VISUAL PROMPT
By Thunyarat Klaiklang @ Unplash
Write an action or adventure story, where the central theme is friendship.
Idea
(I mean the story takes place in a forest so this’ll work for the prompt)
So basically the main character wakes up in a forest with zero memories and just a backpack + an animal mask (haven’t decided what animal yet). Out of pure curiousity, he puts on the mask, and immediately gains the abilities of that animal. He does some exploring, and meets more kids his age with animal masks trying to survive in this forest. They team up, and build a bit of a camp out of their natural resources. Also, every so often while exploring, they’ll find a “clue” (aka an object like a toy or shoe) that not only helps them get ideas on how to escape, but also gives one of them a bit of their memory back. Ya da ya da, the story basically follows them trying to survive and get home.
((( what do y’all think? I really like this idea but I want to know if y’all would read it?))
That’s a cute idea, needs some work though- such as how the main cast relates to one another, the significance of their animalistic abilities to their individual character, and their own learning process of these powers. To simply gain these abilities feels very Mary Sue. A good idea would be for the potency of their powers to scale with how tightly knit the group is. No matter how many “clues” or “keys” they have, they cannot leave without having honed their powers to the fullest, and thus grown the closest they can. Of course then this would be much more exemplified by having some characters with a larger age difference, such as some elderly, or some middle age, maybe young adult, and some adolescents. This would bring more interesting personality conflicts and questions such as whether the group was once a family.
Oops, I rambled quite a bit. Incredible idea, needs fleshing out but that’s a part of the process.
Good luck if you do go through with this
I'd so read this
I would read it! I love a mystery! Though I think regardless, if you want to write about it, you should!!
