I tend to get distracted by shiny things and the Pyro Sand Game. What I really need is a couple of people to keep me grounded in writing (and I'll do the same for them) so that I'm able to just focus every once and a while. I'm aiming for 70K-90K, and I don't want it to be fantastical, happy or anything like that. I'm really trying to stay away from cute. I've tried them, and am embarrassed of my attempts.
So basically the story is a YA about a 20-22 year old runaway that has the power to control fire, and lives in a special (fictitious) asylum. This whole story was inspired by me reading the DSM IV.
Official Summary:
“Diamonds can be for normal girls, but Amani needs the fire that makes them”
Amani has no idea what a real home is like. Not living on the run like she has been. For years. As her father had taught her, stopping to live only meant living to be in captive. People like them--a pyrokinetic and a shapeshifter--they were only bound to run or be captured by the asylums.
But one night, Amani’s father goes missing, leaving only a note and Amani in confusion. She doesn’t even have time to sort out her new plans before the asylum catches her, and she is forced to be taken to a place she’d always been taught to fear. What’s worse--when she gets there, it’s not so bad. She gets the red carpet treatment, private training and possibly more friends and hot meals than she’d ever had in her life.
No matter how good her life becomes, though, she can’t forget about her father. And the opportunity of escape and look for him springs before her in the form of her mentor, Bishop. But maybe Amani is in over her head. Rather than a cake-escape, she's sent to capture people like her--runaways. And they're not going down without a fight. Amani must fight her way through the Midwest is what started as a calculated escape, but turning into a mass genocide.
This story has some course language and sexual concepts so it would be rated R.
I'm looking for a beta/critique partner that can critique in my plot and characters--grammar and mechanics aren't as important to me, but it would still help. I am extremely forgetful and it is likely emails will sit for a week because I swore I replied, but if this happens just shove me.I'd also like it if you could push me to write and stop being lazy--motivate me, I guess. That would be awesome. And I'll do the same, if you want!
So basically the story is a YA about a 20-22 year old runaway that has the power to control fire, and lives in a special (fictitious) asylum. This whole story was inspired by me reading the DSM IV.
Official Summary:
“Diamonds can be for normal girls, but Amani needs the fire that makes them”
Amani has no idea what a real home is like. Not living on the run like she has been. For years. As her father had taught her, stopping to live only meant living to be in captive. People like them--a pyrokinetic and a shapeshifter--they were only bound to run or be captured by the asylums.
But one night, Amani’s father goes missing, leaving only a note and Amani in confusion. She doesn’t even have time to sort out her new plans before the asylum catches her, and she is forced to be taken to a place she’d always been taught to fear. What’s worse--when she gets there, it’s not so bad. She gets the red carpet treatment, private training and possibly more friends and hot meals than she’d ever had in her life.
No matter how good her life becomes, though, she can’t forget about her father. And the opportunity of escape and look for him springs before her in the form of her mentor, Bishop. But maybe Amani is in over her head. Rather than a cake-escape, she's sent to capture people like her--runaways. And they're not going down without a fight. Amani must fight her way through the Midwest is what started as a calculated escape, but turning into a mass genocide.
This story has some course language and sexual concepts so it would be rated R.
I'm looking for a beta/critique partner that can critique in my plot and characters--grammar and mechanics aren't as important to me, but it would still help. I am extremely forgetful and it is likely emails will sit for a week because I swore I replied, but if this happens just shove me.I'd also like it if you could push me to write and stop being lazy--motivate me, I guess. That would be awesome. And I'll do the same, if you want!
