Over the past week or so my mind's eye has been ogling a potential plot that I'm hoping to woo for NaNo. It's a shy plot, only showing me a little here, a little there, never letting me get a full look at it but I've seen enough to be excited about the NaNo potential.
This year the foundation for this plot is rooted in a reoccurring dream/nightmare that I've had for years. I rarely remember my dreams, but I've had this one so often and in so many different iterations that each time I have it, the more it sticks in my memory. Currently, I don't have a whole lot to go on beyond imagery and feelings that the dream invokes but it gives me a really interesting perspective from which to approach this novel.
The only outline I have thus far is for the very beginning where I set my stage for the rest of the story, after that I will be oblivious to what happens next. If all goes well, I will write the story as though I was dreaming it, with all of the intensity and uncertainty that comes from truly not knowing how it ends... if it ends at all. Of course the story will have to come to an end, but will the story be resolved in the end? (Who knows, I sure don't!) For me, some of the best types of stories are the ones where, as a reader, you have no idea what to expect where everyone, even the hero, may not make it through the plot unscathed.
