It's that time again, a yearly project where I get to write like 30~ page stories, my favorite :D It's technically like my 8th story, 3rd real novella. If you request, I can send them to you if you want but I don't find them amazing. Anyway, I just wanted to blog about my idea for my new novella so I'd remember the stuff about it.
I had trouble coming up with a plot. 2 worlds (both are not spherical, merely elliptical or some such, two halves to a whole), separated for millennium, collide together. Originally, I was having a protagonist called Lloyd just explore the new territories, but I had no real moral or conclusion. Mulling over it, I realized that realistically colliding without any catastrophes is blasphemy. Now, Lloyd has to journey through 5 continents, each in turmoil with acid rain, a neverending blizzard, some magma such volcano island like Hawaii, a hurricane that tears your clothes and cuts up your skin, and eternal darkness. I'm thinking he can restore the lands by placing spheres into their rightful pedestals, ala Pokemon 2000, but I'm lacking in this department.
Now, simply having him go around just like saving the world would be rather boring, there must be a twist, correct? Well, his father ends up creating a replica of him, which will aid him in his journey. What Lloyd doesn't know is that he will be killed and replaced by the end of the journey because of his sadistic scientific father, I guess. Tales of the Abyss kinda got through to me in a way, because I used it as a basis. His father used his mother as experimentation, and ended up killing her, along with the creation of a defective replica.
I'ma think about this more, it doesn't seem too deep, but it's the best I've got for now. About 4 months until the deadline...and let's write.
The twist seems kind of cliché. Are you planning on putting any foil characters for comedic value?
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ReplyDeleteEverything seems cliche :( Besides, magic is written about a crapload but replicas are at least uncommon.
ReplyDeleteI haven't thought of that, but last time I had like 12 foil characters with no real value and I hated writing them. z_z
You should just use 2 and make them appear once in a while. Make sure that your characters are plausible and not too out there.
ReplyDeleteEverything seems cliche because nothing is new under the sun <3
ReplyDeleteUm, I'll try...thanks.
ReplyDeletealso do post short stories. put them here in small parts so I can have new things to read :D
ReplyDeleteSure, I guess.
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