Character plot problems., Which one is best

Whicne is best

  • Idea one

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  • Idea two

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  • idea three

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  • idea four

    Votes: 1 50.0%
  • idea five

    Votes: 1 50.0%

  • Total voters
    2

anthorn

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1. Anthorn and Nikita. Both are con-artists of a kind. Working in Mana City together
Nikita is a Songmage, once a member of the Order of The Rose until the Order was destroyed. Anthorn taught her how to steal etc.

Using her Songmage skills Nikita cons peopl out of money It works well until Anthorn is caught by Gol, a man who is putting together a collection of people to journey to Mazure Island the abandoned isle. If Anthorn and Nikita agree to come, he wont turn them in to the authorities.. Unfortunately the journey and Mazure island itself is dangerous and Anthorn dies saving the group. Nikita returns to Mana City alone to break the news to his mother. She returns to Imara but along the way she becomes connected to the Fanharil fields.

2. Anthorn and Nikita. Anthorn is amnesiac. Waking up in the wreckage of an Airship with no memory of who he is or how he got here. Alone in the w
orld he wanders about until he's captured by slavers and taken to the nearest market. He is bought/rescued by a man named Gol who reconises something in his eyes. He is taken to an Inn where he meets Nikita a woman who has been trapped at the inn for several years. Nikita pursuades Gol to help her escape and together they leave for the Island.

3. Anthorn and Nikita. Anthorn lives in Osidian keep and greets a group of Guardians who warn of an attack of Lycrots. But during the night everyone in the keep is slaughtered by the mysterious Shadowmen.

Only Anthorn and Nikita survive. Nikita is taking him to the Dumas Erandi to get back her son and family because Anthorn is half Endlord. Along the way she tries to stop him growing suspicious. When they go to Imara she learns that she has been doublecrossed. After the resistance members who went with her to Osidian died. The Dumas Erandi believe she killed them. She's aloud to say good bye to her kid. Then Nikita desperate for revenge helps Faircaira escape from them. Anthorn learns of her deceit and leaves.

4.Anthorn and Nikita. Anthorn is expelled from Mana City for an undisclosed crime. He travels to WinterFell where he meets Nikita who is very trusting. Nikita has been stuck there for two years after her companions became ill and died. Gol a sorcerer comes and hires them both for a journey to Mazure Island. Once they get there and reach Lancifer Gol is Killed. Anthorn and Nikita return to the Continent. Anthorn agrees to be Nikitas body guard as she returns to Imara.

5. Anthorn and Nikita are Guardians. Unfortunately Nikita has discovered a secrett and been framed for murder. Fearing for her life she runs to a lawless place where she is then captured by her childhood sweetheart Anthorn. Anthorn and two other Guardians take her to Caraksand. Along the way Anthorn is conflicted between love and duty. In the end Duty wins out. And Nikita is put on trial. A trial which turns out to be more a farce and public humiliation on the Guardians part as she is stripped and whipped infront of an entire city. Nikita is then sentanced to hang. And by cruel fate Anthorn is the one who has to release the trap door. He Can't do it and attempts to free her. He fails and Nikita is hung.

Years later Anthorn is still scared by this event. He's drinking heavily etc. He's thens selected for a misson to capture a girl from Damorkine called Faircaira who the council want dead. But when he gets there he discovers a face he never thought he'd see again. Nikita. Alive and well.

Which one do you think is best and why

IDEA 1
idea 2
idea 3
idea 4
idea 5
 
Before I will cast my final vote, I would like to see bit more effort on explaining the three players. Nevertheless, if I have to cast my vote, then number 3 is my choice, as it has most potential on the amount of the conflicts (IMHO).
 
Whichever one serves the story best -- and as you are writing it , you are the best person to decide.
 
Whichever one serves the story best -- and as you are writing it , you are the best person to decide.

While this is very true I can understand his plight. I have something similar. I have two ideas I greatly enjoy yet can not decide between the two of them. Sometimes we get to a point where we have ideas that excite us on the same level and we want to write it yet a choice must be made. This is where second opinions and outside observations can be of some assistance. It doesn't have to necessarily make your decision for you but still give you insight on something you didn't think about. I know I'll be consulting my colleagues in regards to my plight today.

As for the idea's in question I choice number 5. Like another poster stated it would help to have a little more background but not having as such I decided to go with the one that made me immediately go 'What happened next?' and that was five. I immediately found myself wondering how in the world could he see her after watching her death right before her eyes. My second choice was number 3. It is also grabbed me but not as reflexively as 5 did. I think either would be a good choice.

Good luck and look forward to hearing more.
 
While this is very true I can understand his plight. I have something similar. I have two ideas I greatly enjoy yet can not decide between the two of them. Sometimes we get to a point where we have ideas that excite us on the same level and we want to write it yet a choice must be made.

It does? Sounds to me like you've got a starting point for two different stories. That's not so bad, is it?
 
This is where second opinions and outside observations can be of some assistance. It doesn't have to necessarily make your decision for you but still give you insight on something you didn't think about. I know I'll be consulting my colleagues in regards to my plight today.

Well maybe, but it could end up being more destructive than contrustive if there are too many opinions. If you really need a helping hand, pick someone creative you know in real life ( and someone who won't mind if you don't actually use their idea except as a springborad) and bounce ideas off them, or risk ending up with Novel By Committee.

Getting the plot just right is part of your work on your project -- opening it up to all and sundry takes away from your own creativity.
 
When in doubt, break out the dice. My six-sided di says 5.
 
IDEA 7: The injured song mage airship plummets to its death, (whilst singing the Osmond's classic Crazy Horses), in the keep of the shadowy, dark, ever so hard to see, (like you've got vaseline in your eyes, or sun glasses on), keep of the blurry shadowmen.

Fortunately Nikita and Anthorn, the passengers survive, Nikita suffers amnesia from a
poisoned pontefract cake and Anthorn is accidentally hung in a freak accident involving skipping schoolgirls.

The shadowmen put up Halogen lights because they keep banging their shins on coffee tables.
 
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Gets the award for most pointless and irrelivant reply .SPAM to you
 
Dangit, I was hoping to get that award!

Honestly, anthorn- you need to just pick one, and go with it. You've got a LOT more decisions coming up as you write, and uncertainty is natural, but you need to learn how to deal with it. Just explore your characters more and more (and more!). If it isn't working, then try something else.

That said, I don't see why 2 and 5 can't be combined, or others for that matter.
 
agreed. we can't write the book for you. your story will change more often than princess leia's hair-do, and you can't avoid that.

just write, and see what happens.

s
 
Hi Anthorn,

Any one of the five plot ideas would probably work, but I do get the impression that each of them need a lot of filling out. You appear to have five strong starts, but progression from there is quite sketchy. I wonder if you keep rewriting (or at least replaying) each start in your mind, so as to see which is most dramatic. I also wonder if you have rejected a number of other possible starts - I seem to recall earlier posts in which you have put forward other beginnings and/or explanations of your two main protagonists. Nothing wrong with that, but it's a long old grind to churn a whole book out and it must be getting very close to nettle-grasping time.

I'd suggest you pick one at random and go with it. If you need to change it later, then fair enough, but you need to start getting chunks of writing down or you're never going to get properly started at all.

Good luck!

Peter
 
I like either 5 or 7. I like 5. No, 7. Arrhhg! Wait, how come there's no 6? :rolleyes:

- Z.
 
Idea 6 phoned in sick. (In truth it was vacationing in Barbados with Concept 4).

Their offspring will put The Illuminatus Trilogy to shame.
 
I'm sorry. I shall in future attempt to replicate your entirely humourless demeanour.

By the way watch the name calling, if you have an issue with an entirely innocent post of mine please PM me.
 
I'm sorry you didn't enjoy the spirit of playfulness in which they were intended. Perhaps if you joined in a little things might be a tad more amenable.

In truth there was an underlying aim in the posts, and that was to combine ideas in an unusual way.

I'm sorry you didn't get it.
 

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