Camp Nano 2019 (July)
I'm finally taking part!!!!
I'm keeping track of my progress on here, so i figured now's as good a time as any to post a summary of my wip, The Other Life.
Penelope Carmichael has lived in the shadow of her best friend Kris Johnson for as long as she can remember. Kris is popular, beautiful, and perfect, and while Penn tries to be happy for Kris' success', she finds it difficult to shake her jealousy. On the eve of their 17th birthday, Penn and Kris get into a car accident, and Penn wakes up several weeks later to find herself in Kris' body, and her own nowhere to be found.
As months go by and Penn remains trapped, with the real Kris seemingly gone forever, she slowly allows herself to adapt the life of the girl she always envied. However, Penn quickly begins to realize that Kris' reality may have been far off from the one everyone believed her to have, and that underneath her facade of perfection lies the haunting and tragic truth of a girl Penn realizes she never really knew.
Because I'm insane, I did change my wip at the last minute (like 2 days ago) so this one is a tad underdeveloped. I have a basic outline of about 3/4 of it and a good idea of the characters. I've found myself really drawn to the premise of 'Person who has/gains everything realizes life isn't always a bed of roses' and a lot of my wip's lately have found themselves centered around that, in varying different ways.
TOL is a new area for me though, as it's one of only two things I've ever written in which anything out of reality happen. At the moment I intend to focus it more on how Penn adapts to her life as Kris while uncovering the truth about her best friend, rather than the 'fantasy' element of them switching bodies. Maybe as I go along new ideas may spring up about that part of it but at the moment, and for my first nano project, I'd like to stick to what I know.
Penn is a bit of an enigma to me, still, which is interesting and frustrating as she is the main character. But words cant explain how intrigued I am by her story and what I know of her thus far, so I'm sooo excited to go on this trip with her and going in blind I think is only adding to that.
