Dreamer's Sea

So, here's my newest Nano project idea.....

D-Dreamers Sea-Sarah has inherited her maiden aunts cottage on the Maine coast. Timing couldn’t be better. Her marriage is in shambles and she needs the escape that the small town offers so she can rebuild her confidence and her heart. It seems that Sarah’s aunt is reaching out to her from the otherside to help the healing along.

I belong to a writing group that occasionally does exercises (not often enough, I'm afraid). One exercise is to take every letter of the alphabet and come up with a title and then a blurb for it. I've found it to be really fun and stretches the mind, and I've come up with some definite wip possibilities, such as the above idea.

Of course it needs to be majorly fleshed out.

Sarah is in her early 30's. All she ever wanted to do was to be a writer (sound familiar). When she was in college she fell in love with one of her professors, Dr. Maxwell Eagan. He was charming, brilliant, handsome and when she graduated they started dating...yada yada. Well, he moved up in the academic world and they got married and he wanted her to be his assistant, housewife instead of pursuing her own dreams.

Finally, after nearly ten years of being his wife and slipping further and further into the background of his life and dealing with the fact that he doesn't care about her position, her dreams or anything beyond his life at the university, she decides to move out. She's inherited a cottage on the coast of Maine from her maiden aunt. She goes up to get her life going, to write, plan her divorce and rebuild her old dreams.

When she gets there she finds she's not alone in the cottage. Apparently the spirit of her aunt is still around but it doesn't take long for Sarah to get used to her. But her aunt seems to be trying to play matchmaker, something that Sarah isn't interested in, even though her aunt's "choice" is local Ryan Westwood. Ryan is handsome, sweet, concerned for Sarah's welfare but also has no desire to be hooked up by a spirit.

Things get harder for Sarah when she discovers that she's pregnant. Maxwell has made it clear that children are out of the question so Sarah isn't sure whether she should even try to include him in the baby's life after the baby's arrival.

Throughout her pregnancy up in the cottage, Sarah becomes a member of the community and Ryan steps up to help her out. Despite their best laid plans, they both feel the attraction rising between them. They don't act too much on it, although they may share a kiss or two, but there's a definite longing between them that they're fighting.

Sarah is ready to give birth any day and the weather is bad. During a storm she starts having contractions. She can't drive herself, the electricity and phones are out but Aunt reaches out to Ryan and he comes to Sarah's aid. She's having complications but Ryan manages to get her to the hospital. Nearly losing her jolts him into the realization that he loves her and wants to be a part of her life and her babies.

Though the divorce is final I'm sure I'll have to drag Maxwell back into it. Maybe he'll come visit the baby (maybe baby will be a preemie) and Sarah and he'll offer to take them back, not out of love but out of duty, and she'll tell him to take a hike.

Anywho, thats the basics to this story. It may make 50,000 words. It won't be steamy in any shape or form, which is what I want, but I'll have to build on the tension. Maybe at the end I'll give Sarah and Ryan a nookie scene-or maybe not.

So, maybe it'll be an okay thing to put the other story on the back burner for awhile. :) I'm feeling better.