That sounds really cool, KNeko! ^^ And congrats, Dan! Hope you make it to 11k tonight, or get close to it! I'm sure you can do it; you rock!!
Gah; powercuts that last for hours do not help me to get my daily quota of words done. >_< Lol! But the power's back on now, so I'll be able to write the second half of the amount I need.
Hmm... I'll write a story synopsis, and you know what? I'll add it to the beginning of my story so it'll be part of the word count!
Rofl! So sneaky.... *sigh* XD
Well, my story is about Alicia, my main character; she's a Chica (or 'winged girl'. In Spanish 'chica' just means plain old 'girl', but I like the fact that it sounds like 'chick' X) so I've used it to mean 'winged girl' in my story) who grew up (wingless -that's how the Chicas or Chicos start life... Chico being the masculine form of 'Chica', just so you know) in this stormy, rocky canyon type place. At this place... tentatively called 'Red Canyon' for the moment, dark, stormy clouds are always circling above, sort of like the eye of a hurricane. It's plagued frequently by storms of wind and rain, and the whole environment is harsh. There are a lot of kids/teens/young adults living there; they live in groups, almost like mini tribes, in caves in the cliff walls of the canyon.
But the thing is, though they start life as normal kids, these guys grow wings as they get older. And when they do, whenever a storm comes, they're in danger of being plucked into the sky because of their wings unless they manage to escape to the shelter of a cave before the wind strikes. Inevitably, though, they're bound to get caught out at some point; and in this way, Alli loses all of her friends, until it finally happens to her too.
From there, she ends up on a farm. The people here are gryphon farmers, and as she gets better she helps them out with chores and learns about the gryphons, etc. That's about where I'm up to now -and I'm about to introduce a new character: P.G (or Pierce Guinn). He's a Chico... but he can't fly (and he came from a place near the sea, not Red Canyon). His wings are actually penguin wings, and his hair is black with yellow bands across his temples... reflecting the colouring of a yellow-eyed penguin (love those penguins! X3 ). But he rides a gryphon, and once stayed on the same farm that Alli is currently on. He's a postman -delivering letters and parcels by air with the aid of his blue budgie gryphon, Budge. (Actually... I drew a picture of these two in the 'Original Character Design Competition' thingie for this month, if you want to take a look.
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Lots of things will happen after this... races, flying over the country delivering mail, meeting up with friends... but I'm not quite at that point yet.
The main character, Alli, was a bit of a tomboy but with a slightly more feminine side than tomboys. Basically has the usual personality of a girl who's been brought up around a lot of boys, or has had a lot of brothers. But after losing all her friends and struggling so hard, she's become more withdrawn and introvert. Though in the course of the story she'll develop courage, perserverance, and other good stuff like that. XP
Yes, sorry if that was pretty extensive!
But you did ask for it, Kokoro!
Now I'd better get back to writing.
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>:3 we should have a story trading party once the month is over. <3
Yes! That would be fun!
No way. That would've been so dang catastrophic. >_<""""" So glad you double-checked. Thanks to God for that! Sheesh it would've been terrible to have saved that error. I don't back up my stories... although come to think of it I've got the story saved in a separate txt file for uploading to verify the word count. Phew; so I have a backup then. ^_^
You people are skimping on the details here!
And I've only written about 1,200 today. ^_^"
