Weekly Plot Help - Week of November 3rd

[alison-sky.livejournal.com]

Got a problem in your NaNo? Who doesn't?! But we've got a way to help!

Post here with your plot problems, and all through the week members of the community will scan through and see if they can help.

AKA - The best way to procrastinate is to help others!

So post your problem. Then take a moment to look at everyone else's and see if you can help them.

People helping people. That's what makes this community great :)

So have at it!

Comments

[colbyucb.livejournal.com]

Something that instantly came to mind was a plague of some sort, uninfected people left, the city got walled off/routes of travel were diverted around it (these would help account for later "forgetting" of the city), and eventually those that stayed died. You could have a similar scenario with a research/science/military test gone awry, something that kills a great deal of people in one fell swoop and the rest are sworn to silence by the government of the time and relocated. I'm not sure where those rank on the originality meter though, and sorry they both involve a lot of deaths...