Have not been hearing from me lately?

I'm preparing, that's why I'm telling you this. Tired of my boring posts? Miss my creative writing? I'm terribly sorry. I don't have any excuses except for joining this:

November: National Novel Writing Month.

Do show your love by commenting or sending me encouraging emails or just bugging me to finish my novel already. Thanks folks!

*I am now actually freaking out because I have no confidence in my plot, I haven't established my characters yet, I still don't have an outline and a back story, and November is only a few days away. This is a challenge to myself since I really haven't written something thatlong except for my college papers. Haha. And what do you know, I actually love challenges.

So far, this is as much as I can gather. A synopsis perhaps.

There’s a parallel universe in our dreams, we just don’t quite remember it when we wake up. People always go to that parallel universe when they sleep, and the twist is, it opens portals to different kinds of dreams – medieval, futuristic, you name it. Also, portals aside, the real world is actually the exact opposite in that parallel universe. But when Zerah stayed in the Dream Abyss longer than other people do (and we both don’t know why), she finds Kian who claims to have stayed in the Dream Abyss for quite some time, and that’s when their adventure starts together.

 

Magically, if a person chooses to stay in the Dream Abyss, their souls will remain there even after they die. There’s a secret door that would lead them back to reality (forced exit), but the consequence is they won’t be able to come back — as in they won’t be having dreams anymore, and who knows what will happen to a soul if its body had already died. Meanwhile, Zerah has been philosophizing about her existence, dreams, and illusions, and she is determined to go back to the real world no matter what. Kian wants to follow, but he doesn’t know if he still has a body to wake up to.

 

Trivia: My main characters’ names are Zerah Aislin Jones and Kian Ankanoush. “Aislin” actually means dream/vision in another language, while “Ankanoush” means the fulfiller of the dream. — I hope that does something.

Any suggestions? I suck at plots. Haha. I’d be grateful if you have one.

50,000 words in 30 days. I dare you.