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In The Flowers: A Novella In Progress, Rachel Seick

WWU Honors College Senior Projects

This is a refined and edited first section of the rough, novella-length draft. The project as a whole was very focused on generative writing and pushing myself to finish a longer project. Brief synopsis: Rebekah Houlihan recounts the events leading up her boss murdering her former friend. She explores changing friendships and feelings of guilt and resentment.

Untitled Novel On Indoctrination And Mentorship, Jacquelyn Ferris

WWU Honors College Senior Projects

A young man is alone in the company of his people. He searches and finds council from a stranger in a long red coat and his own search for a beaten rabbit; a deserter to his distant cause.

This is the first chapter to that much larger work in progress. We see our main character in a more peaceful headspace than what will soon come to him.

An Honest Man: Short Fiction, Hannah Fraley

WWU Honors College Senior Projects

A benign everyman, who avoids conflict at all costs, is sent a mysterious and shocking email about his workplace which forces him to make a decision: maintain the status quo or put the interests of others above his own. This is a work of short fiction exploring themes of trust, power, and friendship.

Dust, Asher Didier

WWU Honors College Senior Projects

Dust is a dystopian novel centered on the effects of inaction in our combat with climate change. Set in the future (around the year 2150), the world is a much different place. The Earth has turned into a hot and overused world which is devoid of most of the plants and animals that exist today. Desertification has occurred on much of the Earth and sand and dust have become prominent in place of grasslands and forests. One of the common motifs of the book is, as the title suggests, this dust. Dust is looked at in many different ways throughout …

The Author's Gauntlets: The Writing, Editing, And Publishing Process Of A Novel, Robert Clifton

WWU Honors College Senior Projects

This project details the actions I took in writing my first novel, editing it, and starting the pre-publication process for it. It describes everything from the origins of my idea for the novel all the way to where I am now (June 2022), at my second editing pass and having written the first draft of my query letter for an agent. My premise is that people often assume that authors just write a book and that's it, but there's actually a lot more steps in editing and publishing they have to take before their book is released to the world. …

King Of Swords, Hannah Kimble

WWU Honors College Senior Projects

King of Swords follows five teenage friends on the precipice of beginning their adult lives who find themselves transported to a fantasy world inhabited by orcs and dinosaurs. Each major character reacts differently to this world, making their own allies and enemies, and come into conflict with one another, engaging in combat with magic swords and gay subtext. Some of them want to return to Earth, while others seek to find a place in this new world. In the end, they mature, learning to talk through their differences like functional adults, and accept the responsibilities that come with that.

Fair Folk, Jamie M. Good

WWU Honors College Senior Projects

This is the outline for an upcoming novel centering retold Celtic fairy tales. The project includes research about fairy lore and Celtic mythology, as well as modern Irish customs surrounding cultural beliefs surrounding fairies. This story prioritizes the Pagan versions of folklore, rather than the more modern Victorian and Christian depictions of Celtic traditions and fairies.

The outline includes an introduction, short synopsis, short summaries and goals for fifty-four chapters (the full length of the novel), a list of characters, and a short reflection.

Synopsis:

Three children, Molly, Cal, and Jack, are abducted into the fairy realm. Molly and Cal …

Kingdom Of Fear: A Dark Fantasy Novel, Katie Borley

WWU Honors College Senior Projects

This project is the first draft of a novel written over the course of half a year. It is a dark fantasy novel about three strangers who must stop a mage with the power to use peoples' fear to turn them into monsters. The novel in question is intended to be published at a later date, and so only the first chapter is available in the archive. Additionally, presentation slides are included that describe the process of brainstorming, outlining, and drafting the novel, as well as plans for future edits and publishing.

Paper Butterflies, Cali Dorszynski

WWU Honors College Senior Projects

A fictional novelette (long short story, about 50 pages) in frame tale form. The outer story follows the main character in third person as he adventures and interacts with his family. The inner story details one of his adventures as he narrates it to an audience.

The excerpt included here is the first chapter.

The Utopian Range - Short Climate Fiction, Kai Broach

WWU Honors College Senior Projects

This project represents three work-in-progress short stories from a larger planned collection of short speculative fiction: The Utopian Range.

In the world of the Utopian Range, the hegemonic World Government and the Intronet Corporation use the Utopian Range technology to mine the collective subconscious of its citizens for visions of the future. Our narrator, Gavin, learns that there might be more to the ideas it filters out than he expects. Told through interconnected stories simulated from Gavin’s subconscious with the help of a friendly rogue AI, this is The Matrix meets The Illustrated Man. These stories tell tales of personal …

Fragments Of A Soul, Angelina Hinojosa

WWU Honors College Senior Projects

Fragments of a Soul is a fragmentary, epistolary creative writing project consisting of pieces from a fictional, now deceased writer that include polished short stories, stream-of-consciousness writings, and lists. The pieces from 'the Writer' are narratively strung together by notes from 'the Editor,' a mysterious individual who knew the Writer when he was still alive. Fragments is set within a vague fantasy world in which reincarnation is apparently known but not understood, and the Writer appears to be haunted by something he can't quite define and can only write around. This project was an experiment in experiments, trying out different …