Agreatguy's Writing Thread

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Many of you remember my "Please give me your opinion" poll.
The reason I moved it here is because I feel that the Poll Thread was getting too big and was better suited to my own thread.



Anyway:

I dug up the email I received and wrote. It summarizes roughly the plot of my novel, although I am currently thinking about scrubbing the ending.

Spoiler:

I myself have taken liberties with the play:
I am currently in the process of writing a novel loosely based on
the play. In it, the far away planet (much like earth in more ways
than one) of Gaia is dying from pollution. Hamlet's dad (here named
Alexander after Horatio's words "Alexander is dead...") has married
Gertrude (here named Eusophanice [GERD = Esophagus]} after knowing
that Claudius lusts for her (here, he's just named Claudius).

Alexander then goes a bit off and decides to go on a crusade against
the extreme amount of pollution in the air by creating more energy
plants on the planet and its moon, Poisson (everything [including
last names] alludes to poison and death). Claudius recieves a
strange message asking him to meet someone out in the middle of
nowhere. It is a messenger of a man named Mr. Wolf (a Human from
Earth who has been tapping into Gaia's energy to export to Earth for
cash and the well-being of Earth.) Mr. Wolf would request that
should Alexander begin attacking over-industrialized plants that use
too much energy (owned by him) Claudius should kill him (which he
had been intending to do anyway).

For 16 years, he waits. Finally, when the products of Alexander's
toil bear no fruit, he attacks some energy plants that have been
over using energy and producing very little. About to close one, he
sends his teenage son, Alexander II, to Poisson to inspect the wind
energy plants there.

While he's gone, Claudius kills Alex I and claims the throne until
his nephew is of age. Alex II (called by his middle name, Hamlet, by
Emotia [O FEEL ya = EMOTIa])is not at all pleased with the situation
and promptly goes home, bringing his new friend Horatio with him. By
the time they get there, Claudius marries Eusophanice, thus making
him the rightful king (on the planet Gaia, that's just the way it
works). Hamlet is angry. He didn't even see anyone that was wearing
black for the funeral.

Depressed, he goes up to the battlements and sits there. Some of his
friends from school (drug buddies is more like it) show up and offer
him a smoke. He takes it and they talk about general stuff.

That night, some guards come tell Horatio that some strange fog
produced the likeness of someone framiliar, although they don't say
who. Horatio goes up and sees the vague image of a beautiful young
lady. Thinking it would get his friends mind off of things, he
invites Hamlet up to see. Hamlet doesn't see her, but he sees his
father, follows him and comes back, looking quite scared and angry.

In his room, Hamlet recounts what his dear old dad told him: He was
murdered in the like manner of the king in the play they had seen
before he had left for Poisson. He had been poisoned.

In Claudius' room, to himself, he remembers how he had murdered him:
doped him up and beat him to death. He dragged his body out in a
sack and left it behind a dumpster. Upon leaving, he was stopped by
a poor old man who called himself Polonius. He said that if Claudius
didn't give him a well paying job in the palace, he would tell
someone the truth. Claudius, scared out of his mind, agreed.

Polonius is given the job of chief adviser to Claudius, as
requested. Hamlet is surprised to see his girlfriend at the castle,
and inquires. He finds out that her dad has been given a job as
adviser. She is Polonius' daughter.

Thinking that he intends to marry into the royal family for devious
reasons (still unkown to himself) Hamlet conspires to kill him.
Unaware that he is speaking aloud, Polonius hears the whole
conversation between Hamlet's heart and head and decides to do
something.

Horatio has tried everything to get Hamlet to cheer up, and yet
nothing seems to work. Even a stripper failed to keep his interest.
Horatio is going to tell him that a great acting troupe is in town
when he sees that Polonius has one of his servants up against the
wall, talking to him in a hushed woice. "none of my business"
Horatio thinks to himself. The servant seems scared.

Horatio tells Hamlet that they're in town, and is surprised to see
his friend laugh. Hamlet asks Horatio to tell them if they can
perform the same play they did last time. Horatio goes and Hamlet
thinks on his plot.

During the play, Claudius is thinking about things other than the
play and is so distraught over the whole thing that he screams when
the actor poisons the King.

Hamlet follows Claudius to the Altar, where Claudius is praying for
forgiveness. Hamlet is about to kill him when he realises that
perhaps Claudius is truly sorry for what he did. Hamlet backs off
and goes to talk to his mother.

Eusophanice is having a chat with Polonius (who looks a bit
different, but she can't figure out what it is.) when he suddenly
dashes behind the curtains. She wonders why and then Hamlet bursts
in, completely out of his mind.

He asks her what she thought of her first husband and whether or not
she considers marrying his brother incest. She says that what
happened was unfortunate, and that whenever she was lonely, Claudius
was there. He screams in rage and sees the curtains move, (as he
knew he would.) He pulls out his sword and runs it through the
curtain. Down falls Polonius (who hamlet believes also looks
different.) dead. Hamlet rails on a bit more and Eusophanice breaks.
She screams and yells about how much she really hated his father,
his constant whining and being a brat. Fearing she has said too
much, she stops and sits. Hamlet makes a rude comment on Polonius
and drags him out.

Claudius thinks that Hamlet is getting too smart about the whole
subject and sends for his two drug buddies (Insetio and Serio) to
take him away to Earth to be executed. Hamlet is hanging around when
Claudius says this and decides to switch the letters.

On the way to Earth, Hamlet and his "friends" are attacked by
some "unsavory" people as he calls them. They kill his friends and
are about to kill him when he makes them an offer they can't refuse.
If they let him live, they will help him get back to Gaia and help
him destroy Claudius.

Back on Gaia, Claudius has recieved news of some "Sapien" Armies
destroying the countryside. Claudius knows what the problem is. Mr.
Wolf wasn't pleased with how he handled the situation and now he was
coming to kill him and take over the country.

Dennis, Polonius' son has returned from college on Earth to kill
Hamlet for killing his father. Claudius is telling him that it's
already been taken care of when Eusophanice comes in with news of
Emotia's death. She was trying to cross the river on a tree limb
when it broke. She was trapped under it.

Hamlet is back. He decides to go to his "friends" house to see if
they left any cigarettes. They didn't, but they were making some
strong stuff. In fact the fumes are so bad that Hamlet has to open
the fireplace flue. Leaves with a pack of cigarettes and sees
something that wasn't there when he entered. There is now a huge
cloud of fog on the battlements. The fog where he had seen his dad
was only a hallucination. So maybe he really hadn't killed his
father. hamlet is still furiuous because there's a chance that he
and his mother had been having an affair during the time that Hamlet
was concieved.

Once he enters the castle, Dennis challenges him to a duel. Claudius
is surprised and asks if he can polish their swords before they
fight. Dennis lets him, but Hamlet would prefer that he do his
himself. Eusophanice stops him from drinking from his cup warning
him, "You don't want to get sick, do you?" hamlet agrees and fights
the older Dennis, who slashes Hamlet with his sword. Claudius laughs
and ends the duel saying that now, no matter what, Hamlet will lose.
He reveals that Dennis' sword was poisoned.

Dennis, feeling that he has fought an unfair fight, kills himself.
Hamlet, infuriated at Claudius' scheming, takes Dennis's sword and
lightly pricks Claudius. Eusophanice, terrified by the whole thing,
drinks the glass of wine that she knows she's allergic to. She dies
and so does Claudius. Horatio rushes to Dennis, who's not yet dead
and tells him: "Polonius isn't dead." Dennis is shocked and dies.

Hamlet tells Horatio to carry on the tale of what happened to them
and to write them down. Horatio promises he will and Hamlet passes
out. Mr. Wolf, an army lieutenant for the US, enters and has his
medics revive Hamlet and carries Horatio and Dennis out in
handcuffs. Dennis dies on the way out.

Polonius, still loyal to his job, seeks the US camp. He breaks
Horatio and the Cured Hamlet out. They reach the castle, where Mr.
Wolf is waiting them. He speaks to Polonius and tells them about how
a man named Hitler used to kill all the old people who couldn't work
and shoots Polonius. He tells Hamlet how dangerous it is not to
listen to your parents, but makes an exception in his case since he
was entrusted to a jester instead of being raised by the King and
Queen. He talks to Horatio about the importance of self-interest.
Suddenly, from behind him, Polonius stabs Mr. Wolf and they both die.

Hamlet takes Mr. Wolf's gun and says: "I have seen too much to go on
with one night's sleep". Hamlet shoots himself.

Horatio, loyal to the end, says goodbye to the castle and returns to
Poisson.

The air on Gaia gets uninhabitable.

Please remember that the whole thing is still in the process of being written, and that chances are excellent that much will change.

Also, you have to remember that I have changed some names (some of which I will change again). The summary was written a good long time ago.

Here's the new version of the beginning.

Jam it back in, in the dark.