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I think as writers we can get protective over our story ideas. And that’s fair. After all, creating an imaginative, unique story is often a core part of making a successful story that people want to read because its different. But what happens when you have so many story ideas that you know you won’t be able to turn them all into stories? Well, I’m going to share some of mine!
So some of my story ideas (characters, settings, inspirational lines of thoughts) that I have written on my electronic post-it notes include:
– Writing a modern-day story based on a fairytale
– Writing a fantasy novel with hugggeee powerful snakes instead of dragons
– Including a prominent character with a lisp
– Comparing character personalities/beauties to planets and moons
I also decided to take the opportunity to finally attempt a YouTube video to add an extra something-something on my behalf for Ermilia. Let me know what you think. 🙂 Hopefully I’ll get better at the camera focus stuff and learning to refrain from using repetitive phrases. 😛 It’s not easy!
What story ideas would you love to write, but you’re not sure if you’ll ever get around to doing it, so you’d like to share it with others? Maybe we can inspire some people to write and even take others out of writer’s block. 🙂 If you have some great recommendations for some of our story ideas, let us know what book or movie has done that concept justice. As lovers of stories, I think we’d all appreciate a great recommendation. 😀
– Ermisenda Alvarez
Ermilia 
Do you mean a lisp? Just asking.
Yep. That’s exactly what I mean. Fixing! 🙂 Thanks.
Some very interesting ideas. The vegan/zombie scenario is interesting; it reminded me very much of a plot element I have used. I have written a teen-vampire novella where the protagonist is a vampire-hunting girl, and now I’m writing the sequel, where her grandson has been brought up to hunt vampires in a post-apocalyptic California. In this sequel he has to travel through a permanently dark, devastated North America, in the company – much against his will – of a ‘young’ female vampire. At one point he is faced with the dilemma of whether to starve or to eat the flesh of a cannibal gang that she has just killed. The irony is that he does so, and a mile further on they find a cache of food. I shall be sharing your YouTube clip on Facebook.
Meanwhile, you mentioned Red Riding Hood. As it happens, my 2013 poetry collection, ‘I am not a fish’, featured this poem:
‘Red Riding Hood by Beatrice the rat’
To wear your clothes inside-out is magic,
it makes you invisible, or so thinks Red Riding Hood.
Ten years married to the woodsman and now
estranged from him and from his murdering axe,
she saves cubs from the forest – tiger, lion, bear,
wolf – and runs with them to the safer end of madness.
To go barefoot amongst the must and fallen leaves
is magic, or so thinks Red Riding Hood; it silences
your footfalls and gives you the speed of buck and doe.
Ten years in the pent town and the Sabbath kirk
amidst the whispers and pointing fingers, but no more,
she saves cubs from the forest – tiger, lion, bear,
wolf – and brings them to the insane lime of sanctuary.
To be commander of a host of bedlam furies is magic,
the power is in the precise number, or so thinks Lycisca.
The name was not her idea, it came when a tiger-chin
tickled a sleeping ear in the village nearest the forest,
furthered when gossip whispered it over the fences,
taken up by cubs from the forest – tiger, lion, bear,
wolf – and now means an end to sanctuary, to safety.
“I am not a wolf”, she says.
No one believes her.
Thanks for sharing the video! Wow, I love that cannibal scene you mentioned. That must have been brutal to find food further on. I can’t even imagine what the character went through. What a brilliant idea!
That poem is fantastic, Marie. I loved how you kept mentioning ‘tiger lion bear wolf’, I find the name ‘Lycisca’ beautiful, and the ending was just perfect. You totally captured the idea I was trying to communicate! Dark and twisted. I want more! 😀
Well, there’s always the book 🙂
ISBN 678-1-906856-37-3
I have heard of the Google maps explorer. It is a great way to spend a few hours in fact. Some good ideas in fact. Some may find a home in my stories. Good job!
I hope they do, Joe. 🙂 I love Google Maps, but one day I was just browsing on it and I thought, ‘What if you had someone who only travelled the world through Google Maps’. Are they scared of the world? Are they poor? Are they lonely? I thought they’d be an interesting character and it could make for a cool story. 🙂
A good one would be looking at Google maps because some of them are a few years old. Maybe they can be trying to find someone who is gone. Looking for a face in the screen if you will.
Ooh, that’d be awesome. So bittersweet. Great idea.
feel free to steal!
“They have no life, no sky, just the scars of meteorological damage, but they’re beautiful. oh so beautiful, from afar.” ♥
Several of my blog posts are ideas for novels or novellas that I know I will never write, Günther Wilhelm and La Rasoir Argent for example. I currently have 45 drafts and nearly 20,000 words of random notes, so you are not alone in unused ideas.
You and I turned Red Riding Hood into into a werewolf story together in Dripping Red.
Sleeping Beauty has probably become drug addiction stories. I could weave something like that right into Chasing the Dragon.
I think the huge snakes have appeal. Frank Herbert wrote giant sand worms that completely controlled the ecology of a planet, so he definitely thought that was a good idea.
The literal body temples is intriguing and it sounds like you’ve given it a bit of thought.
I do most of my traveling on Google maps. It’s because I have no money, but… Anyway, if the character was endearing enough, this would make a great story, especially if you could make us feel his phobia, and experience his travels.
Ghost Town has a bunch of ghosts in limbo where you learn their death stories and what’s holding them back. They’re soooort of interconnected. Very good movie in my opinion.
Good stuff, Ermi.
Aw, glad you liked the moon quote.
Oh yeah, Dripping Red! 😀 Loved that story. I guess I’d just love to read a full-length novel following that theme. Wow 20,000 random notes! I’d love to get into your mind and see some of your unused ideas. 🙂
I’m so excited for Chasing the Dragon. And if you managed to weave some Sleeping Beauty into that, oh, my heart sings at the thought!
Thanks for the recommendations. I might have to watch Ghost Town. I hadn’t heard of Frank Herbert, although in my head, the snakes were huge forest/mountain/water snakes that ruled the land. They wrap around castles and swim from lake to lake, connecting them with rivers they created with their bodies.
So glad you liked me sharing my ideas. 🙂 Thanks for commenting!
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