help finish story...travels 500 years in the future?

Question

I have the begining plotline- Elena travels to the future to find a cure for her brother chris's rare disease (need name for a fake disease). Thats pretty much it, but what conflict should happen? I was thinking that when elena goes to the future the disease has spread and there still isn't any cure, but what would the resolution be? Please Help....thank you

Answer 1

Have it so that she gets stuck so that her time machine needs something in order for her to get back to her normal time. Maybe she is mistaken for one of her long-lost relatives, and is arrested or kidnapped or something drastic that introduces some conflict?

What if she gets the cure with the help from a guy, but she falls in love with him, and doesn't want to go back... and if she changes the past, the guy will no longer exist, so she will essentially be killing him?

Disease: Maybe he has a disease where a kind of parasite or virus lives in his body, and is slowly sapping him of life, but it can't be eradicated. You could call the virus a Clandestisite.

Hope that helps!

Answer 2

she should try to do everything to get a cure only to find there isn't one and she should ask herself (the disease should be deforming not life threatening) why she is so set on finding a cure, why cant she be happy with her brother the way he is?
She should go to a scientist and tell him about her brother (not mentioning hes in the past) the scientist should trick her into becoming a test subject because one of her relatives has the disease. She then realises the only cure is something that will mean her brother has to have a painful operation (the scientist works this out and she watches it happen to someone else when she is being held by the scientist) she decides she cant ask her brother to go through that and learns an important lesson.
Good luck!!

Answer 3

Blood vessel calcification. The blood vessels calcify and become brittle like old tire rubber.

the slightest movements result in blood vessel rupture and that includes the beating of the heart itself.

In the future; everbody is suffering the same disease to such an extent that all humans are constantly needing surgery to replace the entire blood vessel network in their bodies until they reach adulthood.

They link it back to CitruCal a popular calcium supplement from 2007. The parent company of CitruCal was in cohoots with the FDA for so long that it turns out, they were suppressing the truth about it with hit squads for centuries. The CitruCal family even had a Masonic brotherhood where nobody knew the secret to the secrets anymore and they just continued to blindly convince the FDA that everybody needed more calcium.

Oh and everybody had really really hardwater running from the sinks.

The cure turned out to be bathing in the dead sea which was drained and quarantined by CitruCal led officials. But they dug a feeder line to the Dead Sea from the Mediterranean to replenish it.
there was enough residual salt in the saltbeds to restore the Dead sea to close to its original salinity.

Answer 4

Why not use a real disease to start with? Aids leaps to mind, although if you're scared of using that, a drug resistant TB, flu, or polio. You could also use something like Autism as well, hhm interesting idea, how would society change if one third was functionally autistic or schizophrenic?

Take a page from Arthur Clarke and make sure whatever disease you use is realistic though. Nothing kills a sci-fi book like bad science. Keep in mind, that 500 years from now, none of our anti-biotics will still be in use, as they are barely of use right now.

Answer 5

The disease spreads and she gets found out and accused of me from this evil race of shape-shifting aliens and is put on trial. But one of the guard's son believe her story and help her escape. Turns out, that the guard's son is her great-great-great-great-grandson or something coincidental like that.
Oh and the perfect name for the disease-Stravuladoris. It's based off my middle school principle's name and I always thought it sounded like some horrible disease. (I change it a little so no one will find out where I live *insert evil laugh here*)

Answer 6

to pass again to the previous might want to be the spotlight of my existence. lets see 500 years: it would want to be 1509 to be present even as Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel, might want to be options-blowing to observe a actual Genius at paintings. want I say extra? also Henry VII ascended the English Throne. heritage contained in the making that formed our international for in the present day. It basically stimulates my mind. And tickles my soul.

Answer 7

maybe she finds out that in the future that her brother started the disease, the government finds this out when she tells tells them she is looking for a cure, she becomes torn on letting him die to save the world, and finds out the government somehow planned this all along to get her to travel to the future so they could come back to our time and take over the world. I dunno, hope it helps.

Answer 8

Im sorry - are you asking for someone to collaborate with you for free? If you intend to write the story, then the ending, the middle and all the rest comes from your imagination - not mine. If you want me to collaborate, contact my agent and lawyer regarding financial arrangements.

It's your story - you write it. Pax - C