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There is a crappy 90's era Science Fiction TV show: Rubber-Forehead Aliens, plot points that go nowhere, Small Name, Big Ego actors, writers and producers. It was Screwed by the Network but loved by the fans (and canceled too early).

A caustic internet critic poked fun at the show and the cliches. He reviews the show with love as he roasts it at the same time....

...until some accident with spacetime and a microwave sees him placed inside the universe of the show...

Trapped in TV Land with his knowledge of the show but his presence is changing the plot line and the villains are out to get him.. can be get back to reality and will his hot pocket still be warm when he gets there?

All night at the computer, cuz people ain't that great. I keep to myself so I won't be on The First 48

Sounds like a reverse-Galaxy Quest. I'm intrigued.

Of course, don't you know anything about ALCHEMY?!- Twin clones of Ivan the Great

I would read that, so fast. or watch it, or whatever, I just need it in my life.

Got a degree in Emotional trauma via fictional characters aka creative writing. hosting S'mores party in Hell for fellow (evil) writers

Ditto.

A man, sick and tired of all the evil in the world, makes a deal with the devil...

...in order to get something to kill him. Would be similar to Ghost Rider, but not like Ghost Rider at all. There would be sci-if, a BIT of magic, and at least one lesbian that knows she's simply there for diversity and is going out of her way to stand out. Also the fourth wall becomes a critical plot point.

I may or may not do something like this in he future. For now, though, fair game.

edited 30th Sep '14 9:10:47 PM by Dimentiosome

Also HOLY FaCKING SHeT!!!!!!!

political intrigue set in any time period, but entirely as a b-plot as seen through the eyes of house cats/ rat catchers/ stray cats, whatever. but cats and political intrigue.

Got a degree in Emotional trauma via fictional characters aka creative writing. hosting S'mores party in Hell for fellow (evil) writers

This was just an aside from my calc III professor: 'what if the world changed according to the mistakes we made? Think of all the mistakes you make on physics and math tests. It'd be chaos! How would we get anything done?'

Any intelligent life that develops in a world like that probably wouldn't advance very far, though.

"Jack, you have debauched my sloth."

What if they had to be sufficiently advanced mistakes?

It sounds kind of like the premise of Genius The Transgression, actually.

The Revolution Will Not Be Tropeable

That idea could work pretty well with my earlier "inanimate object" one:

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It could, but I like the idea of cats, because they move around and also have their own lives.

ooh, another idea.

girl gets hit by a car on her way to the library, and decides to haunt a local author to find out what comes next in her favorite series. It turns out that the author can see ghosts, and all her books come from the ghosts of dead writers who still had stories to tell.

Got a degree in Emotional trauma via fictional characters aka creative writing. hosting S'mores party in Hell for fellow (evil) writers

• An average college freshman (in my home country) meets his colleagues and seniors for the first time and has a big drinking party. After getting smashed, he hears a wolf howl. In the middle of Seoul. It's just a vigorous dog... right?
  
  * A boy wakes up one day and starts seeing gears and machinery all over the place. Some of them are seemingly alive. Some people are mixed with gears. No one else seems to notice them. What the hell?
  
  * A girl finds herself with emesis gravidarum. She checks for pregnancy, and come back with a positive result. She's a virgin. Now, the doctor that examined her is suddenly missing, and there are strange people on the streets trying to talk to her into joining their religion.

* A mother discovers that her son who returned from a school camp doesn't cast a shadow.

Gah, I'm running out of plot hooks.

Stealing that last one. :D

The Revolution Will Not Be Tropeable

A Challenge Seeker who aims to be a good person not for it's own sake, but because Being Good Sucks and they wish to challenge themselves in that sort of way.

Improving as an author, one video at a time.

A character in a war-zone who wants to fight the enemy, but they can't because of reasons. So they're forced to be a medic and treats death/disease as just another enemy.

Tiny bit of sample dialogue: "No! Lie back down and get healthy! You can die on your own time!"

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Story about a time traveller trapped in Medieval Europe. There are tales about a wizard nearby, but it's actually just another trapped time traveller with a bunch of modern tech.

Alternatively, a person from Medieval Europe is sent into our time and concludes that we're a world full of wizards.

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some girl discovers she can talk to a ghost possessing the local library's elevator. friendship. book recommendations. normal stuff. then the ghost witnesses something—someone planning a kidnapping or a shooting or something. and has to warn the girl and figure out the mystery before all hell breaks loose.

Got a degree in Emotional trauma via fictional characters aka creative writing. hosting S'mores party in Hell for fellow (evil) writers

The protagonist has a neurodegenerative disease that will cause them to need constant care by the time they reach their 40's (which they view as a Fate Worse than Death). They come across a slightly magical way of slowing their aging but it requires the compromising of their morals/ethics. They do it anyway and have to deal with its repercussions and it eventually stops working.

So kinda like Breaking Bad meets Immortality?

edited 9th Dec '14 8:13:14 AM by AwSamWeston

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Might as well revive this conversation, since I enjoy these kind of threads.

So, two Gods, possibly ones humanity had never heard about, are determining humanity's fate by playing a chess game at a typical American park, disguised as elderly. The winner chooses what will be humanity's faith. I'll leave the rest to you.

I actually might have to use that! Sounds like it could work as both a short story or a sprawling epic.

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Glad you liked it! I'm looking forward to reading your story!

Okay, let's take it to a personal level:

• There are three characters in a Love Triangle. Two side characters and a Genre Savvy character. They all know each other.

• There are two, Humanoid Abominations playing chess/cards/tarot cards/dice

over the fate of these characters.

• Two will fall in love, one will have great luck, one will lose badly and one will die.
• The five human characters find out about this.

• Why a game of chance over five people? The two beings find it funny.

edited 11th Dec '14 6:16:41 PM by TairaMai

All night at the computer, cuz people ain't that great. I keep to myself so I won't be on The First 48

Reading? Nah. I'm a filmmaker; short film at best.

What's the significance of the human characters finding out? Would it be earlier or later in the story? 'Cause if they find out later on the main question could be "Why is all this bad stuff happening to us?!" (and, of course, the Genre Savvy character would figure out really quick that "These gods are toying with us" using references to a made-up ancient religion)

edited 11th Dec '14 8:14:20 PM by AwSamWeston

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It brings the idea back to the personal level and yes The Reveal should come later in the story. One of the "gods" should be hot headed, the other stoic. The Red Oni, Blue Oni back and forth...

All night at the computer, cuz people ain't that great. I keep to myself so I won't be on The First 48

Here's a random idea:

It's your average modern-day earth setting, except everyone recently found out that they're characters in a story.

The main plot would focus on a group of Dangerously Genre-Savvy people hired by the government to predict the ending of the story and track down the main characters. Naturally, they instantly realize that they are the main characters.

Lot's and lot's of mind screwing ensues, and by the end the fourth wall is completely smashed to pieces.

edited 13th Dec '14 8:07:24 AM by Corvidae

Still a great "screw depression" song even after seven years.

Everyone recently found out that they're characters in a story? So Once Upon a Time or Stranger Than Fiction?