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Lumaria's story ideas
By: Lumaria Date: July 25, 2017, 1:04 am
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I wanted to re-list all my story ideas here in hopes that I get
to have them all here on Manga Mavericks. I decided I could also
list all the ideas I wanted and inspiration and what's
preventing me to continue writing them.
Story #1: Kairiku
This was a Yuri manga heavily inspired by the yuri manga and
anime "Blue Drop". It takes in an alternate reality where
mermaids exist and had revealed themselves to human close to
modern day enough that they have integrated into society however
not enough for them not to feel discrimination on land.
It takes place in a first ever diverse University to allow both
Mermaids and humans to be studying together. The goal is to be
chronicle base with one main love interest but having multiple
love stories be intertwined. I also want to keep it very short
and make it only one volume long.
What's preventing me to continue writing this is whenever I do
share it no understands the idea. It's not suppose to be shonen
but yuri intended for women. So discrimination is still a
relevant topic that holds in Kairiku.
Story #2 GR!M × ÄNGËL
In a futuristic setting heavily inspired by Eureka Seven and Air
Gear I wanted to make a fictional sci-fi skate board base racing
game where there boards have unique motors that causes certain
harmless side effects such as hair starting to gain silver
color and eyes turning grey. Which is dubbed as "Going Grim".
Unlike Eureka Seven and Air Gear my story has a strong element
of fashion, trends, and branding recognition. Characters don't
necessarily have a strong explanation as to why they refer it as
"going grim" but it's a mark of a good racer.
I want to go back to this as soon as I'm ready. Art style is
suppose to be somewhere nineteen Eureka Seven and Redline with
fashion resembling S4 League MMO.
What's stopping me is really having a hard time finding who I
want to be the main character. I already have a character that
is the ideal racer but I'm trying to make a great introductory
character that helps explain these things while still being the
main character.
Story #3 Scissors
A story about a young handsome but very inexperienced boy who
begins working at a HAIR Salon. He starts to fall for a woman
who is a master hair stylist but discovers a dark secret about
her. I honestly don't know what inspired me from this. Or I
can't remember. I do know I fully intend it to be Josei.
What's stopping me from writing this one is that the characters
are too complex for my own good. I have a hard time focusing on
one character that it kind of just all blends together. And I
suppose that's normal for shoo but it makes it feel like the
story can go on forever.
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Re: Lumaria's story ideas
By: HematoLogMeIn Date: July 25, 2017, 1:33 am
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Ah, I remember back in the old days when you told me to try to
simplify my works down. Not that I'm laughing at your
predicament, just that I understand it.
Here's what I did with your advice all that time ago: I stopped
worrying about the characters. Yeah, they're like my children
and I wanted so much for them, but I had to shorten everything
down, so instead of worrying about them, I focused instead on
the things and events that I wanted to get done, and how to go
about them as neatly as possible. Granted, I haven't done any
solid writing in a long while, and I'm more than a little out of
practice. Still, maybe that bit can help you out.
As for the third one, what's the dark secret, if I may ask? If
it's something that can drive the plot, then it seems solid, but
knowing the ways in which it will do so is more important than
whatever it is, at least IMO.
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Re: Lumaria's story ideas
By: Lumaria Date: July 25, 2017, 12:13 pm
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For story 3 is the only problem but that's usually what happens
in certain Josei characters just become very complex characters.
The dark secret used to be that she was once a serial killer.
The characters are the driving force and I want to at least
understand them 100% before writing. It's more slice of life
style. The secret doesn't involve someone's death anymore but
still something frowned upon in society. For scissors the events
are completely hair salon related and how to keep it running but
I only want that to be 50% of the story.
The rest I don't have problems with being too complex just need
to find a good archetype to build on that people will enjoy. At
least for GRIM x ANGEL does.
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Re: Lumaria's story ideas
By: HematoLogMeIn Date: July 25, 2017, 2:03 pm
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Hmm...then at this point, I think a good thing for Scissors
would be to start working on ideas for what you would consider
an ending. Slice of life stories can go on for a pretty long
time before they can come to a resolution, so determining the
ending (or an ending) can probably pull you out of that.
Sometimes you don't have to have all the little things worked
out in the middle.
As for the other stories, I'm not quite sure what I can add to
them.
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Re: Lumaria's story ideas
By: Lumaria Date: July 26, 2017, 2:11 am
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I'm going to be honest the ending is really the main character
and lead mystery female lead actually getting to the point of
dating and also making a significant difference in the overall
tone of the Hair salon he works at.
It's a more journey based story than an actual destination.
Scissors as a Josei is difficult. Although I have read a lot of
mainstream Josei I have read more alternative Josei as well.
Some that if it wasn't for a few situations it might be able to
be deemed Seinen.
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