Author Topic: Story project anyone? (Read 1994 times)

fohfoh · « **on:** May 14, 2010, 02:40:09 AM »

Ok, so I'm bored, and somehow, I don't feel like reading, or anime or gaming... so I want to consider writing a story. I want to focus on the story, so does anyone want to help create characters?

Characters wanted:

Child: Female

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Child: Female

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Grandparent: Male
Grandparent: Female

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Policeman: Male

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Hunter: Male
Businessman: Male

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Athlete: Female

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Nurse: Male
Construction worker/ Explosives engineer: Female

Aspects: Need descriptions of the following individuals that fit the basic criteria (you may choose 1 of them and create one and I'll pick and choose)

Gender, Occupation, general age given. Need things like physical features, problems, ability, history, hobbies etc.

BONUS: Choose 1-2 "Problems" this individual has. Problems ranging from Injury, habits (such as smoking or alcohol), child trauma, etc.

And if you want to know... all 10 has a chance to be a main character. So go nuts. Also, I sort of hot to have some non-cliche characters. I don't need a whole fleet of Asian chars. Just saying.

harpy · « **Reply #1 on:** May 14, 2010, 11:25:59 AM »

Child: Female

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Policeman: Male

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Businessman: Male

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fohfoh · « **Reply #2 on:** May 15, 2010, 08:01:16 AM »

Awesome. Thanks for those additions Harpy.

Also, a question. Who would make the best narrator for the story? I tried Jennifer, but it seems like she's too young. Unless I up her age a little bit...

Any ideas on that one? (I have about a few pages written already, but I'm finding it's a lot of explaining. So I'm editing that part for now.

flyawave · « **Reply #3 on:** May 16, 2010, 04:50:49 PM »

Athlete: Female

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Roven · « **Reply #4 on:** May 17, 2010, 10:57:20 AM »

So I just create a character?

(sorry for newb question)

harpy · « **Reply #5 on:** May 18, 2010, 06:20:49 AM »

Quote from: fohfoh on May 15, 2010, 08:01:16 AM

Awesome. Thanks for those additions Harpy.

Also, a question. Who would make the best narrator for the story? I tried Jennifer, but it seems like she's too young. Unless I up her age a little bit...

Any ideas on that one? (I have about a few pages written already, but I'm finding it's a lot of explaining. So I'm editing that part for now.

Cant you have and independent narrator? Not one of characters.
But if you want to stay with Jennifer you can always make her remember stuff from childhood while living in a now

fohfoh · « **Reply #6 on:** May 18, 2010, 10:19:02 AM »

Quote from: harpy on May 18, 2010, 06:20:49 AM

Quote from: fohfoh on May 15, 2010, 08:01:16 AM
Awesome. Thanks for those additions Harpy.

Also, a question. Who would make the best narrator for the story? I tried Jennifer, but it seems like she's too young. Unless I up her age a little bit...

Any ideas on that one? (I have about a few pages written already, but I'm finding it's a lot of explaining. So I'm editing that part for now.

Cant you have and independent narrator? Not one of characters.
But if you want to stay with Jennifer you can always make her remember stuff from childhood while living in a now

Hmm... that's a good idea too. I really don't know why I want to go on about a background about a kid... xD

* fohfoh shoos away the loli lovers

Chop that off, and now back to the drawing board.

wolkec · « **Reply #7 on:** May 18, 2010, 01:09:53 PM »

why are they all japanese? And why do you say that you are going back to the drawing board when you're actually writing and not drawing...

harpy · « **Reply #8 on:** May 18, 2010, 03:12:45 PM »

Quote from: fohfoh on May 18, 2010, 10:19:02 AM

Quote from: harpy on May 18, 2010, 06:20:49 AM
Quote from: fohfoh on May 15, 2010, 08:01:16 AM
Awesome. Thanks for those additions Harpy.

Also, a question. Who would make the best narrator for the story? I tried Jennifer, but it seems like she's too young. Unless I up her age a little bit...

Any ideas on that one? (I have about a few pages written already, but I'm finding it's a lot of explaining. So I'm editing that part for now.

Cant you have and independent narrator? Not one of characters.
But if you want to stay with Jennifer you can always make her remember stuff from childhood while living in a now

Hmm... that's a good idea too. I really don't know why I want to go on about a background about a kid... xD
* fohfoh shoos away the loli lovers

Chop that off, and now back to the drawing board.

well she might not be kid any more, but rememmber being a kind, she can be now one of grown up womans

the atleth or the grandmother.... or she can be all the female characters you have there... ( harpy like screwed up stories...sorry)

Quote from: wolkec on May 18, 2010, 01:09:53 PM

why are they all japanese? And why do you say that you are going back to the drawing board when you're actually writing and not drawing...

cant you read? they are not all japanese.....

Roven · « **Reply #9 on:** May 19, 2010, 11:37:58 AM »

dunno...I kinda think that som1 who is almost not related to the events of the story would be good narrator or one of them....it doesn't have to be just one..

A homeless guy came to my mind for some reason, maybe a freelance reporter?

fohfoh · « **Reply #10 on:** May 19, 2010, 11:43:44 AM »

I considered that Harpy, but I found that at a cognitive perspective, it created a lot of gap by putting a time lapse that large.

For the record, I'm looking at writing something at a literary perspective that merges something in between a written and imaginatory sense of "The Time Traveler's Wife", "Vantage Point" and "Battle Royale". So to a certain extent, it's going to be disjointed.

Several ideas to create the introduction are as follows:
1. Narration: Issues with dealing with whom, and how it works and why there is a time lapse between story and telling.
2. Journal entries or just a narration based on individual or both? Gives a first person perspective of the situation per character basis. Time is inconsistent among the individuals probably based on their entries. But how does a story tie them together in a way that makes sense? Journals work, but seem boring to have 10? Writing a story for each work, but how the heck does that tie in with so many other stories? A combination of both seem ridiculous at best.
3. What to be used as a "shared medium" amongst stories to be noted in the introduction
a. Event
b. Location
c. What else?

Gist of idea:

Event occurs - Chaos/ Survival
Record of events from character perspective which should be somewhat independent of each other individual

@Drawing board comment: I personally envision this thing. For whatever reason, it goes in my mind semi movie, semi game and semi story.

EDIT: Forgot to mention. Keep story of characters together? Or try and mesh them together to form a more fluid and forward moving story? (So as not to create cliff hangers from one character to another) Though to a certain extent, this isn't needed if each story is somewhat vague and the reader will have to pull random bits of info from each story to create a picture (which I presume many readers might not like)

Roven · « **Reply #11 on:** May 19, 2010, 12:20:06 PM »

You could tie them all to some kinda big event, it can be from real life too:
terrorism attack, big accident, witnesses to a crime, victim of something...

fohfoh · « **Reply #12 on:** May 19, 2010, 12:50:11 PM »

Quote from: Roven on May 19, 2010, 12:20:06 PM

You could tie them all to some kinda big event, it can be from real life too:
terrorism attack, big accident, witnesses to a crime, victim of something...

Uhh... that's the point of the story. Hence, the comment about Vantage Point and Battle Royale.

flyawave · « **Reply #13 on:** May 19, 2010, 06:51:23 PM »

you could change narrator every chapter or so, that'd keep me interested!

fohfoh · « **Reply #14 on:** May 19, 2010, 09:01:58 PM »

Quote from: flyawave on May 19, 2010, 06:51:23 PM

you could change narrator every chapter or so, that'd keep me interested!

Hmm... didn't think of that. lol.

harpy · « **Reply #15 on:** May 19, 2010, 09:36:58 PM »

Quote from: fohfoh on May 19, 2010, 11:43:44 AM

I considered that Harpy, but I found that at a cognitive perspective, it created a lot of gap by putting a time lapse that large.

well maybe she has had a really boring life

Roven · « **Reply #16 on:** May 19, 2010, 11:18:45 PM »

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I considered that Harpy, but I found that at a cognitive perspective, it created a lot of gap by putting a time lapse that large.

She could've bean in some kind of trauma from whatever that happened to her, something or someone would trigger her memory at the start of the story or something could be her daughter/son or such, actually he/she could be the narrator...

harpy · « **Reply #17 on:** May 19, 2010, 11:20:15 PM »

Quote from: fohfoh on May 19, 2010, 09:01:58 PM

Quote from: flyawave on May 19, 2010, 06:51:23 PM
you could change narrator every chapter or so, that'd keep me interested!

Hmm... didn't think of that. lol.

well now that's an excellent idea!!!!!! approved!!!! love books like that....

fohfoh · « **Reply #18 on:** May 20, 2010, 05:47:21 AM »

Quote from: harpy on May 19, 2010, 11:20:15 PM

Quote from: fohfoh on May 19, 2010, 09:01:58 PM
Quote from: flyawave on May 19, 2010, 06:51:23 PM
you could change narrator every chapter or so, that'd keep me interested!

Hmm... didn't think of that. lol.

well now that's an excellent idea!!!!!! approved!!!! love books like that....

Ha ha ha. With an idea like that, basic story line could be distributed and random individuals could actually write their own story as a chapter submission.

flyawave · « **Reply #19 on:** May 20, 2010, 08:17:15 PM »

so how exactly will these characters meet/ interact? And also who would narrate the final tyeing up of loose ends, one of the characters or a third person narrator?