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Oooh, another idea for a book that I will never ever write.

In the early years of the United States, Thomas Jefferson (or some similar morally dubious but notoriously inquisitive and scientifically/experimentally minded figure) sets up a supernatural system of protections for the new nation, possibly already including plans/provision for a ghost army. Years later, the emergence of the United States military cemetery system has been incorporated into this structure. Many years after leaving the service, a dead soldier is interred in a military cemetery, and finds themself recalled to duty in a spectral military operation.

Am I the only one that has over a billion ideas for either fanfics or original stories and like I lay the whole story out in my mind characters, settings and even a decent plot. But when I actually sit down to write the words DON'T WORK. No matter how hard I try the beautiful/crazy world I created in my head refuses to be put on paper. It's so frustrating because I feel that I have something so amazing that others would probably enjoy but can't because I can't English properly. Totally frustrating.

MY IDEA FOR A SUPERHERO NOVEL!!!! OPINIONS NEEDED!

The story is set in the year 2015 in an alternate universe where in the year 2000, super-powered individuals known as meta-humans suddenly began to appear to the public eye. From scientific accidents to magic to extraterrestrials to technology, these individuals now have extraordinary abilities. Some use it for their own personal gain while others use it to benefit society and make the world a better place, though most of them prefer to keep their powers hidden and go on with their normal lives.

Because of their existence, this world is much different than ours. Governments around the world are trying to either create their own superhumans or regulate metahuman activity. Technology has advanced, with more green energy, advancements in medicine (cancer is a thing of the past for the most part and prosthesis technology has advanced greatly ), and newer discoveries in science (the existence of extraterrestrial life, the existence of magic and other dimensions). Prejudice against metahumans exists due to the destruction caused by supervillains, so the UN has been arguing for a decade on how they should react towards them. Superhero comic books, movies, and shows exist in this world but they’re sort of treated in the same way that people in our world treat cop movies or drama movies, allowing fantasy to gain more popularity as a genre.

The novel is going to focus on the lives of these meta-humans and how they use their abilities. We see each of their experiences with their powers, whether they’re government-controlled superheroes or street-level vigilantes. Whether they were born into more privileged upbringings or were exploited by the state.

I’m sort of going for an MCU style here with a bit of DC sprinkled in. I plan on giving the villains as much character development as the heroes in order to make the characters have more mixed moralities rather than having everything be simply black-and-white, good and bad. It will have an upbeat mood with humor but it will have some darker elements and tearjerker scenes, especially when it comes to the villains. 

So, what do you think?

Ideas I'm never going to make

So, I have a lot of ideas I am never going to write because they're not my style. So, instead of never talking about them, I'll leave them here to maybe give some inspiration to others. Most of these ideas are 1-5 years old with a handful being over ten years old and I would love to see them written, I just have no drive to write them.

Don't know how often I'll do this, but don't worry I get a ton of ideas that never go anywhere, so I'm sure there will be more!

Onto the ideas:

A dystopia where only two people actually exist, like actually. The planet and everything on it is destroyed and by the end, it's revealed the other party caused this to happen so they could be alone with the other survivor (romantic or platonic).

A passionate romance where the two parties are dangerously obsessed with each other. It starts where only one party seems dangerous, but is revealed later on they both are. Knowing this is bad, they decide to embrace those feelings for a short time to hopefully get it out of their system.

Two enemies end up stranded together. The injured party is cautious when the healthy is trying to help them. It's revealed later that their bosses were conspiring together to kill the pair.

A mature magical girl. It's still your normal Sailor Moon, but the MC is an adult with children. Specific to what I outlined, her husband was kidnapped because of his research and she gains magical powers to go and save him.

The origin story of a pirate girl. She starts off apart of a fairly kind crew, but she wants to make a name for herself and leaves only to find a mythical being of some kind and be cursed to travel with them. In my case, it was a grim reaper.

A vampire and a vampire hunter who end up on bad (putting it lightly) terms after the hunter assumes the vampire killed their newborn child. Plot twist for me was it was actually the hunter's father and the vampire had to find a way to prove it.

A detective agency that is the center of mysterious murders. Their agency is accused of killing their detainees as anyone who goes in never comes out. Is the killer one of the detectives or is the killer just trying to frame them? The setting for me ended up where the whole group was trapped in the police department like Resident Evil 2 almost.

This one is about to be ten years old and has more detail than the others. Two kids (in about the Gothic Era) go to a toy maker's shop. This is to pick up a toy before their families embark on a long trip somewhere. The toy maker is a mysterious man, but one of his toys end up cursing the children to age backwards. In this reality, objects hold memories so they're told by the toy maker to find objects that have sentimental value as that will maintain their age until they can rid of the curse.

The tale of a sun deity and moon deity creating the sun and moon cycle. The moon was a shy anxious child and the sun was a bright cheerful child for me.

An unassuming tale of a newly wed prince and princess where the story begins as "normal" until night falls and the prince is unable to stay awake. His princess then undergoes her own form of unconsciousness where her daytime "Princess Peach" version is switched for a warrior "Biscuit Krueger" version. Who is duty bound to protect her sleeping beauty. This transformation is similar to Greed and Ling from FMA:B where there's two souls inhabiting one body.

I actually had way more than I thought, so I'm gonna cap it at ten -_-;

Thanks for reading and here's to hoping one day I can read these ideas in their entirety~ 🍂