Captain Morgan Stone

If someone was to search all my stories posted at storywrite, I think they'd find no stories about pirates. If someone was to search all my saved .txt files however, I know they'd find plenty. See, I've tried over and over again to write a story about pirates, a subject I always think is fun and challenging. However, the challenge always proves to be a notch above my level, as I have never finished a pirate-story that I really liked in the end. I once posted one at storywrite, about three pirates who served at a ship, but in the end discovered that they were in fact ghosts. Upon rereading this story I found that it wasn't really very good, and the end was far too unclear to make sense for anyone but me. The next day after posting it, I deleted it again.

Then enter captain Morgan Stone. The story about captain Morgan Stone is (similar to the story about the astronaut watching the world end) a story that I've been trying to write for a long time, and one I have started writing several times, all with different approaches. The one I think is my first try at the story, is a tale about a man who used to be part of captain Morgan Stone's crew, who many years later decides to set out after the treasure he was once part of hiding. The story didn't get very far until I scrapped the idea for a total lack of originality and likable characters. Cue attempt number two.

The second try became the story of a sailor who turns himself in for piracy. The pirate then tells the story of how the famous captain Morgan Stone disappeared, and what really happened. But of course, the narrator isn't extremely reliable, and in the end there are supposed to be several twists and turns. Unfortunately, I'm not extremely good at long pieces of dialogue, and even when trying to break up dialoge with retrospectives, it didn't quite work, and so the story never got very far. This is a story I'll try to finish sometime though, so bear with me here ;)

Anyway, here is a preview of the last version of the story, the introduction:

1663:
Captain Morgan Stone attacks a Portugese sloop, the Dragonfly, and kills the crew. Unsatisfied with what little silver and food he finds abord, he is about to set the ship on fire when a crewmember opens a barrel in which he hopes to find fruit, but finds something far greater. The Dragonfly turnes out to have been a gold transporter, headed for Portugal to deliver the foundation for a new currency. The barrels with gold are plentiful, but heavy. Being the largest treasure any single pirate had ever looted from only one ship, it is far too large and heavy to take with them. Their ship would sail slowly, as the Dragonfly did, and they'd be in grave danger of being attacked by anyone with a mind like their own. Captain stone and two of his most trusted men takes part of the treasure in each their rowing boat, going to hide it in a cave on an abandoned island. As the three of them return to their boats, they find that their ship, the Dark Princess, has sailed without them. The Dragonfly, probably still with a large portion of the treasure abord, has been sent to the bottom of the sea. With six barrels of pure gold hidden inside the cave, captain Stone and his two trusted friends makes a map in three parts and takes one part each, swearing to one day take revenge upon the treacherous crew before returning to the island and retrieving the treasure.

So yeah, that's the start of it, I hope to get it finished one day ;)
Thanks for reading =D