I need your help.

[Guest Chaplin]

Okay here's the gist. I'm what considered a starving writer. Thats right I'm sitting here starving while eating my big mac, but thats a different story.

 

And stories thats why I'm here, I've always loved pro wrestling, I've been a fan of wrestling for about ten years.

 

Now I've been trying to write a novel or collection of short stories for a long time now, and I keep coming up blank, until this one idea struck me. I've decided to write a story about a a wrestling federation, just a small one, loosely based on NWATNA,

 

now I'm not here to write stories of how AJ Styles jumped off the top rope and did a flip on Raven or the likes. I have created my own characters, and I'm using them to tell short first person stories about life of the wrestling Federation, and the city it's based it.

 

but I guess the story isn't about wrestling it's just the carreers the characters have chosen in my book world.

 

I'm here to get other peoples opinions and such and ideas, and info on the wrestling world

 

I would thank you all, but I don't know who you are

[JST 0]

Interesting. I write myself, so that looks like an interesting concept.

 

How 'bout centering one story on one particular promising wrestler who just got hired, and tries to make his way to the top of said fed; by putting on constant solid matches, is entertaining, etc.?

 

But then he's got obstacles to go through, ie: clashing egos, older wrestlers, politics, etc.

 

Hell, if you want general details on how a wrestling lockerroom can be, hit me up through PM.

[Guest Chaplin]

you know I was going to focus on just one wrestler but I'm also writing this to be able to write different characters, I want to do a sort of Bret Easton Ellis/Irvine Welsh style where it jumps through character to character,

 

the biggest problem is though how much characters there is. I have small roster built of twenty 'superstars' but then there is backstage staff that I'll write about once in awhile. Plus I'm planning to write a chapter about a cyncial smart marks and such too.

 

I've set the Federation in one location so they don't have to travel around, and I want to be a story about the characters that end of telling a story about the federation, and the more importantly the City is takes place in.

 

These character I'm creating though I'm creating because writing helps me understand, myself and what I write about. I want my characters to deal with real life, drug abuse, sucide, bills to pay, ups downs, good times and bad.

 

and I'll definitly hit you up for some info man thanx. thats right I'm so cool I use and X instead of a K. Because X is Extreme, god I need sleep

[nl5xsk1 0]

Don't go overboard with too many protagonists or subplots, even with the greatest of writers it gets confusing. I'd limit it to 2 or 3, and have them all tie together at the end.

 

Potential characters to focus on:

1) upstart, green rookie just breaking into the fed

2) old, on-his-way-out-the-door veteran who has one more chance to achieve immortality

3) guy who just got bumped off the top, was "the man" but is now realizing that he's peaked and he's on his way down, too

4) guy that is living life the wrong way (drugs, women, booze, etc) and it's inevitable that he's going to hit bottom

[Lightning Flik 0]

To add to ^'s list:

 

5) A guy who's been in the business for a few years and is getting a major break. (If you were to use this idea, you'd have to have the major break revealed early, like someone getting injuried and your character getting injuried person's push).

[Guest Dynamite Kido]

here is another person to add:

 

6)The promotor who does everything and anything underhanded to make money.

[OldSchoolWrestling 0]

7) The referee who loves the business more than anything but is too small and skinny to ever be taken seriously. How his love for the business keeps him going as a referee and how he struggles seeing shitheads with nice bodies doing well but not even liking or respecting the business.

[Guest Chaplin]

thanks for the help you guys there are some character ideas here I didn't even think of, like the referee

 

and I'm not worried about too many Protangist and such, because the way I'm writing every chapter is more like a short story, it's mostly first person and I hope for it to be the type of stories where in one Chapter wrestler A is being antangonist to promotor B, while in a different Chapter Promotor B is antangonist to super happy fun wrestlers C.

 

but I only plan to jump around four certain wrestlers, the rest I'll pop into every once in a while you know just because

 

I character I was thinking of doing was older vetern wrestlers who's lived in the midcard most of his life, and now with the gears my characters are turning, and the rookie he befriends he gets his shot at the top