Nanowrimo - the main November one
Aug. 11th, 2012 09:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silver_sunOkay, this is possibly a little early, but so far I'm enjoying taking part in CampNaNoWriMo, and I'm thinking of taking part in the November one as well.
Contemporary fantasy, set in Yorkshire. The world knows about supernatural creatures/abilities (werewolves, ghosts/spirits, psychic abilities - the existence of vampires, fairies etc is still uncertain) and they are tolerated for the most part, although suspicion and discrimation are still pretty common. They were officially recognised as existing (rather than just being suspersicion)in the 17th century. Psychics/psychic abilities were the most tolerated, and the Victorian era was something of a hey day for them, with the introduction of licencing in place of criminalisation. It wasn't until later half of WW1, that laws were changed so that they weren't considered animals (specifically werewolves) as the need for more soldiers grew.
They continued to be viewed with suspicion, and were formed into special units because nobody wanted to serve with them. This continued until the 1970's.
Werewolves and psychics continued to have to be on a register and were barred from certain jobs until the mid 1990's.
Although the law has changed, a lot of people's attitudes have not, and many feel that it was wrong to remove the need to register, while some believe that they should be removed from society altogether.
Actual plot rather than background setting.
Modern day supernatural adventure with a secondary m/m romance subplot.
Nathan is a psychic who's gift is to be able to see into the past of an object. He works for a small company of psychic who generally deal with finding lost/stolen property or locating people who've had money left to them in a will.
It's not a particularly well paid job, and he knows that he could make more money if he would take on missing persons cases, but a previous bad experience - the person he'd been looking for had died - not violently, just of natural causes, but he hadn't been prepared for finding that out.
However, when John, a werewolf, approaches the company Nathan works for about a missing relative, Nathan agrees to work the case.
Mostly it's because he needs the money - his house needs repairs and his car has just failed its MOT. But partly it's because John is a nice guy, and nobody else wants to take the case because the missing person, a student at the university is also a werewolf.
Things are not as they seem though, and Nathan soon finds that there have been a number of other disappearances, all of them werewolves.
As he and John investigate futher they discover a plot by an extremist group who are trying to turn people against seeing werewolves as people, and wanting a return to registration, and perhaps even to the days when they weren't considered human at all.
With time running out for both the kidnapped werewolves and themselves in danger, Nathan and John have to convince the police there is a case to look at.
And back to rambling rather than actual plot.
I've decided to set it in and around Bradford, as it's an area that I know well having live here for very nearly thirteen years. So the moorland which is just a few miles from from the city centre (about 10 to 15 miles), the Undercliffe Cemetery (which is a sprawling Victorian necropolis - it covers 26 acres in the same kind of vein as the more famous Highgate Cemetery in London). I'm planning on throwing in a stone circle which isn't actually up on the moors - but nobody knows about it until the find it in the story any way.
There may even be an appearance of the Bradford Beck (which runs in a massive vaulted tunnel under the city centre), a few empty and crumbling mill buildings, and maybe the ruins of somewhere like Bolton Abbey on the banks of the river Wharfe.
Contemporary fantasy, set in Yorkshire. The world knows about supernatural creatures/abilities (werewolves, ghosts/spirits, psychic abilities - the existence of vampires, fairies etc is still uncertain) and they are tolerated for the most part, although suspicion and discrimation are still pretty common. They were officially recognised as existing (rather than just being suspersicion)in the 17th century. Psychics/psychic abilities were the most tolerated, and the Victorian era was something of a hey day for them, with the introduction of licencing in place of criminalisation. It wasn't until later half of WW1, that laws were changed so that they weren't considered animals (specifically werewolves) as the need for more soldiers grew.
They continued to be viewed with suspicion, and were formed into special units because nobody wanted to serve with them. This continued until the 1970's.
Werewolves and psychics continued to have to be on a register and were barred from certain jobs until the mid 1990's.
Although the law has changed, a lot of people's attitudes have not, and many feel that it was wrong to remove the need to register, while some believe that they should be removed from society altogether.
Actual plot rather than background setting.
Modern day supernatural adventure with a secondary m/m romance subplot.
Nathan is a psychic who's gift is to be able to see into the past of an object. He works for a small company of psychic who generally deal with finding lost/stolen property or locating people who've had money left to them in a will.
It's not a particularly well paid job, and he knows that he could make more money if he would take on missing persons cases, but a previous bad experience - the person he'd been looking for had died - not violently, just of natural causes, but he hadn't been prepared for finding that out.
However, when John, a werewolf, approaches the company Nathan works for about a missing relative, Nathan agrees to work the case.
Mostly it's because he needs the money - his house needs repairs and his car has just failed its MOT. But partly it's because John is a nice guy, and nobody else wants to take the case because the missing person, a student at the university is also a werewolf.
Things are not as they seem though, and Nathan soon finds that there have been a number of other disappearances, all of them werewolves.
As he and John investigate futher they discover a plot by an extremist group who are trying to turn people against seeing werewolves as people, and wanting a return to registration, and perhaps even to the days when they weren't considered human at all.
With time running out for both the kidnapped werewolves and themselves in danger, Nathan and John have to convince the police there is a case to look at.
And back to rambling rather than actual plot.
I've decided to set it in and around Bradford, as it's an area that I know well having live here for very nearly thirteen years. So the moorland which is just a few miles from from the city centre (about 10 to 15 miles), the Undercliffe Cemetery (which is a sprawling Victorian necropolis - it covers 26 acres in the same kind of vein as the more famous Highgate Cemetery in London). I'm planning on throwing in a stone circle which isn't actually up on the moors - but nobody knows about it until the find it in the story any way.
There may even be an appearance of the Bradford Beck (which runs in a massive vaulted tunnel under the city centre), a few empty and crumbling mill buildings, and maybe the ruins of somewhere like Bolton Abbey on the banks of the river Wharfe.