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Lt Oblivious Vice Captain
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 Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 11:42 am
Got one of those ideas that just won't go away, but you can't figure it out 100%? Or maybe you have the main idea, but need help with the little things. You've come to the right place to get it sorted out. All you have to do is post your general idea. We will ask you questions about it, to get you to think about it indepth from a point of view you hadn't thought about before, to flesh it out. It's pretty simple. Here's an outline you can use for your idea: Quote: Setting: (A house, Ancient Rome, some random country in your own little galaxy) General Plot: (What's going on? If it's a half-formed pile of mush, write it out as best you can and edit your post as you go along) People Involved: (Your MC, some currently nameless persons, the royalty, whoever. This may be left blank if you really have absolutely no idea, or you can put your vague ideas about the people involved here to create more possible questions) Where is it going: (How do you want it to end or start?) What I don't know: (The character's names, backstories, how it starts out, why things are going a certain way. I.e: Things I need help with) And here's one if you need detail help: Quote: The Big Idea: (What is going on- we need more than a general overview for this. Be as detailed as you can be about who, what, where, why, and when smile The Little Things: (What is it you need help on, exactly? Is your military less-than-oranized, or maybe your main plot isn't melding with your subplots very well. What are your subplots, why do you want something included, so on. And by detail, I don't mean all the little nitpicky things, but more like why you need the military force, who's in charge, what they are doing [like invading stuff] and what parts aren't working together. Hey, maybe you'll solve your problem just by writing it out!) Examples are in the next post.
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Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 12:07 pm
Quote: Setting: An old house on the edge of town, surrounded by trees and thick foliage. General Plot: A ghost has lured children into the house with the intent of driving them insane and setting their souls loose to roam the town, haunting people. People Involved: A girl who has been in the house before, managing to get out just before the ghost tried to take her soul. She can't speak, can barely communicate, but has full control of her body and mind. She has nightmares and stuff about her expirience. There is a boy who was lured to the house- the girl went after him to try and stop him from dying. Another boy went after the two others, being the one who knows how to stop the ghost once and for all. Where is it going: I want the ghost to be vanquished and the girl to regain her complete sanity, while the second boy dies when he takes out the ghost. What I don't know: How the boy kills the ghost, how the girl gets her sanity back, and what happens to the first boy. Questions and Answers: Do you have any ideas about how the second boy (let's call him Jim) defeats the ghost, such as finding his body and destroying it, or purifying the soul? Does he need anything special, like holy water or a stake or something?I don't really know- I was thinking maybe a spell of some sort, but I don't really know about Wiccan spells or things like that. None of the children are religious, so Jim wouldn't have used Holy water in any case. I suppose finding the body and destroying it, or the house, would get rid of the link Ghost has with the mortal world, but these aren't the really brave type of children- more the type forced to grow up before they were ready and they are going by what they know, which isn't much. Why is this ghost terrorizing the town? What happened to him to cause his soul to stay in the house?The town burned him at the stake for being a witch, and as he was dying, he vowed to get his revenge on the town for persecuting him. The house was the one he took up residence in- it was the home of the woman who accused him of seducing her with magic. Her soul was the first he took. She roams the lands surrounding the house, searching for her body to get peace. Maybe the ghost kept her sanity and speech functions within himself, like he's using them as a power source, to keep him from fading from lack of power.I don't particularly like that idea, but I guess when Ghost is vanquished, all the souls he took are released, along with her sanity and everything else. How does the girl escape the first time? What is her backstory?The woman Ghost killed first holds him off just long enough to let the girl escape. She doesn't really have much of a story yet, but I can write one up if you want to see if. Why does Jim know how to destroy the ghost and why doesn't he do it before the girl and boy go to the house?He's like one of the people Ghost killed or something, or a descendant of somebody Ghost killed. Something like that, as it would make some sense. He doesn't do it before, because he is terrified of Ghost, and he only goes in bcause the boy is his best friend. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Just a note: I had a lot of problems trying to complicate the second example, so if anybody has one they'd like to offer, feel free to post it here. Quote: The Big Idea: A boy gets lured into a haunted house, a girl goes after him to save him, and another boy goes in to stop the ghost. The second boy dies when he kills off Ghost, and the girl regains her previously lost sanity and speech capabilities, along with getting the boy out. Ghost lures people in to kill them because he's angry over having been burned at the stake by the townsfolk. He is killed by the boy banishing him from the mortal realm, but the boy gives up his soul in order to do so. The time period of his death is around the same time as the Salem Witch burnings, and the time period that the children defeat him in is the present. The Little Things: Ghost is a murderous villain, slain by his lust for the town leader's young daughter, and he curses the town. I want the story to have his trial and death as the first part of the story, how the girl starts going insane in the second part, and him finally 'dying' as the third, but it seems too complicated to write out, instead of just putting in memories or little bits and pieces of the past. That's one of the things I need help with. Also, one of the things I want to include is how he loved and lusted over the young girl, and how he accidentally got her pregnant, which is why she accuses him of trickery and gets him burned, but would it be too complicated for the second girl, who goes crazy, to be his great-great-great-grandaughter or something like that? The young girl would have to have had the child before her death, and maybe she sent it away to be raised by family or something like that. Would this be too cliche'd to work? Okay, so it would all be fine, then? It just seems a little...off, that she is the first girl's great-whatever, along with the boy also being a descendant. You could just make the boy and girl related, like the first girl had twins and they both reproduced and ended up with the second girl and boy. I think it would work.Thanks for your opinion- I hadn't thought about that.
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