I'm having an extreme case of writer's block on a case I'm working on. The basic idea is that some valuable goods were stolen from a history museum and Dalton ends up defending the prime suspect--a college student named Izumi who in addition to needing to pay tuition is expected to contribute to her paying money for her grandfather's cancer treatment. (Stuck on the middle), in the end, the evidence needed to prove Izumi innocent is in a waterproof box at the bottom of the lake, and in order to search it out. Dalton and Lance (who doesn't know her secret and has given up the search without permission) need Brianna to use her powers to transform into a fish to search out the box, with the help of a special microphone invented by Rebecca Holt, a girl who can control technology with her mind and has many crazy inventions to help the characters. The next day in court, Izumi is found innocent and Lance wonders where Dalton and Brianna found the box. Any advice?
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1. You say you like Ace Attorney because it has a well developed character. Good. Who is going to be your well developed character, the person who makes the decisions that drive the story forward? Is it going to be Dalton, Brianna, Lance or Izumi?
You say you like the transformations (like Manimal); if so then you probably want the driving character, the protagonist, to be Brianna.
2. The easiest story to tell is a conflict between the protagonist and the antagonist(villain). With strong personalities, the emotion comes a lot easier. Your lead villain doesn't have to be the thief, but they need to have a strong personality to give your story some grip.
Stuck on a case
I'm having an extreme case of writer's block on a case I'm working on. The basic idea is that some valuable goods were stolen from a history museum a…
1. You say you like Ace Attorney because it has a well developed character. Good. Who is going to be your well developed character, the person who makes the decisions that drive the story forward? Is it going to be Dalton, Brianna, Lance or Izumi?
You say you like the transformations (like Manimal); if so then you probably want the driving character, the protagonist, to be Brianna.
2. The easiest story to tell is a conflict between the protagonist and the antagonist(villain). With strong personalities, the emotion comes a lot easier. Your lead villain doesn't have to be the thief, but they need to have a strong personality to give your story some grip.
1. The thief left the lab with the watertight box in hand, knocked Izumi out, and snuck the key in her pocket.
2. Somehow (I'm not sure yet), the treasure being at the bottom of Lake Michigan will prove her innocence as she testified she saw someone on a boat dump the box in the lake. The treasure was not in the box originally.
3. I enjoy mystery series with sci-fi and fantasy elements for how they integrate my two favorite genres (mystery and spectulative fiction). As for actual shows, I enjoy "Manimal" for it's action scenes and unique premise (and no, I hadn't seen it at the time I came up with my series), "Lois and Clark" for it's emotion and the way the romance is portrayed, and the "Ace Attorney" games for their clever setups and well-"written" (or whatever you'd call a visual novel) character.
Hope this helps and sorry I didn't write Barack sooner. God bless! ;)
Brien Sparling said:
Water tight case:
A crime mystery pivots on a problem; story ends when the problem is “solved” but you need to know that solution ahead of the reader. Valuable historical items were stolen; you need to know how they were stolen…or misplaced. Could have been accidentally discarded, and large east-coast cities like New York dumped trash out at sea up until 1999. Your task #1 is to tell me how the crime happened.
Izumi is the story’s lead suspect, however finding the misplaced artifacts doesn’t automatically clear her. Your task #2 is to tell me how gets cleared.
Take a look at the type of crime stories you enjoy the most; what was(is) the main thing that made them enjoyable to you: fantasy, romance, horror…a clever twist? a string of clues that made the reader a participant? You tell me who the target audience is and what is going to make them enjoy this story.
Write back as soon as you are able.
Stuck on a case
I'm having an extreme case of writer's block on a case I'm working on. The basic idea is that some valuable goods were stolen from a history museum a…
A crime mystery pivots on a problem; story ends when the problem is “solved” but you need to know that solution ahead of the reader. Valuable historical items were stolen; you need to know how they were stolen…or misplaced. Could have been accidentally discarded, and large east-coast cities like New York dumped trash out at sea up until 1999. Your task #1 is to tell me how the crime happened.
Izumi is the story’s lead suspect, however finding the misplaced artifacts doesn’t automatically clear her. Your task #2 is to tell me how gets cleared.
Take a look at the type of crime stories you enjoy the most; what was(is) the main thing that made them enjoyable to you: fantasy, romance, horror…a clever twist? a string of clues that made the reader a participant? You tell me who the target audience is and what is going to make them enjoy this story.
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Thank you so much!
Brien Sparling said:
1. You say you like Ace Attorney because it has a well developed character. Good. Who is going to be your well developed character, the person who makes the decisions that drive the story forward? Is it going to be Dalton, Brianna, Lance or Izumi?
You say you like the transformations (like Manimal); if so then you probably want the driving character, the protagonist, to be Brianna.
2. The easiest story to tell is a conflict between the protagonist and the antagonist(villain). With strong personalities, the emotion comes a lot easier. Your lead villain doesn't have to be the thief, but they need to have a strong personality to give your story some grip.
2. Somehow (I'm not sure yet), the treasure being at the bottom of Lake Michigan will prove her innocence as she testified she saw someone on a boat dump the box in the lake. The treasure was not in the box originally.
3. I enjoy mystery series with sci-fi and fantasy elements for how they integrate my two favorite genres (mystery and spectulative fiction). As for actual shows, I enjoy "Manimal" for it's action scenes and unique premise (and no, I hadn't seen it at the time I came up with my series), "Lois and Clark" for it's emotion and the way the romance is portrayed, and the "Ace Attorney" games for their clever setups and well-"written" (or whatever you'd call a visual novel) character.
Hope this helps and sorry I didn't write Barack sooner. God bless! ;)
Brien Sparling said:
Water tight case:
Write back as soon as you are able.