Creating a Superhero

I have always wanted to write a super hero story. I once wrote the below outline of a story for such a book which I planned to write.

A funny thing happened on the way to the forum, (all punns intended.) One night, while walking a short distence from the valet to the theater, I collapsed. For no good reason my leggs simply gave out underneath me. For a quick second, I feared that I would never give up. I struggled to regain my strength and pick myself up, when the gentlemen next to me reached down and scooped me up in his arms. With all my strength wrapped around his neck, I stood again to look him in the eye, and say, "You are my hero. Thank you."

I learned that night that while a good story is always a read worth investing in, or in my case, writing about, the real super heroes of our lives often go unnoticed. It is the intention of this blogspot to build such stories around real people. I will still write the below book, I might even sell it one day, but in the meantime, I focus on becoming inspired by the true life accounts of the everyday men and women who secretly save the lives of others with no recognition.


Excerpt from original story plan

28 year old David Grimes is a successful business owner, a full time father, and a vengeance obsessed man who vows to take out anyone who wages war on women or children.

Growing up in a small rundown town, David fell into some trouble as a child. After the 3 strikes law, he knew it was time to clean up his act, but when he was wrongly accused of a crime that he did not commit, David's whole life fliped upside down. After 8 years in prison, he was released on probation and set up with a job as a sprinkler technician.

It was while working this job that he met the women of his dreams and fell in love. Once the couple married, David set the goal to move his family out of the ghetto. He had many enemies from his bad boy days and worried about his family and their safety. Unfortunately, only a few days before the move, David got news that his wife was pregnant. The move was postponed so that they could stay close to family until the baby was born. The pregnancy added an element of stress on the couple, but was a blessed even in David's eyes.

With only a month until the baby was due, David got the call that his wife had been in an accident and was being taken to a local hospital. There he learned that his wife was stabbed by one of his enemies from long past. The hatred built inside of him until he was told that his daughter survived.

Now stuck with the a daughter he is not prepared to love and a vengeful heart, David must learn to juggle it all. He wakes up at 430 every morning, goes into the shop, writes the schedule, organizes the books, and puts the guys in teams for the day, by 7 am he is back home cooking breakfast and getting his little girl off to school, and from noon to 3pm he catches up on sleep.
By 330 his daughter is picked up from school; he takes her to soccer practice, does homework with her, and puts her to bed. Once asleep, a nanny comes to watch her, while David goes off on his motorcycle.

As he speeds down the street, he can hear the screams of women and children in need. Without control; as if on auto pilot, David shows up in time to rescue them. His anger and hatred for violence against women and children spark him to kill these predators in horrifying and violent ways. As he continues to kill them the city puts out a serial killer alert.

Although he is never caught or tied to the crimes, his daughter grows up to be an investigative reporter. Her first assignment is to cover the Blue City Serial Killer. The pieces of the puzzle start to fall together for her as her memories of her father’s late night callings coincide with the times of the crimes in question. Fearing her mother is possibly the first victim, she starts to look into a separate investigation of her family and herself.

Will she discover the truth? Will she tell the police what she expects? Will she find that the first killing started with a stabbing? Will it be her mother’s? This may be a two or three book series. May even be that the first book is about the crimes and builds a superhero, the second may be about how the daughter grew up with a superhero as a father and never knew it. The third could be about the more violent crimes and the cop who helps facilitate them. Finally the last book should be about the daughter and her discoveries during her investigation.