Codename: Vigilante (I'm Published!)

[Power Shot]

Good evening everyone. Tonight, I inform you all of the wonderful news that I have managed to find employment. Yesterday I went in for an interview at a local newspaper in my town. I have been offered a job at writing a short-story series for the newspaper, which officially makes me a published, paid writer! I am going to submit to them a 400 word one-shot and, if they like it, they will agree to publish my material in an ongoing series. The current name of this series is Vigilante, but that might change. Obviously I cannot write my Chronos short-stories in such a tiny amount of words...

Here are the basic character format and ideas for this new series. Let me know what you think.

Characters

• Ash: The protagonist, Ash is assaulted in the beginning of the story, only to be rescued by the character Vigilante. The story revolves around her search for Vigilante, and describes her antics. Ash reflects those obsessed with celebrities, going as far as to trying to stalk Vigilante.
  
• Gin: A dorm attendant at the college, Gin is the voice of reason around the story. She serves to show the mindset of those who are disgusted about others' obsessions with celebrities.
  
• Logan: A lazy slacker who does nothing but sleep. Logan serves to portray the ignorant mindset of people who are unaware of the influences of famous people. He likes Ash, but is much too shy to do anything about it. However, he does seem to maintain a consoling relationship with Gin.
  
• Link: An athletic star, who seems to vanish every single time Vigilante emerges. It is unknown where he goes to, but he claims he has practice. He dislikes Vigilante, and in fact almost fears him, as he questions the morality of letting a common citizen take justice into their own hands. He reflects the mindset of people who dislike celebrities, yet cannot help talk about them.
  
• Fred: The antithesis character, Fred serves to display society's urges to copy and emulate others in the limelight. Fred also serves as the primary antagonist throughout the story, and continues to show more and more signs of imitating Vigilante. He also obsesses over Ash.
  
• Vigilante: The hero of the story. Vigilante is a person who has never quite been seen, so it's never determined what powers he has or even who he is. However, he serves as the driving force behind the story. Rather then focusing around him, however, the story focuses around the other characters' reactions to him.

[elfin_travelr]

Hey Powershot!

Congrats on getting paid to write! It sounds to me like you can totally do something great with those characters - something that can potentially make a difference in the minds of others as well.

Good Luck!

LOL that one of the Characters' names is Link!!!

[Spearhead]

Wow, awesome! I really like the characters, each having a specific personality or role in the story.

And lucky you for getting paid to do this. I'm dreaming of getting a book published, but I'm far from doing that anytime soon. Good luck with this, hope they publish this.

Originally Posted by elfin_travelr

LOL that one of the Characters' names is Link!!!

Yeah, I noticed that too. I guess you ran out of ideas for character names? (just kidding XP).

[Power Shot]

All of the characters are named from specific genres of media. Link is indeed named in honor of The Legend of Zelda, and represents video games. Logan is named after Wolverine from the X-Men comics. Ash is named after Ash Ketchum from the Pokemon anime, and Gin is named after Ginny Weasley from Harry Potter, which represents books. Fred is named, of course, after legendary slasher film character Freddy Krueger.

[Tazryl]

wow congratz Mr. Publishedwriterwhoiamjealousof! Wait you are male right... *can almost never tell my usernames*

I hope they like it, and if you do you really should let us read it

[HitokiriChibi]

Congrats to you Power Shot ^_^

Hopefully this will be just one more step to getting your own book published =3