Haha okay, so that isn't exactly the title for the novel, but it's going to be about a witch so I figured it was fitting. I've been dying to write a novel for a long time now. I've attempted one in the past, got about 156 pages in, lost interest, and haven't gone back since. Anyways, so now I've got a new idea, something I've never thought to try before. So far, this is what I have for a plot idea:
- A witch from our time comes across an old photo while cleaning her grandmother's attic. It is a photo of witches being burned at the stake in the 1960's. As soon as she touches it, she gets this feeling of motion sickness in the pit of her stomach. Turns out, the photo is a portal that causes only a direct descendent of one of the witches being burned to transport back to the very day of the burning, and the MC gets sent back to Salem times. Landing just outside the line of forest surrounding the burning, MC watches in horror at the atrocious acts being committed before her. From her position in the forest, MC hears the humans shrieking in delight, glad that the witches are gone. She hears a man call out to the rest that they must search for the woman's granddaughter and suddenly, the humans are running in all directions, causing MC to take off deeper into the forest. *Here, I need to make a decision - a) MC has come back as the now dead witches' granddaughter, and is now being targeted by the humans or b ) As MC runs, she meets the dead witches' granddaughter and together they continue to run.* In the modern day that the MC comes from, witches are known to the world of regular humans and, though they don't interact too much, they have grown to accept one another. In the Salem times, everybody had suspicions about witches and terrible accusations about them. Thrown into this shocking new world, the MC has to learn to live in this brutal time and, along the way, becomes "adopted" by a group of witches on the run. She explains to them that she is one of NAME OF DEAD WITCH HERE'S descendents from the future and together, the group hides within the safety of the forests, moving farther away from their hometown each day. I'm also thinking of throwing this idea into this as well: There is currently a war going on between witches and the goddess that they worship, NAME HERE and an evil species, a former witch who has sort of "fallen from grace" and betrayed the goddess. It is his plan to take over the world one state at a time by killing off any and all regular people who stand in his way and manipulating the minds of witches and turning them against the goddess.
Uuuh, so yeah. In there I plan on, obviously, having a little romance plot because what good is a novel without one?! So what do you all think? Advice, additions, things I should take out/don't make any sense? When I say witches I don't mean the creepy, evil witches. I mean individuals that are deeply connected to the earth and to spirituality and whatnot. If anybody has any information about old folk tales that people had long ago about gods/goddesses to stick in here to make it more interesting, feel free to tell me!
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