[ NANO ] PREP WEEK 3 - Outlining Your Story ( also , programs you may want to get and learn in advance )

Brennan has lived as long as she can remember in the monastery in the Mornes. It's an odd kind of monastery, as we would see it - nuns live there, as do families, and the monks have been known to fight to protect their cattle. Odder still is the ancient spring an hour's climb up among the hills, with its standing stone and tendency to spring circles of mushrooms. The scarred nun, Felicity, is the only one who knows where Brennan comes from, and she refuses to say. But the raised clover brand on Brennan's ankle makes a sudden, terrible sense, when she begins to dream of the night she was taken from her family. 
 
 She will travel the wild ways, barter away her true name without thought of its value, and find a brother imprisoned in youth by the capricious court fairies who are so fascinated by mortal playthings that they collect children to wield as puppets, then compete to see whose agents can go undetected the longest. But in the end, the trick is on the faun who stole the promise of her name, because Brennan's soul is nameless - and so, no fairy can command her. She has to make it back to the human Court of Kings before midwinter, before the fairy puppet is elected Lord of Lords, or all of Ireland will be subject to the Unseelie court until its changeling king can be cast out with cold iron. 
 
 ( Or, y'know, that's what I have so far. Still working on the actual plot, although one thought I have is that Brennan's family, who branded her and threw her out ( well, should've killed, very Moses ) because they thought she was a changeling, were actually chieftains of one of the well-positioned tribes. Problem? It was her older brother, the heir, who actually was the changeling. And who is potentially about to become King of Kings. Whoops. Also still working on the'nameless' thing... My angle on that is, Brennan's family were very, very thorough when they cast her out. As in, getting the local priest /and/ the local druid in to mystically disown her. ) 
 
 ( Also, if anyone knows anything about 7th-century Ireland... I'd be very grateful for links to research resources )
