Friday Five Special Secret NaNo Edition
So, here's a special Friday Five for y'all:
5. Ireland, 1848. The country is not only struck by Great Famine, but by the emancipation of Catholics. Then, a group of revolutionaries known as Young Ireland launched an ill-prepared uprising which was quickly quelled.
4. Steampunk. In the early 1840's, before the Great Famine began, Ireland was home to the brightest minds, far surpassing even Great Britain in technological wonders. The aim was to disprove Catholicism, but it escalated into something far greater than that.*
3. Leprechauns exist, but aren't the dwarf-like men clad in green coats and knickerbockers. They were once men who, consumed by their greed, were turned into wretched creatures who have no choice but to give away their precious riches to mortals in the form of...**
2. Lucky charms. Sort of like the cereal. Each leprechaun can only make 7 lucky charms, and imprint it with their symbol. There is a high demand for lucky charms, which means that only the wealthy can purchse them.***
1. Theives, beggars, liars and murderers. One of which is our very dashing hero, Jesse Wilkins, who lives on the edge of poverty, and despite being an otherwise bad boy (the ULTIMATE bad boy. None of this 'Oh, I'm so broody, I'm so emo, I'll just let my dark hair fall onto my eyes which have dark eyeliner all around them because I'm a rebel' bullcrap. This guy kills people so that he can get a scrap of food. KILLSSSSSS), he tries to steal some lucky charms so that his poor dying mother can maybe get some luck and live a bit longer.****
So, guess what all that equates to?
MY NANO STORYYYYYYYYYYYY
So, that's just a tiny bit of information about my lovely future WIP.
*, **, ***, ****: Yes, I know these things aren't quite historically accurate.
-Ireland certainly wasn't very technologically able at that point, and definitely not as much as England was.
-Leprechauns don't exist (as far as I know), and I'm sure that if they did, they wouldn't be what I justdescribed them as. Maybe.
-I may or may not have ripped off the breakfast cereal just a tad. But to be fair, I've never actually had any.
-And yes, I know Jesse Wilkins isn't a common Irish name from the 1840's, but he's actually American. ;P Plus, um, he's an Irish bad boy who looks after his mother. Cute, no? :P
I think for now, the working title shall be Fool's Gold.
Unless I can think of something better. But I quite like this title so far.
5. Ireland, 1848. The country is not only struck by Great Famine, but by the emancipation of Catholics. Then, a group of revolutionaries known as Young Ireland launched an ill-prepared uprising which was quickly quelled.
4. Steampunk. In the early 1840's, before the Great Famine began, Ireland was home to the brightest minds, far surpassing even Great Britain in technological wonders. The aim was to disprove Catholicism, but it escalated into something far greater than that.*
3. Leprechauns exist, but aren't the dwarf-like men clad in green coats and knickerbockers. They were once men who, consumed by their greed, were turned into wretched creatures who have no choice but to give away their precious riches to mortals in the form of...**
2. Lucky charms. Sort of like the cereal. Each leprechaun can only make 7 lucky charms, and imprint it with their symbol. There is a high demand for lucky charms, which means that only the wealthy can purchse them.***
1. Theives, beggars, liars and murderers. One of which is our very dashing hero, Jesse Wilkins, who lives on the edge of poverty, and despite being an otherwise bad boy (the ULTIMATE bad boy. None of this 'Oh, I'm so broody, I'm so emo, I'll just let my dark hair fall onto my eyes which have dark eyeliner all around them because I'm a rebel' bullcrap. This guy kills people so that he can get a scrap of food. KILLSSSSSS), he tries to steal some lucky charms so that his poor dying mother can maybe get some luck and live a bit longer.****
So, guess what all that equates to?
MY NANO STORYYYYYYYYYYYY
So, that's just a tiny bit of information about my lovely future WIP.
*, **, ***, ****: Yes, I know these things aren't quite historically accurate.
-Ireland certainly wasn't very technologically able at that point, and definitely not as much as England was.
-Leprechauns don't exist (as far as I know), and I'm sure that if they did, they wouldn't be what I justdescribed them as. Maybe.
-I may or may not have ripped off the breakfast cereal just a tad. But to be fair, I've never actually had any.
-And yes, I know Jesse Wilkins isn't a common Irish name from the 1840's, but he's actually American. ;P Plus, um, he's an Irish bad boy who looks after his mother. Cute, no? :P
I think for now, the working title shall be Fool's Gold.
Unless I can think of something better. But I quite like this title so far.