[Veltzeh]: 39.Novel Writing Workshop.Statement Sheet 2

 

The genre of the novel I am creating is Traditional (superhero) Science Fiction (with a hint of Adventure, Futuristic, Military, Mystery-Related, Psychological and Sociological?).

Target word length: 60000 (guessing, but I'd like it to be about that long)
Number of manuscript pages: 240

The lead of my novel is a 20-year-old, slightly non-conventional woman-identified female, Tayinrai Riekokai.
(Side characters who are sort of the main ones: Megan Sachseden, Magnus Sachseden, Charaya Bloodredsky, Chereye Bloodredsky, Victoria Morrison, Sebastian Morrison (also Cireth Sachseden, Garoam Morrison and Jaireth Sachseden))

Suppose a young mutant is forced to act when a city is bombed/attacked. (Yes, that's a clear part in the story.) Suppose she has no way of going back anymore. Suppose this mutant is the host for a powerful mind of a long since dead zhyikev or a human Zhyikev mutant.

Goal: Tayinrai wants her old, normal life back by any means necessary and needs to think of a way to do that. While she tries to solve that, she tries to please the humans so that they wouldn't kill her or do something else bad. She also needs to do this in a way that doesn't disgrace the whole mutant-kind

Crisis Checklist:
- Appropriate for target genre?
Yes, it's a very basic device used with superheroes...
- Will upset lead's life enough so that he/she must try to solve it?
Indeed it would! There's just no way for her to lead a "normal" life anymore, at least in her home. Her face has been on TV and the media, and her state of being a mutant is just not good.
- Interesting to you?
To me, yes, pretty much anything is or can be made interesting. I get already fascinated by characters alone...
- Interesting to readers, in your best judgement?
Superhero-like stuff should be appealing to many people.
- Fresh and original, to the best of your knowledge?
Well... The zhyikev legend should make it that way. Hopefully.
In response to the crisis, my lead decides to ....

Goal Checklist:
- Most logical under the circumstances?
Yeah, who wouldn't want back to leading a safe and normal life?
- Believable that achievement of this goal will solve the crisis?
Being a public mutant and having no normal life will strip her of privacy, friends, normal professions, her own professional interests and so on.
- Will cause lead to try to gain possession or relief?
Relief from publicity, indeed.
- If lead fails, he/she will suffer terrible consequences?
Bye normal life!
- Life without achieving this goal and solving the crisis would be unthinkable?
Indeed so.
- Worthy, high- minded motivation?
Not really, but the way she has to do it must be one that other mutants aren't disgraced just because of her actions.
- Pits lead against great odds?
How does the whole of Japan and all kinds of media sound?

Story Idea:
In my novel, whose genre is science fiction, the lead, a 20-year-old female, is forced to act and save people and buildings when her home city is attacked. She ends up in the media and radically stirs the mutant issues. As a result, my lead decides to try to get her normal life back and do it so that life for all mutants would become safer and easier.