Help with my story??

Question

Set in English 1831

An inspector finds a prostitute unconscious by the river. Assumes she attempted suicide; but it's not,someone tried to kill her and cover up the crime to make it look like suicide. The prostitute gets amnesia, forgets her past, becomes as innocent as a child. So, basically, she symbolizes how humans were before they were affected by the ways of society. Anyways, the inspector hates her at first, because she is, after all, a prostitute, but later on comes to love her-of course, this happens towards the end of the story.
The question is WHO tried to kill her?A clergyman who had an affair with her,but tried to cover it up for the sake of his reputation?Or would this bring a lot of contraversy,as it might make Christianity look bad?
Should I have the inspector find a diary of the prostitute's which tells of her life before she got amnesia?
How should the story end?Turn her back into a prostitute,by the influence of society?

Should she have a diary, and WHY???
And if she does have a diary, why had she gone into prostitution when she was able to read and write???

And what should the inspector's surname be? Frederick...what?? Gerald? Grammond? Garamon? Lydgate? Garth? Renfield??? Any suggestions??

Also,what should the relationship be b/w the prostitute and the inspector?Should it be tragic,like,the woman only views him in a fatherly way,but he really loves her??? (though he despises her at first,as he is against prostitution)

Answer 1

I think it would be more provocative if she ended up become what she was in the first place: a prostitiute. I think that would be more interesting than having a perfect hollywood ending.

If she becomes a different people then the amnesia loses its symbolic power. It would be as if the two story about two completely different woman. The problem with this story is that anmesia-plots don't leave much room for character growth, because the protagonist spends much of her time finding out who she USED to be. As a reader, I find this to be boring and frustrating.

The other ending would be more fasnating. If she ends up back where she started, it would say a lot about people and society. Although, I must admit that I like this ending because I'm a die-heart fatalist. The weakness of this ending is that leaves the reade wondering why he or she read the story. You can remedy this by making the cop the protagonist. The story can be about his journey. It can focus on how much she has changed him.

Answer 2

OK, not in any particular order: It should not be a tragedy; rather, the diary could reflect that she once had a cultured life, but through some kind of personal backsliding / disaster led her to ruin. She went to the clergy, in hopes of redemption, but only found those who wanted to use her, who presumed that she was "only a prostitute". Perhaps you could have a turn in the story, where the clergyman gets caught in some kind of trouble, and wants to commit suicide, but because she is a generous soul, she redeems him, and forgives him. The man is humbled, but not humiliated, and changes his ways.
You mention that the prostitute suffers from amnesia, and becomes innocent again. This could show how she was not "doomed" to be a prostitute, but that she was a good person all along.The inspector grows to love her, realizing that a person can change and rise above their circumstances, if someone helps them touch the humanity in their soul.

As for the inspector's surname, I suggest "Sarabande"; it is a type of a slow dance, kind of like a minuet, I think. So, the story is like a slow dance -- between the prostitute and the inspector; and between the author and the reader.

Answer 3

I don't think the prostitute should keep a diary. She is a prostitute why would she? More than likely she wouldn't remember the trick. and why would does the inspector hate prostitute? Being an inspector he would know why they do what they so to get by (especially in those days)
She should look to him as a good man who helped her and still is and in the process fall in love as he trys to find out who tried to kill her.

Where does the clergyman come from it could be anyone who killed her some one else who really did hate prostitutes maybe because his mother was one and he was born from her being with a trick. Maybe she would bring them home and as a child he would have to see this, his mother a whore walking the streets night.
name--Frederick, Charles, Liam

Answer 4

I think the story should end in a whole different situation. I think that the ex-prostitute should start getting flashes of her former life, along with weird nightmares. She tells her new found love and they start to investigate the whole situation. And I'm not quite sure where to take it from here.

Answer 5

So she has a diary and looks through it, slowly regains her memories and eventaully is able to identify the person who assaulted her at the end of the story. Don't make her attacker a clergyman

Answer 6

the murdered was a senator......give her a 2nd chance & let her find love with the cop.

add:
if i help u write the story, i want a share of the profits. lol

Answer 7

Gosh ! if we answer all these questions do we get our name on the book as the author with you . if not maybe you should write it yourself. as far as controversy , that's what makes a book
good luck!