Whenever I like something I really want to try to do the thing. I loved music all my life and I know how to sing and stuff. I loved animes so I started drawing when I was 13. I am still rubbish at drawing.
But for about two years ago, I love reading! And because I LOVE the way authors tell a story, I wanted to also give stories to people to read and share with them my ideas and stories and stuff. (and I say I wanna write. Dafuq)
A few weeks ago in our history class we were talking about terrorism and how nasty it is and how you have NO idea when it's coming. And that gave me the basis of a really good idea I had for a long time: some cruel nation takes over the world and they make everything really bad and destroy the plant and all that shizz. Thus began my hunt for ideas. And in that right class my brain bloomed this awesome idea. Some cruel nation takes over the world and it's mostly made of terrorists. And you have NO idea when the attacks are coming but they're constant and with no particular aim, like revenge or avenge. They just go into people's houses, blindfold the tenants and shoot them in the head for no particular reason. However, there are people who want to fight them, to make a better world, to live without the non-stop fear. So they form, like the current terrorist groups, in secret and in underground places groups of rebels. Some rebels are infiltrated in the terrorist government and the government doesn't know that. The terrorist president or something like that will find out something about the rebels, but know nothing of their location.
And this is how I started outlining it! It's kinda rough and not done well, but I hope you like it!
I used the
27 chapter method from katytastic on youtube (check her out, she's amazing) and it works for me so far. It's really interesting how this all works and I also will change it up a bit and will mix the chapters so it's not exactly like that.
Set up
1. Introduction:
Introducing the world and Alexandra Alwyn, who is the main character. She is 18 years old and she is in secret training to be some kind of fighter for the rebels. She will also work something for the terrorists as a day job, not to seem suspicious.
2. Inciting incident:
Alexandra has a fight with her instructor, who is not her love interest, about something and she storms out. It probably was personal, about family or something.
3. Immediate reaction:
She storms out and her instructor is following her. He stopped when she got out of the bunker because he was supposed to be dead (?), and she goes home. When she gets there her house is upside down and everything seems wrong. She starts shouting for her brother, but he doesn't respond (he is older than her by 4 years and is called Ansel). She goes into the backyard (dunno how the houses look yet, but I suppose they have backyards), and she sees her mother, Berenice, blindfolded and lying on the ground in a pool of her own blood.
Conflict
4. Reaction + 5. Action:
She starts hysterically crying and then she starts running with no aim, supposedly after where she thinks the terrorists ran.
6. Consequence:
She almost runs into a mine field, and she is caught by the waist her future love interest.
Resolution
7. Pressure:
She backs him off, of it's the future love interest, and runs back home to find her brother. She doesn't find him until he comes out from a hiding in the house.
8. Pinch:
She calms down a bit, but then she realises the horror that is waiting for her in the backyard. She goes there with her brother.
9. Push:
He's walking very tensely next to her and when he sees her, he shudders and starts crying. She just sits there and then runs back to her instructor. What she doesn't know is that she is followed by her future love interest. He knows what's in there, but he wants to fight back because the terrorists did something bad to his family as well.
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Now, I will only put the first act in here because I think it will be too spoilery if I actually start writing this! However, here's a thing I can spoil for you!
The love will NOT bloom or happen soon in the story. It will happen later on, because Alexandra doesn't want to be distracted from her aim, to destroy the terrorists. She does fall for him slowly, and she does like him, but she doesn't want anything interfering between them.
I don't want this to be the usual dystopian story. If I do that, no one will read it, or even publish it, if it comes to that. I don't want it to be like all the other novels. I have ALWAYS loved making things differently, or not to be like others. I think that being like others is cheesy.
I hope I can actually outline this so I can start writing this because I have a very different take on writing. I think I never could write something before because I didn't have an outline or never had the power to do it because of lack of ideas, but if I have an outline I can write, but not from beginning to end. I will start writing with the middle and then come back to the beginning and then the end and all that stuff. I don't think it's possible for me to do things in then right order. I am weird. I know.
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed my brainstorm and my ideas because I feel a bit proud of them! If you have ANY constructive criticism, please contact me at dasspacegandalf@gmail.com or in the comments. I would love to know if anyone had anything to add or to suggest! I will forever love you!
Thank you,
J.
(I need to choose a better pen-name)
