Plot Planning

I don’t credit myself for being a very good creative writer, so starting this story has to have been the most difficult step for me. I have been thinking about what to write about for the past week and nothing but unrealistic or boring ideas were coming to me. Whenever I thought I had a spark of an idea, it was quickly turned down by me not knowing where to go with it.

One day, bright and early at the start of my shift as a registry clerk, I was faced with a very angry customer. This is not uncommon at work, but it is especially frustrating when people get upset with me for reasons like this specific man did. He had come for one service but I was unable to fulfill it since he had had multiple overdue speeding and distracted driving tickets. I understand that it must be frustrating to pay them, but I am really just the messenger. I try to be as understanding as possible in these situations, but as weird as it sounds, this interaction really sparked my idea for my story.

It is very important to drive responsibly. I wanted to test how people would treat that in a video game. Honestly, for the most part, safe driving and video games seem like they do not fit in the same sentence together, but I want to try and change that. Maybe even use that unfitting-ness to my advantage in my interactive story. The idea is still in the works but this was definitely a big step for me in the process of planning my proposal. Nonetheless, there is a lot of work to go, but I am looking forward to it.