NaNo Plot Help!!!!! - November 5th - 8th

[alison-sky.livejournal.com]

Hey folks... need help with your plots?

THIS is the place to post your requests. Get help with your plots, and help other people with the snags that they have in theirs.

please do not post individual call outs for help in your plots. We set this system up for a reason, otherwise you'll have about 4000 people a day wanting to do so. Thanks.

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[foulds.livejournal.com]

A very strange and gruesome murder has been committed in a city, which has encouraged a mysterious man - who most had believed to be just a character in stories - to appear in private to the city's leader, seeking to stop the party responsible, as he believes the murder may be part of a larger plan.

The question is; how is he going to find and stop those responsible?

[sophiedb.livejournal.com]

My MC is meeting another woman she met 10 years ago while backpacking. They reminisce and do a little business to justify putting the meal on an expense account. Friend comes up with OMG!coolidea on which the rest of the plot is based, namely seeking out another character who is legendary but neither have ever met her.

..but something else needs to happen before my MC begins her quest. I have no idea what, it just feels like there should be something else that galvanises her determination *sigh*

Ok, scratch that. Obligatory sexpot has just entered the building, and he's the friend's other half :D

[callita623.livejournal.com]

as i start out my MC is in college. she's in a passionate relationship with a friend (first true love type thing). he dies. she ends up traumatized by the death and whatever caused it. she does not witness him die. she finds out from someone else.

so how does he die?

[writers-sword.livejournal.com]

My MC's father just died, but it turns out he's not her biological father. She has no idea. I want to introduce her bio father's son into the picture, in a way that her mother will realize who he is.

Since the mother is a teacher, I was going to make him fill in for her while she was taking care of her dying husband. But a teacher friend confirmed for me that if you're taking a long leave of absence, you will usually know who's going to fill in for you.

So help. I need a plot device to introduce him into the story!

[chibiku.livejournal.com]

Okay so I have two MCs. A young woman, and a young man. And also this little boy who is on the run from a group of scientists who want to experiment on him. :(

The boy first means the young man and explains his plight, and the man decides to help him.

I need a way to get them to meet up with the woman. At the moment the males are in a port town, and the woman is an hour north in a giant more industrialized city. The problem is, if the men were to run, they'd just take the man's ship and flee to sea.

[etzyofi.livejournal.com]

OKAY.

My MCs' family is in the Mafia. In the second chapter, the Don of the family is murdered by a Russian mob faction living in New Jersey. The Don was handicapped in the seventies from getting shot three times, and the family has been considered a joke in the mafia ever since. The Don, the uncle of the MCs wants one of them to be his successor and to lead the family to *~*~*glory**~**~. After the MC takes his place as Don at the age of 18, he begins to draw his family out of drug trafficking and other very unsavory things that led them into ruin. His family's rise to success causes an all out war in the Italian American mafia.

This is just the subplot btw LMFAO.

How would this take place without sounding stupid and unrealistic? Does anyone have any more info on the mafia's dealings? What could they be involved in, how could a war be executed without drawing the attention of the FBI?

[terenewen.livejournal.com]

I need a strange condition for a will. Something that would be my seventeen year old secondary character from inheriting his parents' few worldly goods for a few years.

Maybe some condition or something? Aaah, it's too late at night to think about these things.

[verdika.livejournal.com]

I thought I'd be able to write around this, but apparently I can't.

I need a viable reason why various Middle Eastern countries would join with China in a war to eliminate the USA/Europe/allies. Or more accurately, what's in it for China. My story is present day, but obviously with alternate history. And it would be helpful if the explanation involved a reason why most of the initial fighting was in China, and then in the Middle East & eastern Asia (my story takes place in Afghanistan) and Europe, and then finally in North America.