Write by Me (Business Idea Giveaway)

Write by Me is a writers community designed to help spawn new ideas and plotlines from a single set of characters, origins, and points of interest. The story lines will help authors hone skills using basic information and work off of each other's ideas and abilities.  Authors would vote on which stories have the better delivery, and publishers would provide options for publishing (competing for publishing rights). Additionally, one set of characters could be expanded into different genres ranging from mystery, to horror, to comedy.

Examples of this could be a starting point such as:

The panic is setting in. Andrew Weldon is in deep trouble without his pills. The college pharmacy is closed and at $170 per refill off campus, there wasn’t a chance he was going to be able to afford even one. He had to make it through 3 more hours. The doctors call it Dissociative Identity Disorder, although it was also diagnosed as Schizophrenia, Depersonalization, and Derealization. Even though it has been about 6 years since the last episode, he can remember it like it was yesterday.

      Andrew already told his roommate to make sure he was still sitting on the bed when he exited the bathroom. The shower has only been running for 5 minutes, but like always, the steam was already rolling out from under the door separating the shower from the sink area. Unfortunately, Andrew felt it starting.

      It starts with the light-headedness. But it isn’t just being light-headed, it continues throughout the body to make him feel lighter overall. It is followed by the loss of colors starting with the oranges.

      Andrew thought “it always starts with orange.”

      Interrupting his tangent on the color orange, he hears Marco drop the soap bottle in the shower and yelp in pain “shit!”

      As he regains focus, Andrew looks around the room and realizes the greens and purples have all turned to their respective grey tones. The red, yellows and blues are...he pauses for a second. Yellows and blues are gone. The red colored Illinois State University banner on the wall is slowly fading and the room is turning completely monochromatic. He struggles with no avail to keep the colors.

      It has happened and Andrew’s heart is racing. Afraid to move, he realizes that this one issue has caused everything bad to happen in his life.

      Andrew watches Marco come out of the shower wrapped in a towel, look at the beds and looks questioningly around the room.

      Marco peeked his head out in the dorm hallway and asked a passing, very cute blonde freshman if she had seen Andrew.

      The student stopped right in the middle of the hallway immediately transfixed on the 6 foot, 1 inch tanned, steamed body with only a towel wrapped around him and said “nope. And if he isn’t returning soon, I could make sure you need another shower.”

      Marco flashed a smile and gracefully bowed out. “Maybe sometime down the road. Right now I need to help a friend.” In the back of his mind all Marco was thinking was the girl really has issues and needs to visit a shrink.

      The freshman smiled and said “your loss. Oh, and I am Emily by the way. You will see me again” while walking away.

      Marco turns back into the room and makes a comment under his breath “that girl is mental.” As he looks up, he is startled my seeing Andrew sitting in the exact same place before he showered. Marco opens his mouth as if he has something to say…closes it…and reopens it with still nothing. He makes a “humph” sound of frustration and drops the towel to begin changing into clothes.

      Andrew smiles at not only Marco’s expressions, but at the fact he figured out how to come back.

 

From this point, the authors would have free will to continue the story forward and provide a back-story, explain the science behind it, show how other things tie directly into the story, or focus on other characters such as the freshman girl. It is much in the same thread of taking a TV show, or video game and writing books based on that starting point.

 

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