[OT] Help! I need short story ideas, fast!

[Macbeth]

Ahhh, this is why I'm glad I'm at a Tech school: I can write for FUN, not for my teachers. And, with the English teachers for Freshman English here, its probably a good thing that I'm not writing fiction for them.

 

[Gothmog]

I'm a scientist by trade, so I don't know much about writing stories, but I always thought it would be cool to have a story told from the point on veiw of a spider in a web in someone's house, trying to make sense of human actions in spider-like terms. Obviously the female will kill and consumer her mate after she mates with him, territorial battles with friends, interactions with a pet (retained food source?), etc. Hope that helps.

 

[WayneLigon]

The Thirty Six Dramatic Situations with expansions and explanations.

Or, since he or she seems to think that fantasy and SF are not 'serious', introduce him to horror, a genre used by the best and brightest literary minds. In the story, a college student hacks his narrow-minded professor to death with a dull axe and feeds the parts to pigs, so no body is ever found....

 

[Pants]

The Thirty Six Dramatic Situations with expansions and explanations.

Or, since he or she seems to think that fantasy and SF are not 'serious', introduce him to horror, a genre used by the best and brightest literary minds. In the story, a college student hacks his narrow-minded professor to death with a dull axe and feeds the parts to pigs, so no body is ever found....

Have you watched Snatch?

 

[Macbeth]

Be very wary of a man who owns pigs...

 

[MerakSpielman]

*gasp gasp pant pant*

Sheesh, you've all been typing away ideas all this time... That's so nice of you all. I've written up the story - it's only 12 pages long and not very good, but I'm hoping the class and teacher will dig the wierdness of it instead of dismissing me for dallying too closely with the paranormal.

If there's interest, I'll post it so you all can read it. Tomorrow. I can also post my first story for this class, but it's a little risque for EnWorld, and deals with themes not generally discussed here. Actually, nevermind, I can't post the other story. It's on the "down" computer mentioned above.

So y'all can stop posting ideas now, unless you just feel like it. I'm not sure whose idea I went with, but I'm you all really helped loosen my mind. It was tied up in knots.

And while I have an audience here anyway, I might as well direct you to my story hour. Fun with an evil party in the Underdark!

 

[Hypersmurf]

I'm not sure whose idea I went with, but I'm you all really helped loosen my mind. It was tied up in knots.

Does a fridge appear? Anywhere? Even in the background?

-Hyp.

 

[MerakSpielman]

Er, no, unless you mean symbolically of course, as a representation of desire. Really, anybody who holds something within that somebody else wants is a metaphor for a fridge... right?

 

[Hypersmurf]

Er, no, unless you mean symbolically of course, as a representation of desire. Really, anybody who holds something within that somebody else wants is a metaphor for a fridge... right?

I'm quoting Animaniacs.

Do you really think I'm going to be content with a metaphoric fridge?

-Hyp.

 

[Berandor]

I can write 15-20 pages of narriative in about 3 hours - my last story, written just that way, was very well recieved by the class.

Coming late to the game, obviously

Anyway, this was just something I want to comment on. I know that once you're in "writing mode", you can churn out a lot of pages in relatively short time.
However, I believe that it seriously hurts the quality of the story. I'm trying to get myself to writing stories early, just to give me at least a day or so to edit it one last time, and correct the gravest mistakes. I can also write more leisurely and think more about how I want to tell the story and what I'm trying to say with it.

I think that now that MerakSpielman's got the story he needed, this topic might go off a tangent as well. So I'm wondering about you're writing style.