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Stupid Plot Tricks

 
 
Perfect Tommy
12:25 / 03.08.01
Lately, I keep getting very specific, single character/plot concepts that I can't think of a story to write around them.

The producer who figures a good book can't be made into a movie because it was well-suited for being a book, so options the most atrocious books out there: so what?

The fratboys who decide that the only way they can become superheroes and join the Justice League is to finance their high-tech crimefighting gear by becoming supervillains: so what?

Then there's the ongoing monthly which would last for a few years simply so that the final issue's last panel's stupid dick joke will be stupider...

I don't know what to do as the isolated cleverdumb ideas come faster and faster... has this ever happened to anyone else and how do I harness it or just, for the love of God, make it stop?
 
 
Ria
16:48 / 03.08.01
jot them down and some time later another idea will occur to you which you can combine it with.

also you can backtrack from the original idea and think of the implications i.e. what kind of person would write a bad book or a good book the producer thinks of as bad, what would happen if they knew that somebody
had bought the book rights because they thought of it as bad, the anger of a writer of good books who sees the other property optioned instead, etc.

flow out from the ideas you already have. this way the next step could seem more logical/inevitable.

[ 03-08-2001: Message edited by: Kriztalyne ]
 
  
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