Last night I started on the next novel
I had planned out for this November (I didn't get very far, but
that's another blog post). Because today is the first day I get to
concentrate solely on this novel, I thought I would tell you guys all
about it, and where the idea came from.
In 2010 I took part in my first every
NaNoWriMo, and it was a success! With 150k words under my belt, I
was feeling on top of the world when I walked in to the TGIO party.
I had my three novels tucked away in my bag, and I sat down with some
new friends I had just made that month.
Giddy with success, and excited about
what was to come afterwards, we started talking about the next NaNo.
We came up with all sorts of ideas for
books, but the one that stuck with me (The one that I claimed I was
going to write the next year) was an idea about a book that explained
how one socks inevitably goes missing in the dryer. I said that,
obviously, aliens ate the socks, and that needed to be a book.
Obviously I didn't write that book in
2011. First of all, I had forgotten about it, second, I just didn't
find it plausible to actually become a book.
This year, though, when I sat down to
pick out the ideas I was going to use for NaNo, that idea stuck out
to me. I stared at it for a while, wondering what I could possibly
do with a story like that, rejected the very thought that it could be
turned in to a novel, and then finally gave in and sat down to start
planning.
What I ended up with was no where near
to the idea I had originally started with (which does tend to happen
with most of my story ideas, honestly.)
My main character is a ten year old by
the name of Tommy Thompson (yes, it did take me a while to think of
the name, and yes I did pick it because of how memorable it is). In
the very first chapter his world is changed forever when he finds an
alien stealing a sock out of the dryer.
The alien tries to kidnap him, but when
Tommy evades him, he goes after Tommy's half-sister instead. He
trieds to tell his mom, but she doesnt believe him. When his friend
Felicia says they need to go after Emily themselves.
The story follows them as they go on an
adventure up to the mother ship, find countless other kids the aliens
have stolen to bring to their home planet and serve them and begin
searching for the little sister Tommy never thought he wanted.
As you may have noticed, it's a Middle
Grade novel. I've never written anything like it before, and I am a
little worried about having such a young main character. I think
I've already made some mistakes with word choice, but that's
editable. Plus, I started the story in third, but I really do think
I need to change it to first.
Other than that, though, I'm excited to
see what comes of this idea that I jokingly called a novel two years
ago. Who knows, this could be the novel that puts me on the map as
an author!
Do you have any story ideas that
you're not sure would work as a novel? What are you currently
writing about?
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Daily Word Count: 4,722
Total Word Count: 75,600
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