Dear Jess,

So, I mentioned NaNoWriMo earlier, and I thought I’d take a post to describe to you what my ‘novel’ is going to be all about.

I got this idea during summer, which wasn’t even much of an idea but more of an image. There was a slender blonde girl wearing a vintage, but simplistic pink dress; one that looked rather odd on her due to her body type.

(imagine this but in a light pastel rose color)

She was standing next to a boy who had black hair with electric blue streaks and eyes the color of fire. Not red colored eyes, but fire colored. They were standing in the middle of a narrow hallway with gold and bronze piping lining the edges and at the end stood a cliché evil villain henchman; big, buff, bald…and clad in leather.

I guess that doesn’t really tell you much about the novel, but for that part, now you know how I came to think of it. Here is the synopsis.

My main character is named Flynn (if you think that name’s weird, we’re just getting started.) He is part of the Creation which are a group of mechanically created humans. The government is completely totalitarian ruled by the man named Beckett Augustine.

During the time/world/alternate reality (whatever it is…I haven’t quite figured that out yet) the totalitarian government has declared ‘reproduction’ illegal. That is, the only way humanity is sustained is by the machines scientifically created. The result is not quite human, but nothing extraordinarily different (their differences don’t come into play as a big part in the novel) the key concept is the fact that the government has restrained the liberty of the people so much as to disallow them from creating new life.

The other main character is named Twilla; her full name is Twillanne Beaumont (yes, I’m intending her full name to sound odd.) She is a result of some Blue Bloods breaking the rules and thus producing Ms. Twillanne. Because of this broken rule, she’s been cooped up in a small room for the 16 years of her existence, so she’s gone a little insane, but not completely. When her parents are found out and slaughtered in front of her, she finds that reading for those 16 years and having nothing better to do than to act out the scenes in her book has allowed her to know how to do strange things…such as kill with ease.

All in all, this story’s about Flynn and Twilla bringing down the corrupt government together, I haven’t really thought about the in-betweens…
That’s my NaNoWriMo!
2,507 words…47,493 to go!
Hopefully I’ll think of those important in-betweens in the meantime!

Love,
Sam

P.S.
Here’s an excerpt from the story:

“She heard another scream, this time sounding deeper than the last, one that was imitating the voice of her father. The heroine character began to peel apart, much like the wallpaper that lined her room. She waited a moment, butterflies beginning to build in her stomach. She let out a giggle again. Butterflies. In her stomach. Poor butterflies."