wingedflight | Don't Feed the Space Trolls and other origfic updates

Camp Nanowrimo refreshed its site yesterday so it is now possible to update novel info for participation in July. This is very exciting for me, as I have spent the last month and a half actively planning for the origfic I'm going to be working on. So today, I updated both my user and novel pages, which you can check out here if you're so inclined.

I thought of a working title! From now on, or at least until I think of something better, this story's going under the name "Don't Feed the Space Trolls." I'm probably the only one who finds it funny.

I (mostly) finished my updated plan flowchart last week and have spent the time since working on turning it into a detailed written synopsis because why not and also maybe it will help. I don't know. I do know that I've been developing this story for three years and I want to do it right, you know? Or something like that. I definitely don't want to peter out halfway through the month of nano again, as I've done much too often. Hopefully a very strong, developed plan will help me with that.

I also came up with a summary that doesn't sound half-bad, which is unusual for me.

Kennedy has always been the type of girl who jumps headfirst into crazy schemes without considering the consequences, usually for no better reason than to see whether it would work. Logan has been her unlucky partner through the years, roped into plans that fall on either side of the law. Unfortunately, he also ends up the fall guy a majority of the time, and it’s almost getting to the point where enough is enough.

Still, when Kennedy approaches Logan with a fake ID and a plot to attempt mail theft “just for the hell of it,” he can’t bring himself to refuse. Not when it turns out he has the star role. Not even when he learns that Kennedy will be keeping her distance.

There are a hundred and one ways this scheme could go wrong -- and probably will. The alien invasion, though, is a bit of a surprise.

Enter the Bureau of Xenonomy: Earth Division. It’s their job to protect Earth from alien-initiated first contact, whether by redirecting lost tourists to their destination planet or eliminating proof of illegal abductions. This includes the confiscation of alien technology -- even if that tech has just been implanted in Logan’s head.

Now Kennedy is locked in a race to rescue Logan from BOX:ED before they can ship him off planet. But with a contagious alien virus on the loose and deep-rooted political motives behind the invasion, the safest course of action just may be leaving Earth after all.

I mean, it still isn't going to win any summary awards but compared to others that I've written...

Anything else? Um, hm, well - I think I'm changing a major detail in terms of villain motivations which will probably influence the climax events significantly. In a good way, I hope. I should probably work that out.

In the meantime, I have a week and a half left until I'm done school spring semester. That's nice. Not so nice is the fact that I have to cram three papers and two finals into that time frame. Which means any progress on DTST will have to wait until after June 14th. Meanwhile, I'll just continue to worldbuild and pretend it's not distracting me from real life schoolwork.