The Adequates

Had an opportunity to play some D&D and Untold with some friends over the weekend. Playing story games can help inspire you and create new possible scenarios for your characters, new plots.

Whether it's Rory's story cubes or a role playing game like Dungeons & Dragons, they're worth it for the inspiration alone!

If you're a DM or GM you're given the regular monthy task of creating a small story or part of an epic one! It can 

be fun too! 

Case in point, we had a lot of fun coming up with a story about 3 superheroes called 'The Adequates'. Bigfoot invaded a shooting range! The three superheroes tried to stop him from taking some guns and killing everybody. Unfortunately my hero in his alter ego, Alex Walter, was in the Loo when it all went down. He jumped out, toilet paper dangling, took aim at the hairy beast with his beretta and accidentally shot his sidekick Quentin in the buttocks! 

Part 2 to come soon...

Adding to Characters from Literature

Lately, I've been re-writing my short story Dark Carpentry. In it, I wrote a character who was Dracula's brother. I'm definitely taking a liberty by giving Dracula a brother. I thought about the pros and cons using Dracula himself in the story but decided against it since he's such a well known literary character. I didn't really want to carry the burdin of  responsibility getting his character right. Now, I've been discovering what a story goldmine this actually is! Maybe the brother (Drago) was always jealous of his older sibling? Maybe not? 

Since the events took place after Dracula maybe his little brother is mourning his death? Think of the story potential when both Dracula and his brother were both human. Did they dream of ruling the land together or did one brother secretly mean to kill the other one off given the chance?

     The more I think about the story where two major characters are brothers the more I think my subconcious did it for a reason. Family themes can run deep in stories and villainous family fueds are not exempt.

      I guess what I'm suggesting is that sometimes adding to a well known literary character for your own story can have its creative possibilities if you want to take the risk of scrutany.