Tell us your Plot in One sentence (merged with writing exercise)

[Cindyh2k]

I'm serious, and I'm almost done writing it.

Sound like a great plot - I wanna read it!

Cindy

[cleverpancake]

In an anarchic los angeles, a language artist falls in love with an addict, a diplomat and the misbegotten savior of an abolished religion.



first draft in the bag as of 4pm last night.

[jerrymouse]

She unacademic and in school at the same time? What is an academic 12 year old then? Or do you mean she's not good at school?

That technicality aside, the plot sounds intriguing.


http://www.answers.com/academic&r=67

[Shady Lane]

I'm serious, and I'm almost done writing it.

That's amazing. I've got to read it.

[Madican]

Miles the Mishappy Maybe-Vampire has the ability to travel to different worlds via puddles, and in each world he gains new control over his power, new friends, and fights against an expansive interdimensional force whose face may be a little too familiar.

Meant to combine comedy and fantasy to make this serious but also a funny book to read.

[Shady Lane]

Miles the Mishappy Maybe-Vampire has the ability to travel to different worlds via puddles, and in each world he gains new control over his power, new friends, and fights against an expansive interdimensional force whose face may be a little too familiar.

Meant to combine comedy and fantasy to make this serious but also a funny book to read.

Sounds like you've succeeded. I never read fantasy, but this would definitely tempt me.

[Rhea L]

Miles the Mishappy Maybe-Vampire has the ability to travel to different worlds via puddles, and in each world he gains new control over his power, new friends, and fights against an expansive interdimensional force whose face may be a little too familiar.

Meant to combine comedy and fantasy to make this serious but also a funny book to read.

Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle spinoff, anyone? XD;

[Madican]

Nah, more like Sliders, trying to get back home while dodging bullets at every turn.

Though I am sorely tempted to put a Fye-like character in.

[Provrb1810meggy]

"A high school sophomore and a hopeless romantic, Lara, tries to get a first kiss before a play rehearsal where she must practice kissing Tommy, the romantic lead and the biggest jerk ever."

[Rhea L]

Nah, more like Sliders, trying to get back home while dodging bullets at every turn.

Though I am sorely tempted to put a Fye-like character in.

Mmm, that figures, if your userpic is an indication... heheh.

I don't really keep up with TRC, but Fai as I remember him is an angst!bunny, and while I love his lot in manga/anime, I'd probably find it increasingly annoying in prose... and I'll shut up now before I hijack the thread completely. >.>

[Stew21]

"At his dead father's last request (and with the help of the ghost of Ernest Hemingway), Eric must seek out one of his father's unstable Army buddies in an attempt to get both of their lives on track."

This is what I had the first go round. I'm trying to shorten the sentence but maintain all of the elements.

I'll be back with a few attempts.

(I'm using this as a query letter writing exercise.)

[LilliCray]

After six dead plot versions, I've come up with... :drumroll: THIS ONE!

"After Alex Whitman's sister is miraculously revived from a deep coma, the siblings are sucked into a plan spanning dimensions."

...wow... THAT's the best I can do...? Gar- definitely need to work on my plot summarizing. That sentence sounds like the blurb on the back cover, the kind that doesn't even summarize the actual plot. Crappy blurb, too.

[Varthikes]

Shattered Trust


The trust that had been building between the Humans and Draconians over the last seven years fracture when renegades from either side attacks the other.

[IrishScribbler]

Deirdre of Sorrow: Deirdre's past struggles with depression and self-mutilation surface, and after attempting suicide, she must decide if her life is worth saving.

[anodyne]

When an investigation begins to spin wildly out of control, detective Deanna Gilmore is forced into a world of magic and myth - in order to stop a murder, free her best friend and save the world she must reconcile the inner conflict between science and reality before time runs out.

** That is unbelievably difficult... **

[jordijoy]

An awkward teenage girl, who barely serves a murder attempt discovers she is really a he, and the missing prince from a place called Nagearo.

[MerryDay]

Mysterious letters and an untimely expulsion from high school send Olivia Archer across the pond to Nottingham, England - where new friends soon drop dead, old family secrets demand unburying, and a girl just can not find a decent chocolate-chip cookie.

Wow...that really was much harder than it looks! Into The Woods is a YA novel and the first in a planned trilogy.

[Alexandra Little]

My story is indescribable!!

No, seriously. (I'm still working on that little detail)

[writingislife]

Here is my current 1st WIP that isnt really a WIP, but an idea that I have swimming around in my brain. (Does the make sense?) -

Picture Perfect: The mother of a bride is murdered at a wedding reception while the whole thing is captured on film, now the killer is after the film AND the photographer.

OOOOH...scary stuff! BTW, how is this for a plot for a thriller? It's been swimming around for quite a while in my head and now Im ready to sit down to get it on paper. Would you pick it up based on the plot line?

[anodyne]

Mysterious letters and an untimely expulsion from high school send Olivia Archer across the pond to Nottingham, England - where new friends soon drop dead, old family secrets demand unburying, and a girl just can not find a decent chocolate-chip cookie.

Wow...that really was much harder than it looks! Into The Woods is a YA novel and the first in a planned trilogy.

Sounds like a book I'd buy. :) Way to go.

[raydad]

My WIP hook:

Easter Sunday 1944 would mark the beginning of a great quest for fifteen-year-old George Cooper, a quest that would take him from his small town Texas roots to Belgium and Germany in search of his father, lost in the world war.

[JohnDavidPaxton]

A man has four todays to stop his murder, come to terms with his host of newfound powers and do battle with an immortal cowboy.

[AdamH]

A young boy, who sees visions of the future through allergic reactions and witnesses the death of his parents and siblings at the hands of a shadowy figure, tries to unravel the mysteries of his own world and realizes that the only way to see the whole picture and save his family is to cause a reaction that could risk his life.

Tentatively titled: Allergens

[Kalthandrix]

The Knowledge of Man:

One man's quest to find an answer to a single question will bring together a band of determined heroes that will travel into the heart of a lifeless land where they will uncover an answer to all they seek - and awaken the wrath of seven gods who will do anything in their power to smother that spark of knowledge.

[Jack Nog]

Not really all of it, but I only had one sentence :)

An escaped convict, possessed by otherworld evil, enters a ghost town that won't let him leave.

[Enraptured]

In a near-future totalitarian America, a teenage girl in a reeducation center struggles to resist her captors' brainwashing.

[davids]

Tits tits everywhere-all shapes and sizes-blood and tits and confused cops standing in a small room surrounded by TITs-the conundrum was that the tits were not attached anymore!

[Jack Nog]

Tits tits everywhere-all shapes and sizes-blood and tits and confused cops standing in a small room surrounded by TITs-the conundrum was that the tits were not attached anymore!

I'm repulsed, yet strangely intrigued.

[Esopha]

Luckily, I practice summarizing my WIPs in one sentence. xD;

When Rosemary finds a population of species-confused gopher-fairies living beneath her farm, she embarks on a quest with the town shaman, a handful of gophers and a poetry-spewing magic mirror to give the King of the Fairies a piece of her mind.

[davids]

I'm repulsed, yet strangely intrigued.


Yes yes Jack-detached retinas can also be repulsive if viewed internally-however as you point out-there is something about bloody detached tits lying about in a crummy little room-staining elderly floors that is in fact strangely intrigueing. Even more so for a detective about to have a sex change operation-man to woman-who is on hormones and is curiously interested in lay about detached tits-now I wonder why that might be-Hmmm?

[Storm Surge]

A man, a teenager, and a childish little alien must keep a super computer from two organizations that are bent on galactic domination.

Boy, that sounds awful.

[Jack Nog]

Even more so for a detective about to have a sex change operation-man to woman-who is on hormones and is curiously interested in lay about detached tits-now I wonder why that might be-Hmmm?

I'm sure there is something Freudian in this...but I didn't study Freud so I can't pin it down.:D

[davids]

I'm sure there is something Freudian in this...but I didn't study Freud so I can't pin it down.:D


Frreudian tits old man-amonst others strewn about-there are even tits from Jungian Lycanthropes

[anodyne]

I thought of a better one in the shower today!

When an investigation begins to spin wildly out of control, detective Deanna Gilmore is forced face-to-face with the ugly side of the supernatural - can she accept this new reality in time to save her best friend and stop the rampage of a serial killer?

and WIP#2


Caught between a world of privilege and adventure, Jolie must decide if it is more important to be the daughter her father wants, or the warrior her kingdom needs.

[Lisa F]

I read the article online (someone at AW pointed to it in a thread somewhere) about the Snowflake method. The first thing suggested is to write a one sentence summary. Here is mine.

A woman investigates her mother's secret past in order to find her real father.

He suggests keeping it under 15 words. What do you think? Is it attention getting?

Would anyone else like to try a one sentence summary of their novel in progress?

[johnzakour]

A woman investigates her mother's secret past in order to find her real father.

He suggests keeping it under 15 words. What do you think? Is it attention getting?



It's okay, but it's not that dynamic. I'd prefer something like,
Delving into her mother's secret past a woman discovers who her true father is....

But then again here's mine from my first book, The Plutonium Blonde,
He was the last P.I. on Earth, could he stop a nuclear-powered, genocidal, exotic-dancing fembot?

[williemeikle]

A dead peer, a priceless antique, and the werewolf made it three for three.

[seun]

But then again here's mine from my first book, The Plutonium Blonde,
He was the last P.I. on Earth, could he stop a nuclear-powered, genocidal, exotic-dancing fembot?

Sounds more like two sentences forced into one ;)

Here's mine:

When the entire country knows what he's done, what chance does a man on the run have?

[CaroGirl]

A mute girl searching for love runs into trouble in the arms of a dangerous boy.

Okay, it's 16 words. So sue me.

[RJK]

A top detective, busted back to uniform, fights his corrupt superiors to solve a murder and protect the next victim.

[johnzakour]

Sounds more like two sentences forced into one ;)


Hey it's on the cover of the book as one... I never argue with my book covers.

[jenstrikesagain]

I can do my WIP in four words: "We survived, now what?"

[Lisa F]

Here is my new version:

A woman delves into her mother's secret past to discover the truth about her father.

[Lccorp2]

A Red anthropomorphic dragon defends his adopted home.

[Stew21]

http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=65405

Here's a link to a similar thread.

[Bufty]

Wouldn't knowing his face be more threatening than merely knowing what he's done?

Sounds more like two sentences forced into one ;)

Here's mine:

When the entire country knows what he's done, what chance does a man on the run have?

[Bufty]

This seems odd, and perhaps backwards to me.

Wouldn't it be that she discovers secret things about her mother's past while trying to unravel that of her father?

Here is my new version:

A woman delves into her mother's secret past to discover the truth about her father.

[BlueLucario]

Uh, I think this belongs in another thread.

[seun]

Wouldn't knowing his face be more threatening than merely knowing what he's done?

I thought about that but it seemed a bit cliche. Not that what I came up with is that great.

[Bufty]

Why 'Red'? And against what? A flood? A Fire? Dry Rot? The demolition crew?

A Red anthropomorphic dragon defends his adopted home.

[sheadakota]

If the cure was paid for by the blood of the innocent, would you still buy it? (thanks seun!)

(too vague?)

[seun]

If the cure was paid for by the blood of the innocent, would you still but it?

(too vague?)

:D

[Lisa F]

Here are one sentence summaries for books on the NYT bestseller list: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/books/bestseller/0210besthardfiction.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

[Charlie Horse]

Over chile rellenos and tequila sunrises, an unlikely group of friends decide to start a revolution.

[NicoleMD]

A disgruntled freighter pilot saves his home world from overgrown space slugs, while dodging the advances of an octo-hootered seductress.

Sorry. That's as short as I can get. :)

Nicole

[sheadakota]

:D
oops! LOL

[TyrantMikey]

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Fifty stories of concrete and steel falling straight down on top of him should have killed him, but Jacob had shrugged it off like so much rain. He just didn't know how or why.

[Sonneillon]

Fleeing execution, two refugees struggle to survive the desert and find a new home.

[Feathers]

Oh, I love this game!


It took over Ethan's body and nearly killed him - now, the creator wants it back.

[MMWyrm]

After reclaiming control from the others in his mind, a reluctant immortal searches for normalcy in a world he no longer recognizes.

That's too long and blucky.

[Feathers]

No! I liked it. It was intriguing.

[Varthikes]

Peace that has lasted seven years is destroyed in one morning.

[Sonneillon]

Peace that has lasted seven years is destroyed in one morning.

That reminds me strongly of the Joker's philosophy - "The difference between me and any other guy on the street is one... really... BAD... day."

[Shady Lane]

HIV-positive teenager travels with his pastor father and an invincible pig to figure out what immortality means.

easy ;)

[Shweta]

Thread merged with Stew's earlier one.

Meanwhile, I'm struggling to figure out how to summarize mine. Argh bleh :)

[HeronW]

It's hard to be yourself when you're half-dragon with scales on the left and everyone wants a piece.

[IceCreamEmpress]

A disgruntled freighter pilot saves his home world from overgrown space slugs, while dodging the advances of an octo-hootered seductress.

Sorry. That's as short as I can get. :)



You should win a Pulitzer Prize just for the phrase "octo-hootered seductress" because that's gold right there. Pure gold.

[KarlaErikaCal]

A young girl trying to find out her true past, is recruited by the Galactic Union to train as a Valigent, and as she journeys across outer space on her first mission, she discovers more about herself than she wanted to know.

[IceCreamEmpress]

Amid the political and social chaos of New York during the Civil War, a disgraced Boston socialite reinvents herself as a flashy, fresh-off-the-boat Irish actress--and a spy for the Union Army.





I feel that my plot suffers from a lack of octo-hootered seductresses now. :(

[otterman]

While exploring a peninsula across the lake from his family's cottage, Bobby Wright encounters a strange boy - the same "nature boy" Bobby's grandfather met there sixty years before.

[TyrantMikey]

It's a complex plot, but here goes:

When the laws of physics are suddenly and inexplicably defied, mankind finds itself grasping for answers, and Mark Anderson finds himself caught up in the middle of an earth-shattering plot that spans eons, involving gods, a highly advanced nanovirus of extraterrestrial origins, and a threat to all of humanity that he must singlehandedly prevent.

[RedScylla]

The only apology you need to give is for making me spew tea on my keyboard. Octo-hootered. Stop. No, seriously, quit it. ;)

A disgruntled freighter pilot saves his home world from overgrown space slugs, while dodging the advances of an octo-hootered seductress.

Sorry. That's as short as I can get. :)

Nicole

[Danger Jane]

A mermaid will do just about anything to get an immortal soul--even become human--and her mother will do just about anything to make up for her horrible sins--even help her daughter do something really stupid.

[DamaNegra]

For my first WIP: Is there really such thing as perfection?

Second WIP: What really constitutes evil?

Third WIP: What really determines our lives?

[Sage]

She swears it's not a fairytale, but Cindy and her friends will need a little magic to find their dreams and the right Mr. (or Ms.) Charming.

[Komnena]

Seven people are kidnapped and must break an ancient curse to regain their freedom.

[Matera the Mad]

An apprentice shaman stumbles upon his own good luck.

[NicoleMD]

You should win a Pulitzer Prize just for the phrase "octo-hootered seductress" because that's gold right there. Pure gold.

Dang. I wish I could take credit for that one, but a guy in my writers group coined the term. At least I'm smart enough to keep using it, right?

Nicole

[M.P. Furo]

(Interesting, this is probably my first real post since all I do is lurk)

I'm making mine two sentences because technically it's two plots with a crossover dealie at the end.

The half-shadow heir, Furo, to the Castle of Darkness in a faraway dimension meets humans for the first time, and is forced to deal with the human emotions that spring up, breaking away from the shadow side she clings to and finding her forgotten twin sister, who has deep psychological problems and a bitter hatred for the humans Furo now calls friends, which causes her to give herself and Furo up to the Queen of Darkness to die. Meanwhile, on Earth, a battle rages between three sides, all trying to fight for the same purpose, and all Elements, but Arsenic is missing, trapped in a human body, and when she is forced out again, she has to choose a side, and the human is left in the dust, but she finds Furo, reincarnated in a way on Earth, and must convince both the Elements to take her back and Furo to join the cause so the Elements will have a reason to take her back.

Wow, that sucked. I can't do a summary in two sentences. The story is better than that sounds.

[Vandal]

A young man struggles to convince the people of a small New England town that a centuries-old Native American legend is not a legend after all.

[Danger Jane]

Welcome to AW!

Now you can do better :tongue

Do we really need to know all that? This exercise isn't "write the shortest outline you can/write the longest sentence you can". It's condensing everything in that story or that outline to one sentence. The stuff I think you can cut is in white.



The half-shadow heir, Furo, to the Castle of Darkness in a faraway dimension meets humans for the first time, and is forced to deal with the human emotions that spring up,breaking away from the shadow side she clings to and finding her forgotten twin sister, who has deep psychological problems and a bitter hatred for the humans Furo now calls friends, which causes her to give herself and Furo up to the Queen of Darkness to die. Meanwhile, on Earth, a battle rages between three sides, all trying to fight for the same purpose, and all Elements, but Arsenic is missing, trapped in a human body, and when she is forced out again, she has to choose a side, and the human is left in the dust, but she finds Furo, reincarnated in a way on Earth, and must convince both the Elements to take her back and Furo to join the cause so the Elements will have a reason to take her back.

Leaving the second sentence for you to tackle, but do you get the idea?

The other story: A harpy estranged from her family falls in love with a sculptor.

[Finni]

Two orphans of two different generations must find one boy/man in a world filled with outrageous dichotomies which lead them to obsession, murder, and bravery, but through the stories of the past and the hopes of the future one finds his brother and the other learns what family really means.

[ClaudiaGray]

Hourglass: A girl is torn between two worlds -- that of vampires and of their hunters -- and realizes that her time to choose is drawing to an end.

Delilah: A spy's ex-wife must delve into the world of espionage to clear him of false charges of treason -- and confront her own dark secrets.

[MelodyO]

MP Furo, you long-winded little cutie, you! :D

You're in an elevator. Your dream literary agent gets on, and it's just the two of you in the whole world...for the next 30 seconds. Your job is to distill the essence of your book into one mesmerizing sentence before s/he gets off at the lobby. And you thought writing the book was hard. Hee. Hey, if it was easy we'd hire penguins to do it.

The Dark Lord over earth's Elements must choose between her twin sister and the people of a world she's grown to love.

One of earth's Elements must save her world and our own even though she's trapped in a rebellious human body.

And so on and so forth. Trust me, I share your pain.

[Paichka]

Mine --

The Cair Tallas Trilogy (not the actual title):

Book 1: Four god-touched apprentices are tapped to counter the machinations of the Lords of Misrule to save their kingdom, and one innocent bystander.

Book 2: The sons of the king tear their kingdom apart over their dead father's throne, while Evil Baddies(tm) attack from without, and The Quartet is forced to choose sides.

Book 3: The fight for the throne is down to two as the Quartet fights to stop the true evil from destroying not just Cair Tallas, but the entire world.

Really, it's far less derivative than you'd expect. I hope. :)

Briar Thompson, Soulless Wonder

A girl sells her soul, and lives to regret the decision.

[Shweta]

Wow, Melody, can you help me too? :D

Here's the best I have, and it's two sentences:

When the mayor of Den Bos is killed by a member of the despised elf minority, it's the spark both races need to set racial tensions (and chunks of the city) on fire. The captain of the guards and the killer's sister have to overcome their own prejudices and work together to save the city from itself.

[IdiotsRUs]

Jeez I've always hated doing this.

Ok Here goes:

Our Heroine must reconcile the war in her blood by deciding who should live: the man she loves and hates in equal measure, or the only person able to bring himself to be her friend.


That's as short as it gets.

[OddButInteresting]

Although opposites may attract, inevitably their magnetism will wane...

Ambiguous, or what?

Y'know, this is quite an interesting exercise. Kudos to the original poster! I never realised I could sum the novel up in merely nine words.

And it's just given me a cracking idea! Must rush to my notes and get this down!

[rwam]

Two boys and a girl discover a cache of ancient Indian 'killing stones' and decide to use them on the neighborhood's psychopathic bully whom they suspect murdered the girl's older sister (The Killing Stones/Urban Fantasy).

[swvaughn]

Hmm...

The world's unluckiest thief is forced to partner with a human-hating djinni to save a family he never knew he had, and a world he never knew existed.

(Mayhem ensues.)

[jessicaorr]

"Seven strangers from different religious backgrounds receive the same vision to create a haven for humanity in the coming environmental turbulence."

Now that was much more difficult than I thought it would be! I utterly failed to capture the subtlety of my WIP and created something that sounds like a tag line for The Real World: Armageddon.

ETA: I had to slip environmental in there. After reading it over, the summary sounded like something from the Left Behind series

[The Scip]

A man thinks he's losing his mind and tries to stop it, while people around him disappear.

[Lisa F]

A young man struggles to convince the people of a small New England town that a centuries-old Native American legend is not a legend after all.

Your one sentence summary has caught my attention. Let me know when it's published! :D

[shelboselby]

Ten orphans or otherwise neglected teens, having recieved magical powers in the hopes of ending a centuries long war in the magical world, try to find a way to defeat their enemy, which may prove harder than it seems...after all, how does one defeat a villian made entirely of air?

Score one for the run-on sentence.

[ChaosTitan]

Hmm...

The world's unluckiest thief is forced to partner with a human-hating djinni to save a family he never knew he had, and a world he never knew existed.

(Mayhem ensues.)

Gotta have ensuing mayhem. I'd love to read this, swvaughn!

[DWSTXS]

In 1969, a young boy runs away from home, hitches a ride with a busload of hippies going to Woodstock, falls in love, then gets separated from her, commits a robbery with a group of activist hippies, and is chased by the FBI while he searches for his girlfriend for the next 35 years.

[Shady Lane]

HIV-positive teenager travels with his pastor father and an invincible pig to figure out what immortality means.

easy ;)

Since that one was fun....the other mss:

A boy thinks breaking all his bones will mend his fractured family.

Sash's identical twin is incapactiated, and now he has no excuse for wallflowering.

Ian's girlfriend's a pregnant virgin, and--shit--it looks like his brother might be an angel.

Five immoral best friends try--and fail--to carry their Peter Pan syndromes past their eighteenth birthdays.

[HourglassMemory]

A group of the world's (not our Earth) biggest scientific intellects finds itself forced to walk around their unexplored planet with their society's most eccentric member.

[DWSTXS]

Since that one was fun....the other mss:

A boy thinks breaking all his bones will mend his fractured family.

Sash's identical twin is incapactiated, and now he has no excuse for wallflowering.

Ian's girlfriend's a pregnant virgin, and--shit--it looks like his brother might be an angel.

Five immoral best friends try--and fail--to carry their Peter Pan syndromes past their eighteenth birthdays.


5 immoral best friends........or immortal best friends?

[maxmordon]

The chronicle of the fall of a country because of its politcal problems and their people's impotence

[Ervin]

An orphan living in a quiet and protected town discovers something that has been ignored by everybody else for decades, and it's time he stops taking his life for granted, and take on more than he can naturally handle.

[Shady Lane]

5 immoral best friends........or immortal best friends?

immoral. That's one of the un-magically realistic mss. ;)

[DWSTXS]

immoral. That's one of the un-magically realistic mss. ;)



well, in that case, Ill buy a copy when it's published.....LOL

[Shady Lane]

:D Backatcha. I'm crazy about the 60's.

[jannawrites]

My one sentence (geebers, this is hard):

Ellie is newly unemployed, playing caretaker, and trying to pursue happiness with one man while another one stalks her.

Drat. It says so much, but yet so little.

[DWSTXS]

My one sentence (geebers, this is hard):

Ellie is newly unemployed, playing caretaker, and trying to purse happiness with one man while another one stalks her.

Drat. It says so much, but yet so little.


that sounds great! I'm interested. When can I read it?

[davids]

two gay men in love meet a one legged israeli woman equals managatoi passion and death with a little israeli secret service involved!

[Hopcus]

Damaged teen moves to new town and falls in love with a boy who is VERY different.

[Kallex]

Two thousand years into the future a seventeen year old leaves Earth and travels to the planetesimal Sedna where he joins a group who's plans are to leave the Solar System on Sedna, which is now a self sustaining spacecraft, taking RNA and DNA salvaged from a devastated Earth and then startup the extinct life on a new planet.

[Sage]

Emotionally-numb cyborg aims to kill a teenage girl, and ends up protecting her in order to figure out her secrets, including why she can't see him.


Tia, aka Death, had enough problems as a slave to her metaphorical demons without binding herself to a literal one, and--oh, yeah--where did this kid who looks and acts like her dead brother come from?

[Riley]

I guess I'll give the "one sentence" thing a try.

Ramparda Gati is sent on an intergalactic "fool's errand" to discover the answer to many of humanity's most enduring questions after her clumsiness ruins yet another chance at establishing peace (and financial relations) with the aptly-named Hostile Cluster.

Ugh, that's disgusting. Time to retool it, I suppose. Good thing the entire novel's still pretty nebulous.

[Oberon]

Willy goes wild.

That's the plot, that's the title. All I've got to say.

[MelodyO]

Willy goes wild.

That's the plot, that's the title. All I've got to say.

Noooooo! Now I desperately want to know more. :)

[Brighid]

Drat. It says so much, but yet so little.

That's the whole point - to say just enough to suck in entice the reader.

When can we read it? ;)

[Brighid]

My offering:

A young widow struggles to defend accusations of witchraft in 18th century Scotland.

[FntsyScribe]

Ok, here goes, I'm new at this, so bear with me!


WIP#1- A demonic mercenary saves, then recruits a young human, causing strife amongst himself and the others of his Black Guard.


WIP#2- A general juggles his duties between his impressionable son and his corrupt king, ultimately destroying them both.


WIP#3- Zephyss, a genetically-engineered vampire, must battle his blood lust and prove he is not a monster to the woman he loves.


Whew-that is hard!

[DWSTXS]

Willy goes wild.

That's the plot, that's the title. All I've got to say.


Does he go willy-nilly?

[Kerr]

Bi-lingual Claudia LaFontaine who disappears at three and turns up a year later speaking a third language and acting like a frightened wild animal, will soon forget the horror of her childhood, buried deep inside and waiting.

[Lyxdeslic]

The world will finally see just how silly their chase -- for little green pieces of paper -- really is.

Lyx

[astonwest]

Still working on the one-liner...but here goes:

Space pirate Aston West must join a pair of violent twins as they rescue their crew member and the money she’s hiding, or face execution.

[Queen of Swords]

The ability to use magic is a highly contagious and incurable disease, but when one man becomes a carrier - able to transmit the disease without showing its symptoms - he has to fight both the infected and the Immunes.