jasonandrew | (no subject)

Yesterday, I did nothing. It felt good.

Of course, my brain still wanted to play. I came up with a fun concept for my next novel. I've been playing with the idea for a while, but then I read the graphic novel Wanted and then saw Doctor Horrible's Sing Along Blog and realized that it might be too close to what's out there.

The premise is that Professor Moriarty killed Sherlock Holmes and secretly took his place. Unfettered, Moriarty and his legion of evil secretly consquered the world and turned into an almost paradise filled with wonder and mad science for the common man, but lacking in human dignity and compassion.

Flash forward to the present, there is a school, Ravenswood Academy: School for Villiany and Skullduggery, dedicated to raising the next generation of villians to conquer the world and improve it. There are superheros, but mostly they are corporate stooges that fight in the economic wars.

This is the story of a villian that decides to really be a criminal by turning into a hero.

Wanted kind of uses that premise, but with more sodomy and racism thrown in.

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I like it.

You know, there's a lot of Moriarty stories out there -- Neil Gaiman's "A Study in Emerald" is excellent, and of course Moriarty's role in "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen," wherein in both case the reader, at least, is meant to to assume the that the character in question is either Sherlock or his brother Mycroft, respectively. I'm even sure there's one where Moriarty takes Sherlock's place, although it's escaping me at the moment.

But that shouldn't stop you. It's only the execution that makes it so.

I agree that story has been seen in one form or other. The name of the Ravenswood Academy sounds very familiar, like I've heard it before. But I can't place where.

If you do it I would suggest using your own villain rather than someone else's. Moriarty is becoming too common for people to use. Even Star Trek tapped that keg.

You shouldn't EVER turn down an idea just because it's been done before. Unless its only been done ONCE by someone really obvious.

(and still there were many wizard school rip off series)

I think it sounds like a cool idea. Though, not sure who you're protagonist would be.