Thursday, August 4, 2011

Be My Motivation!

So I've been working on this post for a while now, after reading a couple months worth of a soon-to-be-published author’s blog. I started feeling really lame and a little guilty, because I have this idea in my mind about being a fabulous writer with five million published books and giving interviews on morning talk shows. But I haven’t actually written much of anything. A prologue, some outlines, and hundreds of summaries of my ideas. I promise you, I’m not even exaggerating about the hundreds.

Pretty picture! Did you know you can put a picture in the Google image search box?
What I have, or at least, what I’ve self-diagnosed myself with, is fear of commitment with a dash of indecisiveness. I’ve been focusing on one set of books, but they’re for my favorite character so I don’t want to ruin them by writing them first. I need a throw away, a book I like but don’t particularly care about making publishable. Since I’m indecisive and afraid of commitment, I’m going to let blog-land decide for me :)

Here are the working titles and short summaries for some of my okay ideas. I want y’all to leave comments telling me which one you like best. Whichever one gets the most comments will be the one I start seriously working on. To keep myself accountable, I’ll post word counts, something like every week, and maybe even snippets if it turns out good enough.

“12”
There is a circle of 12 huts with one in the middle. There are 12 people in each hut, and he is number 5. His life is simple – a few hours enjoying the sunshine when his group gets to go to the fields, a lot more crowded in the darkness of the hut, one of a circle of twelve identical huts. Then, his closest group member, 6, is replaced overnight. Although he has noticed replacings before, this time 5 has lost a friend – and he’s concerned that the new number 12 knows more about the center hut, number 13, than he should.

“Esmi”
Esmi is part of a traveling carnival, putting her fortunetelling skills to use after her grandfather’s death leaves her homeless. Unlike the rest of the gypsies, however, her fortunetelling is real. When Esmi’s magic attracts the attention of both the otherworld and a wizard, resulting in the destruction of the carnival, she must leave her simple life behind. Chased by demonic creatures and haunted by nightmares of the future, Esmi must trust that her wizard companion knows how to get rid of the curse she seems to have brought on herself.

“Ithica”
Ballerina turned revolutionary Anna returns to the capital after 5 years in a prison camp hoping for revenge on the oppressive government and her former partner, Mikhail, whom she holds responsible for her arrest. Once there, she struggles to bond with the son she hid in an orphanage before her imprisonment. However, she must reexamine her priorities when the government continues to intrude and she makes contact with other former revolutionaries.

 “More Blessed”
A single mother brings her 6 month old baby to the Registration Center, praying that she won’t be taken away – that she won’t be supernatural. When the infant doesn’t test positive, Mother is relieved. But that night, Mother is awoken by a loud growl. Thinking a wolf has crept into their cottage, she runs to the baby’s crib, only to find the infant awake, covered in hairs, and howling at the moon. The girl grows up hiding her shapeshifting abilities, until she meets a fellow supernatural – a recent graduate of the special institution that raises the children taken from their parents – and begins to question her mother’s decision to hide her powers.

P.S. If you ever have trouble reading anything on the posts, please tell me so I can fix it. I'm hoping this one isn't too wordy, I didn't realize how long these summaries had gotten :)

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