Post and Find Unused Plot Ideas

[Angie]

You know how you always get these general ideas for stories so you write them down and store them away, but you never end up being able to use them? Well, here's the place to post (and find) them. Here are a couple of really lame, really random ones copied and pasted from my forum that I posted there eons ago.

I once wrote a story that didn't make much sense in like seventh grade, and I think yall can tweak up the ideas and write your own version, and make it great. I'll try not to go into too much detail because the plot itself doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Okay, there's like this girl who relives the same day every day; the day of her mother's funeral. But she doesn't know she's reliving it every day, so she goes through the heartache all the time. Well, this day it's different; she goes back into the realm of the living in her dream and discovers what really happened. She was murdered with/after her mom and buried under the floorboards of her house. So she gets a plan to get in touch with her sister while she dreams, and she has to get her point across before she wakes up and loses this chance possibly forever. Anyway, her sister finally gets it and looks under the floorboards to see the rotten body, and she takes care of it with the police, making up some lame excuse that they buy (I can't remember it right now), and she thinks she hears the wind whisper, "Thank you." or something like that. Just be glad I didn't go into detail... For more, read the lame story: www.fictionpress.com/read.php?storyid=1566310

Okay, the story's from the perspective of the main character's best friend looking back on the adventure. This person doesn't get much attention or anything, but he/she tags along and witnesses everything that happens to the hero and other characters. Okay, the main character lives in the country in front of a forest and hears a noise or something one night and goes into the forest with the friend to investigate, and they find a group of fairies argueing loudly, secluding by a bunch of bushes. They are worried about the princess, who was captured by goblins. Then they discover the two humans and shrink them so they can't run off telling of their culture. Then the two gather a couple of clues and escape. They go to find the princess, and find her hiding in a cave or something (you can be more clever about this, if you wish). Then she says she ran away because she would be queen soon (16th birthday), and to be a fairie queen means to be frozen in the "town square" of fairies until the new queen is ready, and the new queen is a fairie born out of the Sacred Goblet every 100 years. The queen is frozen in the town square, but she is completely alive, not able to move or talk or anything, and the princess is scared because it sounds like torture. The reason the fairies do this is because having a sort of sacrificial queen looking over the city puts up a protective barrier around it so the goblins, the fairies' natural preditors, can't get to them whilst they remain in the city. Every once and a while, of course, one will have to stray and not be good enough at hiding and end up prey. Anyway, in the end, they study the princess's magic books and discover a way to divide the forest, goblins may only go on one side, and fairies on the other, so the problem is solved and the day is saved. Or you might go for a more depressing end.

A little girl has a magical world in her closet where she goes to play with her fairy friends. When she wants to bring in some of her human friends, all they see is a closet, and there are many things that make it seem like she's just crazy. Therefore, she's trying her best to convince people that it's really there, and yet she's still the only one who can see it. Finally, when they're just about ready to lock her up, her fairy friends tell her that there is a way to get people to see their world - fairy dust. Now she can prove to everyone that she's not crazy, and they are shocked to find that the fairies are real. However, it turns into a huge publicity stunt, and their entire world is in danger, and the girl is in impending peril as well. You decide an ending.

[Chris]

This is an awesome idea. Now you can see your ideas come to life through someone else's eyes.

Here's an old idea of mine: This story has two P.O.V.s. P.O.V. one concerns a young man, and his anger at his mother for taking a new husband mere months after his father passed away. He tries to get her to see that her new husband is a jerk who depreciates her to keep her tethered to him so he can use their small fortune to his own ends, but the more he tries to get her to see this, the more she starts pulling away from him. The guy himself doesn't realize that he himself is displacing his feelings in a new, older girl in town, who he feels will cure the listlessness and emptiness that now fills his life, and he will do anything to prove to her that she can trust him and that he loves her. P.O.V. 2 involves a girl from a humble family who had a whirlwind relationship with a guy from old money who felt his wealth entitled him to whatever he wanted, and would not let anything get in his way. Her parents felt that he was poisoning her with his money and drugs, and they forbade her to see him. When the guy found out, he killed the girl's parents in an inebriated rage. The girl then grew scared of him, especially when the investigation into the murder was inconclusive, as she felt that money had changed hands to make the mess disappear. She goes on the run from the guy from place to place, and knows that he won't stop until he finds her. Then, in a small town, she finds this younger guy who tells her that he loves her and that he can protect her from her old boyfriend and the power of his money, but she doesn't know whether she can trust him, especially since he comes from a similar background as her old boyfriend.

The concept behind the two stories is that the boy from P.O.V.1 and the girl in P.O.V.2 each have their own problems before they meet, and things get worse exponentially when a relationship develops between them and all their issues start converging.

[Angie]

I think it would be a wonderful little project if we could get multiple writers doing the same ideas and seeing what they each come up with. Who knows? Maybe they could take their finished works and get together to write one fantastic masterpiece!

[Chris]

Like you and Brokenhearts and your respective versions of Nighthawks. I was going to try to write a version once, but sadly the picture hasn't given me any writable ideas yet. I'm having a creative dry spell right now, which is sort of how I stumbled onto this thread: looking for an idea that inspires me.

Here's another idea of mine that I just couldn't follow through with: There was this once relatively normal family, with your relatively normal problems: The dad, who owns a small ranch out of town, has to stay there during for irregular periods to oversee things, and is wounded that his wife is the real breadwinner of the family, and his stays at the farm makes him increasingly unfamiliar to his family. The mom is a driven career-woman who loves her job and loves her family but is straining under the pressure to juggle them both. The elder son is a handsome, womanizing high-school dropout who can't keep a job to save his life. The younger reclusive son is smart but doesn't apply himself in his studies and doesn't have any friends.

The family was under pressure, yet still coping, when something terrible happened: their middle son, a hardworking big dreamer, got into an argument with his dad one day about his career goals, and somehow that argument ended with the father backing up into his son with his car and fatally wounding him. An investigation by the police comes to the conclusion that the father was driving away to cool off from his argument with his son, when his son leapt in front of the car's path suddenly. All charges were dropped.

The story's focus is about the aftermath of this terrible happening. The family, though shattered by what has happened, tries to pull itself together. But when their issues with each other come to light, and when someone in the family questions whether the dad had meant to kill his son, the question of whether they are too fundamentally separated to pull together comes to light.

[Angie]

Lol, that was Ash who did Nighthawks, not me.

[Chris]

Oh, guh! I keep getting you two mixed up. For some reason I'm always picturing you joined at the hip. Literally.

[Angie]

I need a new identity.

[Chris]

lol, there's nothing wrong with your present one. I'm just loopy.

Another old idea: There's this guy who feels like something is wrong in his life, that something (or rather someone) he used to know is gone, and though everything he knows and the people around him are telling him otherwise, it's a feeling he can't shake. Weird things start happening, like he sometimes feels like he remembers something that never happened, he finds some things in his home and his locker that obviously belonged to a girl, and he gets the feeling that he's being followed. Most weird of all, he keeps hearing this song at random, e.g. the phone will ring, and when he picks it up, the song will be playing, or he'll turn on the radio and the song will be on, or he'll be walking down the street and someone will be singing it. He feels like there's something he doesn't know that he should, and he sets out trying to find just what that is.

[unabletoregister]

That last one was kind of creepy, but I liked it. Here's one of mine:

A strage creature, dubbed "Magpie" attacks people whenever they're alone, stealing whatever shiney or sparkally they have on them(hance the name). It's mostly about tracking this creature down, and if anyone does this, I'd love to know to see what they did.

[unabletoregister]

Um, sorry, I just remembered another one, but it's pretty much totally written out, I just never really got into it:

It's based on several people driving down the highway. Some are coming, some are going, all to different places, and almost none of them know each other. Here are some of the P.O.V.s: Timmy, a boy riding to Disneyland with his family of five in a very small car packed with luggage, Eden and Sarah, a couple driving in a station wagon to a hospital near his parent's house because she's going to have a baby any day now(IMPORTANT PLOTLINE), Rick, the driver of a big Coca-Cola delivery truck, Eliza, a young adult with a motorcycle and a tiny trailer who's not sure when to settle down somewhere, so goes EVERYWHERE, her boyfriend, Pete, who's taking his parent's pickup truck to try and catch Eliza to tell her he loves her and he wants to spend to rest of his life with her(totally cliché, but hey), Rodney, a man accused of bridge bombing trying to prove his name by finding him in his old Sudan, and Ichabob, a detective trying to catch Rodney in his fancy black Cougar. They’re on a bridge when, ironically enough, the real bridge bomber strikes, trapping them all on the bridge with no way off. As the hours pass while they wait for rescue, they all try to avoid panic, which gets really hard when Sarah suddenly goes into labor. Rodney, who also practiced basic medicine before being accused(forgot to mantion that, sorry!) almost gets arrested while trying to help deliver the baby, but the kid comes out okay. After it’s all done, Rodney and Ichabob exchange notes and find out that it’s Rodney’s cousin, Benny, who for some reason got really messed up in the head. Timmy’s mom and Eliza take care of the baby while Sarah rests after her painful and tiring ordeal, while Timmy keeps all the little children back, to avoid germs. Rick, feeling guilty that he has nothing to contribute, starts handing out his cargo to celebrate, mentally promising himself he’ll take it out of his next paycheck. It’s only by chance that Pete sees Eliza, and proposes to her on the spot(she says yes). Rick, who somehow got soda-drunk, declares this another reason to celebrate and hands out more sodas. When they’re all rescued, Rodney, now a free man, goes home, while Ichabob wastes no time going to find Benny. Eliza packs her things in Pete’s pickup truck and gives her trailer to Timmy’s family, who’s relieved to have a place for their luggage. Rick calls his boss and finds out the soda was going to be handed out at a marathon anyway, so he’s off the hook for giving away the entire cargo. Sarah and Eden head straight to the hospital, where both Sarah and the baby get a clean bill of health, and they all live happily ever after, for now. (no, that's not a hint for a sequel)

Anyways, if anyone wants to write this, draw this, or just make it better, it would do a, I'm gonna be modest, decent story justice.