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jearns1985 (imported) wrote: Mon Oct 03, 2011 3:10 pm
I usually specialize in gay penectomy stories, mostly because that is my interest!
Okay, just to get the creative juices flowing, let's assume the guy is gay. Are there other constraints you'd like to impose? For example:
1) What is the guy like, and why should we care about him? Is he a nice guy, a criminal (what kind?), a spy, a terrorist, a cantankerous old codger?
2) How old is he and what does he do as an occupation? Is he a student, a middle-aged factory worker, a newspaper reporter, a handyman, a mail carrier, a soldier?
3) Is the penectomy desired, dreaded, a fantasy he doesn't really want fulfilled, an accident that he wasn't even thinking about in advance, the result of an unrelated crime?
4) Is the one who removes the penis the guy himself, a friend, a gay lover, a rival, a female stranger, his mother or other relative, a girlfriend whom he's just told that he's gay, a group of straight guys, homophobic skinheads, a straight guy he was trying to hit on, a girl he doesn't know, a group of women, a doctor, a nurse, the CIA, the penal system, a drug lord?
5) Is the motive for the cutting revenge, an (intended but possibly misdirected) act of kindness, amusement of the cutter, pure evil, pure accident, unrelated crime, a mistake, an operating-room error, spite for something he did or failed to do, punishment for a crime, torture to extract information from him, a case of mistaken identity?
6) How is the penis removed: by a knife, in a hospital operating room, in playtime-gone-bad (banding left on too long, etc.), by gunshot, by fire, by fireworks (firecracker taped to the penis, "sparkler" inserted into the urethra and lit, etc.), a cheese grater, an injection, acid, an axe, a guillotine, a bomb, a razor blade, a straight razor, string or dental floss?
7) Does the guy know in advance that it's going to happen? If so, how does he feel about it: anxious to get it over, terrified, looking forward to it, apprehensive, feeling trapped into it (e.g., blackmail, lesser of two evils), ambivalent?
8) How does the penectomy change him (other than the obvious): Is he more compassionate or accepting of others, bent on revenge, driven mad, made depressed or suicidal, elated to finally be free of a hated appendage, filled with rage, determined to make the best of things?
9) What other central characters have key roles in the story? His parents, close friend(s) (gay, straight, bisexual, no interest in sex), a nemesis or rival, a criminal, a mysterious stranger, a lover (gay or bisexual), a cop, a doctor?
10) How would you describe his relationships with others? A loner, life of the party, a good loyal altruistic friend, a control freak, a moocher, a moralistic boor?
Pick one from column A, one from column B, one from column C, etc., and you've got the outline of a story.
Just as important as the plot is the point of view. Whose story it it? That is, from whose perspective is the story told. It is usually most effective if the "narrator" of the story sees everything from the eyes of just one person. He knows what that one person is thinking, feeling, seeing, etc., but for other characters, he can only report what they say and do. The person from whose perspective the story is told might be the fellow's friend, the cutter, a cop investigating the case, a doctor who's trying to stop the bleeding, a TV reporter treating the case as a story for the 10:00 pm news, etc. The viewpoint character might be the guy himself, but he could be any character in the story, and not necessarily a key character. Also, the story can be written in first person ("I saw; I cut; I felt") or third person ("He saw; he cut; he felt"). The writer should be consistent in this. If the viewpoint character is not the guy who loses his penis, the story might focus, not on the guy who lost his penis, but on the viewpoint character himself or some other character who came into contact with that guy--how did the experience affect him (or her)? How was he (or she) changed? For example, the story might be written from the perspective of the guy's mother. She sees that her son's been mutilated, and now she's bent on revenge.
So with these combinations, there are probably several hundred stories here. Choose one and start writing
Sandi