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? asked in Arts & HumanitiesBooks & Authors · 8 years ago

What do you think of this story idea? Good or not so good?

Gone – The Strange Disappearance of Sonnet McSwain;

The story is told through the eyes of her younger sister Simone. One Saturday morning 14 year old Simone wakes up to find her 17 year old sister missing. She’s simply gone. Sonnet didn’t take any of her things with her. There is no sign of someone breaking in or her leaving. All the doors and windows are locked from the inside. Police are called and they search for Sonnet for weeks but can’t find a single trace.

Their father is a music producer and manager and handles some of the biggest names in country music. Their mother had been a violin virtuoso and had played with the Boston Philharmonic and later the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra. She now teaches at the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University.

Simone’s sister Sonnet McSwain was on her way to becoming a mega-star in the pop music world. Being unbelievably beautiful and having won just about every singing competition she had ever entered since the age of 8, Sonnet was set to achieve great things in the future.

Simone’s twin brother Simon was on his way to becoming a great guitarist and could play a whole lot of other instruments as well. He seemed to be musically gifted. He was in a rock band called Torch and they were about to sign a recording deal with a major record label.

Simone – much to her dismay – was not quite so talented as her brother and sister. She was small for her age, demure, a bit uncoordinated and rather gawky. She wasn’t as pretty as Sonnet or very talented at much of anything so she chose to stay mostly in the background – being supportive to her siblings in her own way. Simone was, however, clever and very – very smart. She and her sister were very close and they loved each other very much.

Simone decides to take things into her own hands and begins her own investigation to find her lost sister. With the help of two of her best friends and her sister’s boyfriend they begin a journey that will uncover the most bizarre and frightening evidence – that Sonnet McSwain was abducted…but not by anything human.

It was, as they would discover, the result of a secret deal her mother and father had made with The Prince of Darkness for the guaranteed future success of her brother and sister. Simone was going to have to be smarter, cleverer and braver then she has ever been in her life to save her sister and rescue her from the clutches of the denizen of hell!

Update:

No...I'm not 14 (although my ex wife thinks I am!) HA!

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  • 8 years ago
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    Gosh, this is good. Fantastic. Amazing. You've got a good plot for your novel, I like where this is going. I've read abducted stories this creative. They are usually more on the realistic side, or a little overboard like so-and-so are in another world. Well, I guess that's what your doing here, but it's the most original I've read.

    Seriously I'd read this book. You've got a good foundation for your characters. The only thing that bugs me a little is that in most books I've read the parents are always running a big company or something. I'm not saying you should change the whole thing because of that, but it's something you could also think of in the future. Why not have an average family, ya know? One more people can relate to?

    But again this is amazing, you've got the passion alright! If you'd like, I'd also love to read and give feedback on drafts, etc. I hope this helps, even slightly.

  • 8 years ago

    W.C. - I think you are on the right road.. continue on.. it is a good idea

    just don't give any more of the story away, as someone may pick up on

    your idea... it is a good one....

    You may gone on to be a writer for sitcoms or even the big screen, it is

    good experience for you...

    I wish you all the luck, w/ your story line.. keep it on going... get close to

    finding her, but the saga continues.. mysteries steal the heart...

  • 8 years ago

    Sounds cool, I'd read it!

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