New Novel ...

Back in November, the month of NaNoWriMo, I was struck with an idea for a story - but I could not write it down. This idea bugged me for the entirety of the month, growing and maturing as it sat in my mind. It tortured me, let me say, to keep on writing something else, and to have to completely ignore this other idea that I loved so much.

The idea which had taken me so very much was a story set in Paris, sometime in the future. The Government is tyrannical, making rules that make it impossible to have a different party elected, or for a person who was born from a family without much money to ever rise above their class. When a rumour that there is a rebel movement building underneath Paris - in both the catacombs and the abandoned Metro tunnels, reaches the government, they react sharply and begin bombing their own city. The upper-class families, not wanting to be disturbed or disrupted, began secretly paying the government so that their houses would not be bombed. Juliette Raquelle, the daughter of one of these families, has grown up, spent her whole life in absolute luxury. But when her family runs out of money and her house is bombed, she runs away and escapes to the place that she used to play as a child - which is actually part of the catacombs. She runs into a man called Marcello, who works for the rebel force, just as the tunnel collapses. He grabs her and runs away, that being his only choice besides letting her be crushed by the tunnel, and thus dying. When Marcello and Juliette return to the rebel base, nobody trusts Juliette. They all believe that Marcello just took her with him because he thought she was pretty.

Over the next month or so, Juliette begins to be trusted by the rebels. She wants to learn to fight in the army that they are building, but everyone believes that she is just this spoiled rich girl, who has never had to work a day in her life. So she secretly watches the army train, and begins to teach herself what they've been doing. When war breaks out and the army is fighting, Lorelei, a ten-year-old scout for the rebels, gets into trouble, and Juliette uses her fighting skills to save Lorelei's life.

Okay, it's a bit underdeveloped, and the plot near the end is really awful. BUT I love the characters, and I'm working on getting it better.

Also, I've been requesting character drawings from various NaNoers. Not many have been getting done, except for some of Juliette.

However, these drawings of Juliette are really wonderful!

I thought I'd share some with you:

~Beth