Okay so for a project, I have to write a short novella of about 15,000 words and it’s due in a month (so that’s 500 words a day), and I’m stuck on a few ideas in my head. So I made like a ‘back-of-the-book’ summary for all of them, so hopefully you guys can give input on what topic I should choose.
1. Fantasy-
Nina Bennet is an ordinary girl. She’s the typical golden eldest daughter, with everything going for her. She has an ordinary life, she lives in an ordinary city, and goes to an ordinary school.
Her younger sister, Riley Bennet is not so ordinary. Born to a travelling wizard and a human mother, (when Nina was a toddler) she is a child of two worlds. The magical world, called ‘Wishonastar’ and of course, the human world. In every ordinary situation like this (about as ordinary as this can get), the protagonist gets the best of two worlds- but we already know that Riley is far from ordinary. Her father doesn’t know of her existence, and her mother is remarried and pregnant with her third child.
Her sister has powers, undeveloped ones, but stronger than most at her age. They always seem to turn on at the wrong times. What will happen when the real tragedy strikes? Will the sisters settle their differences, or will they go down arguing?
The POVs will be switched every few chapters.
(Very generic, I know)
2. Real Life Situations-
Leena Patel is Indian. Yes, she loved to wear ghagra-cholis and loved watching cheesy Bollywood movies as much as every other girl her age. But when she is uprooted from her country and has to leave her life behind to go to the United States because of her parents’ jobs.
Starting your Freshman year of high school in a new country is VERY hard, and being an Indian and living by stereotypes is harder. The not so sweet cherry on top is having religious and strict parents who monitor her every move. Just GREAT.
Will Leena survive her first year of high school, or will she let the negative assumptions get to her?
Third isn’t fitting.
