NaNoWriMo 2015

It is upon us once more. National Novel Writing Month is here in 31 blindingly fast days. Of course I'm going to try it again. This time I will win. I need  a story I can complete in 50,000 words, which is going to be a real challenge for me since I don't seem to get stories going below the 25,000 word mark.

I balked on Isthmus Gate because I didn't have the world building done yet. I chickened out on the Barsoomian Jephthah thing, but there's some impetus to go back to that. (It's one of my favorite Bible stories, full of outcasts who suddenly become useful to the powerful and has all the violence and war making you could want in a fantasy adventure.)

But maybe what I really want is this:

STARSHIP GENESIS

Humanity has survived the environmental and social catastrophes of the early 21st century. It was a narrow thing, but the move to send millions of humans into deep space to seed a distant star gave humanity enough breathing room to fix the problems.


The world is at peace, and more or less serene, but there is a secret. A long time ago, during the most tumultuous years of the changes that saved Earth and humanity, the ark ship Genesis learned that their generations-long quest would be a failure. Their home star was not suited for life. They chose to come home, and told Earth they were coming back.

That message was lost in the chaos, and now no one is listening to those channels.

But Genesis is almost home and a civilization of humans who were taught that Mother Earth was their destiny have come back to a world that can neither sustain them nor welcome them.

I more-or-less copied this from that TV show on Siffy (sorry, SyFy) "Ascension," which had a killer concept but betrays the whole set up 1/3 of the way through the story.

Now, conspiracy? Romance? Alien Invasion? All Three?

Hmmm...