Week 2: Weekly Challenge

The story would take place in Calgary during the last 20 years of the 20th century and it would focus on making lasting friendships with families from other provinces and US states.

I would explore the ideas of what being Canadian meant a century ago, fifty years ago, and what does it mean now. I would like to set my story either in Kingston or Quebec City.

Je suis déjà en train d'écrire pour le plaisir, sur une histoire se déroulant dans le Canada. Elle se déroule dans la Colombie-Britannique, à Comox. Drame, romance et un peu de suspense.  

Canada doesn't appear often enough in sci fi so something speculative based on our long history of medical innovation. I'd set it in PEI, mostly because I think it would be a dramatic set piece.

My book would be set on Vancouver Island near Tofino. It would be a thriller about a pair of camping honeymooners being stalked by a pack of wolves. 

I would write a story set in contemporary rural small town Canada. Maybe a small town romance or perhaps a fiction based on the struggles of small family farms. 

Although there are a lot of photography books around the 1000 islands, there is a lot of rum running history in the area during prohibition. I’d set a historical fiction that could tie in some bootlegging, the organized crime involved  and maybe a cross border love connection. 

I would love a non-fiction about the stories told of the small colonies in North Ontario. I was looking at a map the other day and it solidified in me that Ontario is huge but the majority of the population lives at the very bottom and we don't hear much about the northern population. A story of someone traveling through all these small towns and recounting their experiences would be awesome 

The story would be set in the following locations: my family home in Toronto, Ontario, and Kyiv, Ukraine, where my parents grew up. I would want it to be a multigenerational story focusing on various point of views, such as my own, my grandparents and my parents. I would focus on the intergenerational experiences and challenges in my family, which will shed light on the immigrant and second generation experience in Canada. 

I'd like to write about the weather in Canada; I'd like to imagine life in Canada 50 years ago in Alberta; I want readers to understand how difficult life would have been in very cold weather without facilities and modern equipment.

Set in rural 1800 Ontario, in a small logging town, there is an old woman. Everyone knows the old woman isn't "all there" and have taught their children to avoid her neck of the woods.  

The woman is a seventh daughter of a seventh daughter. She has a strong connection to nature and the elements. She is an outcast, until night falls. That is when local towns people come to see her to help cure maladies and seek knowledge.  Everything is done in stealth beause witchcraft is illegal. It's all just an old wives tale....

I think I would write a contemporary story set over the course of a summer, roadtripping through Ontario. All the American small cities get all of the love, but the ones here have just as much to offer. It would be fun to explore places I love more, but many readers have likely never heard of.

I would write a novel about the adventures of Scottish Pipe Band as they travel around Ontario's Highland Games and beyond to Scotland.

I am a reader, not a writer...but...I would write a story set on Newfoundland in contemporary times, about a couple hiking across the Island and the folks and adventures along the way.  A feel good story with not a lot of drama but interesting events and funny times against a gorgeous background.

If I were to write a book set in Canada I would have it set in Newfoundland. It would be about a woman from the city (probably from Toronto) who had just gone through a divorce and was trying to find out who she was as a person so she moves to Newfoundland for a fresh start. It would be a story about finding out who you are after years of being with someone.

I used to make up all sorts of stories when looking at strangers while ridding the bus. So I suppose I would write lots of short stories about all the different people who take the bus to and from small towns and big towns, who cross provinces and head from coast to coast. What is their story? Where are the going? What are they running from? What are their hopes?

I think it would be cool to have a story set in old Montreal. Mainly based on a mystery sort of like Sherlock Holmes! It would involve insolvable cases that secretly take place in the old homes in Montreal. It’s up to a group of kids to figure out the clues and find their way through the maze like street structures of Montreal. 

I'm not a writer, I'd rather read something someone else wrote, haha. But if I had to write something, I think it would be interesting to write a non-fiction book about the shocking and strange crimes that have occurred in Canada. 

I personally am not a writer but am an avid reader. 

I know that there is so much research that goes into writing any type of book, including fiction and even children's books. I know that I do not have enough knowledge to write a book about Northern Canada but I love to read novels set in the Arctic and that include Arctic wildlife, so if I had to write a story it would be set somewhere in Northern Canada and the plot would include human interaction with wildlife. 

Whenever there’s a holiday coming up, I think it’s fun to read a book set around that holiday, or one that’s kind of on-theme. Spooky books for Halloween, love stories for Valentine’s Day. I tend to read a Canadian book for Canada day, but I think it’s be fun to write one set on the day itself. It could be a fun, single-day, ticking clock kind of story. I think I’d set it in a small town so I could have a cast of local celebrities. The kind of people who would be in a small town Canada day parade, the mayor, the oldest man in the county, that kind of thing

. I could follow them through the scrapes and slip-ups of the day, all leading up to the big finale at the fireworks show.

If I was going to write a story set in Canada, I would write it about a group of College and University students returning home after exams for winter break.  It would switch perspectives and follow students from different universities and colleges and going to different going home to all over the world highlighting the vastness and multiculturalism of Canada

I am a practicing Witch and anyone who knows Kingston knows it has a history full of spirits, masacres, ghosts, hangings, serial killers, and gods know what else. So I would set my story in 1900's Kingston involving spirits, necromancy and serial killers, a mystery that can only be solved by a witch. It would be my favourite genre: Spooky Queer Witches. 

If I were to write a story set in Canada, it would primarily be set in the lake and village and surrounding area that are home to my grandparents cottage in Eastern Ontario. I spent all my summers there, a dreamy child, and composed countless fictions that made use of the places and people I encountered - all of them distinctly "world-is-on-fire" action/dramas featuring love, loss, war, and triumph, all starring me!

People always say write what you know, and I grew up sailing a lot with my family, so I think I'd write a sailing adventure story along the East/West coast. Potentially a 9-12 audience, a family lives on their sailboat and sails the coast, solving mysteries (because who doesn't love a good mystery?!). 

I’ve always thought that some of the stories I heard growing up as a kid in a rural farming area would make a good book. One idea I’ve had for years is a book that is set in both Canada and the US, it’s a story about family roots and lost connections that start when a car driving the winter ice on the St Lawrence River goes through and 2 parents die, resulting in their young kids heading to live with relatives in NY state. It’s got to play on some elements of a fairy tale (think Frozen), but also bounces through time frames to highlight the draft dodgers of the Vietnam war, farming as industry emerges and women’s rights, also maybe will have some more present day story lines with how Ancestory.com influences family histories. It’s part mystery, part coming of age story.

If I had to pick a location, it would be the beautiful prairie lands of Prince Edward Island and I would write a romantic novel. It would be kinda like Bridgeton, but hopefully better and set in Canada! The topic or plot would be about two childhood friends that grew up together and moved away to the city before meeting again back in their town.