Office power play

BlackSnake

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Mr. Barns (WM) - 60 CEO of a consulting firm, throws parties to entertain clients and a select few of employees. Sleeps with some of the ladies he employ.

Ms Barns (WF) - 45 y/o, Knows her husband's affairs and has an affair with a somewhat unwilling young executive (her husband's nephew Mike)

Mike(WM) - 25 y/o Harvard grad, eager to show that his youth is just a number. Ladies at the firm has the hots for him.

Lora (WF) - 28 y/o Beautiful and Sexy, what's to prove she is more than a pretty face. Sexual Harassment charges against her former employers cloud her work history.

Erica (BF) - 32 y/o looking to get to the top anyway she can. Know for back stabbing.

Jerry (Latino) - 42 y/o thinks he's cool, but he is the only one. Is a top manager and sleeps with his interns.

Mike has the hots for Lora who appears to be cold. Mr Barns has his eye on Lora and assigns Mike to work with her own a big project in order to find out personal information on Lora.

Ms Barns forces Mike to sleep with her knowing it would be dangerous for him to refuse her.

Erica sees the position that Mike is in and makes a play for him in order to improve her position. She wants in on the project, for the firms biggest client.

Jerry finds information on Lora that she wants to keep secret. She is forced into sleeping with him to keep him quiet.

Mike doesn't understand the attraction between Lora and Jerry.

Ms Barns helps Mike by introducing him to the wives of the firm's board members. He finds out that sleeping with the wives gives him strength within the company that is not yet known to his uncle the CIO would is a jerk to Mike at times. Jerry's aunt is one of the wives.

Lise (Latino) - Mike's secretary is also very sexy and hot. He has to resist his thoughts about her to maintain a working relationship.

Dan (BM) - Mike's friend and confidant. One of the consultants at the firm. Willing to help Mike on his quest to prove himself.

I am trying to build the background for a story I've been interested in writing. People of the firm all trying to satisfy their thirsts for power and sex.


Anyone interested in helping build and write this story?
 
PM me if you want to help, but post your ideas about the story on the board.

The main setting would be a high rise building in a major city.
 
Length

BlackSnake said:
... but post your ideas about the story on the board ...
Eight principal characters (not counting the "wives of the firm's board members") - how long is this intended to be?

Almost all Lit short stories run less than 10k words, so that's a maximum of 1250 per character, and an average expected of half that. It sounds to me that you have a novel in the making here.

Eight characters all in the same milieu means a potential 56 2 person relationships. Perhaps half of those won't matter (Bayesian basis) so that's 25+ relationships in the same 10k maximum, nine of them already specified in your first sketch (not counting Mike and the "wives of the firm's board members"). Yes it's definitely a novel.

If you want to see how a novel is constructed, email me and I'll send you the details. If you already write them, sorry for trying to teach my grandmama to suck eggs.

Best of luck.
 
Collectively, it my turn out to be a series, but could play as a series for lit.

I'm just started to work this out.
 
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