Sunday, April 1, 2012
2nd Story Idea
My second story idea revolves around this young woman who works at a 24hr diner in a city. She is a single woman who is also 8 months pregnant and cannot afford to quit her job in preparation of the birth of her child. About six months prior she ended it with her boyfriend who was not such a nice guy. She remained in their apartment until his harassment had forced her to find her own place away from her ex lovers hateful gaze. he doesn't know where she moved to and his harassment had also stopped because of that. She wasn't out right showing her pregnancy at the time and he did not know about the baby. She didn't want him in the child's life. One night she picks up a dinner shift and goes into work. Everything is as usual until a masked man enters the restaurant holding the place up. The main character is in the kitchen resting her feet and is unaware it is happening. Then all hell will break loose but i want to let the end form itself because i'm not sure what will happen.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
I see some great potential. Obviously, set it up carefully. Things shouldn't seem too coincidental. I'd like to hear the ending.
ReplyDelete--Tragedies/Dramas are always hard because you want it to be suspenseful and thrilling without it being unrealistic. But, being in a big city, at a sleazy diner - I could see this happening, ad like Mike said, it has a lot of potential.
ReplyDelete--Although maybe she works as a lowly bank teller instead, or....a sales associate at a clothing store. It can still be a Graveyard-Shift, minimum-wage job...but If I were a robber, I wouldn't try to steal money from a diner...not a lot of profit to be had.
I think Aidan has a good point about where she might be working. But, diners do always have cash and are open late, vulnerable, etc. So, I could see it working. Is the masked robber the ex-bf? Is that too expected? It could be that it would work anyway, or maybe I'm wrong.
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to reading.