The Latest Plot-Line

Mareke lives in a classroom in a school. The school is called Colette High, and it survived the the Planetary Wars of 3130. Mereke and her friends are getting up for the day when a boy comes up to the school. They are immediately on guard, since people have never entered or left the town, unless they were a government worker. The remaining cities in North America are now similar to city-states or colonies. They are too far apart for people to really travel. The government sends people around for a census every year, but that's about all. The boy says he is from the Athenian League. Everyone gets worried. The only thing the government says about the rest of the world is that the Athenian League is a group of rebels attempting to overthrow the government. Anyone who meets someone from the League is supposed to alert their local government agent, or sent a homing pigeon to the nearest agent. The boy is called Troy and he is traveling to the Athenian League headquarters. He is from the East Coast. The league dropped him in the region for a mission and he is on his way back. Mareke feels curious, but their leader, Jena pushes Troy away. She says he can have some wood for the night, but he will have to get his own food.

(Okay, update. I remembered this, and I'll post it for you, but it's not done. However, that is most of it. )

Nanowrimo ate my life

I think I have a totally new idea for Nano this year. I think the setting will be a post-apocalyptic Montana/Wyoming area, most likely called the Snow Plains. The people will have a steampunk era technology, though I've yet to decide on clothes. Comment me any ideas. The government will be a rather secretive, oppressive group. Their goal is to mine the last of the precious metals and fuels out of the land, the exact opposite of most everywhere else. Africa, I think will probably be well off. Europe is going to be the most advanced, I think they are going to be working on overthrowing the North American government. Europe is aiming at technology that is eco-friendly and they want to grow plants all over the Earth again. I think each continent is going to be a 'country'. The 'real' countries (ie: Britain, France, ect) are going to be more like districts, each has a say, but they have a continental 'congress' (?) maybe. 

At any rate, the main character is going to be a girl named Mareke (?) and she lives in the Snow Plains. ( I think one of the governments' things is to separate kids from parents and scatter everyone, so no one can bond together and rebel.) At any rate, one night in Mareke's 'town' a boy comes in. No one has ever seen him and they wonder how he got past the droids stationed around the town. The kids' leader, a girl named Livia says the boy, Troy, can stay one night. They'll give him blankets and some wood, but he has to get his own food. Mareke is chosen to take the stuff out to him. She's armed with her kitchen knife and frying pan and she sits and talks with him for a while. He tells her about himself, how he's part of the Athenian League, and she's terrified. She leaves and goes back to to her school-room. In the middle of the night she's awakened by Troy. He tells her to pack all her belongings. He has a Basilisk 1400, a type of nuclear-powered gun (rather like a Neutrino in Artemis Fowl), so Mareke packs. She puts her knife in her boot when he's not looking and grabs her frying pan. He tells her she can keep it if she doesn't try anything funny then they run out of the school. As they're leaving town, Mareke hears sirens and sees a charred droid in the snow. She realizes Troy is serious about the Athenian League. Troy says the sirens are a new type of droid, designed to capture people.

I'll put more later, that's all I have now. I think Mareke is going to be the daughter of Abby Harrington, the League's leader. hmm....

With No One As Witness....

Changing direction again. I'm thinking I might do a post-apocalyptic story, slightly influenced by Harrison Bergeron. The world wouldn't be immediately identifiable as Earth, not like Life As We Knew It, more like The Hungry City Chronocles, but not quite that obvious. I think some words and most names could be versions of present day pronunciations. Loora/Laura or something like that. I'm thinking there's a powerful but mysterious government, rather like Russia in the animated movie Anastasia. Something happens and a female lead and probably a boy her age go off to figure it out. Maybe they find out their region is way behind, the rest of the world is advanced into Steampunk. They ally with some other liberal group and go from there. Names- Teese and Jefree? I don't know. It's a start.