ALL YOU TALENTED WRITERS OUT THERE... HELP!!!
i've promised myself that i would absolutely write a book in college, so im working on one. i like the idea of it so far, but i'm stuck as where to go next. i'll give u a general summary of it and hopefully you guys can help me out! :)
story begins with a well to do couple, the wife persuming they have a perfect marriage (story written in first person). the husband dies in a car accident, and of course the woman is really upset. then, she gets a letter in the mail from a woman claiming to have had a relationship with her husband, and that she has a son by him. (the wife never had kids with him). she meets the lady and realizes that this kid has to be his, cuz it looks just like him. (before all this happened, the woman who lost her husband met up with a man she knew in high school that she got pregnant with. turns out, he adopted the baby after she gave him up)
all this other stuff happens, the wife finds out her husband didn't really die. and now he's trying to cover up why he faked his own death. i'm thinking about him having murdered someone and ''dying'' was his only way out.
Any suggestions??
He was secretly in debt. (either consumer or from a business proposition that his wife thought was doing well, but in reality didn't.) He was having trouble trying to figure out a way to pay off his debt when this woman and her son found him. He knew he couldn't pay off his debts, and child support, which would entail garnishing his wages, would strain his finances too far.
He could barely provide his wife with the life she was used to, and knew that his life insurance policy would more than cover all of his debts (without the child support) and still leave her with a generous pension to live on. So he took out a large policy on himself, then faked his own death so the creditors and courts wouldn't come looking for him.
He loves his wife and wants to provide the best life for her, but thought that she would leave him if she could no longer enjoy the life that she was accustomed to.
After that, it's your choice:
1) She loves him and can forgive his deceit, but cannot shake the feeling that he'd lie to her again, if the opportunity presented itself for him to make his life easier at the cost of her feelings. (Events occur that prove her right.) With a broken heart but her integrity intact, she leaves him.
2) She of course loves him, and pledges to stay with him through richer and poorer. She puts her own money into helping him pay off his debts, but eventually the relationship deteriorates as the fights about money occur more and more frequently. (He could even have a gambling problem, in that he routinely invests money he doesn't have into business ventures that turn sour, hoping to one day strike it rich.) She tries her best to curb her own shopping addiction, but has trouble giving in and not buying anything that's on sale. Eventually the question arises: Will love keep them together? Or will money and lies keep them apart?
Of course, you could always expand on the role of the "other woman." Does she love him or is she just after his money? Does he love her? Does he love her more than his wife?
Other questions: Does his wife love him more than he loves her? What about the idea of he and his wife adopting his son, and having her secretly resent the fact that he chose to have a son not with her, but with another woman? What about the other woman not wanting him or his money, just a father for her son? And what if he doesn't care about his son? How would that play out? These are all questions that you could explore.
story begins with a well to do couple, the wife persuming they have a perfect marriage (story written in first person). the husband dies in a car accident, and of course the woman is really upset. then, she gets a letter in the mail from a woman claiming to have had a relationship with her husband, and that she has a son by him. (the wife never had kids with him). she meets the lady and realizes that this kid has to be his, cuz it looks just like him. (before all this happened, the woman who lost her husband met up with a man she knew in high school that she got pregnant with. turns out, he adopted the baby after she gave him up)
all this other stuff happens, the wife finds out her husband didn't really die. and now he's trying to cover up why he faked his own death. i'm thinking about him having murdered someone and ''dying'' was his only way out.
Any suggestions??
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The murder idea seems to have come out of nowhere, and paints the character is very different light. If you want a story that seems to coalesce with what you've already said, then here are some ideas:He was secretly in debt. (either consumer or from a business proposition that his wife thought was doing well, but in reality didn't.) He was having trouble trying to figure out a way to pay off his debt when this woman and her son found him. He knew he couldn't pay off his debts, and child support, which would entail garnishing his wages, would strain his finances too far.
He could barely provide his wife with the life she was used to, and knew that his life insurance policy would more than cover all of his debts (without the child support) and still leave her with a generous pension to live on. So he took out a large policy on himself, then faked his own death so the creditors and courts wouldn't come looking for him.
He loves his wife and wants to provide the best life for her, but thought that she would leave him if she could no longer enjoy the life that she was accustomed to.
After that, it's your choice:
1) She loves him and can forgive his deceit, but cannot shake the feeling that he'd lie to her again, if the opportunity presented itself for him to make his life easier at the cost of her feelings. (Events occur that prove her right.) With a broken heart but her integrity intact, she leaves him.
2) She of course loves him, and pledges to stay with him through richer and poorer. She puts her own money into helping him pay off his debts, but eventually the relationship deteriorates as the fights about money occur more and more frequently. (He could even have a gambling problem, in that he routinely invests money he doesn't have into business ventures that turn sour, hoping to one day strike it rich.) She tries her best to curb her own shopping addiction, but has trouble giving in and not buying anything that's on sale. Eventually the question arises: Will love keep them together? Or will money and lies keep them apart?
Of course, you could always expand on the role of the "other woman." Does she love him or is she just after his money? Does he love her? Does he love her more than his wife?
Other questions: Does his wife love him more than he loves her? What about the idea of he and his wife adopting his son, and having her secretly resent the fact that he chose to have a son not with her, but with another woman? What about the other woman not wanting him or his money, just a father for her son? And what if he doesn't care about his son? How would that play out? These are all questions that you could explore.