Plot

Last year I bought a very nice notebook for Nanowrimo, but I didn't want to write anything in it unless I thought it was going to be perfect, because it was expensive and nice and I didn't want any crap in there. So it stays blank and any pages I wrote on are ripped out.

Today, I went to the dollar sore and bought a crappy little notebook for a dollar. I had no plot, but I opened up the book and started doing this odd thing that I never do. I BRAINSTORMED. I scribbled with a dull, unsharpened pencil all over a few pages and I got an idea! Last minute, no real thinking.

The only problem I'm having is the fact that its starting to sound like a teen novel, so I'm trying to make the novel more adult.

The setting is in the somewhat near future where technology is starting to become very advanced, architecture is very new, and people are big on up to date style and living. Cities have expanded and grown so fast that they have moved their city center to the new areas and left the older parts of town in the dust. They have also been going through a lot of waste. People are so big on getting the newest and the best, they are throwing out perfectly good electronics and appliances to make way for their new products. Junk yards and dumps are growing at an alarming rate.

The main character is an art student in a very refined, up to date school. Hands on methods are obsolete in the art world, and everything is done with computers. Think photoshop, illustrator, in design, etc. Even sketches are done using a program. The main character doesn't feel like she belongs in this type of class and drops out. Her parents who she has been living with (for a bit too long) become very unhappy and kick her out of her home. She moves in with an old childhood friend who happens to live in the old industrial area of the city.

Here she meets new people and starts a new way of living. These people are junk yard scavengers. They reuse old electronics to make new technology.


All of this came out of air. I didn't think I would ever have a good plot. Thanks musty smelling crappy notebook.