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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1237235" data-attributes="member: 5171">Let's see... back when I took the normal creative writing courses, I always found that it was hard to go wrong with bad sex or dead relatives.  Those were just classic stories in those classes... tons of young adult characters having bad sex, or having parents just dying left and right, or old uncles, or, you know, something.  Man, that was fun.Okay, but practically speaking: Steal Something.  Just plop something in a new setting.  Take the story of Prometheus -- he steals fire for humanity, but then the gods punish him with eternal torment.  Turn it into, say, a programmer who insists on posting his company's code on the web for everyone to see and download after he hears about a patent attempt that will put a lot of smaller companies out of business.  He's fired and effectively blacklisted from any major company forever -- many of them owe him a debt of gratitude, but nobody would ever hire him.Start the story about two years after he's realized that he's never going to work again in that industry, that he's going to have to get a job at Starbuck's or bus tables in order to make a living, while other folks get rich off of his hard work.Failing that, use this utility from my old website, and tweak it into something mainstream so that your class doesn't get all snippy:<a href="http://www.geocities.com/gpweekes/storygen.html" target="_blank">http://www.geocities.com/gpweekes/storygen.html</a></blockquote>

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