Except this one is more vague than the one I'll be using this October as a warmup for NaNo. This one is basically building off of a little idea I've had in my head since I watched Clannad and was severely disappointed with how the ending was. It was so...anticlimactic.
So I'm stealing that weird "dead world" with the girl in it, and using it as the basis for this. This idea is probably going to morph into what I'll be using for NaNo this year, as opposed to my original ideas (Urban Myth and a couple others, but Urban Myth was getting the most priority in my mind).
It's not like I don't want to write Urban Myth and Eternal Flame (and I might even, after those are written, brainstorm up a fourth book that is about post-Highness Polly, post-Urban Myth Matt, and post-Eternal Flame Lia...though I might not). I might actually work on Eternal Flame (the one that's going to need the most worldbuilding and has the most amorphous plot right now) as if I were NaNoing it this year.
But I think I just don't want to write them NOW. I was originally planning on working on rewriting Highness first, anyway, sort of as a yearlong project I can work on when procrastinating on schoolwork. I was planning on starting work on it once Battlefield/Red was finished (AKA when the Battlefield story is half over...I will probably start work on Battlefield/Green during 2009 or maybe even use it for NaNo this year if I feel like it).
By the way, Red is almost finished, even though I'm only at around 51k or 52k. This is because I'm rushing like HELL through to the end (no pun intended). I imagine that if this draft even reaches 53k, I'll be unimaginably lucky. :P But whatever, it's just a draft. And this means I'll at least be able to say "hey, I finished another novel's first draft" without lying. :P It'll probably end at around 52k, though...but whatever. I'm cool with that. I still stubbornly say it's better than Highness.
Anyway. What was I saying? :3
Oh yeah. I remember now.
Okay, so I have this idea that involves a girl waking up in "a world that has ended". Basically a desert wasteland with the vague appearance of a ruined civilization. This is the "basic" world in the story, and she spends the course of the story (which might be more than one book?) traveling around through different worlds - since in the "ended world", they have these huge towers, and at the top there is a gate to another world. So the first story is about her in the "ended world" before she comes across one of the towers. Then she goes through the tower into another world, and spends a somewhat short amount of time there.
Like maybe there's a time limit for each world she visits - like a week? Maybe she can only spend a week in each world before she has to return. And to be able to come back to that world, she has to...do...something?
And she's looking for a way to permanently escape the "ended world" and go back to a place that, as she puts it, "actually has people".
...Yeah. Not like a saving-the-world story (coughBattlefieldcough) but more of a saving-yourself story (coughHighnesscough).
Except it doesn't fail this time. I'm sure that in the end, she will find a world she can stay in. :)
But other than that (and the fact that she has a possessed ring with a spider on it that is her "guide", but usually only states the obvious...though it gives her someone to talk to)...I got nothin'...
I might start worldbuilding for random worlds soon, and maybe come up with arching plotlines that last for about 10k-30k for each world. Then I can gather the arcs into cohesive overarching plots to put into a book/multiple books. I don't know if I want this to be a series or a two-part or three-part story (like Battlefield - two-part stories are annoying!)
So yeah.
Whee, worldbuilding! :P Maybe I'll steal the Eternal Flame world for one of the worlds for...um...gaaaah, I need a working title. HOW ABOUT..."The Ended World"? Yeah, whatever, that works. -_-;;;
Uh-huh. Plot mortar shells again, whooo.
Last point! It's not like I don't want to write Urban or Eternal (I really do! ESPECIALLY Urban, since I gotta publish it somehow), but I'll just write them later. After all, my promise to myself is that I have to have drafted five novels before I start worrying about quality at all. Rewrites, novellas, and scripts don't count. :P So I'm almost at two - I think I'll write Urban Myth after I've done those other three. ;) Since Matt and Sissy are the ones who stay in my head and make snarky comments about everything. ^_^;;
...That was a very long and rambling blog entry that didn't exactly accomplish anything...
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