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Sometimes you have an idea for some sort of creative projecy and you don't know if it'll work. You might waste a lot of time and effort- if only you could've got an opinion first! Well, now you can. That's what this thread's for.
I'd be grateful if anyone could read through the following synopsis and pick out any obvious flaws:
I have a character, active in London in 1938, whose great grandfather laid some sort of legal claim to an island in the East Indies. My character has never been there, having lived in Britain all his life, but wants to go there.
He needs money and a group. He corrals three rich young London men, whose fathers each have plenty of wealth, and (he's a very charismatic/frightening man) press gangs them, using their money to book the passage to the east.
They go by boat from London, down past Spain, through the gap of Gibraltar (is this what it's called?) and across the med to Egypt. They go across land to the Red Sea and then get in another ship bound for the East Indies.
So that's the basic story. In the event they find one island populated by "savages" and see a ritual piercing ceremony, they run in disgust to a "White Island" a la the Pitcairns but find worse things happening there- a burgeoning Fascist state. They return to the "savages" and undergo a sort of baptism by fire, they have to get used to the alien. |
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