Saturday, March 12, 2011

Thsi Week's Nonexistent Reading

Soo....yeah. Not much reading this week...:/
But instead I've been writing. I love writing. Not crap writing, like "Write about a time when you were angry" or "Please write a 3-paragraph essay evaluating your performance at our concert" but real writing like "This story cannot be summed up in a 5-sentence-plot but still has a well defined conflict, although you don't know exactly what it is until the end."
For some reason, I have a new favourite number: 35. Why, I have NO IDEA. Probably some unknown connection in my subconcious mind....
So, in the beginning of NewNvl35 (which is all I've got so far), the first bit is entitled "The Best I Could Come Up With Was 'Sorry'" and is going to probably end up something like Inception + Th1rteen R3asons Why + The Host. So in the beginning, the narrator/main character, a 14-year-old boy named Jacob (Jake) likes a girl named Daphne DeRue, who starts out a lot like me. By the end of the first bit, she's committed suicide, mentally scarring Jake forever. Now Jake, being the science whiz that he is, has figured out that reincarnation is real. So he somehow sets up a device that will basically kill him, but it will be painless and it won't technically be killing himself. See, it's like a soul requesting a new body. (Example: Netflix. So say you want one movie really, really, really badly, but it's not in stock right now. So they give you your second choice, and when your first choice becomes availiable, then you are notified, you ship the econd-choice one back and recieve your first-choice DVD.) And since souls have lives too, and memories, and the older the soul, the smarter the being is. Where a soul has lived influences the attitude. (Example: a soul that has been a deer shot by a hunter in a past life and is now a congress(wo)man may fight to stop deer hunting.) You can also change gender, which Jake will do. His new name will be...coming soon! It's going to be rare, but pretty (like Juliet, but without the big meaning...I'm considering Verena, though. Even if it does sound like Verona.) And then in the next life, Jake is given a pet (dog, maybe?), which he thinks is Daphne in a different form. And, since he doesn't have to give up his memory until he wants to, he remembers about the soul-thing. After about six months with his new dog, which he still believes is Daphne, he decides to give up his memory, because he finds that he cannot have a true relationship with the Daphne-dog until he lets go, which will be the end of the story.
So basically the book is about someone trying to move on from a traumatic experience in their life. It sounds so much cooler with the long lists and bad grammar.
Yep. Randomness. Gotta love it.

Quotes this week: from NewNvl35
"...or perhaps you just can't comprehend my language, whoops, excuse me, I meant maybe you don't know the words I use a lot,"-Daphne talking to antagonist, first bit (I wish I had that kind of courage)

^^,
-Jenni

4 comments:

  1. Nice quote. I've actually said things like that - it's fun. You should try it. Plus, your novel sounds interesting.

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  2. Oh Ivy, you would say that, wouldn't you? But I agree, interesting novel. Perhaps your favorite number is 35 because you were influenced from a previous life. :)

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  3. Maybe I died on my 35th birthday O.O

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  4. Woahhh you are writing that?!?!?! Totally cool!!! Let me know when it's published, kay?? :DDDDDDD

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