Post by Kromax on Oct 13, 2010 23:28:23 GMT -5
Although the vote was weeks ago, and it ended in a tie(I just forgot to make it) here is the Writing Concept Thread, come here with story concepts, short stories, or just to get tips on the literary arts.
I personally have had a story concept in the works, it all started while I was reading a lot of Cracked.com and was on a 24 hour period of no sleep.
The year is about 2011, the world hasn't differed too much from the average, however, the media world is much different, back in the early 1900's, a small newspaper was formed in New York City, simply dubbed "Black on White News" it dealt with much of the cities problems, and sometimes brought up into national news. It didn't take off into the late 1950's, where former editor and chief, Jonathan Wilkins, was struck by a bus. His 19 year old son, Edwin Wilkins, a buiness major at New York University, was brought in as a temporary fill-in as the lesser staff members bickered about replacements. While they argued, Edwin started to look into expansion, although a kind child, he was quite power crazy, always wanting more than what he had. He hired mercenaries with his father's life insurance money to protect him while he threatened other local news companies to merge into his own, with him in power. With a few issues with revolts(Nothing armed gunman can't handle) he secessfully took over the entire New York media network within 4 months, after seeing his sucess, the original company welcomed him as the new CEO of the new Parent company, "Wilkins Inc." Within the next 20 years, he would slowly spread his influence and power over the entire United States, taking over well known News cast like FOX and CNN, letting them retain their name but still holding full control. This led him into being the CEO of the United State's largest spread company not controled by government regulation. This power gave Edwin an idea "I could do anything without media attention, because I say what get's seen or not..." He also noticed the large amount of gang violence in the current era, he thought stopping it would end buisness, but helping it could cause national trouble, so they became a neutral force, helping the highest bidder, and using small companies and close connections with nation wide gangs to control the crime and news world.
However, our story follows modern day Alec (Last name to be added), and his partner Cid Rainer (A.K.A. Weeds) the two and only members of a very small New York City branch of Edwin's company, "Help Wanted" they were well known for their skill in holding much power with only two operators, which gave them high respect in the companie's ranks. Alec didn't exactly care for reputation, but for power, Weeds was in it for money and "a good time"
After some trouble with New York City gangs, A giant war broke out with Wilkin's Inc (Now refered to as WI for now on) and the large New York gangs, Alec took some heavy hits from constant raids on his homes and base, and decided to escape and move down to Blacklight City, a small New York city south of NYC, with the only WI member being the Editor and Chief of the local "Black on White News" he was transffered down to west coast city, while Alec took his place. Due to the losses of the attacks and the connections broken to escape, Alec left with little known power in the companie's eye.
That pretty much the back story, like/dislike, and try to be as critical as possible.
I personally have had a story concept in the works, it all started while I was reading a lot of Cracked.com and was on a 24 hour period of no sleep.
The year is about 2011, the world hasn't differed too much from the average, however, the media world is much different, back in the early 1900's, a small newspaper was formed in New York City, simply dubbed "Black on White News" it dealt with much of the cities problems, and sometimes brought up into national news. It didn't take off into the late 1950's, where former editor and chief, Jonathan Wilkins, was struck by a bus. His 19 year old son, Edwin Wilkins, a buiness major at New York University, was brought in as a temporary fill-in as the lesser staff members bickered about replacements. While they argued, Edwin started to look into expansion, although a kind child, he was quite power crazy, always wanting more than what he had. He hired mercenaries with his father's life insurance money to protect him while he threatened other local news companies to merge into his own, with him in power. With a few issues with revolts(Nothing armed gunman can't handle) he secessfully took over the entire New York media network within 4 months, after seeing his sucess, the original company welcomed him as the new CEO of the new Parent company, "Wilkins Inc." Within the next 20 years, he would slowly spread his influence and power over the entire United States, taking over well known News cast like FOX and CNN, letting them retain their name but still holding full control. This led him into being the CEO of the United State's largest spread company not controled by government regulation. This power gave Edwin an idea "I could do anything without media attention, because I say what get's seen or not..." He also noticed the large amount of gang violence in the current era, he thought stopping it would end buisness, but helping it could cause national trouble, so they became a neutral force, helping the highest bidder, and using small companies and close connections with nation wide gangs to control the crime and news world.
However, our story follows modern day Alec (Last name to be added), and his partner Cid Rainer (A.K.A. Weeds) the two and only members of a very small New York City branch of Edwin's company, "Help Wanted" they were well known for their skill in holding much power with only two operators, which gave them high respect in the companie's ranks. Alec didn't exactly care for reputation, but for power, Weeds was in it for money and "a good time"
After some trouble with New York City gangs, A giant war broke out with Wilkin's Inc (Now refered to as WI for now on) and the large New York gangs, Alec took some heavy hits from constant raids on his homes and base, and decided to escape and move down to Blacklight City, a small New York city south of NYC, with the only WI member being the Editor and Chief of the local "Black on White News" he was transffered down to west coast city, while Alec took his place. Due to the losses of the attacks and the connections broken to escape, Alec left with little known power in the companie's eye.
That pretty much the back story, like/dislike, and try to be as critical as possible.
