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[OT] Help! I need short story ideas, fast!
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<blockquote data-quote="jester47" data-source="post: 1237137" data-attributes="member: 2238"><p>Take two completely unrelated topics and link them together with one event. </p><p></p><p>For instance, the falling refrigerator and the man contemplating suicide. While the man is contemplating suicide, you have some sort of situation at altitude that involves a struggle and in some way a refrigerator. I am thinking somthing like some military guys trying to do somthing with airforce property they are not supposed to be doing, like help a friend move. Somthing goes wrong and the fridge then has a logical and reasonable reason for hitting the dude. What you do is cut back and forth but never reveal that the fridge has left the plane until you describe a human getting smashed by a falling fridge. </p><p></p><p>Another thing you can do is take two movies. And then combine them. So for example:</p><p></p><p>The Shawshank Redemption and Castaway. A guy crash lands in a plane at sea and washes ashore to some prison island. There he has to prove that he is an innocent man. But the warden is a little kookoo and belives that if the man left the prison's reputaiton as inescapable would be soiled. </p><p></p><p>how about anne of green gables and the seven samurai</p><p>or Henry V and Good will hunting</p><p>Casino and Robin Hood Prince of Thieves.</p><p>Top Gun and The Shining</p><p></p><p>A "good" short story is not supposed to change location and is supposed to be detail of one period of time in that location. </p><p></p><p>Best yet, take a Robert E. Howard conan story and turn it into a modern day real world version of that story. Look at the Pheonix on the sword. Instead of a former barbarian, you have a former punk and how he is now a CEO and has to fend off a hostile takeover of his big megacorp... Only after you have the grade let people know that a Conan story was a big inspiration...</p><p></p><p>Maybe that will help, don't worry about the ideas, they are a dime a dozen. Here, have some...</p><p></p><p>Aaron.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jester47, post: 1237137, member: 2238"] Take two completely unrelated topics and link them together with one event. For instance, the falling refrigerator and the man contemplating suicide. While the man is contemplating suicide, you have some sort of situation at altitude that involves a struggle and in some way a refrigerator. I am thinking somthing like some military guys trying to do somthing with airforce property they are not supposed to be doing, like help a friend move. Somthing goes wrong and the fridge then has a logical and reasonable reason for hitting the dude. What you do is cut back and forth but never reveal that the fridge has left the plane until you describe a human getting smashed by a falling fridge. Another thing you can do is take two movies. And then combine them. So for example: The Shawshank Redemption and Castaway. A guy crash lands in a plane at sea and washes ashore to some prison island. There he has to prove that he is an innocent man. But the warden is a little kookoo and belives that if the man left the prison's reputaiton as inescapable would be soiled. how about anne of green gables and the seven samurai or Henry V and Good will hunting Casino and Robin Hood Prince of Thieves. Top Gun and The Shining A "good" short story is not supposed to change location and is supposed to be detail of one period of time in that location. Best yet, take a Robert E. Howard conan story and turn it into a modern day real world version of that story. Look at the Pheonix on the sword. Instead of a former barbarian, you have a former punk and how he is now a CEO and has to fend off a hostile takeover of his big megacorp... Only after you have the grade let people know that a Conan story was a big inspiration... Maybe that will help, don't worry about the ideas, they are a dime a dozen. Here, have some... Aaron. [/QUOTE]
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