Tag: ideas
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It’s a Code!
Every once in awhile I’m in the mood to write a conspiracy thriller story. So I’m updating a website to a new edition. The editor gives me chapter summaries in a Word doc, which implies they’re all new. But they’re not. Most of them are identical to the previous edition. BUT not all of them…
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Toof Fairy
Someone tell me if this has already been made into a horror movie. It sounds familiar. A friend suggested a story idea while we were goofing around, but it’s one that’s really stuck with me. The tooth fairy takes kids teeth because there’s a bit of youth stuck to the tooth that the fairy can…
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A Double! (The War Makers)
Man, I’m not having the best luck with names today. Discussing whether it’s okay to be happy about the death of Osama Bin Laden (short answer: yes, yes it is), I had an idea for another story. Not sure if it would be novel length. Maybe short story or novella. I think there’s more than…
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The Invisibles
I stayed up late last night, so I think I’ve mentioned a little of this before but I will start from the beginning so I can organize these ideas for later reference. Up the street from where I lived, there was a small utility company office. This is strange in that AmerenUE has a monopoly…
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Patapan
The year is 1816. President Benedict Arnold made the Louisiana Purchase from Napoleon Bonaparte thirteen years previous. Defeated at Leipzig and driven from the French throne by the Sixth Coalition, Bonaparte fled to New Orleans. There French loyalists rallied around their emperor. They seceded as a US territory and declared themselves New France (Burgundy?). Napoleon’s…
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This has to have been told somewhere
Okay those of you who read sci fi, tell me the name of this book. There’s no way this hasn’t been written before. It’s so fundamentally classic that I’m surprised I’ve given it a second thought. Idea for a new story came to me on Friday (third of the week, actually, but I didn’t write…
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Captain Majors and the Super Squad: Soldiers of Tomorrow!
So I don’t know where this idea came from. It hit me while I was driving home from work. It’s incomplete, though. Still, it’s worth writing down so that I can work on it later if the mood takes me. The interesting thing is that it’s not a fantasy book. I don’t get the sense…
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Arcadia
When I was a young lad, only twelve, and had decided in earnest that I was going to be a novelist, I began tap tap tapping away on my Apple IIGS (Appleworks, baby!). There were a number of ideas bumping around in my head. I wrote stuff for Jim Henson’s Storyteller (which in no way…
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A Good and Happy Life
Occasionally I’ll rant in my head1. Something touched me off yesterday. I think it was a webcomic or a response to a webcomic. I don’t know. The jist of it was that an author uses his medium as a pulpit for his own opinions. At face value, this can be true. The context of the…