Daily Update: Wednesday 18th.
Today's update is a note about rewriting.
It's coming, it's coming! I am working on the first chapter for An Average Joe...In Love. The outline: Chapter 1 - The Rally. Charlie is caught up in an Anti-Martian rally that Jerome and Sonya have dragged him to. We learn a bit about the world he lives in now, how it differs from our own, and set up the rebellion plot.
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But, that's not all! My first novella, the one that started this all, the one that got finished, was the first in a series, but was never published, I have the plot for the rewrite! It's going to be bloody and glorious. It's going to be bloody glorious.
You want the plot? Can you handle the plot? It might take a few fingers if you're not ready.
Here we go:
Jack Metier is the victim of a serial killer, the only known survivor. According to the press and the police, he died in the attack. Jack isn't his real name. In reality, his girlfriend/fiance was the intended victim. The killer only took Jack because they were together when the killer struck. Jack's injuries were supposed to let him bleed out slowly while he watched his girlfriend slowly drown in a tank. They were then posed at the roots of a mulberry tree under a street lamp as ill-fated lovers from an ancient tragedy, Pyramus and Thisbē. Jack died on the street, but someone resuscitated him. Due to his body being found and the staging of the scene, it wasn't connected to the other murders.
In the story, a year has passed, Jack has healed, but there are lingering affects on his psyche and body. The police are looking into the possibility that he might the killer's unintended victim. They come knocking on his door.
For the past year, he's been recuperating in the remote wilderness with the stranger who saved his life. Jack has no idea who he was, but he's haunted by nightmares, the memories of his abduction/attack. An examination reveals that he has memory loss due to brain damage. He'd been dead for too long by the time his savior revived him and had a stroke when his blood started pumping again (blood clots built up in his arteries heading to the brain).
Jack knows things about the case, he remembers when they prompt him during interviews/casual conversations. He can provide details they don't have, but make sense considering the nature of the crime. It reawakens full memories of his torture at the hands of the killer and he has a psychotic break in the middle of a diner.
Only the arrival of his mysterious savior can calm him, and the police begin to question the man's role in all this. Jack refuses to believe them and stops cooperating. The thing is, though, he knows almost nothing about the man. They've been mostly isolated, and still, they've not even confided much in the other. Yet, he won't even entertain the idea that the man who has come to mean everything might be somehow involved with the horrific events of his past.
Stymied, the police are obliged to leave town and follow the leads of a new case. But someone else arrives with knowledge of Jack, drawn by press coverage. Then a local girl disappears, and all hell breaks loose.
What do you think?
Not all rewrites are created equal. Tonight's rewrites are brought to you by the letter H, for Hannibal. As in, watching the show has really inspired my love of violence in fictional media. Wow, that show is wonderfully violent. Hannibal helped inspire the rewrite of Jack Metier as well, so, thank you Brian Singer.
It's coming, it's coming! I am working on the first chapter for An Average Joe...In Love. The outline: Chapter 1 - The Rally. Charlie is caught up in an Anti-Martian rally that Jerome and Sonya have dragged him to. We learn a bit about the world he lives in now, how it differs from our own, and set up the rebellion plot.
~!~
But, that's not all! My first novella, the one that started this all, the one that got finished, was the first in a series, but was never published, I have the plot for the rewrite! It's going to be bloody and glorious. It's going to be bloody glorious.
You want the plot? Can you handle the plot? It might take a few fingers if you're not ready.
Here we go:
Jack Metier is the victim of a serial killer, the only known survivor. According to the press and the police, he died in the attack. Jack isn't his real name. In reality, his girlfriend/fiance was the intended victim. The killer only took Jack because they were together when the killer struck. Jack's injuries were supposed to let him bleed out slowly while he watched his girlfriend slowly drown in a tank. They were then posed at the roots of a mulberry tree under a street lamp as ill-fated lovers from an ancient tragedy, Pyramus and Thisbē. Jack died on the street, but someone resuscitated him. Due to his body being found and the staging of the scene, it wasn't connected to the other murders.
In the story, a year has passed, Jack has healed, but there are lingering affects on his psyche and body. The police are looking into the possibility that he might the killer's unintended victim. They come knocking on his door.
For the past year, he's been recuperating in the remote wilderness with the stranger who saved his life. Jack has no idea who he was, but he's haunted by nightmares, the memories of his abduction/attack. An examination reveals that he has memory loss due to brain damage. He'd been dead for too long by the time his savior revived him and had a stroke when his blood started pumping again (blood clots built up in his arteries heading to the brain).
Jack knows things about the case, he remembers when they prompt him during interviews/casual conversations. He can provide details they don't have, but make sense considering the nature of the crime. It reawakens full memories of his torture at the hands of the killer and he has a psychotic break in the middle of a diner.
Only the arrival of his mysterious savior can calm him, and the police begin to question the man's role in all this. Jack refuses to believe them and stops cooperating. The thing is, though, he knows almost nothing about the man. They've been mostly isolated, and still, they've not even confided much in the other. Yet, he won't even entertain the idea that the man who has come to mean everything might be somehow involved with the horrific events of his past.
Stymied, the police are obliged to leave town and follow the leads of a new case. But someone else arrives with knowledge of Jack, drawn by press coverage. Then a local girl disappears, and all hell breaks loose.
What do you think?
Not all rewrites are created equal. Tonight's rewrites are brought to you by the letter H, for Hannibal. As in, watching the show has really inspired my love of violence in fictional media. Wow, that show is wonderfully violent. Hannibal helped inspire the rewrite of Jack Metier as well, so, thank you Brian Singer.