As always seems to happen when I’m waiting for Nanowrimo to get here, I have a plot bunny. It’s an idea for a series and something that I’ve touched on before.
For some reason, I’m coming up with ideas on how to make it a whole series about Alice trying to free Wonderland. Wonderland has been plunged into darkness and is starting to claim other worlds. The white rabbit comes to plead for her help and Alice goes, but fails to save Wonderland in book one. What she does manage to do, however, is learn that the dark force behind Wonderland moved into Neverland. She leaves as they’re taking it over and takes with her their ability to open their boarders into other realms. Too late for Neverland now, but when she leaves, she takes their ability to expand into her world any longer.
Book two not only does she realize that she did this, but she meets the first refugee. Peter Pan ran away from Neverland. She tries to hide him and he pleads with her to come back with him and save his home. This fails, as does her attempt to hide her at the school and he’s sent away into foster care until they can locate his parents. Which they won’t be able to and he is soon enough out of their care, but vanished for the time being. That or he’ll become her flying cat and she’ll be utterly unable to break that curse.
She’ll also encounter Arthur, who will be able to assimilate into school with her thanks to Snow White due to that subplot. And others will probably show up throughout the series. meanwhile, Alice is going to slowly grow magical and more powerful, probably fall in love once or twice if I can figure out how to do romance non-cheesy and eventually take on the big bad of the series.
It all takes place at a boarding school. Alice was sent off because of Wonderland in the first place. Borrowing from the Wizard of Oz sequel a little, she’s sent away because she became obsessed with Wonderland upon her return and her parents couldn’t take it. So they sent her away and she returns home on occasion, though not often as now her parents are travelling constantly and she will often not see them for years on end. She suspects that they may have separated and neglected to tell her too. They are awfully busy with work, after all.
Or something. We’ll plot this thing out proper once November ends and I have a little Christmas time inspiration.
Tags: alice in wonderland, novel, plot, story, writing
