Perhaps all the sinkholes are caused by inner earth people in their seeking out certain people they want to join them. The outer earth people have no idea there are inner earth people right below their feet running around in tunnels and caves. The inner earth people want no part of the wicked world above them; they are civilized, don't like war and conflict but will defend when the need arises.. But they are not without their own kind of challenges. Being in darkness most the time their eyes be super sensitive to light. Their hearing is acute. And sometimes a tunnel or cave is destroyed by outer earth drilling. Fortunately, the inner earth people have learned to adapt by having alternate pathways like ants do. And they know how to block off any water or oil that gets to flooding any portion of a tunnel.A Random Phrase wrote:I like that. Good scenario.freedomfighter wrote:Could be a guy from the inner earth that had no idea he was from there. Perhaps clues lead him to the inner earth where he divulges all the wicked acts of the outer world to his new countrymen. Maybe there are others that join him from different parts of the world.
Or maybe he's a lone wolf with super powers. The plot has a wide variety of avenues.
I've done NaNoWriMo three or four years in a row (writing a novel in November). They have a spring counterpart about writing scripts (Script Frenzy). I tried that a year ago and didn't like it. It was easy to crank out the pages, but the scene directions and not being able to get into the characters' heads drove me bonkers. (I used a script-writing program that automatically set the formatting.) Perhaps, if I had been taught how to do a "proper script" it would have been different, but what I got out of that experience is that someone else can write the scripts.freedomfighter wrote:Anyway, a movie script is different from a written novel isn't it?. If you have any idea how to write a script...you've got something.
A story always has to have a conflict of some kind. Maybe they have their own set of enemies to contend with.
Anyway, you may come up with something