Plot for short story

I've had a couple ideas for the plot of my short story, and i personally that they are all really cool.  In fact, i like the several plot ideas a lot that i can't decide as i would assume a lot of you guys have the same issue because our minds are so incredible that so many things are created its hard to choose.  I guess i could explain one of them so here it goes... Niko is out one night at a club on a pretty average Saturday night with his friends.  He's having a great time when he sees a immoral action done, the abuse of a women, having his own sense of morales he beats the man who struck the women.  Unknown to Niko however the man beating this women (while still incredibly uncool and sick.) Was a son of a major mobster, Lorenzo "Fabuloso" de peluche.  I don't know a good name yet so don't look at me like a complete idiot i know you will so quit it.  While Niko couldn't care less who this sick man was beating a women as you might have assumed with common sense this causes some problems for him and the plot goes on to explain the hardships of dealing with the mob and other things in the way that he has to deal with but thats pretty much the basis of my plot and it needs a lot of work but i think it will turn out to be really cool in the end... Can't say how excited i am to write my own story it seems really cool.

Short Stories talk

Ok, so this post is pretty confusing but, i've learned that short stories are a lot harder than i always thought.  The story that really sticks out of my mind is AP because it kind of reminds me of real life things, despite the time it was written.  I mean think about it, the main character Sammy was incredibly judgmental just like a lot of people now.  We all judge each other regardless of our real feelings about the person we are judging.  It's pretty disgusting when you hear it from someone huh? But for example Sammy really liked the blonde girl he referred to as "Queenie" yet he judged her even though at the same time he was incredibly attracted to her. But anyway, i forgot the POV we were looking for in our stories so i'm gonna go off on a limb and say that AP was about Character personality... I'm probably wrong but what i found so interesting was Sammy and his point of view.  Now, side tracking from that because i don't want to "praise" AP despite it was the best story in my humble opinion.  Another story that sticks out in my mind is A old man with enormous wings, i found it so interesting because it was just so bizarre that it sticks out fondly and not in the good way.  Let me elaborate, AOMEW was really weird but it had a very cool setting and plot my problem however was that it didn't make you want to connect with the characters or want to read the story as a whole.  This is mainly because there is no character development and that makes everything boring, what makes a story interesting is the protagonist that the reader/audience (depending if its a movie or book.) can connect to. In that story there isn't a protagonist therefore no reason to care at all.  I'm probably missing the point of this post but this post is pretty difficult because, i have no clue what i'm supposed to be writing about because all these stories bored me in their own way making this a hard thing to do because if there is no real interest and i'm only doing it to "learn about short stories or because i have to." I feel uninterested as a reader and that isn't fun, you all know being forced to read something boring isn't fun.


Anyway heres my reading log for the week of 9/23/13- 9/30/13:


A very old man with Enormous wings: 35 minutes 4 pages (plus annotating creating length)

Dry September 55 minutes 12 pages (also annotating)

Reading response: Annihilation

I didn't get too many pages in this week which is quite troubling but its just this week so i'm not worried.  In Annihilation Theron and Teffi'th (his friend he saved.) the story is shifted to the Republic capital where we meet with the "Homeland Security" of the Republic talking to the leader of the armies 15th precinct and they discuss defense and about how the cold war that had been going on had become the galactic war.  There isn't really a response for this entry because it was all political jargon and it was incredibly uninteresting which is why i didn't reach my normally amount of pages i was unfocused and bored.  I plan on doubling my regular amount of pages this week because i'm pretty upset with myself not getting my usual amount done.

It's getting kind of hard to do these responses because i don't really know what to write about so this response will be a little light on contents.

Voice of character for Short story

Well before i describe my characters voice let's start out with his name and few of his traits.  My characters name is Niko "Cazablanca" and i haven't thought of a last name yet.  He's a tall, brown haired man with a a scruffy beard.  He's arrogant, adventurous and most of all he's got an urge to protect his friends.  So all in all he's a pretty good guy.  He has a deep, thick Scottish accent that is hard to understand he likes to party and is very good with the ladies.  Normally when Niko goes to sleep he dreams of the greatest adventure anyone could possibly think of.  I mean, he's pretty awesome and an all round good guy he's the ideal protagonist in a story for me, that's of course my opinion but that's all that matters right?

Reading Response: Annihilation

So i'm reading 2 books right now and i'm focusing more on Annihilation by Drew Kaphsryn.  Currently Theron Shan was looking for a friend and i didn't want to say much more.  Theron has asked the cartel man Morbo to free his friend Teff'ifth (that's her name by the way.)  After running into her ambush Theron saves her from her assailants sent by Morbo to kill her while she was smuggling "spice" (drugs) that was owned by another drug lord due to a turf situation.  That was about 30 pages of the book where i read 125 pages, the whole point of this was to show how important the whole friendship is involved in this minor ordeal of the novel.

This book is pretty awesome a lot of action and is just keeping my on the tip of my toes and i love every second of reading it.  However, i must admit its a tad boring to get into in the start and i really am glad i didn't quit reading it.

Class E-book

I don't have any people that i need to protect because i'm not bashing anyone.  However some pictures that would help emphasize my narrative.  Pictures of doughnuts, Junie B. books AND an old woman reading to her child/grandchild. Also I wouldn't have my paper double-spaced because its so perfect it doesn't need any editing, AND because double spacing is just weird it doesn't look good to me.  I can't think of any title, designs for i'm not artistic or creative what so ever but that's okay I'm fine with that.


Can i add my reading log to this post?? I'm gonna do it but i'll put it on my reading response too.


Tuesday 9/10/13: Annihilation Drew Kapshyrn 45 min 60 pages

Saturday 9/14/13: Annihilation Drew Kapshryn 45 min 65 pages

Dialogue post

This story is about 2 guys at a coffee shop being cool.


"I'll have a cappuccino with a bunch of other silly things thrown in because it isn't actual coffee its girly drinks, hey Phil how goes it?"

"I'm doing good Geoff, i see your ordering yet another non-related coffee drink just because you can't follow the way of society due to your hipster personality."


"Yea that's true, but at least my coffee has taste and isn't that awful McDonalds coffee you buy every morning."

"While that may be true, my taste buds are broken anyway, always have been so i couldn't care less."


"Ah, well why don't we trade for a day?? You drink my "hipster coffee and I'll drink your bland garbage coffee."

"Ok, you're on punk."


Phil on first day with black coffee- "AGH, man that tastes like sadness and pure bitterness."

Geoff on first day with hipster coffee- "OH MAN!!! This stuff is amazinggggg!!!!"

The two friends came to the realization that hipster coffee is so much better than bland black coffee from McDonalds.

Thank you for reading,

Mac Bridges

Reading Response #3- 9/9/13

I'm still on The Throne of Fire and i kind of side stepped off of that book and began to read another book. It's called Annihilation by Drew Karpshyrn it's the same franchise as Revan except much farther in the future about 3 centuries in fact.  I'm having a lot of difficulty reading lately im not getting a lot of pages in a week and Dr. D if you read this i'm not really ok with it but you know i'm only human hehe.  Anyway, in Annihilation we follow the Republic SIS agent Theron Shan who is a cyborg and in the beginning of the book he's on a las vegas type planet and he's looking an old friend but i can't say much more due to spoilers and such. However things are quite crazy, the leader of the empire obviously the emperor is presumed dead and everything on their home planet is dysfunctional and power is just out of sync.



The whole point of this book is to explain unanswered questions and bring up new ones, this franchise of books is for complete nerds which i, shamelessly admit to being ;) but i enjoy this book quite a bit it's incredibly interesting.  I should talk about the main book Throne of Fire this is my post for last week due to it not appearing for some reason.  Last i left off Sadie had gone to visit her grandparents in London for her b-day and got into loads of trouble, while Carter was worrying his behind off and somehow knew something was going on halfway across the world.  Then he went to go try and find her, whats truly going is the Magic using household is definitely attacking Carter and Sadie's house and everyone knows what's coming.  I'm incredibly pumped for the next few chapters i thoroughly enjoy this book but i like to take my time and savor everything.  Much like most people who like to watch TV shows for example, me and Breaking Bad i'm slowly taking my time to go through the series and enjoying it.



Reading Log 9/9/2013:


Wednesday 9/4/13:  Throne of Fire 25 min 30 pages

Thursday 9/5/13: Annihilation 40 min 50 pages

Saturday 9/7/13: Annihilation 55 min 65 pages

Reading log 8/26/13 - 9/3/13

Tuesday 8-27-13- Throne of Fire 30 minutes 35 pages

Thursday 8-29-13- Throne of Fire 30 minutes 35 pages

Saturday 8-31-13- Throne of Fire 35 minutes 45 pages

Monday 9-2-13- Throne of Fire 25 minutes 30 pages