Monday, June 29, 2009

I do have a question for anyone who might be reading... What do you think of the following plot? An older woman, okay not that old, late 30's, emails some pictures to a young (early 20's), male classmate, so he can put together a slideshow of a group project. When he took the pictures using her camera, he saw some racy photos that she deleted but did not know to erase. She knows he saw them, because she saw one of them as he was taking the pictures and made an excuse to take the camera. Not thinking he could retrieve prior pics from those, since she did not see the old ones on her computer, she emails the pictures from the group project.

Later, she is blackmailed with the same pictures, and she suspects not only him, but the lover to whom she meant to send the pics, and the co-worker she believes (because there was a witness) stole her picture card and flash drive. There is also a 'mystery' hacker who could have accidentally found her pictures while looking for account numbers. Believing her entire life could be ruined for these photos, she turns detective and survives a series of adventures that include trusting her co-workers to take her to the hospital where she is strapped down in an ambulance and driven to a nuthouse. She goes along with their diagnosis, "psychotic, bipolar mania," and takes the medicine (which doubles in strength by the end of her stay) for the 7 nights she is there. Even signs a paper saying she admitted herself voluntarily; played their game in order to get out.

When she gets out, she realizes the meds are making her crazy for real and quits them. But she has lost her job - while two of the co-workers who took her to the hospital get promoted. She tries to figure out what she needs to do to get her job back, but they want nothing to do with her. Throughout all of this, her husband has been riding the fence. He has slipped up a few times, let her know that he knew more than he ever wanted to tell, especially about his affairs that she had suspected him of having. Her lover was nowhere during her abduction, waited for the storm to settle before he would make any serious attempt at contacting her. The college student and the mystery hacker have been quiet, but she feels their presence as she continues to solve her mystery.

The woman ignores amorous emotions while she works, especially in the weeks before she is captured. Only after she decides that she must try to live as normally as possible does she begin to realize that she had made a real connection with a man online. Her heart is tougher than it used to be, but she wonders whether the feelings are as real for him. She is afraid to ask him. I won't tell you the ending I have thought of, but I am working on a good one.

9 comments:

  1. Thanks, Wayne. Glad you like it.

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  3. Hi Nbn, Your version is pretty good, seems plausible. In my story, however, the lover dismisses the heroine's pleas for assistance as he never fully believes her stories until it is too late, even adds to her danger by playing an outrageous game during very serious moments. The fact that they had a long-term relationship left her even more disappointed with him. Please don't take this as personal criticism of your ideas; yours are just different from mine. Thanks for reading.

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  5. If I wrote that into my story, then my main character would wonder: 1) why did he ask her questions about trailing the internet hackers? to mess with her head? 2) why did he make himself a backup copy of her hard drive but delete the files that proved he was having affairs? 3) why did he brag to all of his friends that she had inadvertently warned him that the authorities were coming to question him? 4)why did he continue to discuss their sexual escapades? 5)why did he encourage her to continue taking her adhd meds because they seemed to be helping her so much? 6)why did he text her cell 'I haven't heard from your mother' and 'call me'? 7)why did he plan (they spoke right before she was kidnapped) to meet her on the very day she was to be let go - maybe so she would be 'clean'? 8)why did he keep talking about sex in the days before she was kidnapped, if he was so worried about her head? 9)why did he ask her for password security questions? 10)why did he ask her to leave the computer on at night? 11)why did he pretend to be someone else? 12)why did he change passwords for her, fix the minutes on her phone? if he thought it was all in her head? 13)why did he switch sides and help the enemy for a time? 14)why did he slip up and claim that he had nothing to do with certain things that she had not mentioned? 15)why did he not learn that she was smarter than he was after all?

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  7. Nbn, I posted your comments because I think you have the potential to be a very capable fiction writer. Keep up the good work! Oh, and remember that the original plot is still my work. If I decide to use your point of view, I'll work out a deal with your agent - but I don't think I will. Thanks for your interest. Lluvia

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  8. Nbn, My response to you was removed somehow. Maybe I actually have a hacker, lol. I think you are a good fictional writer. If I decide to use any parts of your version, then my agent will contact yours. I like my version better though. Remember, the original story is mine. ;-) Do feel free to come back and read, respond. Do you have a website? Lluvia

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