Writers' Ideas

[tomtom555]

Yeah, it was just an idea that came up randomly so we thought we'd do it lol .

[mark-2007]

I don't mean to discourage you from writing, really, and neither does Eminence. I mean, I love reading stuff from new writers in particular, and it's really good stumbling across a debutant writer's first piece if it is a good one. However, the kind of story you have going, in my opinion, won't be a good one. These kinda stories are barely funny when on film, and when read are probably even less so.

[tomtom555]

Oh, cool man. I understand. Cheers

[Chunk]

I'm pulling out of this idea tom. I can write again! I'll still give you ideas if you want. Sorry dude.

[tomtom555]

I'm pulling out of this idea tom. I can write again! I'll still give you ideas if you want. Sorry dude.

Nah, don't worry about it. It's cool. I don't think it would have been that great, now I think about it . Still, we had fun lol.

[Chunk]

Just to let everyone know, we never planned to write this. We planned the whole story out but never planned to post it. Sorry to mark-2007 and Eminence for wasting your time posting. Sorry.

[Oxidizer]

No disrespect but those type of stories are obviously just for the hell of writing a deliberate piece of random bullsh*t, and I don't get it. What is the point in doing that? It's nauseatingly stupid. *headdesk*

[Stefan.]

I'm actually back to writing, yay!

[Rhoda]

I'm actually back to writing, yay!

What've you got planned Stefan? Anything you'd like to share at this point?

[VCRules86]

I'm actually back to writing, yay!

Lucky.

 

I've been stuck in a writer's block ever since my zombie and biker stories got deleted off of Microsoft Word (why is my brother such an anus?)

 

The only idea i've had is sorta GTA meets Kane & Lynch. A story about an ex mercenary

[Chunk]

Red

In a dystopian future, a psychotic mental patient escapes the Asylum, the most brutal place in the whole USA. With President Barack Obama launching a war against Europe, the mental patient escapes to a changed world. Crime runs wild as the citizens take what they can to survive the oncoming war. As the mental patient,, Red, makes his way through the city, he discovers that the city he loved has changed and that his childhood home has been taken over by a gang of heroin addicts. Massacaring the junkies, Red wants his city back, and the only way to do that is by going on a rampage against the criminals that overrun the streets. With the help of Skids, a young junkie, the two unlikely heroes bond on a journey through the underworld, killing any bastard that gets in their way...

Edited March 11, 2009 by Chunk

[VCRules86]

sounds like a complete and utter killfest which also sounds pretty.........badass.

 

I'm interested to see where you take it.

[Chunk]

Thanks VCRules86. I got a few extracts written up, don't know if they'll make it into the final product though. Anyway, heres one of them...

 

 

The childhood home of the psychopath stood dilapidated at the end of a littered street. All the houses were boarded up and looked to have been evacuated a long time ago. On the lawns of many of the houses had signs up that read Four more years for Obama! Poor bastards. There was no elections now. All there just was a sinister black man ruling over the former Land of the Free. America had gone to the dogs ever since Obama was elected. If only a pensioner hadn't run against him that year, maybe the USA wouldn't be in the mess it's in today. It was 2012 now. Four years of the terrorist president had ruined everything. Four years ago Wendy's was a fast food restaurant, now it was an arms company, selling weaponary to some Mexicans who had the courage to cross the border. Four years ago, the Ku Klux Klan wanted Obama dead. Now, their dead bodies had all been burned in a fire of brutality. Red was one of the victims of Obama's reign. He had been sent to the Asylum, a place that rewards murder and rape and scolds you for not going on a psychotic rage against your fellow inmates. But now Red was out of that hellhole and wanted to go home. And now he was...

Edited March 11, 2009 by Chunk

[Don Garcia aka NjNakedSnake]

I was going to PM this to Will, but I figured I might as well post it here. What do you guys think of this little write-up I did one night a few weeks ago while laying in front of my laptop bored:

 

______

 

The moment a man realizes his fear of God, of judgment, is a moment only realized when he has committed an act most heinous.

 

I am writing this now, for whomever may find it, that should I not already be long dead, to bring me to justice by any means. I have taken a man’s life, in the coldest blood, and done so with such little remorse that I feel nothing short of absolute disgust in myself. In the simplest of terms, I am an abomination walking amongst ordinary people, carrying a secret that devours my innards. I cannot manage the courage to end my own life, for I am truly a coward. So I am stuck at an impasse in my life’s conclusion. Unable to perform a successful suicide, I remain free of incarceration. With no intention of sounding proud, I have managed to commit the perfect murder. With help of course, but I will explain that in due time. By achieving this undiscoverable killing, I live free. As free as I possibly can, considering the imprisonment of my mind in fear and guilt.

 

I deserve to be put to death by the state, or to simply but effectively rot and die in jail, the latter being a more fitting punishment. Yet, I have not been subjected to the law of men. The reason being that two of the three individuals involved in the murder are dead now. Leaving me the sole crier of the crime and bearer of the tale. Presently, I live a normal life as I had prior to the crime, or rather I pretend to. I work, and visit friends when I am up to it, but the guilt of murder is a heavy weight for one to carry around the neck. It keeps me shut in my home most days, nervous and agitated. Waiting for something that never comes. A relief, of some kind, of any kind, or perhaps a retribution. It brings attention to me, from friends who query, and I find myself constantly searching for what to say. I make excuses of being sick, of being tired, but they know it is something more. Of course, the worst part is that they may never know what it really is, what I have actually done, what I have deteriorated into.

 

It is for this reason that I have decided to write down in as much detail as possible the murder of Pete Martin.

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A rough excerpt I concocted while watching the History Channel I believe.

[Oxidizer]

I mentioned this fleetingly to Eminence on Msn a few days back conversationally, not putting much thought into it, but is there a thread for bumping stories that either hasn't had any feedback in quite a while or is over 6 months' old [for example]? Or something along those lines.

 

Not a thread for continually spamming and advertising your stories, but stories that actually warrent a justified bumpin'. Plus it'd be easier to track down some quality pieces from years ago that may still be loitering around WD, getting all dusty and have been overlooked by the newer members (myself included). Going to the last page on WD and reading some stuff from '05 et cetera, it is a shame that these don't get to see the light of day no more.

 

What'd you reckon?

[Chunk]

I'm think I'm going to let Red take a back seat for a while. I'm going to write a dectective noir set in the 50's instead and it'll be written an old man writing the memoirs of a big case he was investigating when he was young. Here's an extract I wrote up last night.

 

 

Some dame walked right into my office without knocking. I coulda been doing anything, nothing like that, but I coulda been doing something important, like my paperwork. She came in shouting about a gun and her husband. From what I gathered, I reckoned that her husband had been shot and she wanted my help. Sounded like my sorta case. She walked over to my desk, slammed her hands on the mahogoney and began shouting more and more about her husband getting some bullets lodged in his stomach. I got up from my wooden chair and slammed my hands on the desk just like the dame. I said that she needed to calm down and talk calmly. The tears were flowing from her sky-blue eyes and her masscara was blotched. After a minute or two me and her were sitting down and she was explaining to me that she came home from the grocery store and she sees her husband in a pool of crimson. She said she tried to get some air back in his lungs but it was too late. And that's when she came to me. That was my case. And, I was about to delve into the murky waters of corruption to solve it.

Edited March 12, 2009 by Chunk

[Rhoda]

Sounds similar to the Catcher In The Rye. If you've ever read it, you'll know instantly what I mean, but it's the style of 1950's American dialogue that Holden Caulfield utilizes often, both when read and spoken. The way the story is told is also alike, though Catcher In The Rye has nothing to do with detective work. I recommend reading it to anyone, especially those looking to get into first-person writing.

 

If you're going to write something like this, you need to include the thoughts that anyone gets simply walking down the street. I don't mean to a distracting degree, but observations that add depth and personality to your character. Making an observation about how much your character despises the colour red, for example, and linking that to something that happened in his childhood may appear to be wandering off the beaten track ever so slightly, but if done right it really aids character development.

[Chunk]

Yeah, I'm going to put in my character's thoughts, I was thinking that all along. I got the whole idea from Watchmen, Rorscharch's journal, you know? I should have it up once I plan the rest of it out and think of a title.

[Eminence]

You still need to work on your tenses.

[Chunk]

God, I'm so frustrated with tenses! They're my biggest obstacles. I had a look through the extract again and I should have fixed the tense problem. Thanks Phil for pointing out my errors.

[Lethal Nizzle]

I'm thinking of doing a new project based in Liberty City. Basically I'm planning a new installment every other week, and each new chapter will be different and of a different character. Essentially, I want to create snapshots of Liberty City in the form of small stories for various types of characters, possibly stereotypical or quite bizarrely original. So I simply play a little bit of GTA, get a feel for the city, maybe pick out a random ped and build a backstory/scenario for that ped.

 

Your thoughts?

[Rhoda]

Sounds great, and if I haven't got the wrong end of the stick, sounds very much like Eminence's Diamond City and if I may be so bold, my own Inbred Mountain project. Do you eventually intend to tie them all together a la Pulp Fiction?

[Lethal Nizzle]

Who knows, the thought just came to me then. There could be potential to, but I'm not sure. After you pointed out the similarities to yours and Eminence's works I'm not quite sure if this is the right thing to do..

[Rhoda]

Why not? I don't see any problem behind it, and I'm sure with the amount of pre-determined characters you can involve, your work may prove to be deep, detailed and comprehensive, because the hardest part is already completed for you, in a way; character development. Many of us are already familiar with Brucie's chauvinistic attitude, and Ray Boccino's startling temper.

[Lethal Nizzle]

Alright. I see what you mean, but I'm not thinking of involving any canon characters; perhaps hinting at them or giving them small cameos might be a decent idea.

[Rhoda]

So your plan is original characters with a hint of cameos/references from GTA IV and /or TLAD? Sounds like a fine idea in itself. While the development of your characters is challenging, it's more satisfying in a way to create your own palette.

[The Unvirginiser]

It's a great idea Niall, interwinding them toe ach other and the main IV storyline will be itneresting too.

[VCRules86]

God, I'm so frustrated with tenses! They're my biggest obstacles. I had a look through the extract again and I should have fixed the tense problem. Thanks Phil for pointing out my errors.

yeah tenses were a problem with me also. Not until recently did i address it. just keep it in the back of your mind while writing and you should be able to to stick to past/present tense.

 

That 50's noir idea sounds awesome, one i'm genuinely excited for.

[Oxidizer]

This is the title of something I'm currently toying with: Killing Your Numbers. It's a retribution story set in Tokyo, revolving heavily around the Yakuza.

[VCRules86]

that sounds pretty awesome. We haven't had much material on the WD relating to Asian organized crime.