

Here's the post to help each other out this week. As NaNo is right around the corner, people like you (and even you!) are trying to figure out what the hell they are going to be writing about.

Check in and see if you can help someone out. Post your issues and have others help you.

And really, if you're brave... post that you have NO PLOT IDEA and let people throw random plot ideas at you...

And keep checking back during the week as more people reply into the post!

Comments

[thepheenixeyri.livejournal.com]

OK people, back again.

Thanks to a couple of lovely commenters, I have enough to at least get me started on New Yourk and Bucking ham Fountin )which might show up later in this one, too, I dunno yet) and I even have enough in his bio to start the story with, But here's my next hurtle.

I'm going for the Urban fantasy thing, because I'm noticing that's where my stories always seem to end up (they turn in to fantasies; not all of them end up being urban, though) But I don't want C starting out in the urban fantasy setting, but in the real live honest-to-goodness "what you see is what you get" NY.

Somehow he manages to sort of- arrive in a mirror world where the fantasy creatures (gryphons, elves, the like) ar. His idea was to fall through a dumpster, and while I like that, it just doesn't have the right feel to it. I'm thinking of maybe having a world where there are no "humans" so he's sort of odd looking in the first place, or maybe a world where the police are zombies, but I don't know yet. I've even been toying with the idea that when C gets there he changes *because* there are no purely human people, and whatever "Force/deity/whatever" saw C going there decided he didn't need that to contend with as well as the issues inherent in realizing that he isn't where he thinks he is anymore.

So throw things at me. How do I get my street-living, smart-ass C into a mirror world without being hurt too terribly badly? Yes, I know that was horrid, sorry.

the Phoenix

[alison-sky.livejournal.com]

ok, your best plot device for something to happen in NYC? Central Park. They have almost any kind of festival happen there that you can think of.

Here's a device I used in a fanfic once upon a time... there's a black rock, shiney smooth on one side, natural rock for the rest. Anyone who touches it is instantly switched spots with their mirror image on the other side.

You can alter it however you want, but cool artifacts like mirrors and crystals and such make it fun, plus you have to figure out how he's going to have to get back eventually, and that will need to work in relation to how he got there.

[thepheenixeyri.livejournal.com]

Yeah that was the problem with the dumpster thing. I couldn't figure a way to get him back out. Coolness, thanks! :) He gave me a few hints in his bio the phrase "trying to find his way back out" is in there, so that would fit really good there too.

... oooh! Even if this doesn't turn into a nano, I'm thinking I'm going to have lots of fun with this!

::bouncy bouncy weeee!!::

Phoenix