Writing a book need some ideas!?

Question

My book is about a guy that goes to war in the year 3025 and get both arms, both feet, part of his legs, and part of his chest injured so badley he gets them replaced with metal so he now has jet boots and such. right now in my book the man is in a hideaway house.
so what should happen next if i choose your idea i will write your name in the "credits"
P.S the whole book is about a hug furuistic war so add in some crazy future stuff
pls+thnx............Eric

sorry about the bad spelling

http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/2745/deathrydercovertz2.jpg
This might be the books cover. I dont know yet.

cool idea about his personal exp.

Shanny i used your idea and mixed it up a little
The enemies were these demon-alien things so..
The head Lavrithian and his little henchmen take over part of the humans team but my guy (mike) gathers friends and has to kill the leader and get his team back. During this he get too close to the leader hideaway that he and his 3 buddies are attacked by a swarm of them.
And it continues...............

shizzle i hate my spelling

Mike Ryder, a half mechanical man in the year 3025 was called into war. Doing what was right he went into war obeying his orders.
Mike took a military helicopter to the war site, when they were first reaching the site the chopper was attacked by the Lavrithians. “Holy ****”, said one of the troops on the chopper. The chopper spun out of control landing in the middle of the battle field.
Mike and Haxo squad killed very many of these beasts and made it to there teams side of the war zone. By this time the whole squad is tired. One of the Levrithians snuck up on Mike, he turned around and shot its head of in the goriest fashion possible.
Haxo squad ran through a few enemy lines and made it to a hideaway house to rest from this point they can only prey they don’t die. Mike remembered this type of thing from his personal experience with the Levrithians a while ago when they killed his brother. “Ya know these pieces of crap killed my only brother" Mike said.

First Chapter Of The Book

Answer 1

you want to keep it unique and as far away from terminator and robocop sort of thing cause you run a risk of getting them compared.

let see: Depends who the enemy is. will it be human, alien, robots, half human half robot.

I think to have the enemies as human, maybe one head fella and then the subordinates. the head fella has brainwashed his subordinates to follow him they have microchip or something in brain and your guy has to find out what he did to these people and how to reverse it while saving and killing many people. he gathers loyal friends along the way who help him. don't reveal they've been brainwashed till near the end when your guy discovers this and then has to destroy the machine that controls this, but discovers that it can't be broken because the people will remain brainwashed. he has to discover how to shut it down but it can't be because during fight with head fella they break machine. so he has to discover another way to stop the army of subordinates. and maybe that picture you have for cover could be tattoo on arm or painted onto his metal chest.

i know not great idea but may work and if think of anything else will be back good luck

Answer 2

OK, you explained you "gimmick" but what is the book about? Too often, writers get caught up in the bells and whistles, the hooks of the story, without really examining what they want to communicate with the reader. Where is the actual plot? What side of the war is the protagonist on? What is the war about? You seemed more concerned with "special effects" than story with your query. Special effects can make a bad movie look good, but reading is a cerebral (not visual) media, so all the gimmicks in the world won't make a bad story read well.

Before asking for gimmick ideas, you need to determine what message you are trying to convey. I don't get the feeling you have really thought out what the book is suppose to do.

In the interim, there are some book reviews on our website for some science fiction books that might help you. I'd suggest digging into some good sci-fi first to get a better feel for the genre.

Answer 3

you can write about his personal battle of war so we can learn mistakes from our future

Answer 4

Sure