Basicly, a thread to announce an idea. If you are going to post, please comment on at least one other note on this board.
My idea:
I plan to have a story about my main charachter (teanager, generally a nice guy but easily distracted... type of guy who walks arround without really paying much attention to what's going on) winding up at the 'Ebeneezer Vilus Institute of Learning'... a private boarding school for the children of supervillians.
Possible classes include 'Squamatamorphology'
"Oh, you don't want that class."
"Why? What does it teach?"
"How to turn into a giant snake. Trust me, it never helps."
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oct. 2, 2007 - 03 02
Ooh ooh! Exposition 101!
That sounds like it'll be a blast to write. I'm not sure how much humor I can wedge into my project this year, but I'm gonna durn well try!
----------Edeyn Hannah Blackeney -- the Lexivorous Word Witch
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oct. 2, 2007 - 05 10
"How not to break into a completely impromptu monologue revealing your entire evil plan while the hero escapes without notice 101"
heh...
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oct. 2, 2007 - 08 47
I see a great opportunity to play with the evil overlord list.
----------"I've lived a thousand lives in the comfort of my own, I'll live several more, but as what remains unknown."
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oct. 2, 2007 - 12 15
Personally, it sounds a lot like the movie Sky High which just came out last year-ish, except twisting it to be a school for supervillains instead of superheroes...
Obviously, there can be very distinct differences, I'm just throwing that out there. The concepts sound quite similar, and the jokes might already be done.
In any case, I'm thinking about a post-apocalyptic comedy...How funny would you find it if a committee declared for reducing CO2 emissions and Global Warming in Manhattan was flooded after a massive washout from Greenland. Even more Ironic, I might have some sort of Evangelical Christians meeting up in protest of this conference because they're proposing rather radical changes, and so they're all standing in the streets, shouting blasphemy at the conference when they're sucked up into the flood...I know, hilarious, right?
~Siswi
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oct. 2, 2007 - 22 52
A gangland-style war between rival tribes of pixies. Fought in a deli. With things like plastic sandwich-skewering rapiers, toothpicks, and the like.
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oct. 3, 2007 - 02 19
"Did you hear what happened to Mary-Sally Butterheart?"
"Butterheart... Wasn't she the one with the annoying pigtails? Utterly hopeless at everything except Cackling Class?"
"Yeah. She failed one too many subjects and they finally sidekicked her out of here."
"Poor kid."
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Yeah. I don't exactly have ideas per se, I am only here, in the immortal words of Random Lolcat, for the lulz.
I like the idea of a pixiewar. Peacanons! Mouse cavalries (not practical in any way, as pixies can fly and mice cannot, but seen as sorta cool by the ! Forbidden romance and a lethal spiderweb! Unbridgable differences between wing shapes!
I also like the idea of a grand flood, because surely you realise this will be a grand opportunity for real Manhatten pirates!
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oct. 3, 2007 - 05 39
A large man with chainsaws for arms gets hit by a train while bending over to look at a kitten or a small flower.
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2007 - Comedy about monsters. No title yet.
50,627 / 50,000
oct. 3, 2007 - 09 00
I like the pixies in the deli gang-war, what do they do for graffitti?
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358,001 / 50,000
oct. 3, 2007 - 09 13
"A gangland-style war between rival tribes of pixies. Fought in a deli. With things like plastic sandwich-skewering rapiers, toothpicks, and the like"
Neat! West Side (of the Sandwich Counter) Story!
----------Edeyn Hannah Blackeney -- the Lexivorous Word Witch
co-ML for US::MO::KC // US::KS::KC
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oct. 3, 2007 - 10 23
Hey, you can't go wrong with institutions of higher villainy. I came up with something similar before, but on the hero side. Note that this was with fantasy heroes, not superheroes. They had classes like magical sword training and weekly angst management sessions.
I'm going to write about a bunch of characters I've already written before, hence the title Please Recycle, because I'm recycling old characters. I don't know how it'll turn out, mashing them all together. It's almost like I'd be writing fanfiction of my own stuff. Really bad, crossover fanfiction. Hey, it sounded good at the time, and I have some really weird characters to start with.
----------07 novel - Mission Implausible - Winner!
55,610 / 50,000
oct. 3, 2007 - 14 00
I dunno, Gryphon did a fairly coherent Hybrid Universe in Undocumented Features with the mashed-together universe; and my slowly-being-produced webcomic is set it a High Weirdness campus where they train just about anyone and anything in whatever's needed. Or, as a tagline once went, "HDI is where you may be studying Advanced Cybernetics, one of your roommates is a Necromancy major with a minor in Souldrinking, and the other one is majoring in Firebuilding and Flint-Knapping."
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oct. 3, 2007 - 21 22
I'm doing science fantasy as it was meant to be. So there's an elf and his crew flying around the galaxy trying to collect the Five Sacred whatever-the-hecks of the Prophecy with the intent of selling them to the highest bidder and retiring off the proceeds, and everything's going great until they pick up a hero...
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oct. 4, 2007 - 06 51
I'm going for an empty wheelchair and an army of garden gnomes, so I do hope that nobody else was planning to use those two
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oct. 4, 2007 - 17 47
Oh wow, lots of good ideas.
The pixie war sounds especially interesting. Aside from the whole deli counter thing, it could totally be dramatic. I think you could work with that. Everytime it threatens to get serious, or your hero feels a little angsty... something completely goofy happens. Reminders that they're in a deli? Heh. *envisions*
"You can't just collapse because (insert name of important character) is missing! You have to keep going!"
"You don't understand! I don't know how to continue. What do I do? How do I lead? I need them!"
(messenger runs in) "SIR! They've toppled the salami! The Seventh Battalion is stuck between the salami and the Swiss cheese!"
Okay, I had to amuse myself a little with that.
Anyway, my idea I beg for feedback on. I'm unsure of how it could be received. The way I first thought of it was that the plot is basically life on crack. Normal teenagers having weird-ass but (hopefully) hilarious conversations and going through life. But then I thought that would be too boring. So. I decided to give them an epic quest. One that they'll never get around to completing. They keep getting distracted by petty problems and stuff. Yeah... I don't know how to explain it any better than that.
----------Screnzy 2007: What She Did (14,000 words-- no go)
NaNo 2007: To Love and To Loathe (too few words to even bother)
Screnzy 2008: no idea... well, too many, now I have to choose...
This isn't going to end well, is it? *sighs* I thought not.
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oct. 4, 2007 - 18 08
Hehe.
----------"No, you don't understand: I'm on an epic quest to (insert quest purpose here), I can't have a physics exam!"
I'd probably read it.
"I've lived a thousand lives in the comfort of my own, I'll live several more, but as what remains unknown."
2005: Stumbling Down & Untitled - Fail
2006: Gruesome Girl: Tales of Sad Susan - Fail
2007: Today's Tuesday - In Progress
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oct. 7, 2007 - 05 27
Girl and her best friend fall through a rift in space and time and lands in Stereotypical Fantasy Land. Then Stereotypical Pirate, Uh, Sea. And later ones involve zombies, sarcastic aliens, planets made out of nerf and bubble wrap, and backpacker hostels. Turns out to be reality TV...
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2007 - The Rift Walkers - 51,851 - WIN!!
Sanity level - 50% - LLAMAS :D
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oct. 10, 2007 - 10 27
the pixies in the deli sounds great. i can see great possibilities.
and i like the supervillans thing. will the MC be a good guy who ends up having to save the world from the villians (or at least maybe his neighbor's poodle or something) or does he become a supervillan himself/ ir is that at all relevant to your plot?
at present (not for nano that is) i'm writing about the ninja training center in californiaville. my MC, ryan, finds himself drafted into the ntc because they're not having enough volunteers sign up for training. he gets dispatched to ireland in short order to mediate a quarrel between the selkies and the leprechauns over a pot of gold that threatens to overturn the balance of michief in ireland. the balance of mischief is usually kept stable by the leprechauns, but they're too busy fighting the selkies to attend to it. meanwhile, the pot of gold is being spread all over the world by a band of pirates.
it involves a lot of other complicated fantasy elements, but that's the jist.
any thoughts for me? i'm trying to make it as absurd as possible. like having a serious chicken situation in the cafeteria that has to be solved by the MC, sending lemmings to run through random scenes for no apparent reason, and making the martial arts teacher at the ntc an enourmous woman named Tina who doubles as the wardrobe mistress.
----------Symphonic Refrain
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oct. 11, 2007 - 13 32
See, now I think that I would totally read about "normal" teenagers having weird-ass but hilarious conversations and going through life. But I tihnk that adding an epic quest to their otherwise normal life would be entertaining as well. They could get distracted by petty problems like acne, or something really mundane and boring, and that in itself makes in interesting. I like the idea!
I was going to do a vamp fic, tossed around a ton of ideas in my head and with one of my best friends, who is also attempting NaNo this year, and thought I had it down. Well last night on a whim I decided to go crack fic instead, I can't get the idea out of my head so I am just gonna go with it! I am still sticking with the vamp, but my vamp, the poor guy, is going to be not so suave, scared of night and jealous of werewolves, haha. Think a sort of Bridget Jones type of situation. I think I can make it work! I tend to write really angsty stuff for the most part, but the stuff I have written that has been comedy, sort of along a crackfic line, have gotten the best reviews so I figured why not??!!
6,912 / 50,000
oct. 12, 2007 - 09 39
I shall also be trying my hand at some parody/satire/comedy/not sure kind of novel :D
The basic is gist of it, is that the rubber duckies have had quite enough of the abusal brought onto them by the humans and that they secretly plot the desctruction of the human race and their own rise to power...
The only ones capable of stopping them are an 8-year old girl, a cute, fluffy and terribly violent and vicious talking rabbit and a not so evil rubber ducky that has always been treated nicely by said little girl and wishes to help her...
Trying to explain to grown-ups that your rabbit has told you rubber duckies are going to take over the world should have plenty of funny situations... and it'll only get better when they actually try to.
I'm curious how it goes though, I hope I can make up enough funny situations...
----------"Met beide voeten op de grond,
kom je geen stap vooruit."
-Frats
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oct. 12, 2007 - 10 24
When I was 10, I had a cute, fluffy, terribly violent and vicious miniature Dutch rabbit (didn't talk) that attacked everything. Killed chickens (hens and the rooster), squirrels, wild birds, mice, rats, gophers, injured my cat and dogs, attacked people, horses, cows, coyotes, pretty much anything that came through its territory. No kidding. Have pictures of said killer attack bunny and the bloodbath it left in its wake.
That you would write about another like-minded rabbit (and I notice you're from the Netherlands) makes me wonder if rabbits really are the cute, cuddly creatures they're cracked up to be.
If you need help with the battle scenes, let me know. I can provide detailed descriptions and visual aids.
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oct. 12, 2007 - 16 56
Rabbits are mean!
And they have weapons like most people can not believe.
Dude, do not ever, EVER piss-off a bunny:
They can bite, and their teeth are evil,
They kick and do you know how big rabbit feet are? With claws!
And of course there's the ever popular "rip your flesh to shreds" that most inexperienced will call "scratching" . . .
. . . but they're cute too. Like kittens with bazookas.
----------"I've lived a thousand lives in the comfort of my own, I'll live several more, but as what remains unknown."
2005: Stumbling Down & Untitled - Fail
2006: Gruesome Girl: Tales of Sad Susan - Fail
2007: Today's Tuesday - In Progress
4,006 / 50,000
oct. 12, 2007 - 17 01
Rabbits are mean!
And they have weapons like most people can not believe.
Dude, do not ever, EVER piss-off a bunny:
They can bite, and their teeth are evil,
They kick and do you know how big rabbit feet are? With claws!
And of course there's the ever popular "rip your flesh to shreds" that most inexperienced will call "scratching" . . .
. . . but they're cute too. Like kittens with bazookas.
----------"I've lived a thousand lives in the comfort of my own, I'll live several more, but as what remains unknown."
2005: Stumbling Down & Untitled - Fail
2006: Gruesome Girl: Tales of Sad Susan - Fail
2007: Today's Tuesday - In Progress
4,006 / 50,000
oct. 13, 2007 - 05 12
Rabbits are mean!
And they have weapons like most people can not believe.
Dude, do not ever, EVER piss-off a bunny:
They can bite, and their teeth are evil,
They kick and do you know how big rabbit feet are? With claws!
And of course there's the ever popular "rip your flesh to shreds" that most inexperienced will call "scratching" . . .
. . . but they're cute too. Like kittens with bazookas.
----------"I've lived a thousand lives in the comfort of my own, I'll live several more, but as what remains unknown."
2005: Stumbling Down & Untitled - Fail
2006: Gruesome Girl: Tales of Sad Susan - Fail
2007: Today's Tuesday - In Progress
9,114 / 50,000
oct. 13, 2007 - 10 45
I had an idea just this morning, but I'm not sure how I'd get it to work. I was thinking of making a story where the main character (or perhaps a group of characters) experience urban myths firsthand. I'm not talking about the stuff in "Urban Legend" so much as the things you get warned about on e-mail forwards: people getting sprayed with perfume, passing out, then waking up in a storage room in a tub of ice with a kidney missing, stuff like that. If you guys think this might be worth working on, or have any ideas of myths I could throw in, please do let me know!
9,114 / 50,000
oct. 13, 2007 - 10 49
Supervillain school--Good idea! There's plenty of opportunity for conflict here, depending on what sort of person you want your character to be. Will the other students be nasty kids already pre-disposed to bullying and acts of villany? Will the main character have to "save the school" from a bunch of do-gooder heroes? I think you could really have a lot of fun with this.
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oct. 13, 2007 - 20 51
Ohhhh, SnowLhite! I think you just added another character to B&EM. Actually, because I already had a sadistic cat named Fido in the story, I might just have to give it a bazooka during one of the battles.
"...cute, like kittens with bazookas" I love it!
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oct. 14, 2007 - 07 43
You have to wonder about the logistics of that... I mean, there's a slight size difference you know?
Glad to be of assistance.
----------"I've lived a thousand lives in the comfort of my own, I'll live several more, but as what remains unknown."
2005: Stumbling Down & Untitled - Fail
2006: Gruesome Girl: Tales of Sad Susan - Fail
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oct. 16, 2007 - 20 55
Perhaps there is a genius evil kitten who manufactures small, kittensized weapons. Grenades, crossbows, etc. Plotting world domination, the kittens shall inherit the earth, all that.
Of course, this brings up the question: What happens when they become cats? Cats are, as a rule, not as cute as kittens. We must stop kittens from becoming cats.
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oct. 16, 2007 - 21 24
My idea is that governments around the world have followed China's lead and outlawed various aspects of the afterlife. And to everyone's amazement the laws actually work. No one gets reincarnated without state approval. The dead don't go on to their afterlife if they don't want to; netting the world a huge Zombie population. My main character is going to be an expert on the living dead. Their social lives need not die once their bodies start rotting!
As to other ides. The Deli War is a good one. I'd read that. I'm not sure if I'm ready for another school based story, even if it is about the villains. Though, it does have a certain pull.
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oct. 17, 2007 - 04 24
Maybe their growing up is the only thing that prevents them from ruling the world in all their deadly kitten cuteness.
----------"I've lived a thousand lives in the comfort of my own, I'll live several more, but as what remains unknown."
2005: Stumbling Down & Untitled - Fail
2006: Gruesome Girl: Tales of Sad Susan - Fail
2007: Today's Tuesday - In Progress