I am looking for something long term. I am committed to writing something substantial and meaningful. (Read: I don’t write just for smut, but if it’s there with purpose, I am more than willing to explore.)
I’d like to play a Southern character, in his later 20s, who has lived in the deep South his entire life – same town, same family, same friends, same bar. (I’m thinking of the True Blood lore and the nature of many of the characters within, minus the vampires.) He did not go to college, is quiet and thoughtful but not necessarily an eloquent speaker. Clever but understated. He works in a hardware store. Disgruntled, but less than angry. Unaware of how to get out of his situation and escape his little town. By no means a Southern cliché, except for his adherence to the Horatio Alger myth and his half-hearted faith in the American dream.
Zombie apocalypse or natural disaster: Your character, more of a bigger-city type, is in town for some reason or another, though reluctantly. Perhaps helping his grandparents make repairs on their home. While in town, a disaster erupts, be it a zombie outbreak or a large-scale natural disaster, something incredibly ferocious and inescapable. My character, after growing up learning to fight for himself, finds your character and helps him out – they learn to survive together. I think this could be both comical, exciting, dark, and, in instances, cute.
Runaways: Your character is of similar age, similar standings as mine, except a bit more impulsive. They have known each other since high school, though were never good friends. They end up drunk together in a bar one night and have a conversation, heated and passionate, about their statuses, and begin a friendship. They make a pact to spice up their lives. They start small by daring each other to do rather mundane things, like break into an abandon building, kiss that girl, kiss me, fix up that old car in two weeks, see how long you can survive without eating, etc. The danger of each dare waxes and wanes. Sometimes the dares are serious ways to change a life (like: don’t spend more than $50 this week), some are downright stupid. Eventually (and I do mean eventually) it escalates to quitting their jobs and moving cross-country, still poor, but charged on hope and one another.
If any of this sounds interesting, or if you have any other ideas, leave a comment!