How can my hero escape?

[Dravinian]

ok well he could heat up the manacles so that they expand using the suns rays

or he could use the manacles to his advantage somehow

or train an insect to help him undo them

or how about he finds out that they are in fact MONOCLES!!!!

what the fuck do you expect when you ask people to come up with good ideas for your book? do yo know how hard it is coming up with ideas for a book?

No, I have no idea how hard it is coming up with ideas, that is why I didn't get stuck and didn't need to ask other people to help me with some ideas.

Also your complaint seems to be that it is silly and hard, yet people have already posted several good ideas, some of which I might adapt to fit the story.

Never heard of writers block, hitting a wall where the ideas all seem shite, no matter how many you go through? Getting a few new ideas and a few new thoughts I think will help that.

 

[isitme]

I'm sorry

But I do find it a bit annoying to be honest

I am writing a story and it is desperately struggling for all sorts of ideas at the point I am at, but that is kind of the point of why stories are good.

Ok, your hero is stuck in a room on their own with some manacles on, they can't post on the internet and ask for ideas, what can they do? It's YOUR character, what are they going to do?

 

[Dravinian]

I'm sorry

But I do find it a bit annoying to be honest

I am writing a story and it is desperately struggling for all sorts of ideas at the point I am at, but that is kind of the point of why stories are good.

Ok, your hero is stuck in a room on their own with some manacles on, they can't post on the internet and ask for ideas, what can they do? It's YOUR character, what are they going to do?

The problem, as I stated, is that i know the character, I know how he got there, why he is there, his abilities; strengths, weaknesses, etc.

My ideas seem very much as someone said earlier, an episode of Austin Powers...."'Guards, place the prsioners in an over-elaborate and easily-escaped death scenario!'".

I didn't want people to read, our hero is placed in manacles, and be able to guess at that point how he escapes, I want the escape to be at least a little different to other things the character has done, this is difficult when you have created the character and know everything about him, because now everything seems like a conceit.

 

[isitme]

ok, sorry, maybe i was a bit over the top

but it is your book, and it's up to you to not make it predictable. if the whole thing of him being manacled and then escaping makes the story concieted then maybe you should get rid of it