This is also a place to get advice if you desire it.

Anyone who wants to criticize the plot summaries must be constructive about it. Posts like "That's stupid. Go and die." will be instantly deleted. Posts that say "You're doing #23! Augh! How about trying to find a different way for the hero to learn what's happening millions of miles away? A messenger perhaps?" will be applauded and upheld.

That said, on with the show!

Girlbrainiac

It is about a boy called Paul Whikestren, who is blind, and fifteen. He wears a blindfold, because his twisted guardian, Howard Ledwin, is hiding a secret about his sight that he wants nobody to find out about. The only way Paul can percieve the real world is through very realistic dreams, ones in which he inhabits the body of someone else. One day, he has a dream, or rather, a re-enlivened memory, through the eyes of a girl called Songja Hastien. Because of something he experiences through her(I cannot be bothered to explain here, just read chapter two), his entire town has gone through a schism, divided by opinion on the girl and her sister Verax, a Seer. Paul has never seen his own appearance, which is why for the first few chapters you will barely know anything about him. A mage called Simon Boscal tells him that he is not blind, but Eternally Closed, a very powerful magic that can never be removed. The next day, the whole village is destroyed, and the villagers attempt to escape the town on boats. Very few of them survive, while the rest suffer continual storms and are flinged across the sea by the gods. Eventually, Paul, Songja, Verax, Simon, and a whole load of people are scattered across various islands. As the struggle of power over the islands divides the original members of the same town, the real nature of humanity and the concept of good and evil is brought into full view, and Paul must decide for himself whom to trust if he is to find out exactly why all this has happened to him. He will find himself pitted against foes he cannot see but are there, and decisions where the consequences will be hard to face. Why do the gods want him so? Just who are these people that he cannot see, are they to be trusted? Which reality is the real one; his dreams, or the void of darkness that separates him and his friends and foes? But if he cannot see, does that mean he cannot see the reality of life? Are we better off being blind to evil, hiding in its shadow, running away from it? If all four people are to live, they must figure that out for themselves.

Er, not really a brief summary, is it? But my saga has just so much in it...Alot more meaning than I had ever anticipated. *sighs* Well, what do you guys think?

Summary: After finding/stealing an ever so strange crystal pocket watch-like trinket from an antique store, Noel and his best friends Akela and Jon begin having strange dreams about another world. And dream by dream things get more real. Until one day they discover one of the uses of the trinket and are magically whisked off to a magical land.

Yeah, it sounds even more cliched when I summarize it, but it really isn't that bad. It's not my better stuff and the plot is more or less the same as another of my stories but still. Actually I think you'd have to read it to get more of a feel for it.

Destiny Linthe (AKA Des): A normal girl from our world, her immidiate family are all aware of the supernatural- especially her grandmother and her "Uncle" Ridver. She was attacked by vampires not too long ago and still hasn't fully recovered. She doesn't like anyone noticing the scars from when she was violated, and only fully trusts Ridver since he was the one to save her from becoming a vampire herself.

James Onna (AKA Ridver): An eccentric, (philemaphobic?!) vampire who's made it in his personal interest to make sure the Linthe family is well protected from beings that would do them harm. Trapped on Earth when the barriers between the worlds were put up, he's mainly out to find ways to amuse himself. He has a particular fondess for Des and her grandmother and spoils them rotten, teaching them magic and how to recognize magic when it's being preformed. He has a possible romantic history with Des's grandmother- and just about every other female character that shows up.

Lon A. Naane: Known mainly by his confusing alias "The Gardener", he is unpleasent in just about every sense of the word- though that doesn't stop an almost animal magnetism he radiates from attracting everyone to him regardless of gender, sexual preference, or even race. Trapped in the Alliance of the Thirteen when the barriers were first put into action 200 years ago, a group of thirteen worlds that are ruled by the Time-Hoppers organization, he is a virtual slave to their leader and goes about doing her dirty work that's too dangerous for normal agents. For some reason he's taken Rick on as his apprentice and wastes no breath telling him that if he falls behind, he is left behind.

Richard Vincent: The only thing that motivates Rick is his mentor, master, and idol- Lon. Rick doesn't really care to think too much about why he follows Lon around despite the abuse, but he does admit more than once that he is unabashedly enamoured with him, and jealous of anyone who might have a closer relationship to the agent than he does. All he's known his whole life is Lon. He was born on the Time-Hopper's base, raised there, and trained there since he was able to walk. Lon never tells him anything about his parents, and Rick never asks. Since he is constantly World-Hopping to and from the Thirteen, Rick's aging has undergone many jumps and halts. Physically, he appears to be in his late teens, but his true age is unknown.

(No, Lon is not Rick's father before you jump to that Cliche Conclusion)

It has few cliché's, yes. Old man, for example.

XD.

anyhoo.

It's about a girl who buys shoes who can get her into her RPG fantasy world she created. She has a task there. on the other side, a boy gets a book that transports him there too. It's about conquering yourself and about facing reality. :)

Book 1: The Daymare Horn

There are five legendary items of magic on the continent of Ralthiad, one in each of the five kingdoms of the land. Fell, however, is scared of the artifact hidden within their country, and wish to destroy it. So they steal the Moonblade from Tiralon, which then blames its neighbor land Dreinor for the theft. In revenge, they burn the city of Tesiare... leaving High Sorceress Arian Wolfsong without a home. So she and her new friend Karithra travel to Krynn, Dreinor's capital, wanting both a home and to discover the reason her own city was burned.

Soon after arriving, however, they find themselves about to be plunged into a war between their own kingdom and Tiralon. They also realize that to stop it, they will have to rescue the Moonblade... and that will mean stealing Dreinor's own artifact, the Horn of Aon.

I don't want to bring up any spoilers... but the other titles are 'The Icebound Flame', 'The Moonstone Blade', and 'The Starlight Lake'. I am proud of this plot because it involves my characters traveling across all the Five Rivers, through all five kingdoms, dealing with all five artifacts, and going to the virtually inaccessible Lake of Stars. I also have a knack for killing major characters for the fun of it... which I may or may not do. Meheh. I am trying my best here to avoid the most common cliches, too.

Wild Child : Killer Instinct

This story is set in what I like to call the Rebellious Period, in the century following World War III. A single spatial expedition consisting of eight scientists escapes the drastic effects caused by a powerful weapon, and return to a chaotic world lacking any order or government. The two leaders have very different ideas on how to remake the world, one choosing the path of knowledge, education and equality, the other prefering the idea of power, superiority and corruption. So the two of them each create a colony, and form a twisted contest to see who could more successfully build a thriving nation, eventually turning them against eachother to begin World War IV. The corrupt scientist gains the respect of his people out of fear and torture, and creates beings of great power with what he calls Project Wild Child, Theresa Galeotti being the first of them. (Voilà the powerful **.) Little does he know that his very first successful experiment, the little girl who turned into a dangerous young woman, was secretly forming an army to bring him down. (Ahh, the plot thickens)

So that's pretty much all I have planned so far, and I'm going to continue to add to it as I go, so what do you all think? I also encourage anyone and everyone to read the story and review!

My story is something I wrote after doing some serious research about fantasy cliches, and thing I've broken out of the ordinary. There is no 'All powerful mage', just a charlaton magician who's really a complete dork. There is no 'real' magic, only percieved magic.

Basically, it's about a world called Necorr, which is devided into 13 cities. Each city has a different guild to rule them, the city the story is centered around is called Kindeltsu, and is ruled by the Artist's Guild. You see, Kindeltsu is famous for its art, most notibly 'Cloud Castles' And, I think you should know what those are. -wink- Well, something precious in making the Cloud Castles is stolen, and the mysterious stranger is accused of having done it. So, in order to prove her innocence, she has to round up a crew to go retrieve the scroll from where ever it may be. And these characters aren't your average characters either. But, you'll have to see for yourself. -grin- I'd really appreciate the reviews, and will return the favor!

Enjoy :D

Well, um, whatever. I'm thinking of writing a story which goes something like this:

Adela Leafshanks is an elv (an elf really. I changed it because I just wanted to.) who is sixteen years old, and the setting is modern times (although most of the story is elsewhere). While in school, she meets this mad guy called Aurion Mistytongue, who has a pet cat thingy called Humble who plays arond with chakrams, and he keeps on prophesying about the 'End of the world of Hiem,' and 'The Universe is falling apart.' Although Adela is sure that he is completely crazy, she ends up falling into a time portal with him and ends up on this spaceship, Starship Moramorator (occupied by three very different personalities indeed) in the distant future, where the Elphin Galaxy is engaged in somewhat of a Civil War between various races from other galaxies or parralel universes (i.e humans) Apparently, they are squabbling over a piece of a gem called the 'Sardonyx Pearl' which is the key to opening up the mysteries of the universe, but the gem holds a sinister secret which Adela and Aurion find out about, and must stop everyone from finding it or using it for the wrong purposes, but to do that they need to find it for themselves, or the Universe will truly fall apart, like Aurion had said. And the question is; if they find it, how can they possibly not fall for the same trap their galaxy has been bound by? The title of the story is Kteria, which doesn't mean anything by the way, and the story is really about temptation, using power wisely and overcoming greed.

((edited to change some details, and add some miscellaneous things that I forgot ;D))

Another idea I'm toying with. (BTW, my world's Riders, short for Windriders, are like the weathermen/women of Ralthiad. They are a team of human(oid)s, dragons, and gryphons who go out and fly over the land in search of coming storms and stuff, and that's how the world stays prepared for storms and such. Also, Raien is pronounced the same as Ryan.)

Stormheart:

Raien is a Rider-in-training. His partner is his sole friend and companion, and gryphon named Taelwyn. As part of their training, young Raien and Taelwyn are sent to the mountains surrounding the Lake of Stars to ride out a storm. If he survives, he can continue his training.

The two are at the storm's mercy--but when Taelwyn is struck by lightning, Raien begins to wonder if they will actually pull through. Then Raien is offered shelter, and he must choose between safe haven or risking his like to keep his status as a Rider--and to stay with the only friend he ever had.

Basically, sheltering in such homes and stuff is cheating, which is not allowed, though it would mean certain life for himself and Taelwyn. But if he gets kicked out of Rider school, he'll be separated from Taelwyn. Not a fun choice to make.

As for your little problem... hmm. I think it would be a very interesting manga series. It would be a great fantasy story, too, but the little voice in my head is saying manga. *shrugs* Your decision, but there's my two cents.

It's set in an ambiguous and tempest-ridden world somewhere between sci-fi and fantasy. Some of the society is very Victorian, while other parts of it are downright feudal. They still use swords and crossbows, but they understand photons as particles, and some rudimentary genetics. There is a clear class system largely broken up by literal elevation in "The City." The greater nobility and the clericy (it's a theocracy) reside far far above the ground in the suspended Overcity, while the lower classes inhabit the Midcity, nearer the ground. The shunned and hunted "tainted ones" take refuge in the Undercity, in the bowels of the earth.

There are two 'energies' or forces that play a large role. There's the Aurelia – a manifestation of light and order that bestows divine "gifts" upon certain individuals (it is the center of all life in the mid and overcities), and the Taint - an evil energy that corrupts and destroys. Those who bear the Gifts of the Aurelia have greater social mobility and can often climb to great heights within the various Orders, but anyone who is contaminated by the Taint is instantly cast out, or "cleansed" (aka, executed, Inquisition style).

The story starts with Cassian Corbin of House Janus as its principal character. Corbin is a young Lieutenant in the Prophylate – an esoteric and extremely powerful branch of the Armed Order that seeks to preserve the Aurelia by destorying and "cleansing" anything that could threaten the sanctity of the city, or of the Theocracy. When he's sent into the Undercity on a reconaissance mission, however, his unit meets with a cell of Tainted rebels, and Corbin is taken prisoner. When he escapes and returnes to the Overcity, however, his black and white ideas about the Aurelian Order and the Tainted have been turned upside down by the revelation that not is all that it seems, and the people he has been hunting are not the instruments, but the victims of a dark force. Corbin finds himself caught up in a hopeless web comprised of the machinations of his ambitious father, the prophecies of his naive fiancée, and the insane (genius?) plans of the Tainted leader Lucian, which may either serve to liberate the world, or destroy it.

Concerns: I'm working very hard to keep the Aurelia and the Taint from just becoming good and bad magic of the cliché kind. I'm aiming for them to be something less conventional (no fireballs, no words of power, no portals, summonings, minions, etc.), just energy that can be channeled different ways, depending on the person. There's also a prophecy in here (whcih I know made the cliché list), but it's horribly misinterpreted until about halfway through the story. I'm also worried about cliché connections between my characters: Corbin's father is a crazed, manipulative politician. His girlfriend sees the future (sort of). He has a supposedly dead brother who shows up in a scene that's dangerously close to "Luke, I am your father."

My main goal is to really mess around with the way ethics are presented, and the theme of what one is vs. what one does facotring into how they are percieved.

Does this sound workable, or even remotely interesting? Or does it feel too cliché?

Then don't make them "magic", and don't have people manipulate them as such in order to cast spells and such (in fact, leave spells out altogether, if you so wish!). Aurelia and Taint can be anything you want them to be! Make them energies: substances that powers all life and the Earth, and is inside every living thing (for example, like the Force in Star Wars or mako energy from Final Fantasy VII). It can corrupt, destroy, save, bestow; and is both peace and chaos, and can be contained. Make it the driving force behind life or something--anything!!

"I'm also worried about cliché connections between my characters: Corbin's father is a crazed, manipulative politician. His girlfriend sees the future (sort of). He has a supposedly dead brother who shows up in a scene that's dangerously close to "Luke, I am your father.""

Everything is cliched. Everything has been done before, since the beginning of story-telling time, so therefore, nothing, in reality, is truly original. That being said, some ideas are more cliched than others. Everyone and their mother writes about OH NOES some cheap romance story about two characters that hate each other for no reason, but then end up loving each other, or a boy who journies off to save the world--it's all been done. The difference between your book getting published or your manuscript sitting in the slop-pile for several months is the way you pull these cliches and archetypes off. You gotta make your story stand out. Okay, his father's a crazed politician. Since there's about a billion crazed-politician characters out there (and even some of these kinds of people in real life!), what sets off yours from all the other? Is there a twist? What's so great about this guy's girlfriend seeing the future? Betsy Lou can see it too in the other story over there! What makes your characters so interesting? Oh wow! Another Star Wars rip-off! Again, unless there is something really special going on around here, or a twist or some sort, why should we read about Corbin instead of Luke? Why should we click on your story instead of Joe Schmoe's a couple of links down?

Again, you gotta pull it off well. If one of your concerns is your story sounding too cliche, you better sit down now and figure out how to make it seem less so, or it's just going to continue being what it is: trite!

(Unless, however, if you can write well, because then the readers might ignore all your cliches for they simply love the plot and characters so much, they don't care. But, again, unless you can pull off some pretty darn good writing, you might just want to settle with some twists. Make your story stand out!)

It's under heavy construction to same myself from being sued for it, and it give it a bit diffrent of a flavor than normal DnD drow.

Story #2: Codenamed "Felenignum" A very, very cliche story being told from a diffrent point of view. Instead of being told by a heroic knight trying to balance his life along with fighting a war, being a role-model, and fighting a parasite, it's told from the parasite that's trying to take over his mind's point of view. The parasite takes the first chapters to learn of the wright* race, and shuftles through memories of its host. Events go on, and it meets a succubus that it strikes a deal with.

The pair find a city that has a sector of it taken over by demonic beings, and move in. They pledge their loyality to the big mean demon lord, Zemuh. Times goes on, and the parasite becomes annoyed with the methods used by Zemuh, and it chalanges him to a duel. Though he loses, his body is not destroyed and the succubus helps him survive the ordeal. When he asks why, she replies that she wishes to team up with him to get supporters of their own and overthrow Zemuh.

Using the succubus’ knowledge, it opens a portal to the abyss, and charges anything’s loyalty if it wants to get through. It establishes a core base, and its numbers grow greatly. The two demon lords fight for territory, and end up with pretty much equil shares. Another demon lord (rather, lady) moves into the city, though is shrugged off as an annoyance. The struggle continues.

That is when the parasite meets a rather insane celestial being that claims that “he” is human, no matter what he thinks. Using this as a good way to fufill an old wives tale, he plays nice for a while, leaving the succubus to run his place for a while. After he impregnates her and she has a baby, he tries to get his control back, and the succubus refuses.

Years go by, the baby grows, and the demon lord and the succubus continue to fight for control. Finally, one night, the parasite is deceved, and is captured in a seal, leaving the succubus to rule his territory. That’s where I think I should end it.

*Wright = human

The question here is 1, do either of these sound too cliche, and 2, if not, what would be good titles for 'em? I've thought, thought, thought, wrote, wrote, wrote, and nothing comes to mind.

This is concerning your second story, "Felenignum":

Usually, a good question to ask yourself before you start writing your story is, "What am I, as the author, trying to say to my readers?" For instance, what are the themes; what is the plot; what is the point in general. Why should your readers pick up YOUR book (or, in our case, click your link!)? Why are YOU writing this? This basic question is the foundation to every story.

That being said, when I read your summary, I didn't really see where exactly your story was going, or what was the point, if there was any. I just read about a parasite switching hosts a lot and fighting a buncha demons. And it was like, "Okay..." So what? Where's this story going? What are the characters' motives and what's the thesis of the story? If your story's just a bunch of unconnected events, it won't make for a good book. At all.

Another good question to ask yourself is, "If I had to summarize the book on the dust jacket, what would it say?" That usually sieves out some of the more extraneous details that come with plotting and gives you the bare minimum: the essentials. Or try summarizing your book in one sentence. It's hard, but great plotting goes a long way. Don't just have events happening willy-nilly, for no reason. Give yourself a central theme to work around. :D

Over three hundred years ago, a war raged against the humans and elves, since the elves believed they were the ultimate race. The elves lost miserably when the humans allied the other races,who the elves were hoping to target next. They retreated, and left, giving no hint to where they could have left.

Over the next centry, the elves began to flourish in their place of refuge. (If I told you where it was, then'll ruin most of the point to the story) The newer generation began to become more open, and so the elves weren't as racist, though not everyone went through that change.

An evil dictator took hold of the Sulnarian nation during the third century, when the elves had planned to return and make peace with the other races and beg forgiveness. He had thoughts of taking over the two other elf nations (Luthans and Taher) and wage war against the other races and to repeat the war that took place over three centries ago, but with plans of victory.

He charged against the Luthansians, and won. Fortunately, the pregnant queen escaped with help of a mysterious teen. She fled to Eilmäry and found a small family who took her in and took care of her until three months later that she gave birth and died, leaving the widowed woman and her older children to take care of the child.

At the age of sixteen, she decides to leave and venture the land, though three years later, she becomes curious about her mother, and her kind, and leaves in hopes to find where the elves are hiding.

Roanoke is a steampunk fantasy about a woman named Riley Tucker who has been sentenced to life in prison for murder and treason. She's rescued by the crew of the Roanoke, one of the largest battleships in the fleet of Sanctia, a small kingdom trying to rebel against the Empire. They offer her freedom in exchange for joining their cause. However, her history is deeply tangled in Imperial politics, much more so than they think, and in a fight against the Empire there's no way she can avoid her past.

Tears Of The Torn is my story title, it's in the action/fantasy/adventure category, or whatever. The main Character's name is Aroden, and he works for a tyrant at the control of a vast empire, and now he rebels. With three-score heavy cavalry and a great black dragon at his side. Along with several friends including his own son, and a mage, he makes his attempt to over-power the tyrant. The tyrants name is Rascar Triton, and he controls an army bigger than any, so the task of destroying him might not be so easy.

Its about this girl, Amida, who--because her mother was famous-- is given a job in this group call ARMS the Artifact Recovery Mission Squad. They go around finding, destorying or protecting historical and magical items. WEll she becomes a research officer, and while researching the location of 3 Legendary swords she encouters various enemies, allies, and factions who are all striving to obtain the swords. Also she uncovers the truth of her father...and the truth of the swords and how they are connected to a demon by the name of Asteroth.

Alright, there's basically one character that remains the main character throughout the three volumes I've planned so far (yes, I've realized that's in violation of some rule.... *shrugs* oh well) and he's named Raine Sakata. Raine is the godson of Trimal Sakata, an Executive of Skywing Corporations.

In the world I've created, Skywing Corporations controls about 80% of the world's economy (not real-life Earth; I basically took Earth and poked its landmasses around). Anyway, through a series of events spanning a fifty-sixty year range (depending on which events you think are important), Skywing Corporation finds itself controlling the world through economic and political manipulation.

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yeah... I have to go to sleep now... I'll update later.

Well... At the time the story begins, Skywing Corporations controls the entire world through economic manipulation. To complement this, they also have a large sect of the company called Skywing Security, which basically serves as their stormtroopers. Ostensibly, Security is meant to keep terrorist levels at a minimum, but since Skywing can declare any one a terrorist, Skywing Security is more of a military/police/army composite thing-y.

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Anyway, through a series of incidents (both human and Guardian/Supernatural), Skywing has to be dismantled by various factions, most notable among them being the Exiled. The Exiled was originally a political party within Skywing's home country before it was forced to disband following... well, that would give too much away.

The Guardians are humanity's guard's against Transposed Beings. TBs are basically spirits of the dead that either make their way from the Spectral Realm and into the Real Realm on their own or are summoned by a summoner of arcane arts (whoo...). Either way, they (and the summoner) need to be destroyed, so the Guardians are there to do it. Other than that, though, they stay away from humans. However, Skywing causes a schism between the Guardians (telling you would give away too much...) leading to the Guardians breaking apart along genetic lines into the Airis (sort of militaristic, Spartan angels) and the Fraegal (Vampire-y, but not really, and demon-y, but not really, thing-ys).

Anyway, the story revolves around Raine (the main character) finding his way into the Exiled in Book 1, his actions with the Exiled in Book 2 (along with the beginning of the reformation of the Guardians), and finally the dismantlement (or not...) of Skywing in Book 3.

I think what truly sets my story apart from others is the fact that a great deal of it lies with money and how it can be used. I don't think most authors truly understand the impact the economy can have in war. Although, there is an element of fantasy/the supernatural in my story, so it may detract from its overall purpose... oh well. Go read it now, nya...

Ok, the story's set in 5 different realms kind of..

The main plot line follows Jacob, a teenager who while on holiday is possesed by a spirit. The spirit, who has been banished from their realm, simply wants to use Jacob to help them get back. The main plot follows them hopping from realm to realm, Jacob being held hostage and lots of actiony things happening in the different societies.

The other side of the story gives a back story to the spirit, in a series of flashbacks which come thick and fast in between the main plot.

Did that go into any cliches? :S

It's called Crimson Moon because the story's ending revolves around the 'Legend of the Bleeding Moon' the legend says that the moon will shine red when the true leader of the world is found. But no one has any idea who that is exept the bad guy, Neros, and he isn't going to tell anyone anything exept with obscure riddles that he tells the main character, Zane. The leader is suposed to be revealed at The Black Monument, a gigantic tower in the far north, so the leaders and the power hungary travel to the tower. Zane and his friend, Cris (it's suposed to be spelled that way) end up following Neros to the tower to try to find out what he's been rambling about and that's the end of what I can tell you.

All the characters are sort of half furry creatures. As in they are mixed with animals both mythical and realistic and it has Angels and Demons. I have a magic system thats kind of a mix between an RPG and Eragon. It has many diferent ways to use magic and most of them are for practical everyday things. But there is a limit to the magical power someone can use at one time and they usualy can only use one or two elemental magic types.

If you want a more detailed vetion of my magic system just ask because it's realy complicated

The main character is Iekezlezyje (how's that for a name? It's pronounced Eye-kez(rhymes with Pez, the candy dispensers)-le(like the French word for 'the')-zij), and elf. Chapter one is somewhat confusing... basically, he's tracking a group of four elves for an unknown reason, stumbles across a cat who can communicate with life forms other than cats through telepathy (yes, I know, it's cliche), finds the group of four he was looking for, blah blah blah. Except, the group somehow knew that he was tracking them (you'll find out how later), so when they had a 'sentry' posted not too far from their camp, basically just within sight of it, which is where he's obviously going to stop to rest, because he doesn't want to come too close and give himself away. So they capture him (hooray for cliches!). he wakes up with a big bump on his head, they give him a cup of water, which is drugged. He falls asleep again and has a really wierd dream about his past (and that's as far as I've actually written so far =/) blah blah blah. He escapes because he's mega awesomely cool like that... no actually, they leave him alone for a while and his cat cuts the ropes he's tied with. No, the cat did not use a knife. Cats have claws. The first to come back to the camp is coincidentally the one that Iekezlezyje wanted to kill, which is why he was tracking them in the first place. Death of elf that Iekezlezyje wanted to kill. (To kill an elf, by the way, you have to cut off the middle finger on it's left hand. You'll need to know that.)

End of first chapter.

Fast forward about twenty seven years. Iekezlezyje's son and grand-daughter are visiting for the winter, and six year old Burlyt finds a necklace in the attic comprising of a single finger strung on a thread. She asks her grandfather about it, and since it's rather hard to explain the presence of a necklace made up of a finger, he decides to tell her and his son his life story, and that's basically where the real story begins.

Iekezlezyje was a shy elf who didn't like to hang around with anyone, and a lot of bullies liked to take advantage of it. So one day he's about to get beaten to a pulp, and the new elf in town, Tevug'vuft, helps him out. Immediate bonding, best friendship in the world. Time passes, friendship grows stronger. Tevug'vuft nearly dies in battle, survives, etc. And here comes the kicker, one day Tevug'vuft (omgz oh noes) steals Iekezlezyje's most prized possession while Iekezlezyje is away. Yes, there is a reason for it. Anyway, this results in the break up of their friendship, Iekezlezyje becomes withdrawn again, like he was when he was younger, and eventually just leaves the town to wander.

He runs into a group of Gryphons working for a mysterious being known as Ekoys, they capture Iekezlezyje easily, after all, he's a lone elf and they're a group a dozen strong. Iekezlezyje becomes the slave of Ekoys through a long and complicated process, blah blah blah. (I say that a lot, don't I?)

So a couple of years later, Iekezlezyje is running an errand for Ekoys which involves him crossing the whole continent and coming back in order to deliver an important thingymabob, I'm not telling what it is. On the way back, he runs into a group of elves, all of whom he recognizes, but he can't remember where from. So he just keeps on going. Two or three days later, he realizes that the elves were Tevug'vuft, Zyuru, and a couple of his other old friends, turns around and starts tracking them, because of course he's still holding a grudge against Tevug'vuft. That and he wants to chat and catch up on what's been happening since he left. So now we're back at chapter one, yay! but now the story continues past the killing of Tevug'vuft, and traces all of Iekezlezyje's adventures and mishaps, which are too many to list here, and I'm getting the feeling that I'm boring you all to death. So much for a short summary.

K, great, tell me what you think, or don't, it's all the same to me. =)

Pssh. You're just jellus of ma madd name makingg skillz.

Any typos in that were on purpose.

It takes place, partly, at this organization of sorts called the OrAtion, where spies are trained, where normal magicless people can be educated, or where those with magic can hone their skills, etc; kind of like a medieval-fantasy boarding school. All the inhabitants are various non-Earth animals. One of the main characters, named Aura, is assigned to tutor another character, named Zharrow. They don't get along well, but are forced to be partners for the various missions that the OrAtion leaders send its of-age members on. During one of their tutoring sessions, Aura is examining a map to explain about a deadly forest when she notices an old riddle written on it. The discovery eventually leads them out of the OrAtion and on a big mission, but they don't really know what it's about; they just know that it's important.

Yeah...I don't have the whole thing very well planned out, obviously. :P

Eh, my story probably hits way too many cliches...

So, Firth is an (bratty) Academy Brat, with a rich mom, working as a cabin boy/page on a spaceship (That blows up planets). Kanteg is a (prissy) half-alien working on the same ship as a gunman, with an (absent) ** for a mom and an (alien) father who's the 2nd in command on the ship. They somehow get sucked into another world (By shooting their own ship with a missile) where they're mistaken for gods by a reptilian race, who speak English because it's the 'Language of Gods.' They get sacrificed to the (real) gods who are, in fact, a were-thing and a vampire. They then get tangled up in a Prophecy that's (not) about them, run away from the (crackpot) Prophet, and generally have no idea what's going on.

The were-thing is probably going to be a wolf because it's easy. Might very well be a badger or something, though. Heh. Werebadger. :Snerk:

Pretty much in my world there is the living world and then there is the Deadland. The Deadland is where people go when they die and they stay in the Deadland as spirits until they are otherwise destroyed. Except, there are some people who refuse to die, so they wander the deadlands, fighting eachother and totally destroy everything else. For they've been told that the last spirit in the Deadland will have life again. In the living world, there has been quite a ruckus because people are saying that the Deadland is calling for strong, warrior spirits. So, naturally, the people of the living world, thinking it for the best, set about to murdering their heroes and villians or anybody whom they think have strong spirits so that they can go to the Deadland.

Then again, not all spirits are out to destroy eachother for there are some spirits have decided that life again just isn't worth it. Life hurts, they decided, death is numb. Death is emotionless. Death is pure.

One of the characters is a beautiful, mute woman who, in life, was a poisoner. She's bitter against all people because people assumed that since she was mute then she must have had absolutely no thought in her head or feeling in her heart. They always thought of her as nothing but a pretty doll and she was married to whatever man would have her. This woman poisons all of her husbands and nobody suspects a thing because, again, they only see her as a doll, incapable of doing anything but sit around wherever she was told and be pretty. She trys to poison her current husband except, one day, she accidently poisons herself and enters the Deadland. There are other characters, lot of others, each trying to kill eachother.

What's the point of this story, what do all these words mean? The value of life, the value of death, perhaps, how when you're torn away from something you begin to miss it. So, go ahead, pick a theme. ;)

Girlbrainiac

Ooh...I'd like to read that if you ever finish it :D

The answer is no, I don't because 1) I don't have one and 2) because I say so. :P

I do have a new plot idea, though. If only I can figure out how to start it... I have the vague idea of what I want to happen in the first chapter, but actually writing it is taking me forever. I have at least ten different copies of the first half a page.

But basically... Tara, the main character, is first introduced meeting one of the other characters, Danny, who is the leader of an underground organization of thieves, and he wants to offer her a job.

Gahh. My mom's home, I have to go.

She takes the job, but only because they offer lodging and her father is abusive, so it offers an escape for her. She doesn't want to be a theif, and she's scared of breaking the law becauser the penalty if you get caught can be anything from having to apologize, to torture, to death, depending on the king's mood on that particular day. But after about a week, she's expected to go on her first "mission". It's pretty small on a scale of what she /will/ do eventually (not that she knows it), but she considers it to be a huge theft. She needs a horse because she'll be travelling a lot, and new members are expected to steal one.

She manages it because she's too loud and wakes up the farmer she's stealing the horse from, and when he comes outside she's so scared that she jumps on the closest horse to her and rides off (a horse is a lot faster than a running girl, after all). Of course, everyone thinks that she's a natural because they don't realize what actually happened (and it doesn't help that she got a near-perfect horse).

That's about as far as I've got in a detailed plot outline, but some other stuff that'll be happening... she gets pretty good at theiving and robbery, even though at first everything she pulled off was purely by luck. Her father finds out where she is and drags her back home, she's locked in her room for a few days because he doesn't want her to leave again, but Danny gets her out. She goes out to the market one day and meets a guy who she ends up falling in love with, except he doesn't know she's a thief, and when he finds out he betrays her and the entire organization to the king. Needless to say, they sort of break up after that. While she was seeing the betrayer, she didn't really notice that one of her best friends, Alden, becomes very protective of her. Yeah, you can guess that they eventually get together, but not for quite a while.

Hmm. I have a bunch of other ideas that I want to work into it, but they're still a bit vague and hard to explain. I guess it'll be a pretty long booknovelthingy, because I'm planning on having all of that in one. None of this trilogy stuff for me, I wouldn't know when to end one book and start another anyway.

I have waaaaaaaayyy too many story ideas. If anyone needs an idea, ask me, I have plenty to spare.

Anyways, I thought of yet another story I want to write... but it actually clicks for me! w00t! And I know much about the subject :D

At least for now, it's called A Crow to Call a Storm. I've actually started to write this and I partly want to because crows to be seen in a brighter light, as they are usually seen in a dimmer light (being evil or messengers of the shadow lord or whatever). But (as I learned after thinking the story up), there are religions (Native American, for example) that see crows as good, as messengers of the stars and beings that take the dead from the land (which seems to me as an act that symbolizes triumph over evil). My story follows one crow named Shira as she prepares for the winter and gets ready to join one of the large groups of crows that flock together in the winter. There, she learns that she is a Starspeaker, one who receives and delivers messages and prophecies from the stars/spirits. Starspeakers also have some magical powers, mostly to heal and control nature. But as Shira learns about being a Starspeaker, she also learns that winter is by far the worst time to discover her powers...

Lol, me too xD You should see how many stories I've started and stopped, or written a couple pages then forgotten to add on to.

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