But I still want to share my idea.
It’s about this 18 year old boy with severe trust issues who suddenly gains the ability to see the future. He uses this to win the lottery, and prevent his sister from dying of cancer. Things seem to go well, until he starts getting into relationships. He keeps seeing the people he hangs out with betraying him, which doesn’t help his trust issues. Eventually, all the hurt that he would have suffered from those future betrayals manifest into anger and hatred. His personality shifts to a sociopathic nature, and with the help of some voodoo woman, (with pure intentions, so he trusts her) he taps into an advanced form of foresight, and now, he can read minds and all of their psychological weaknesses, so he can find the best way to mess with people’s heads with every social interaction. He uses his wealth and his new power to see the intentions and desires of every woman, then he manipulates them, uses them for their bodies, and leaves shortly after. His mental state continues to deteriorate. (It should not be made clear if it’s due to emotional neglect from self isolation and chronic neuroticism, or a side effect of his power)
In the end of the book, his pent up rage eventually drives him to commit the perfect act of murder. He goes to a club and picks out the most wretched gold digger of a woman, reads her mind, and seduces her. He slips something in her drink, puts her in the trunk of his car, and drives her out into a remote location (preferably a desert) and swings an axe into her head right before she wakes up. No one is there to witness the crime. He picked the perfect day to kill her using the power of prediction. He knows he will never face the consequences of his actions, or feel any guilt for killing her.
The tragedy of this character is that he sees the future like it’s in the past, so he’s treating these future events as if they happened already, and any traumatic event that would have occurred, affects him in the same way as it would have if he had not prevented it.
Anyone else looking at this character would see him as insane, but he believes there is perfect reasoning behind his actions.
Lastly, each chapter should be written as a diary, but have the same narrators tone like The Outsiders book.
And if this were to be a movie, it should have the vibe of Death Note.
by seirenshou
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Are you doing ok op?
I was going to suggest you could use ChatGPT to help you write an outline and learn how to write a book.. but I don’t think this needs to be written.
Just wanna chime in to say I think this would be a book that I would love to read. There’s a lot of potential to explore different philosophical ideas and themes here.
I had a friend who wrote a book about a boy who discovered he could breathe underwater when a bully put his head underwater. Was it the best written book in the world? Not really but the idea intrigued me so much I’ve remembered it for nearly fifty years.
If you fleshed out what you’ve put here, you’d have your first book!