Hi Friends! After our fun discussions during coffee on Wednesday night I was inspired to write a bare bones summary of my Nanowrimo (Nation Novel Writing Month) novelette. It is very much a work in progress, but here is the summary of what I'm thinking of writing so far!
The year is 2010 and the heroine is a 30 year old career focused historian named Chloe. Her area of research is on literature and art during the early middle ages (5th to 1000th century) and her and her assistant Luke are on a flight from Canada to London where she is supposed to be speaking at a conference on monasticism during the dark ages . Chloe decides to arrive a week early so she can take a train up to the Northern edge of Scotland and make her way up to the island of Iona where she can spend some time in peace and quiet to retreat and prepare for her conference. Her assistant decides to join her as he has recently broken up with his girlfriend and is hoping to dive into work and take his mind of his worries. While there, the two of them start to notice each other and tension ensues. This is disturbed by a visit to the ancient burial ground, called the Rèilig Odhrain. A sudden wind storm forces the two of them into a small cave located against a hill where they spend the next little while hding from the storm. Somehow they both fall asleep and wake up to what appears to be a beautiful day. Both are feeling confused by their strange dreams and this confusion is further enhanced by the fact that everything appears quite different from the place they had just been. The year is 880AD and Chloe and Luke are stuck. How did they get there? How can they get back? They end up on an adventure involving Vikings, monks, and the famous book of Kells as the monks try to protect this important work and preserve the beauty of art and literature during the age of illiteracy.
Thanks to Michelle of thinking that my heroine would likely need a protector of some kind on her adventures in the past (Luke will hopefully do). Thanks to both Michelle and Danaya for making me think about what period in history interests me enough to write about and that I already have some knowledge about. I hope that you both will continue to share any ideas you have!
That sounds like the skeleton to a really good story! Everything fits together well and has reasons - nothing is just hanging there. I'm excited for your story, and I'm glad I could be a little part of it!
ReplyDeleteit's so amazing that you're doing this! i've thought about trying it myself, but my creative writing skills leave much to be desired. best of luck!
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