A cousin of mine has been encouraging me to take on the massive task of doing NaNoWriMo this year. Part of me is dreading it, but some other part of me is thinking that I finished Hard Bank Left in little more than a month using the chapter-a-day method. So, here I am, thinking of what exactly I want to write about and a few under-appreciated ideas come to mind. If you, my loyal fans could help me narrow down which novel I should write, I would really appreciate it.
The tentative titles, genres, and loglines I have in mind are as follows:
We Are Pilots (near-future post-invasion)
Delta, an Air Force fighter pilot, is kidnapped in a sudden alien invasion, forced through a screening process, and is forced to fly as a pilot for the invaders in their long term interplanetary war.
Driven (dystopian sci-fi)
In the future, a terraformed Mars loses contact with Earth, leaving its unsteady government system vulnerable to the power-hungry crime lords that have long since been pulling the strings in political realms. Rya leaves her two sisters shortly after their parents die in order to work for one of these crime lords as a race car driver, only to discover that she's in over her head in more ways than one.
In the Time of Angels (religious comedy)
After Altamont, the Angel of Destruction, frees Belfast, the Angel of Time, from his "eternal prison" she guilts him into what she believes is the most important mission of her entire career.
Feather Flies, Jixies, and the Secret Door (YA Fantasy)
When her mother is assigned over seas, Jessica is sent to live with her father in his large, mysterious house where she discovers that not all childhood fantasies are imaginary.
Delta, an Air Force fighter pilot, is kidnapped in a sudden alien invasion, forced through a screening process, and is forced to fly as a pilot for the invaders in their long term interplanetary war.
Driven (dystopian sci-fi)
In the future, a terraformed Mars loses contact with Earth, leaving its unsteady government system vulnerable to the power-hungry crime lords that have long since been pulling the strings in political realms. Rya leaves her two sisters shortly after their parents die in order to work for one of these crime lords as a race car driver, only to discover that she's in over her head in more ways than one.
In the Time of Angels (religious comedy)
After Altamont, the Angel of Destruction, frees Belfast, the Angel of Time, from his "eternal prison" she guilts him into what she believes is the most important mission of her entire career.
Feather Flies, Jixies, and the Secret Door (YA Fantasy)
When her mother is assigned over seas, Jessica is sent to live with her father in his large, mysterious house where she discovers that not all childhood fantasies are imaginary.
