I'm (was) grading papers (a minute ago) (not yet).
I'm starting to get some ideas for NaNoWriMo. Shall I post them here? Even half-baked?
Will anyone join me on this literary terror-ride of obsessive indulgence in the imaginative?
My novel from last year still sits on my nightstand. I re-ordered it into a notebook, but never did any revisions to the original document. Such a mess. I wonder what I would find if I re-read it? Parallel "narratives," "real" and imagined, amputations, drownings, selkies, mother-daughter tension, romance, failed romance, coming of age and tsunamis. Maybe it should have been a whole series.
OK, current ideas: A school lockdown. Students and teachers huddled along one side of a room. Two teenagers stalking the halls with automatic weapons (or some kind of guns.) Some characters get introduced in the classroom(s). Not sure whom (who?).
It is revealed: the school shooters are the Trelawney twins. Not sure who these guys are before they do this... but... okay, so this part seems to have potential: It turns out the neural pathways of the Trelawney twins' brains have been taken over by, basically, a computer virus. It is an A.I. that, was developed at nano level to simulate the growth of various biological communities such as bacteria, virus, fungus (or something... need to research here). They were using them in the biotech class to run simulations to study evolutionary biology. Somehow the twins became infected. So a rudimentary AI has combined its consciousness, which is focused mainly on survival of the species, with the consciousness of a teenage male, which, in its own way, is also extremely focused on survival of the species. This whole dynamic worries me because I really don't want to get into issues of rape... but I'll have to figure out how I can not go there. Still working out the details of how these two minds exist side-by-side in the same brain.
So, why have the twins shot some adults so far, but no students? Perhaps a political statement? Had they been somehow victimized? No. Turns out, for survival of the species, teenagers offer more potential as hosts than the adults, whose neural pathways are less plastic, more rigid, harder for the AI to work with. Something about small children doesn't work out, but really that's irrelevant b/c teenagers were what was available in the location the AI escaped (the lab.)
At some point later in the story, as a possible escape plan, one of the girls in the classroom reveals that in fact, she is not a human, but a Cyborg, part human part robot. Interesting: Her brain is organic, but is occupied by an AI. If she can convince the Trelawney twins that she is one of them, that she can help them, maybe she can get out of the classroom and find a way to help the students trapped in the school.
That's what I've got so far.
It could easily get out of hand, just like last year. I need more characters.
I'm starting to get some ideas for NaNoWriMo. Shall I post them here? Even half-baked?
Will anyone join me on this literary terror-ride of obsessive indulgence in the imaginative?
My novel from last year still sits on my nightstand. I re-ordered it into a notebook, but never did any revisions to the original document. Such a mess. I wonder what I would find if I re-read it? Parallel "narratives," "real" and imagined, amputations, drownings, selkies, mother-daughter tension, romance, failed romance, coming of age and tsunamis. Maybe it should have been a whole series.
OK, current ideas: A school lockdown. Students and teachers huddled along one side of a room. Two teenagers stalking the halls with automatic weapons (or some kind of guns.) Some characters get introduced in the classroom(s). Not sure whom (who?).
It is revealed: the school shooters are the Trelawney twins. Not sure who these guys are before they do this... but... okay, so this part seems to have potential: It turns out the neural pathways of the Trelawney twins' brains have been taken over by, basically, a computer virus. It is an A.I. that, was developed at nano level to simulate the growth of various biological communities such as bacteria, virus, fungus (or something... need to research here). They were using them in the biotech class to run simulations to study evolutionary biology. Somehow the twins became infected. So a rudimentary AI has combined its consciousness, which is focused mainly on survival of the species, with the consciousness of a teenage male, which, in its own way, is also extremely focused on survival of the species. This whole dynamic worries me because I really don't want to get into issues of rape... but I'll have to figure out how I can not go there. Still working out the details of how these two minds exist side-by-side in the same brain.
So, why have the twins shot some adults so far, but no students? Perhaps a political statement? Had they been somehow victimized? No. Turns out, for survival of the species, teenagers offer more potential as hosts than the adults, whose neural pathways are less plastic, more rigid, harder for the AI to work with. Something about small children doesn't work out, but really that's irrelevant b/c teenagers were what was available in the location the AI escaped (the lab.)
At some point later in the story, as a possible escape plan, one of the girls in the classroom reveals that in fact, she is not a human, but a Cyborg, part human part robot. Interesting: Her brain is organic, but is occupied by an AI. If she can convince the Trelawney twins that she is one of them, that she can help them, maybe she can get out of the classroom and find a way to help the students trapped in the school.
That's what I've got so far.
It could easily get out of hand, just like last year. I need more characters.
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