Round Up: Week Fifteen

Last week’s prompt:

We all have ideas for novels.  This week create something from the realm of your novel.  This could be a chapter of the book, a character sketch, a short story outside of the stories plot, maybe just a random character in the world that has nothing to do with the story doing stupid things, anything.

Readers, please note that this will be rough draft writing and will probably be nothing like any published works we may or may not have in the future.  

Amanda

A few months ago, on a windy day after classes were done at my University, I stepped onto a train to ride home and ended up spending the entire time writing a story bursting into my head about a girl who meets a boy on a train on a windy day, much like that one, and like happens in every boy meets girl story, he mistakes her for a terrorist spy and hands her important documents detailing the group’s next move.

The story I wrote this week shows a different story- the man is from the so called ‘terrorist’ group and is finding a target; a scapegoat. Wow, I never thought I’d get a chance to use that word- thanks tenth grade English! Someone so kind yet quiet that they would fall for the trap of a boy handing them important documents who would surely take them to the police and accept the blame involved so the group could go on with their actual plan while the authorities were distracted.

Stay tuned for the rest of that gripping story, if I can ever get myself to write it all down.

MY VOTE: Korrin

Korrin

My story is the first chapter of a book idea I had in Jr. High that I recently decided to re-write now that I actually know how to write well.  It is a very rough draft and looking at it I know that I will need to add more to it, namely character description.  I also need to figure out how to skip boring things that don’t really matter.

The chapter is meant to be a simple introduction to the character of Kara Williams and a few others and to set the stage for the story.  By going through this chapter, you would have no idea that the book is really about werewolves and a civil war, so maybe some foreshadowing is in order, or perhaps a preface.   

As I was rereading what I had written I realized that I am in fact pretty funny, at least in my own mind. I am glad that my humor is in my writing because books can be really boring if they are too serious all the time.

MY VOTE: Amanda

Kylie

I keep my novel ideas close to my heart, so suffice it to say that this story is sort of like if you mixed X-Men with Edge of Tomorrow.

This scene is pivotal in my novel because it’s the first time that the girl opens up to her partner. It’s the moment where things start to work and where they start to fall apart. It’s a moment of understanding, for better or for worse.

MY VOTE: Amanda

Next week’s prompt:

Write a story that will build up drama and suspense, but does not give the reader a conclusion to the story.