My characters = a middle-aged, male pirate who still sails and plunders with his mom and a princess named Ruth.
2007-11-12 14:01:36 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
the pirate and the mom kidnap ruth for reward money and plan to kill her after they collect their money. but the pirate falls in love with the princess...yada yada yada. you think of the rest
2007-11-12 14:10:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Frankly, it sounds delightful!! I'm really not joking, either. I know you use the word "trashy" tongue-in-cheek.
A story, whether it's a novel, short story, or screenplay, is started with some of the following:
1) Premise
This is when you ask, "What would happen if?" Anything can get you started with it. The author of "Lord of the Rings" started his when he wrote about a hole in the ground on a piece of paper. He had no clue what it meant, he simply wrote it. Then he started asking "what would happen if..." something lived in it? Then it grew into "The Hobbit" and "Lord of the Rings". Brainstorm, read the news, and start asking what if questions to develop the premise of your story.
2) Setting
You can set your story anywhere, on Mars, in the past on Earth, in the future on a starship, anywhere. Even thinking about the setting can help you to develop the premise.
3) Multiple Characters
Almost all stories contain multiple characters to play off of the values of the others. Start thinking about characters and what they want and this will also help you to develop your story. Ask lots of "what would happen if?"
4) Inciting Incident
This is where you story begins that turns your story's world upside-down and forces your character to set it straight. Then your character will begin a quest to reach an object of desire. Thinking about an inciting incident can also be your premise: "What would happen if a shark ate someone and the partially-eaten body ends up on the beach?" Jaws.
These points should help you to get started.
Post some examples of your story on the forum at my site at http://www.storyentertainment.com or if you have any questions or want feedback.
This sounds like a fun story!
2007-11-13 00:27:17 · answer #2 · answered by i8pikachu 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How about they get captured, and he is forced to "perform" with the princess in front of a crowd, and then he gets sold as a sex slave to a exotic older queen at the next stop, while the princess and mom have to stay with the captors.He then finds out that the queen has a lost daughter that was taken from her. And it turns out to be the princess is the queen's long lost daughter, and they embark to go find her.
Maybe you should throw a threesome, or two, in there.
For the record, I wouldn't read this....but you said trashy. and this is ultimate trash, though it does sound like some so called romance novels out there.
2007-11-12 22:20:49 · answer #3 · answered by I ♥ men in uniform 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
umm you kinda ned a plot before you THINK of starting a story but ill help ya out.
1 question HE SAILS WITH HIS MOM!!?!??@?!@!?!?!?
sorry anyway
have them marrooned on an island where they have to live together in harmony. then have more pirates come and kidnap Ruth his enemy. He realises eventually after his mothers death ( 2 weeks after ruth's kidnapped) that he needs her. So he goes after them and you can take it from there
2007-11-12 22:56:34 · answer #4 · answered by SamC-akaCaysynn 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a writer and a writing group facilitator.
One good suggestion; don't make it "trashy". Have some integrity, write something that is good and worthwhile.
2007-11-12 22:09:45 · answer #5 · answered by MadforMAC 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
he needs to meet a bar wench with a heaving bossom, fall madly in love, then unknowly, kill her father.
2007-11-12 22:08:57 · answer #6 · answered by the beet 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What are you writing if you dont have a plot?
TW K
2007-11-12 22:05:43 · answer #7 · answered by TW K 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
"All you need" is a plot? LOL. Well, that would be somewhere to start...
2007-11-12 22:09:18 · answer #8 · answered by Nikouli 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋