A Step of Faith: Dreamer's Ball

This one technically came before the other Dreamer book in the list, but that would have been out of order and reveal some things, so. . .

Title: Dreamer's Ball

I really don't like that title.

I really need to find a better one.

But anyways, I liked playing around with the main character, Grettie, from Dreamer's Bridge so much that I didn't want to stop with one book idea.

I did two.

This one I decided to play around with the Cinderella story.

Instead of a step-family, it's extended family.

Instead of a prince, it's a leader of a smuggling ring, who inherited his position from his family.

I'm still not sure about the story world, but I'm leading towards a steam-punk style early 1900's.

Not quite bustle skirts and petticoats, but not quite historical 1900's.

Anyways.

Here's what I have for the synopsis.

Grettie has upset the village, and until things cool down, it no longer is good for her to stay there.

Her grandparents send her off to the city, to live with her widowed aunt and her three cousins.

Once there, they at first treat her like she was one of them, but that quickly changes.

Placed under their harsh cook, her limits are pushed.

But she still hangs on.

Until she one day she runs into a strange man in the market.

He's quiet, and soon she starts to notice him again and again, and slowly they start to interact.

Winter approaches, and the family gets ready for the week long winter festival, where each day ends in a ball.

When they mock her ability to go, she turns to the friends that she has made for help.

A group of older women in charge of a few shops collaborate together to get her dressed for the first ball, only for the cook to intervene and stop her.

The next day she the older women intervene again and literally escort her to the ball.

There, the quiet man from the market is the center of attention.

And she's now the full center of his attention.

Which she quickly discovers, is not the place where she wants to be.

Poor Grettie, she keeps meeting people with bad reputations.

I wonder if I should find her a storyline that doesn't end like that. . .

Who knows.

Questions? Advice? Ideas? Anything is welcome. :)

Keep on Writing!

God Bless

SDG

Joy

A Step of Faith: The Dark and the Delicate

Next up in my folder: The Dark and the Delicate

This idea came from a dream.

It was really weird, because a smattering of my family and I (four of us out of my six sisters and I) were for some reason in Europe when war broke out against the US.
We were in an enemy country, so we had to somehow go somewhere safe.

Which ended up being a mountain estate of someone's, a huge modern/castle-like mansion, where they were also hiding seven other foreign women.

I got a small room with this beautiful view, a tiny desk (that held the Narnia series and a notebook, all that evidently I had brought with me), and a small bed in this nook/closet area.

Days, then months passed and no one came to help us out of the country.

We settled into a routine, and we didn't get much information outside of the small rural village that was a little way below us.

It goes on, to include druid-like magic users and enslavement via these weird necklaces and lots of walking in the dark.

Let me just say that it was a very vivid dream.

And I decided to run with it.

Here's what I have!

(By the by, I'm going with a contemporary fantasty feel for this story. . .)

War has broken out.

In the southern hills and mountains of France, twelve foreign women seek refuge.

Duke Risbond, a wealthy land and business owner opens his spacious home to them.

For a few weeks, they wait for help to arrive.

Then one night, a man heavily robed sneaks into the building.

He knows his way well, and goes into one of the smaller rooms that one of the women are staying in.

She is sound asleep, and he enters a secret chamber in her room without disturbing her.

Or so he hopes.

In reality, she watched his every move from the shadows of her bed.

The next night, he does the same thing, and the woman slips in past him.

Doing so, she sets off an ancient secret that puts her own life and the lives of the eleven other women in danger.

They are now at the mercy of the Hiero Vasileios.

So. . . Yeah.

I pretty much see this in terms of a simple story, that, in many ways, seems too simple.

It's so much like the classic twelve dancing princesses' story, that I've never had too much of an interest in actually working on the characters.

Which is why I love Pinterest.

I can always discover something to keep my interest.

Questions? Advice? Ideas? Anything is welcome. :)

Keep on Writing!

God Bless,

SDG

Joy

Writing Wednesday: Pinspiration

This Week's Theme: The Twelve Dancing Princesses

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The secret entrance inspiration

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This really reminds me of the story!

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Soldier inspiration.

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The littlest princess

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What if the princesses' where not dancing freely, but because they had to?

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Dancing. . .

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Finally, a beautiful ballet scene.

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Keep on Writing!

God Bless

SDG

Joy