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the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
Steal from Shakespeare.
His plots have the two advantages of
a) being proven to last the test of time
b) essentially all being stolen form other people anyway.
Cooper:
--- Quote from: Quantus347 on February 10, 2008, 05:42:54 PM ---I have the same problem. I tend to build interesting worlds, and even interesting characters, but finding an engaging story arc for them to follow gets a bit harder.
Can you tell use a little more about the idea? Is is urban fantasy? Space sci-fi? old fashion sword and horse? Do you want a Save-the-world sort of story? a Save my own ass story? a Solve the mystery type?
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My idea has been on the stove top since last year at a creative writing class, but this is what I got as a Urban fantasey/sci-fi world.
The year is early 2012, and everybody thought Armageddon was going to happen, but it didn’t, until scientists discovered an asteroid in space on a collision course with earth. Now you think its going to be like Michael Bay’s movie, but nobody prepared for it. People went religious and pretended that it was never happening. Well it crashed, but no death occurred, and it acted is the strangest way. Al it did was crash into the Pacific ocean, 50 miles north of Hawaii, exploded, created a dimensional rip in the atmosphere, threw monolithic crystal towers everywhere on the planet, emitted orbs of electricity, attacked, and infected every human that lives, even in remote places. After the tragedy, people nickname it “The Wave” because of how it swooped over the planet.
There are traces of foreign substances in the brain, but later in the week, the Waves true purpose took fold. People started to mutate “supernaturally” into a form of three characteristics: A third human, a third lizard/dinosaur, and a third elf (some Night Elf similarities). All of them gain the power to wield magic and have a spiritual companion, called totems, to teach them their new abilities. Another part is that the totems call them Terrans, even though they never herd of Earth’s recorded history.
The story will have these points of interests that got me thinking about it in the first place: magic returning to Earth, adjusting to change, a deeper and darker secret behind the crash, starting points of world war 3, knowing what you were born to be, and alien ties. It will have aliens involved, but I’m not there yet.
And no, it does not have anything to do with Shadowrun or evil corporations.
--- Quote from: neurovore on February 10, 2008, 06:58:53 PM ---Steal from Shakespeare.
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I don't feel like stealing from this guy. I like his plays, whether or not I can't understand what they are talking about.
Quantus:
--- Quote from: Cooper on February 10, 2008, 09:10:56 PM ---My idea has been on the stove top since last year at a creative writing class, but this is what I got as a Urban fantasey/sci-fi world.
The year is early 2012, and everybody thought Armageddon was going to happen, but it didn’t, until scientists discovered an asteroid in space on a collision course with earth. Now you think its going to be like Michael Bay’s movie, but nobody prepared for it. People went religious and pretended that it was never happening. Well it crashed, but no death occurred, and it acted is the strangest way. Al it did was crash into the Pacific ocean, 50 miles north of Hawaii, exploded, created a dimensional rip in the atmosphere, threw monolithic crystal towers everywhere on the planet, emitted orbs of electricity, attacked, and infected every human that lives, even in remote places. After the tragedy, people nickname it “The Wave” because of how it swooped over the planet.
There are traces of foreign substances in the brain, but later in the week, the Waves true purpose took fold. People started to mutate “supernaturally” into a form of three characteristics: A third human, a third lizard/dinosaur, and a third elf (some Night Elf similarities). All of them gain the power to wield magic and have a spiritual companion, called totems, to teach them their new abilities. Another part is that the totems call them Terrans, even though they never herd of Earth’s recorded history.
The story will have these points of interests that got me thinking about it in the first place: magic returning to Earth, adjusting to change, a deeper and darker secret behind the crash, starting points of world war 3, knowing what you were born to be, and alien ties. It will have aliens involved, but I’m not there yet.
And no, it does not have anything to do with Shadowrun or evil corporations.
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That sounds...Awesome! Any Ideas for characters?
I created a thread about my own difficulty getting started on a story (http://www.jimbutcheronline.com/bb/index.php/topic,5795.10.html), but one of the big things people told me that helped (and I agree) Is getting a few people together and gaming it out, RPG style. It can be anything from a full sit-down table-top to a few people online just talking it through, but it does really seem to help. If you need someone to play an asskicking psuedo T-rex, Im totally there ;D
Cooper:
--- Quote from: Quantus347 on February 11, 2008, 12:42:26 AM ---That sounds...Awesome! Any Ideas for characters?
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Im trying to decide where to place it by city on the Pacific coast and Alaska and either male or female. As a matter of fact, I did take a drawing class last semester. Guess I should make up a sketch of the race of both sexes.
Quantus:
My brother used to live in alaska! In this god-awful small town about two hours north of Anchorage that every random person ive run into who has been to the state (the largest in the union by far, mind you) seems to have drifted through. Called Talkeetna, its about 73 yards across, but its beautiful, and have even been featured in such widely credible works as Top-Cows Darkness Comics (a spin-off of Witchblade)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talkeetna)
Dude Im gettin more and more excited about your idea all the time. Ive got some contact info in my profile. Let me know if you every get any sort of group together, or just want to bounce ideas around. 8)
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