I've always been a writer. However, way back when, in junior high, I really thought I wrote like a pro and loved to rip plots off. ._. I'm bringing this up now because I came across my writer's folder today out of boredom.
STORY 1: Discovering My Murderer
-Didn't rip anything off but used by now most despised character Cullen Edward. Long dead character.
STORY 2: Choice of the Insane
-I actually kind of liked this one, except one of the characters was Mr. Crepsley, who I know I ripped off from Mr. Crepsley of Cirque du Freak.
STORY 3: Vampires, Birds, Experiments, OH MY
-Plot and character are 100% marty stu and 100% ripped off from the events of the Maximum Ride books, only made even more marty stu. ><
STORY 4: An Emerald Week
-Not ripped off from anything, just really, really bad.On that note, I'm really trying to become a better writer and I wish to direct you to two ideas I've had for a long time. I've been curious to try a first person pick-your-own-adventure kind of thing that isn't quite so cheesy. First one is as follows:
Chapter 1 begins with the protagonist in high school on a regular morning. He finds a note on the floor of his classroom, by his desk, with instructions on it. They list that there will be a lockdown and that "you will be in the stairwell when this happens." He is instructed to take them down to the main floor where a gunman will be waiting to lead him out. He thinks its garbage so that's where he puts it.
Then, heading to his next class the lockdown is called. He's in the stairwell. He panics and remembers the note, so he goes down to the main floor. A gunman is waiting there for him. "Put your hands up and walk in front of me." He is lead out of the school and to a black van. He is shoved inside.
The chapter ends there with the sentence: "I finally get a good look at his face." And the choices of: "I've seen it before; I know it well." or "And I've never seen it in my life."
Second:
Ryan is a "cop" (hired by them but not legitimately one of them) and he is sent to stop a bank robbery that is going to happen. This is introduced in chapter one. Chapter 2 begins with Johnny, a villain with fire and invisibility powers, and he is the one who's going to rob the bank. I'm hoping these 2 chapters will parallel each other. The end of chapter 2 will then give you the choice to follow either Ryan or Johnny. And each subsequent chapter is then whoever you want to win/fail.
The problem that arose with this layout is that I would essentially be writing 2 similar stories, because I would have to write out all of the win/fail chapters from Johnny's view, and then write them again from Ryans view. I was debating on making them 2 separate stories for this reason. One by Johnny and one by Ryan.