I've been working on a series (and destroying it LOL) for a few years now. Finally, I decided to go back to basics and rebuild the bones of the story from the ground up. It took me three weeks of angsting, but I've finally got a blurb that "almost" captures the story I envisioned.
What are your secrets for laying story foundations? Please share, it's a plotting emergency!
Here's what I have...
Fang Cell (trademark pending)
Series Overview:
Some legends are born. Others are made. But the legend of FANG CELL (tm) was forged at the gates of Hell.
On December 21, 2012, the world of Naval Special Operations changed forever.
A virtual warfare experiment gone wrong has torn a rift between the virtual realm and the physical one. The war game's fearsome supernatural warrior, Ryder Black, has been catapulted into physical reality. Capable of assuming the form of the Cerberus who guards the gates of Hell, he holds the power to unleash the scourges of Hell upon his enemies.
But Ryder Black’s DNA has been exploited by a ruthless Navy Captain hell bent on creating an immortal army known as Fang Cell.
Discovering the war game’s highly addictive substance known as Immortium has entered reality along with Ryder Black, the Navy now holds the power to cage and control the supernatural operatives like animals. The hopelessly addicted Fangs are forced to do a madman's bidding on the battlefield, or to face a hellish withdrawal from the substance they would gladly kill for one more dose of.
But the balance of power over the Fangs is threatened by the discovery that there is more to Immortium than its ability to render the Fangs compliant. When human women begin shooting the mysterious drug for its aphrodisiac effect, the Fangs begin to learn that the will of the heart is far more powerful than the evil aspirations of a madman.
Can the power of love possibly be enough to stop a self-serving Naval Officer from unleashing the scourges of Hell on an unsuspecting world? Only the passions stirred in the hearts of the Fangs by the women who love them will serve to elevate their stories into the stuff of legend.
2 comments:
Well that sounds pretty damn awesome to me!
That's a great back cover blurb, in my opinion (and what do I know, really). If it was me sitting down to write it though, I'd need a really detailed scene outline, because I'm a control freak/anal retentive plotter. I start with the main characters and note their goal, motivation and conflicts, then plot the beginning, middle and end. After that, I map out the twists and turns before getting detailed into individual scenes.
For each scene I note whose POV it will be in, and state what needs to happen within the scene. Once that's all laid out I can start, but it's usually the drafting phase that stops me cold. Once that ugly part if over with, I'm good to go. My muse adores polishing and ramping up the emotion during edits.
I'll bet that strict outlining scares the holy hell out of you, doesn't it? Lol. Plotters are a different breed :)
OMG, I LOVE the premise for this series! I'm so glad you decided to work on it again, and I hope you send it out there and get it published... or publish it yourself!
Please don't give up on it. I first wrote The Crystal Warrior in 2005/2006 and despite that very first draft winning an award, no one was interested in it. I can't tell you the number of times I rewrote and tweaked and rewrote again, until finally, I decided to change the POV and go from 1st person to 3rd.
See, that's the thing with some manuscripts. They just won't lie down quietly and disappear into your harddrive. They demand attention, and there's something about them that you can't ignore. Sounds like Fang Cell is one of those books--consider yourself duly warned *g*
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