Help with a story?

Question

I'm planning on writing a book, and I just wanted a little help. Here's the main idea, which came to me when I overheard a little girl tell her mom that she wished Hogwarts was real, and her mother told her it was:

There are a lot of dimensions other than ours. A certain group of people, called the Authors, visit dimensions, gather information about them, and pass on that information to Penners in each other dimension. The Penners then write what they think are fictional stories. In other words, Penners don't know they're being "recruited" to do this work. The main goal of the Authors: to teach people about dimensions other than their own, even if it is in fictional form.

I have yet to really make up a plot, but I just wanted a little feedback. Does this idea suck? And is there maybe a better name than Authors or Penners for those jobs?

Answer 1

No I think the idea has merit. You might use thesaurus for other words. Scribes perhaps?? Recorders? Observers?

Here is the problem I as I see it. You are creating other worlds. That is going to take a lot of time and homework on your part. Have you read Gulliver's Travels? Anne Mc Caffrey's Pern books? Both are excellent examples of the kind of detail required in creating another world. What is their government? Their currency? Their food sources? The structure of their society? Are they protected by an army? What do they do for recreation? There are a thousand questions you could ask about a society.

What you have to do is literally sit down and create the society first. Flesh it out. Really decide how it works. You can do as Swift did and use the new society as a means of satirizing our society. Or you can do as Mc Caffrey did and just create a world of her own. Either way, it will take a ton of time and imagination.

I expect that during the process, some kind of plot will come to you. Anne Mc Caffrey gave her world a serious problem which became the basis of all her stories -- thread. Gulliver visited many places and dealt with a different set of circumstances in each one of them. It sounds to me like your authors will be visiting more than one world, so you will be working more in the Swift fashion. Or consider A Wrinkle in Time. There again, different circumstances in different places.

I think your concept is a valid one, however you have to decide the purpose of these trips and what they do with their findings.

I see a very long process ahead of you. Good luck with it. Pax - C

Answer 2

Well, for my most recent tale, I used to be stimulated by means of television. Normally television evokes me anyhow. But this one is exceptional. I used to be looking Terra Nova on Tv, and despite the fact that it wasn't that exceptional of a exhibit, I nonetheless noticed the talents in it. And then I determined that writing a singular with dinosaurs might be so cool, and some thing so in contrast to whatever I've ever performed earlier than. So then I introduced into all this making plans with a lot of these exceptional characters, and it used to be going to take location within the jungle with dinosaurs. Then I persevered the making plans method and rewrote outlines. Then I began, and wrote a horrible commencing I ended up scrapping. And now I've acquired the suggestion down. And the humorous factor is, dinosaurs don't seem to be even a side of it anymore. So the object that quite stimulated this novel, does not even exist within the novel anymore. It does nonetheless, nonetheless, take location within the jungle, however the suggestion is virtually absolutely exceptional from the normal stimulated suggestion.

Answer 3

Let me know when you have a draft done. I'd love to edit it for you. Not something I'd be interested in writing, but sounds great just the same. Good job.

Answer 4

It sounds good so far. What you doing is forming he 'Universe' for your story. What you can start with is the history of your Universe and then move on to an actual plot. If you need further help, email me. I'd be glad to help you. [e-mail]

Answer 5

It seems like a great idea.The names are great and tell what they do.Keep working on it.I would like to read it.