nanowrimo_lj | Oo, summary! (X-posted to my lj) (Reply)

I finally wrote a summary... it's a bit silly though.

Dark Country - by RJ :)

Jingle Bell has finally 'made it': she's managed the near-impossible transition from two-bit street hooker to General's mistress. With a cute little apartment of her own in Holding and the domestic security that comes with indenture to a good man, life is sweet--in a post-apocalyptic kind of way. But, poised (literally) on the cusp of her thirtieth birthday, Jingle finds herself beseiged by visions of murders. They follow her, these murders: they appear to her in bed, and in the lounge room, and in supermarket aisles, as she's reaching to check the ingredients on a topshelf can. Always, there is a man, and he is eternally murdering a woman--is eternally murdering women--and the realness of it, the insistence of it, is starting to drive Jingle insane.

So she tells the police. Specifically, Jingle tells Nicol Larcin: a cynical, hard-edged soldier recently returned to Holding from a two-year stint pursuing mutant insurgents through the dark, dank jungles of 'Outlands'. Although initially dubious, Nick is pressured (thanks in no small part to the General's considerable influence) to accept her assistance when the murders Jingle predicts begin to occur. Theirs is an uneasy, if somehow balanced, partnership: bad cop, blonde cop. But as the murders continue, and fingers begin to point away from scapegoat insurgents toward the military's ranks, Nick becomes increasingly grateful for Jingle's assistance. Working, for once, as a team, Nick and Jingle strive to find truth in the heart of this dark country...

Here are some great writing links you might like to meander through... some are genre specific (horror/fantasy/scifi) but others less so. It's pretty much a random clunk of sites (some pulled from v.original cache, others from my browsing, others from CLL) but I hope they're helpful to someone!

http://www.webcom.com/wordings/artofwrite/storystarter.html
http://www.mallet.dircon.co.uk/nadvice1.html
http://www.unb.ca/extend/wss/wordtext.htm
http://hobgoblin.net/
http://www.writerswrite.com/journal/jan98/keegan4.htm
http://www.sfwa.org/writing/
http://www.cutlunchlit.com/links.htm
http://www.spicygreeniguana.com

BTW: I think I added everyone who mentioned it to my flist, but... if I missed you (I'm new to adding people in bulk!) I'm sorry, please tell me! (Or if you'd like to be friended).