So, you see, I love to write. But I can never finish anything I start and so I was thinking of giving away a plot that I really liked but don’t think I can write. I may have more later.
Here’s the plot: two teenage girls, I initially named them [name_f]Zara[/name_f] and [name_f]Talia[/name_f], are riding the public bus to school when it slips on a patch of ice and goes flying into a street sign and another car. [name_f]Zara[/name_f] and [name_f]Talia[/name_f] grab hands, even though they don’t know each other, they don’t mean to, but they do. This binds them together and makes them really good friends. At some point in the story, I don’t know when, [name_f]Talia[/name_f] finds out that her grandmother is a survivor of the Holocaust Twin Experiments and decides to track down her story and find out about her family’s past.
This was a rough draft. Those don’t have to be the names, anything and everything could be changed
Please use this thread if you have a plot you would like to give away or if you want to write but don’t know what!
Oooh I like this idea…here is my unfinished plot idea…
Setting is mountains of NW Montana or Northern Idaho, Maybe even SE British Columbia. MC (female in her 40’s?? I’ll call her Jodie for lack of another name) works summers living in a Fire Lookout (look it up, kind of a cool gig) near a quirky very small town (think Northern Exposure). She is a loner and recluse type, remotely interacting with the eccentric residents of the town on a limited basis, but keeps everyone at arms length and her past is a noticeable mystery. An obvious tragedy in her past haunts her and others get the impression that she is running from something, or hiding. Other characters: a stray dog keeps showing up at her lookout and she keeps returning it to its owner (cranky older lady - 80’s?? - who runs the nearby horse ranch… loosely based off real life Winnie Wade). The two women become friends, and the dog eventually “chooses” Jodie and Winnie gives her to her. A male love interest: handsome divorcee who is Jodie’s supervisor at the Forest Service, he is assigned to basically check in on Jodie and take care of her needs. He is starting to have feelings for her but she is closed off. One day an outsider shows up in the town looking for Jodie (but calling her by a different name). Turns out it is her ex brother in law. He is trying to find Jodie to tell her about her now 18 year old daughter - whom he adopted with his wife many years ago - is legally trying to get info to find her mother. Eventually the tragedy is revealed, Jodie was happily married with a 3 year old girl (the one now 18 and trying to find her) and a newborn daughter. They were all driving home one day and wrecked and the car went into a lake - Jodie manages to get loose and as the car is filling with water she has to choose who to save. She chooses the 3 year old daughter and they swim to safety and her husband and newborn daughter tragically drown right in front of her eyes. Jodie is wracked with guilt and unable to confront life and one day just walks away from her daughter abandons her and starts a new life and new identity- The daughter is then adopted by her husband’s brother and his wife who raise her as her own - and nobody has heard from Jodie since she walked out of the hospital The rest of the story is a coming to terms with tragedy story and a mother connecting with her adult daughter. The daughter moves to the town, there is some kind of fire drama/ a turning point in the story/ perhaps a death or near death. Jodie has to choose between the forest service love interest and the brother-in-law (whose own wife passed away several years ago from cancer and he raised the daughter as a single dad) who she is drawn to bc of history, their shared love of the daughter and the fact that he looks and acts like her deceased husband. Themes of abandonment, accountability, overcoming tragedy, friends, the healing elements of solitude and nature, eccentric characters and quirky towns, familial bonds and of course the complicated love between mothers and daughters.