Dunno if i've already posted here, but it's 2am and i'm on a forced fictional writing abstinence until monday.
Anyways, so there's been this story i've been trying to get right for years. It started out as a crazy superhero sort of thing, but the idea of it has... changed... matured over the years, and recently after watching the New Superman movie I was inspired to look back, then after watching the first four seasons of Breaking Bad and the first season of Better Call Saul something interesting formed in the old cuckoo brain of mine.
Without going into crazy details, the story follows three perspectives: A sort of hacker/spy, a rising knight, and a ambitious hitman. The initial two meet right away, form an oddball team while the third eventually becomes a big time gangster who seems like the perfect puppet the knight wants to use to manipulate the local gangs.
Thing is the hacker-kid's brother-in-law, a smaller perspective is acting in direct opposition of the rising hitman, the Knight stumbles upon some darker people on his "quest of purity" which makes him spiral toward some "defeatist" thoughts, and the gangster just so happens to be the very man who killed both the Knight's mother and brother.
Once all these narratives become clear to each party things turn radically from plans into a rather disturbing finale which will result in the gangster's willing death, the brother-in-law's face being degloved, and the Knight and Hacker-Kid racing to stop the Hacker-Kid's sister (another minor perspective) from ending her own life after the brother-in-law kidnaps and kills their kid.
STILL very much a work in progress, you'll also note how the "hero" is referred to as a Knight as he's more played off like one, or a Ronin from a fallen house, seeking some sort of redemption for failure.
The idea is for the Knight to find a reason to even try cleansing the city before him. And that reason inevitably ends up being the hacker-kid and his sister.
Now, I know "sounds like you have a lot of it thought out, what gives?" well you see, I originally started things out way further down the line, then I started in the middle, and now I've found a good beginning. I didn't want to go with a full on Origin route, but I did not want to just throw a reader into madness (something I did when I started out in the middle). The Hacker-Kid serves as a good median, while his career is tracking and keeping tabs on Superhuman beings, he's the human core and reason, while the Knight needs the Hacker-Kid to climb back toward his human core and reason.
Also, the reason why i'm on a forced fictional writing pause right now is because I'm trying to build up. The more excited I am for a story, the more impatient I am to get to it, the better. That means I've got a decent 60-200 pages in me before I go "Okay, okay, okay, reread this because i'm not so sure about it". PLUS, I should be working on world-building design documents right now. I wrote 25% more than I did last year in just 10 months! Within the first two months of the year I had already met last year's amount... which really tells you that's my limit. Pretty much I'm pushing myself too hard. I know some will make fun of me, but writing can be quite "Draining". I usually enjoy that feeling of exhaustion after writing a lot, but as of late, there hasn't been a good week where writing is all I can do and there's no other expectations for a while. I've been writing for myself, university, dealing with IRL chaos and weird bouts of self-doubt. I need a break, buuuuut the ideas come when they may.
Sorry for the long post, you should see my posts in that one thread where everyone talks about what's bothering them. I'm a tad on the dramatic side.