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Character Development

Inside the mind of a cool, calculated, revengeful, insane woman, who has spent years plotting the revenge of a dead family member

What would she do to destroy a mans life, without detection?

Typical Horror movie cliches.
a. kill his dog
b. run him off the road with the car
c. intimidating phone calls
d. threatening letters.

Selorian

If he doesn't know her on sight, then a chance encounter that leads to a relationship between them. From a position of closeness and intimacy, the number of things she could do to get revenge are limitless. From slowly poisoning him to financial ruin and everything in between.

I'd try to avoid clichés for the most part and come up with something unique, or at least presented in a new way.

EDIT: I've moved this to the Tips & Advice forum in the Writing category where these type of questions should be asked. The Creativity category (Critique & Advice, Short Stories, Fiction, etc.) is for the posting of actual stories.

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This was of course my first thought. I will keep the fact that she is the antagonists till the end and strategically place a few characters in the story to keep the reader guessing.

I am not looking for anyone to write a story for me.
However- I am an introverted person. So it is hard for me to imagine these things. Any basic ideas may be enough to get the ball rolling for me.

PS
If developing a relationship between the two was my first thought and also your first thought, do you think it will be obvious to the reader? Do you think It would throw the reader off a bit if I made her a coworker who developed the relationship. I don't know. based on this I may scrap the whole plot.

RomanticRose

She could:

Seduce his wife and convince her to divorce him and take everything he owns.

Seduce his son and convince him to have the man declared incompetent and put him in an institution.

Drug him, dress him up in women's slutty clothing (or place him in some other compromising situation) and take pictures and start a website, and send the link to all his business associates.

Electronically transfer large amounts of his company's money into his personal accounts.

I'd make a good psychotic vengance seeker.

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Now that is something - Always pictured him as a young guy. I never thought about him having a son before. It would make her the less obvious culprit.

By the way do you think it is wrong to use another persons idea and build from it? I am having an issue with it. I don't mean copying an entire plot. Lets say I did make her seduce his son in my story. Where does inspiration from others (books, people, movies etc.) end, and plagiarisms begin?

AND ROSE - YOU ARE A BAD GIRL. I LOVE IT! HEHE

Ilasir Maroa

It shouldn't be hard to find several threads on plaigarism, but the simplest way is to avoid more than two verbatim sentences in a row, and avoid use of fictional proper nouns. In the kind of story you seem to be working on, there's really not much of a case for or against re-using older ideas.

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RomanticRose

Thank you for noticing.

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