So I am in the process of writing what hopefully will become a book at some point. But alas, I'm a bit stuck. So I paused and decided to return to base - to sit down and build the skeleton of the plot from scratch, so I know where I'm going from here.
When I started writing I didn't think I'd get so far, so I haven't really planned too much, so it actually did a lot of good thing for my plot, and I managed to close a lot of plot holes.
However, one of the problems it caused me is that my favorite character is now dead. Well, not dead dead, but I just don't know what to do with it.
I'll explain - The aforementioned character is basically the "bad guy" of the story, but when he is introduced basically nothing is known about him. He is very rich and very powerful, kind of a "Shadow Man", pulling the strings behind the curtain, but besides that he is extremely mysterious. Even his name is very obviously a pseudonym. He is a very important character in the story, since he is basically the catalyst that makes everything happen.
When I started writing, I planned for him to be a businessman who is driven by his greed to do whatever it is he is doing. But now, after my re-planning, this rational is not good enough. It's just not appropriate. Now, as I mentioned, I really love this character (it actually preceded the story in a few years. I had it in my head for a few years and I always wanted to do something with it), so I want it to be something really cool and interesting. So, what I was thinking is to make it a recurring character in all my stories and eventually write a story that revolves around solely around it - something big and epic about gods and parallel dimensions etc.
This idea, though, gives me 2 problems:
1. Brandon Sanderson does something very similar to this, and after reading all his books lately, I kind of feel bad about it. If this book ever gets published, I don't want it to be said that I plagiarized it from him.
2. More importantly - this plan requires me to actually write and publish more than one book. My current story actually has a chance to become a book eventually, but I'm not sure I'll be able to repeat this achievement, so it means I'll finish the book with this very important character that has absolutely no background or reasoning.
So, what do I do? any ideas?
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