Of Windlings

My windling novel has been on hiatus since school's start. (I really ought to get back.)

But since it's been asked, and because it always helps to write about your stories, or talk them through, I am going to tell you a little about them. Because, let's be honest, what's a writing blog for, elsewise?

So I have a windling story, and it has a lot (and I do mean a lot) of prewriting that has gone into it. To start with, I usually have to define windlings and the expansionist, dystopian society in which is founded.

• windling- a creature born into the most dominant speices on the planet (humans) that has designation and control over a specific element of nature. (i.e. death, regeneration, ice, fire, shadows, calamity)

• the dystopian society- New Earth is a combination of the Earth's most powerful nations that are slowly taking control of the entire world through warfare. During the story, it controls approximately two thirds of the Earth, excluding Africa and Australia.

• New Earth's Academy for Gifted Students (NEAGS)- After New Earth Discovered the existence of windlings the decided to exterminate them. This plan failed, as the windlings are replaced by new babies after death. Thus they decided to force integration into the military by bringing them all to one school where they taught them and brainwashed them so they would not use their powers against New Earth (which is industrial, which does tend to tick off the representatives of nature).

• Windlings of New Earth (WNE)- Windlings that have graduated from NEAGS and are now part of the New Earth Army.

• The Guardians- A group of renegade windlings that believe that they need to protect nature by getting rid of the New Earth Regime by killing everybody they can, and getting rid of as much of the human population as possible so that Earth may regenerate.

• The Olympians- A group of renegade windlings that believes it needs to negotiate with New Earth to set up nature as a more dominant force and humans as a lesser one. Disagrees with the Guardians on a regular basis.

• The Independents- The windlings that live in Australia and the southern half of Africa, that work with their governments to make their world a better place. Non-military, regular citizens. That have cool powers that can destroy stuff.

With those terms thoroughly defined, I can now talk about my plot with minimal interruption.

Which I will.

Eventually.