Monday, November 7, 2011

Here's a nice long version of my book

So it has come to my attention that I should post a full plot summary of "James" somewhere, since I feel like the shorter version on my nano profile kind of sucks.  So here it is, in case you're curious

James was the first little boy to wind up on neverland.  Like all the toys and left foot socks, he had been lost and found himself on the island that time has forgotten about.  Slowly, other children find themselves lost here too, all accompanied by a little fairy.  They band together, keeping strong in groups of children and fairies.  A girl, Lily, seems to have been here the longest, but is rather silent and doesn't speak much. Two boys, Starkey and Smee, become the closest friends James has.


The three boys and their little fairies decide that it would be best for the group of kids if they ventured away from their beach and underground home to make a map of the island.  While out they encounter some strange things that neverland holds, giant bugs and monsters, pirate skeletons and the most curious of all is a large clock that sometimes, when your feeling a particularly strong emotion, will go TICK TOCK in the night.


On the same day two strange people arrive on neverland.  Anita is a childhood friend of James and when he see's her memories of his life before neverland come back.  The other strange coming is a child called Peter, who is barely a toddler and can fly unlike any of the other children there.  With new memories emerging, and the clock TICK TOCKING more often, James can feel himself grow taller and older.  The baby also grows and tells everyone he longs for a mother.  Anita takes care of him from time to time, but she is not the mother he needs


Once Peter has grown to a boy who looks about 10, he asks a favor of James.  He wants to return to London to see his family, see what as become of them.  James agrees and the two of them fly back to see their families.  Peter's has moved on, they have another little baby and seemed to have forgotten him.  James' mother still mourns the loss of her son in a big beautiful house that he could have lived in
with a little sister he could have loved.  


They return to neverland and James is filed with anger towards his fairy, who had lied to him about what life in London was like, she said it was awful and she saved him.  James began to confide everything to Anita, and the two grew found of each other, aging into puberty together.  They kissed one night and were seen by her fairy.  Soon after, Anita was banish from the island and was told to swim away forever. When she entered the water, the fairies cast a spell on her to turn her into a fish, however, Anita screamed that she didn't believe in their magic over and over again, slowly the fairies began to die and only half of Anita was fish, the other half was her.  


James then instructed the other children to never go near the lagoon, for Anita's wrath will drag them in and turn them into fish children too.  Peter, however, questioned his leadership and told everyone to play with the mermaids as long as they like.  Peter's cocky attitude about himself had finally hit James last never and the two got into a verbal fight.  After their fight, James had an argument with Flare, his fairy, about everything and killed her in cold blood by looking straight into her eyes and saying "I don't believe in you."


After Flare's death, James begins to age more rapidly.  Suddenly the children of neverland are decided, some who side with James who has been their leader, the younger ones side with Peter and everyone left in the middle leaves with Lily to the Plateau to become the leader of the "indians."  Things escalade with Peter and James until they get into a sword fight, Peter at an advantage since he can fly and it all leads up to James having his hand chopped off.  Peter tosses it over his shoulder and into the open mouth of a crocodile.


From there, you know how it goes ;)

1 comment:

  1. I love the idea of your story. I saw the cover they made on the Nano forum so I checked it out.

    I like the way you're building up to everything we recognise from Peter Pan.

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