Ooh, I cannot wait for December...these are all so excellent. ^_^
And because I'm batty, two NaNoes:
TITLE: Breathing Lessons
GENRE: Historical, Fantasy, and a little bit of good old Alice in Wonderland fanfiction *gasp*.
SUMMARY: It's essentially a teenage romance gone very, very wrong. William is your average slacker who runs off to join the Confederate Army, and is within two weeks shot in the back of the head whilst eating. And Anezka, the girl he leaves behind, is supposed to be wed to the butcher's son- but as clichè would dictate, she is none too thrilled.
William expects to find himself in pain, but instead he is dead and wandering around in a bayou with no feet or arms or bodily whatsits, until he comes across the house of the Witchmother, who in return for a few errands run agrees to teach him how to become human. While he's wandering around in the world of the undead, Anezka falls head-first into a wishing well and is drawn into that same dimension. Fun ensues.
I'm essentially trying to create fantasy that I would actually enjoy, and so I'm both very excited and very nervous about the whole thing. However...the Mad Hatter's tea party rip-off scene is going to kick some pants, I am certain. [Mine, at the very least.] Anezka shows up, frantically asking for directions back to her home, but is instead told about how the world 'up there' has gone to Hell in a Handbasket and that she shouldn't bother. Lots of fun, slanderous Civil War satire that I am uber-excited about. XD
TITLE: D is for Diphtheria
GENRE: I'm not so certain it has one? A mix of contemporary YA and medical sci fi, as well as sheer madness.
SUMMARY: It's basically my attempt at making a story about calamity and ridiculousness without actually making a story about calamity and rediculousness- ergo, a tragedy that happens in the midst of a characters' life that affects them, but doesn't necessarily dictate every ounce of their lives. You know those stories where it's about something stupid, like trying to make a point about how hard times were at such and so point in time, and so in every chapter the character angsts about how he can't afford candy because "times are rough"? Yeah.
/end rant. So basically, it's a character-driven story about how a small town in Nebraska- by the route of the unearthing of a devastated pioneer town- becomes infected with smallpox, and how eventually my main character, Sukie, must rescue them all with nothing but a highway map and a plastic kids' sled. November is going to be excellent.
I'm most looking forward to...I don't know, the interactions between Carl and his Babcia, particularly the scene where attempts to come out to her but she ends up ranting about not having grandchildren. It's nothing to do with smallpox, but it's all this uneasy poli-cultural [yes, I just made that up] humor that I drool over.
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