New Idea

I realize that I've had trouble writing extended stories simply because I don't plan that well. After writing maybe a few pages, most of my stories (including the "chapter one" I had to write for my English class) just sort of phase out.

Well I thought of a good idea in a dream of mine.

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for my own reference

BASIC PLOT

Some guy is playing a sim game, what happens in the sim game actually happens in a parallel plane somewhere else in the world. The story develops because in this sim game the player opens up new area as the game progresses; the same happens in the parallel world.

The story itself opens in a plague, which would explain the sequestering of the people in the parallel world into a tiny section of what is probably a city. The people have little basic resources, including money.

The guy who's playing the sim game isn't that good. Either it is part of his own sadistic nature or inexperience, but things don't turn out very well.

1. a major character of the parallel world, his mother, decides to go back into prostituion to earn enough money to buy whatever's left. Very early on, with her son still in view, she meets one of her old clients, gets into this huge arguement, fails to shoot him a couple of times (why does she have a gun... idk) then the client contemplates his own suicide as the mother gives a psychological tirade, which includes rather unsavory parts of the past, before the client gets fed up and just knocks the mother down a set of stairs into a parking garage, where (you know what happens next)

2. new area opens up! a basketball court is created, simply for the leisure of the trapped citizens. By random generation, a list of teams and tournament brackets is created. Of course, the random generation is not really random, but perhaps a cruel figment of fate for all the characters. "stacking" of teams is prevalent; in the finals, the whole game breaks into an argument, then a brawl, then another argument, with no clear winner decided.

I had one more scene in mind but I forgot; will update later.