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

[stephsicola.livejournal.com]

So I'm writing a sort of post-apocalyptic story about what the world is like when the oil runs out, assuming that it does. My story has three threads: a history book current with my universe, which takes place a generation or two after there is no oil, the MC who lives in that time, and her ancestor's diary, written only a few years from our future. I have a really clear timeline of how things went down, a clear idea of what the universe is like: sort of like the Village, but everywhere, lots of eighteenth century influence. The ancestor I know what I want to write about. But I can't figure out what my main character, Sarah, wants to be doing, or what the conflict is going to be. I've put in a potential love interest, but I don't really want it to be a romance novel as such.

I know this is a really general question, but I could use some ideas for a conflict.

[situationgirl.livejournal.com]

Well, think about the things that we would lose without oil. Obviously, gasoline and with that automobiles, but also plastics, and anything petroleum based, like in medical supplies. How does this affect how your characters access other natural resources? What if there were some sort of breakthrough in technology that would help your characters improve their lives, but would end up having detrimental/apocalyptic consequences? Maybe a parallel event happened in the ancestor's diary, and therefore your MC knows it would turn out bad and has to try to stop this technological advance from taking place?

Just a thought, and if you want it, it's yours. Good luck!