Countdown to NNWM 2012 − 7 Days!

[ladyseishou]

7 days until the start of NNWM



Fiction depends for its life on place.
Place is the crossroads of circumstance,
the proving ground of… What happened?
Who's here? Who's coming?

— Eudora Welty



What are the circumstances of your story, Nano Writer?
Who does your protagonist meet? What happens then? Why?

Comments

[eien_herrison]

My character's a pokemon trainer who's just passed the entrance exam (in my world, you need to be 18 and pass a test to be a trainer; pokemon can be dangerous and this is their way of regulating trainers and ensuring they have the capabilities to look after the pokemon they train).

The main people she'll meet will be other trainers -- I've not got many sorted out, only the main gym leaders copied straight from the game -- and be involved in quite a lot of pokemon battles. She has aspirations of becoming a champion trainer, and she needs to defeat the gym leaders and other trainers in order to do so.

[ladyseishou]

Sounds like a plan! Does your MC have a personal problem to overcome (ie. fear of Pokemon, shyness, revenge, jealousy...) during her journey as well as the other gym leaders and trainers?

[eien_herrison]

Not currently -- I know what her parents do/did (her mother competed in quite a few Indigo League battles when she was around my MC's age and now gives lectures about pokemon training; her father is a scientist who works for Silph Co. in Saffron City) so I could easily build up around that.

Hmm, I do now have an idea that she's wanting to live up to her mother's legacy. Perhaps in her first Gym challenge (which I'm still not sure which one it'll be: the games start with Pewter City; my MC lives in Celadon City which has a gym but is the 4th one to be challenged in the game. She starts with a grass-type pokemon, which is great against Pewter Gym's rock type, but has no advantage or disadvantage against Celadon City's grass types) she'll lose and be unsure of how to go forward from that?

[sorry_neither]

After going back and forth between idea 1 and idea 2, I've finally settled on option C out of left field...

Manasa, the protagonist, and her family are spirit guides (as in, they guide spirits to the afterlife, not that they're spirits who guide living people), and one day her mother and sister bring home some strange woman to live with them and train. Manasa doesn't like her at all, and it doesn't help matters that this stranger and her sister hit it off quickly, as all Manasa's life she and her sister were best friends in an "us against the world" way. And thus starts her descent into lonely bitterness that's at the heart of her emotional arc.

[ladyseishou]

Sounds very cool and full of potential conflict! Yeah for Option C!

[zombie]

Mine's a fantasy set in a world that's a weird blend of Celtic and Norse mythology, the main character an elf (think...like elves in Skyrim, where they're just a race like everyone else). I'm doubting there will be dragons, but there will definitely be dwarves. And Draugr. And other assorted nasty goodies. It's going to be set during an unexplained abandoning by the dwarves of their cities and mines: They're just disappearing though a few will make an appearance here and there. One of the supporting character is a dwarf that's been away from home adventuring for a while.