Give me a story and I'll take a hack at writing it.

If you wanna include it, that's fine.

But it was seriously a oke. As you can tell by the fact tht I added 'Pikachu' in there.

Well, yes. And it got a snicker from me. But I think we could do good things with it!

Call it Platychu

Hrm, a quick character idea.

An Ethiopian goat herder turned traveling salesman, going from town to town peddling his mysterious beans of invigoration and firm wooden potency, who keep getting chased out of town under the suspicion of witchery after he offers free samples.

There's another African - exiled Yoruba prince who needs your purse to get his clan's fortune out of his exilers' hands. He turns out to be the sworn enemy of the Ethiopian goat herder.

Also, the Frenchman posing as an Englishman is actually an Englishman impersonating a Frenchman posing as an Englishman.

He thought that posing as a foreigner would give him some luster, you see. But since he doesn't know much about France, it's easier to pose as someone doing a poor job of being British.

Holy crap this is going well. Love the goat herder and the prince. We can't have too many characters though.

Now I still prefer the two dragons seperated by the channel myth...

Magic Realism can become involved; beneath the folds of the mundane world, there exists a realm blossoming with magic — inhabited by fairies. This realm can be called Sidhe; and on the occasion, the magic may leak out into our plane of reality. Making the very strangest of things happen.

And hmm, I think if you choose to have magic involved, the magic can be connected with one's madness. The more mad one may be, the more one gets in touch with that fairy realm.

I think also Ravens may act as a recurring motif; they carry this mysterious air around them..

edited 4th Dec '10 1:36:22 PM by QQQQQ

After shifting through my memory and watching Buffy, here's a stupid idea fro my childhood:

An idea created specifically to call it "The Other White Meat." Young male white protagonist recently moves into a predominantly black neighborhood where a majority of the denizens are werewolves. Hilarity ensues.

Yeah, sometimes as a kid you'll come up with anything to use a bad pun, but if you think you can turn that into a story, have at thee.

I need names for the main character and the Ethiopian goat herder. Something reasonable, and nothing Japanese.

I have the first page or two done. It's a good example of my Large Ham writing, as well as the introduction of our main characer and the Ethiopian. I just don't know where to put it on the site.

I'm thinking that he should turn into an Englishman pretending to be Frenchman posing as an Englishman to catch the French imposters in the king's court. Plenty of stereotypes to use and abuse.

edited 8th Dec '10 5:40:14 AM by Erock

Alex

Nah, I need something more sophistacated and unique.

According to one of those baby-name sites,Iskinder is the Ethiopian version of Alexander, so that may work.

edit

:, the above version may be a misspelled variant of the Persian version, ye olde wiki lists Eskender as the Ethiopian variant. Whatever though.

edited 8th Dec '10 1:14:51 PM by carbon-mantis

I like Iskinder for the Ethiopian. The main character will be Cecil Jennings, after a character I made up in drama today. (He is a member of Winston Chruchill diplomatic chamber. His only purpose is to deliver urgent telgrams why walking very strangely.

Where should I post the story, by the way?

edited 8th Dec '10 1:48:18 PM by Erock