What do you think of my story idea?

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Amber

Basically, I've had this idea for a plot for the last 5 years, I've tried to write it but I ran out of time with school & stuff happening at home


It will be called âThe Wordsmithâ and basically follows the life of a writer. He doesnât adhere to deadlines and neglects his relationships when immersed in writing. However, he is an excellent writer, and his publisher hangs on to him in hope of him producing good quality works.

One day he comes up with a character that mesmerises him. Obsessed with her, he starts to write about her, without planning the book or considering the plot. In his dreams/when he blacks out (alcohol etc.), he starts to visualise her â imagining being in her room, following her, etc. and the scenes are written onto his computer in his prose. It scares him, but he is addicted, and slowly the book involves a massive community and whole new world. He continues blacking out and existing in this otherworld and starts writing the book to put himself in positions of power. He gets into arguments with locals & then kills them through writing and he makes changes appear out of nowhere (characters canât ever remember it not existing), etc.

The characters start to get suspicious about him but canât remember what is wrong/different. They start following him and notice he disappears and reappears. Meanwhile, he is getting more obsessed (stalking) and tries to force her to love him â instead she contacts the local police, gets security cameras/alarms and buys a gun. She also starts writing down everything she does. He makes the police, security cameras/alarms & her gun disappear, and tries to write in her love for him. It lasts for a day, but she reads her notes and her love is lost. The locals also find his notebook listing all the things he plans to change. They think he is psycho/demonic/magical & responsible for the disappearances/deaths. He loses control and is unable to unwrite the entire communityâs memories and canât stop visiting the place. In desperation whilst stalking, he tries to tie up the girl in her house, but she pulls down a cupboard on him & knocks him out. She alerts others, who, in mob-style fashion, decide the only thing to do to stop him is to kill him (because he can disappear & reappear). They attack him with poles/stones/fire until he dies, and in the real world, he ceases to have ever existed

Right at the start, he is in complete control of the characters, but quickly they develop their own personality, actions and memories and reject his power so he is unable to control the characters or kill them off through writing. The town is an alternate, very real reality, which currently exists just as the town. Although he doesn't realise this, he is literally transporting from one reality to the other each time he blacks out


What do you think & are there any ways I could make it better?

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Surprisingly clever and well-thought out. I'd probably read this book. I guess all those years really did paid off.

What do you think of my story idea?

Amber

Basically, I've had this idea for a plot for the last 5 years, I've tried to write it but I ran out of time with school & stuff happening at home


It will be called âThe Wordsmithâ and basically follows the life of a writer. He doesnât adhere to deadlines and neglects his relationships when immersed in writing. However, he is an excellent writer, and his publisher hangs on to him in hope of him producing good quality works.

One day he comes up with a character that mesmerises him. Obsessed with her, he starts to write about her, without planning the book or considering the plot. In his dreams/when he blacks out (alcohol etc.), he starts to visualise her â imagining being in her room, following her, etc. and the scenes are written onto his computer in his prose. It scares him, but he is addicted, and slowly the book involves a massive community and whole new world. He continues blacking out and existing in this otherworld and starts writing the book to put himself in positions of power. He gets into arguments with locals & then kills them through writing and he makes changes appear out of nowhere (characters canât ever remember it not existing), etc.

The characters start to get suspicious about him but canât remember what is wrong/different. They start following him and notice he disappears and reappears. Meanwhile, he is getting more obsessed (stalking) and tries to force her to love him â instead she contacts the local police, gets security cameras/alarms and buys a gun. She also starts writing down everything she does. He makes the police, security cameras/alarms & her gun disappear, and tries to write in her love for him. It lasts for a day, but she reads her notes and her love is lost. The locals also find his notebook listing all the things he plans to change. They think he is psycho/demonic/magical & responsible for the disappearances/deaths. He loses control and is unable to unwrite the entire communityâs memories and canât stop visiting the place. In desperation whilst stalking, he tries to tie up the girl in her house, but she pulls down a cupboard on him & knocks him out. She alerts others, who, in mob-style fashion, decide the only thing to do to stop him is to kill him (because he can disappear & reappear). They attack him with poles/stones/fire until he dies, and in the real world, he ceases to have ever existed

What do you think & are there any ways I could make it better?
by characters, I mean the people the author made and then interacted with when he enters the world he created
@Somnus: It is an 'alternate reality' he has created (it only consists of the village), but he is not in complete control. The characters still have memories, personality and such and their personalities are unable to be changed by his perspective. He initially believes the girl loves him and is submissive, and tries to write her that way, but when brought into existence, she is not submissive and her own person, which means she eventually physically rejects his words. So his characters have as much power as he does, plus he would be entirely unable to erase an entire 'village'. Maybe I should include a section where he tries to end everything but it fails?

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My hat is off to you, sir, and your insane character, the Wordsmith. I love the idea, and wish you the best of luck with your genius masterpiece.

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