The return of the weekly plot help thread!

[alison-sky.livejournal.com]

Yes, I know you've all been waiting in eager anticipation for this thread to start up, and now you don't have to wait any longer!

So, for the new kids in the community, here's the basic gist:

This post goes up once a week. In here, you can ask for help on your plots. Each week I start a new post. You can keep asking for help each week, but try to ask for something new each time.

Also, if you want to get help, you also have to give it. Which means that you take time when you can to go through the help "requests" and see if there if anything that jumps out at you that you want to toss a suggestion at.

One of the beauties this community has is the willingness to help each other along in our 50k goal. And here is the place to do it.

And of course, that said, here's the BOO part.

With the thread means that these types of posts are no longer allowed to be individual posts in the community. So if you see one go up, feel free to leave them a comment and point them to the current week's help thread and the rules. I'll catch up with them eventually, but that kind of help (which alot of people are already doing for intro posts) is really appreciated!

So that's it. Feel free to start getting plot brainstorming down before NaNo, and help one another out. :)

Comments

[ripter.livejournal.com]

I think you could do some really cool stuff with this. If you have things that seem a little strange to the readers but the people in the story don't think much of it, then you can show later that the animals are sentient.

Like the comment about food rotting quickly, The people in the story have been dealing with it, so they wouldn't think much about it (just annoying) and the average reader would think that's a little odd. Then later in the story when it turns our to be part of the animal conspiracy, the reader is like "Oh wow!"

Other things that come to my mind would be things like, farmers can't grow veggies in specific locations (moles or something eat them. Maybe the growable land is shrinking?) Roads wear down really quickly. Never leave your wagon uncovered or it'll be covered in bird poop. People think a child has been sneaking into homes and stealing small shinny things. The well keeps drying up.

I guess if I had an idea of why the animals would want to annoy humans I could give more ideas.