Three Children(first instalment)

This is going to be a short story from the 3rd person view that I'm pretty much gonna make up along the way. If you're not interested in reading a shit load of plot, then stop here. i might add a bit more flare to this someday but I'm not one to do rewrites until someone has critiqued it, since I'm terrible at critiquing my writing. So this is going to be a crime/drama/Action story. I'm hoping it comes off as realistic, but if it doesn't then that's fine aswell.

Theo Pecking is a 12 year old male, he lives on a farm outside of Salina Kansas with his older brother and father. His mother abandoned the family half a year after Theo's birth with no reasons. Because of this Theo has realized that he must take care of his family, he was too young to feel the effects if not having a mom. As for his older brother and father, they took the mother's abandonment as a reason to stop pursueing a proper family life on a wheat farm. Theo's brother is Kael Pecking. Kael is a 15 year old strong headed youngman. He dropped out of school due to fights and bullying and decided to follow in his dads footsteps as an operator for a farmer. Kael is tough skinned and ill mannered. Unlike his brother, he's a total idiot. He believes that his life is set in stone in this profession, but with the help of a fake I.D Kael has managed to enjoy in a bit of the adult fun, though not to the level of his father. Barret Pecking married knocked his future wife up when he was 16. He loved her and she loved him. They lived happily on Barret's acreage with his parents until he managed to get the farming gig with a commercial farmer. Barret soon became a 7am-7pm man and his wife possibly started cheating on him. He started to grow suspicious when he would go into town and find her at the bars when he would pick up beer for his weekends off. He grew suspicious, but he would never confront these suspicions with her because he believed she was loyal. He drank during his weekends without his wife, then eventually he met up with biker gangs that travelled through Salina and would stop at the hotel bar he frequently drank in. He became good friends with the bikers after a couple years, but he also became a good friend of Heroine. The town is rather small(40,000 people) so the heroine addicts could be counted in the double digits. Unfortunately for him he lost his gig at the commercial farming due to several absences so Barret decided to take out a loan and buy his own land. This was after the birth of his second son and after his wife left him. At this point he became heavily involved in the drug trade, to the extent where he was growing some in his own crops for the bikers. His kids were oblivious to the grow ops, but they knew he was a cronic heroine user. Both Theo and Kael looked down upin his father for this, but he managed to maintain the farm with ease. This was only due to the help of the bikers. They supported the place, helped out when ever necessary, and payed Barret for the grow ops. Barret eventually started using his barn for a Meth lab, although he never started using the drug himself. but the local police started to take notice of the farm, Barret had plenty of protection at the farm with several of the biker gang's lawyers sticking up for him against prior warrants. Barret's trick was that he maintained the farm to such a degree that only his family and the bikers knew he was a user. but after awhile he started driving while impaired.

This brings us to the day and age we are presented in, the setting that this story begins in. 2008 Salina Kansas. Basically, Theo is going to school and trying to have a normal childhood, Kael is trying to carry out the farming duties, but is slowly becoming an alcoholic, and Barret is operating a meth lab in the garage and is starting to drink and drive constantly. We begin in winter, Theo is getting out of school for Christmas vacation, he waits in front of his school for Barret to pick him up in the truck. After an hour and a half of waiting in an extremely rare snow storm Theo goes into the school to wait where he meets his neighbour Jory. Jory is a very mysterious girl, she was born into a very privileged lifestyle but she always wanted to explore the wild side more, so she got into extreme sports like kayaking and mountain climbing when she was young. She lives half a mile away from Theo so he asks her for a ride. Theo doesn't seem to be the smoothest with the ladies, must be his constant nervous mannerism's or his perfectionism. Jory tells him she's still waiting for her parents to arrive. They wait outside the school and by chance Barret has arrived, drunk out of his mind. Theo says goodbye to Jory but Jory asks if she can come with, since they could just drop her off on the way. Theo asks his father and he agrees to do it. Jory calls her parents, and of course they are reluctant to let her ride home with a known drunk, but she persists and eventually it happens. While on the road Jory and Theo get to know each other a bit more. Kael is in the vehicle too and he seems a bit drunk aswell, but he can't keep his eyes off Jory, she's a perfect specimen, even if she's only 12. Barret is crossing the lines on the road and swerving past traffic and doing some intense swerving. Unfortunately the police pull him over. Theo is angry at his father for being an idiot, Kael still can't keep his eyes off Jory, and Jory is extremely curious of the situation.

On this note, i need to fall asleep. so hella huge cliffhanger here. but I think this might turn into a long ass short story since I haven't even gotten to the inciting incident yet. I'll focus in this and a possible webisode in the future.

November/December

I've discovered the Canadian dictionary for Firefox. So i might use it a bit more in future posts. I've been severely lacking for the last couple months. I blame this on writers block and lazyness. Working road construction really wore me to the bone and exhausted the hell out of me. Oddly enough I've started to grow as an actor. I'm currently involved in a makeup project and I think I'm doing a decent job on it. I'm really feeling the actor world, it's easy to find acting gigs for free. And I'm learning so I wouldn't accept any money at this point. But in the future I'd love to focus on both writing and acting on my own work and only my own work. I'd love to try out directing but I don't know enough about the technical stuff to get it right, so for now those 2 will be my passion. As for life, I'm currently living on EI(800$ every two weeks, better then working, until April). I'm going to be focusing on writing and acting as much as possible up until april-ish. Then I'll look for serious work in some sort of labor job, or even in a restaurant. I don't think I can do this lazy lifestyle for too long, but here's preying that I get some sort of writing gig/acting gig and get into that industry!

So anyways, I've decided to really crack down on my writing for the next couple months. This might be really bold, but I'm going to finish the second half of this action thriller I've been working on since june in a coffee shop over the weekend. Won't leave until all 25 pages are done. Then next month I'm going to focus on two mutherfucking scripts! Yea, bold eh? 3 scripts done in 2 months? I better do it, or else I'll just prove that I'm a lazy sack of shit with no ambition to enter this industry. The first script I've already started(10 pages in, comedy high school drama). The other is a horror script that I still need to beat out and focus on. I really love the idea but i need to know how to pull it off elegantly, being that it might be my easiest script to sell. Lucky for me I'm taking a day long bus trip for Christmas. so that should give me a shit load of time to focus on both scripts and crack down on them. I asked for as many transfers as possible so I could charge my laptop as much as possible. I think I can pull off 15 pages for each script during this trip. Then I'll be staying with my dad from the 18th-5th of January. So i should be able to concentrate and crack down while I'm there. It's easy to concentrate when i stay at my dads house. I don't have to worry about my mom yelling for me from the living room because something interesting is happening on the TV, or the desperate need to build the rest of the house I'm living in(Yea, it's a project house with all sorts of crazy shit going on inside of it.) I think it's the fact that I don't need to cook for myself, clean up anything besides my stuff, and it's a relaxing and quiet place.

Anyways, I came on here today to write a short story about a potential script i wanted to start. but I'm thinking it over and it would probably be a good 5-6 pages. I'd write these scripts as novels but i hate the way dialogue flows in novels. It takes me out of my element when I have to write She Said, in clever ways to avoid repetition 3000 times.... I also need some coverage so I can properly rewrite some of the scripts that I wrote away from school. I never did like Broken Home due to it's hostage situation stylings. i think the hostage film has been done to death.