The Planning

I've decided that the story I'm going to do here is going to be fairly cyberpunk. Several of the elements in it (protesting masses, corruptive influences, super powered people, urban environment) absolutely scream cyberpunk, so going for a gritty sci-fi action/thriller seems like a logical choice. The basic idea I'm playing with is that the main character is a cop in futrure-New York, part of a special police force tactical squad who've been given super powers through SCIENCE. Even though it's not part of his job description, he also fancies himself a bit of an investigator and has been snooping around and looking into the activities of a lot of powerful people in the city, specifically our main villain, an authority figure of some kind (businessman, politician, or police chief are all possibilities I'm considering) who has been manipulating other powerful figures in a bid to take over the city. Before the start of the story, our hero got too close and has been fired and stripped of his powers, and is now investigating the Big Bad and is on the run from his agents while having to rely solely on his skills and intellect. The characters I have in mind are:

Nick Scully: The hero of the story, a blue collar cop who's forced to rely on his street smarts after he's been stripped of his powers.

Daniel Richmond: The Big Bad, a manipulative figure of authority who has major, contraversial plans for urban renewal that will make him the most powerful man in the city.

Rico: A vigilante, a sort of hobo-Batman, who Nick used as an informant during his time on the force and is now his only trustworthy ally.

The main setting will be in the New York Subway, probably in an abandoned station, but I think there might also be a few cutaway scenes on Richmond's office, I haven't decided yet.

And so it begins...

My first blog post on my first blog. I suppose introductions are in order.

I am Reverend H.B. Snood, or "The Reverend" for short. I'm a writer and one day, hopefully, I'll manage to become an established journalist. In the meantime, this blog will serve the purpose of being an outlet for my more creative persuits. I have a lot of projects I want to work on, and the first one I'l be posting hear is my story-a-week challenge for the summer. Over on tvtropes.org, there's a page for a story generator, that ranomly generates several tropes to be used in the story. My challenge is that every Friday night, I will go to the story generator and then write a story using the tropes it gives me by the next Friday. I've set for myself a few rules:

1: The story absolutely has to use the tropes given by the generator. I can't simply have a character mention them as if they were critiquing a fictional work. I can play with them, turn them on their head, do unexpected things with them, but they still have to be recognizable examples of the trope.

2: Stories don't have to be self contained. If I get stuck I am allowed to revisit characters, settings, and plot threads from previous stories in the challenge. Knowing me this will probably happen more than once.

3: Pre-existing characters are allowed, but only if they are in the public domain. A mystery story involving Sherlock Holmes is acceptable, but a myster story involving Batman is not. That beings said, while it's not a hard and fast rule, I will try to have public domain characters, if I use them, be supporting characters.

Now to start things off, here's the first set of generated tropes:

Setting:	New York Subway
Plot:	Brought Down To Normal
Narrative Device:	Framed For Heroism
Hero:	Action Hero
Villain:	The Corrupter
Character As Device:	Slogan Yelling Megaphone Guy
Characterization Device:	Blood Brothers

I'll probably post updates as the week roles on.