Why must my prologue (and story) be crappy and filled with plot holes?

By Link the Writer · Aug 10, 2010 · ·
  1. I've got the seeds of a good action/adventure story about a deaf Mexican boy/girl who was seperated from his/her parents during the Mexican-American War and he/she wants to reunite with them.

    The idea here is that in the prologue, he/she was rescued by American soldiers on a scouting mission and brought back to the US. A few years later, he/she decides to find his/her own family agan...by going back to Mexico.

    It's just so stupid. Either I have the story set in Mexico or the US. There's no reason the kid would get on a ship and leave to his/her homecountry....alone. Five years later he/she had left it.

    But somehow, my brain insists that it makes perfect, logical sense.

    "It's a fictional story!" it says, "Who cares if he/she goes back to Mexico five years later with absolutely no concrete cause? When he/she has absolutely no reason to assume his/her parents are still even alive!"

    So a once really cool idea for an action/adventure book boils down into an argument I have with my own creativity, which is stubborned and insists that the clearly plot hole-filled idea is the perfect one.

    What do I do? I would really like to write this in some plausible way that makes sense. :(

Comments

  1. Chudz
    Heya,

    Here are some thoughts after reading this. If they pertain, or will even help, I have no clue, heh. But here they are anyway.

    I remember watching a program (can't remember if it was on cable or not), where the white settlers took Native American children away from their parents on the reservations and brought them to schools in the east. There they were supposed to learn to be good, little European-Americans. But there was a lot of conflict with traditions and religion.

    So, in a story that runs along these lines, I can very much see a child becoming fed up with what is going on and striking out on their own, for better or worse.

    Of course, there's a lot to fill in on how they know where they are, etc. But I think it could be pulled off.

    Anyway, best wishes.
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