What's Up Wednesday: In Which BJ Gives Her Blog a Kick

.... Hi.

I have nothing to say for myself. Except that I'm a busy high-schooler.

So, today's post is a short catch-up on what I'm doing and a teaser for one of my current projects!

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As of the 1st, I've been attempting National Novel Writing Month (aka NaNoWriMo: more info here) and my current project is a rewrite of Jules Verne's novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. I'm doing the NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program with a current word goal of 21,600 words (who knew writing approx. 750 words a day for fun could be so hard?!) and it's going slowly, but it's going!

The current (and rough) synopsis for my rewrite is as follows below. If you don't want to read the long version, I'll post the log-line* I made for it below this. But really, you should read the long version. ;)

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Undersea and Secrecy Bound: Working Synopsis

It is the year 1866 and a giant whale-creature has ben terrorizing ships; damaging and sometimes sinking them in their paths by ramming itself into them.

When German science professor Karl Whitson is invited to come along during the hunt for the creature, he leaps at this chance of a lifetime.

However, when things go awry, the energetic professor finds himself in the bowels of the behemouth, an iron submarine ahead of its time and commanded by an eccentric, silent woman known only to him as Captain Leto.

Captain Leto is polite, but her manner around Whitson is that of a circling shark. Calculating, eerie, and holding something back, her eyes gleaming with secrets of the past and hee stiff posture reflecting an unyielding mind.

For a time, Professor Whitson is distracted from homesickness by the undersea wonders, until his singular chance to study the mysteries of the sea aided by a genius is dimmed by the genius's peculiar vendetta against humankind.

Unnerved by his captor and missing his family, Whitson begins to plan for escape, but when he learns that his leaving the Wanderer could directly result in Captain Leto's untimely death and the loss of her scentific brilliance forever, he is forced to make a choice.

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Yeah, I know that up there is insanely long; I'm trying to trim it down and I'm currently having some trouble finding what information I can cut out. (I probably should take my own log-line and re-write the synopsis based off that. =^-^=)

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Undersea and Secrecy Bound: Log-line

When a 1800s science professor is stranded on a futuristic submarine, he must decide whether to flee or stay with its eccentric genius inventor, known as Captain Leto, forever.

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So yeah, that's what I've been working on (when I'm not busy with school and distracted by the evil plot bunnies), I hope you all have been doing well, and I will see y'all around the blog later!

Brooke Johnson

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*According to Wikipedia, the log-line is generally a one-sentence summary of a book, movie, or story.