So, I managed to get about 4 to 4.5 hours worth of writing time in today which is pretty good I think.
Word count is at 3,745.
Considering that I did absolutely no prep work, I guess that’s pretty good. I’ve figured out the main characters and the setting of the story but I have no idea where to go with it or what the point is yet lol I guess I’ll figure that out as I go.
As for the story itself, I used a combination of two random thoughts to build the setting. Those thoughts go something along these lines:
(a) We hear about hero stories in the news every so often.
If someone just saved your life, what would you do for them? how would you repay them, or would you?
How would that be different from going back an hour in time and knowing that you were going to die and that this person was the only one in the entire world that could change your fate and save your life. What would you offer them then? Most likely it would be 100x the reward you would offer after the fact.
If they knew they were going to be in the position of saving your life, would they stay on course? or would they turn and run? what if their life was in danger by saving yours? What if it was reversed, if you knew that you were the only one that could save a complete stranger, but your life would be in jeopardy too, would you still help? or avoid the situation altogether and leave them to their own fate?
Desperation and the will to survive are powerfully motivating forces.
(b) It’s amazing how easily influenced we are by other people’s opinions, especially those in the media. We all have thousands of preconceived notions about people, places and things that we have absolutely no firsthand knowledge of, because of stories we’ve heard or things we’ve been told, regardless of how credible the storyteller is (or isn’t).
maybe you haven’t had these exact thoughts, but I’m sure you’ve had something similar cross your mind:
I would never vacation in “country X” because people get abducted there all the time - even though I have no idea what the kidnapping statistics are or if there is any merit whatsoever to that statement.
I would never buy product A because it’s a rip off, product B is so much better – yet I’ve never used either and can’t even recall why I think that. The product could be anything: a brand of beer or maybe a make of car.
I hate “celebrities X,Y & Z” because they are horrible people and are so mean to fans – even though I’ve never seen or met them in person and the only thing I’ve ever known about them came from an online blog.
instant, and mostly anonymous, forms of modern social media can amplify the problem tenfold. I can pop on twitter and start a rant about how I saw a local politician out at a bar with someone other than their spouse, making out and getting nasty, and thousands of people will take that as a pure fact long before the person has a chance to defend themselves and disprove the allegations, making it virtually impossible to fully repair the damage done to their reputation.
I could also simply write that I heard celebrity A called celebrity B a _______ and more often than not, fans on both sides will start fighting and trashing the other celebrity in defense of their favorite.
What would you do if you were shunned by modern society because of false accusations? How far would you go to prove your innocence? Or would you settle for revenge?
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