More Nanowrimo spam. Please bear with me (and help with brainstorming, if you feel like it)

I need two things: to write this down, to cement what I do have, and to ask for brainstorming help, to grab hold of what I don't have.

I'd post this to NaNoWriMo.org's "Plot doctoring" forum, but the servers appear to be down, due to traffic overload. So I'll write this here, then copy and paste it to a thread there, later, in the wee hours, if I'm still stuck by then:

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Writer's Block: Novel Ideas

[Error: unknown template qotd]In a "Sword & Sorcery"-type world -- that is set in a 20th Century-like time, instead of the usual 15th Century -- a young woman goes on a long journey to solve the mystery of a recurrent vision.

Feeling a sense of looming dread (Call it the "bleeding heart liberal syndrome").

So I spent time mashing together an image from http://www.electoral-vote.com:



Obama is further ahead today than Bush was, last cycle!

Can you say: yay?