Oo, look, a plot!
Programs being used: yWriter & MS Word 07. When it wants to play nice.
Words written: 0. Starting on Weekend Road Trip, which will occur this weekend. Yay Dallas!
Forgive me if this skips around. I am attempting to put it into sentences, because on my computer it’s an outline. It makes more sense to me when it’s organized like that, but for other's sake, I shall put it into words.
John is a new astronaut, just arriving in Houston for the start of his astronaut training. Tayla is the trainer, ready to welcome him to Houston, get his training started, and generally keep him on task. I keep picturing her blowing a whistle at him while he is in the Neutral Buoyancy Lab (that’s the giant swimming pool). Elizabeth is the head of JSC (that would be the Houston bit of NASA. She has control over astronaut training, the visitor's center, Mission Control (she is not the flight director, though), etc). Sam and Rodney are a part of the science department. and Rodney has just gotten a message from a Russian Deep Space research station that something is interrupting subspace (This is where the BF becomes quite helpful. He can check my pseudoscience for plausibility). Rodney doesn't believe it, because subspace isn't real (we all know that’s not true, boys and girls!), but Sam insists they tell Elizabeth.
Time passes. Perhaps a few scenes of John getting introduced to Houston, BBQ, etc. Introduce Lorne, Keller (?), Mitchell on the Space Shuttle Atlantis, as well as Cadman, Beckett, Chuck, Peter, assorted others as parts of the flight staff/mission control, etc. And then comes the fun part! Terrorists get into Space Center Houston (the visitor's center), hold visitors hostage. Find out through a phone call to Elizabeth. Introduce Daniel (in SCH, as a translator) and Ronon (military, ready to take charge when things go bad) Elizabeth and he fight about what to do in this situation. Elizabeth tries to negotiate with the terrorists, but gets taken hostage. John saves her (This is pretty much the catalyst to get them together). It’s all very The Storm/The Eye. In fact, I may just have to have an exact recreation...
In my back story, the Russians stole the stargate from Nazis, and have been running a stargate program. They got the Ori to notice them, and so a Prior came through and converted a small group, who are the terrorists as they wait for their true gods to come and convert the Earth with their awesome power. Teal'c may be a former terrorist who was converted but then came back and is now trying prevent the invasion. Russians are accidentally maybe working with the Ori, and tried to hide that subspace disturbance as a hardware malfunction.
Then, They discover they Ori group, and that an invasion force is on its way, but get pulled off of it because of a freak hurricane. Everyone is evacuated. They realize that the hurricane is really the Ori ships, but it’s too late. They order everyone to bomb shelters. But it may be too late as the Ori ships start to descend upon then.
And then there may be an apocafic as part 2. Or it may be a separate sequel...
Current problems: CHARICTORS! Opposite to what I did for Nanowrimo, this one has Plot but no Characters. Nanowrimo was all character-driven, but no plot. So I need to work on that before writing. (That’s probably what makes me feel like I'm not ready to write yet. Because I'm not, duh!)