As a writer, you have a lot of ideas. Sometimes you have too many ideas, so you put them in a folder and ignore them until you can get around to them. Sometimes, you're like me and you have so many ideas you put them away, never get back to them, and forget they exist.
This is a small list of some of the story ideas I've had over the past few years that I KNOW for a fact I will never get to. From this list, you will also see that not all the ideas you come up with will be winners. AND YOU KNOW WHAT!?!? That's ok! :D
You can have crap ideas and no one will know (except you'll know mine). If fact, I'm literally laughing my ass off reading some of these cause they make no sense. The few that do are so vague I'm wondering why I needed to write them down in the first place...like how am I going to forget "zombie book". Oh well.
So, here ya go, some of the crap novel and story ideas I've had that ill never get back to.
1. Kids go to a school that teaches them how to kill zombies. A crazy teacher hides in the bushes and watches the students as if it's normal.
(Side note: Why is this teacher watching them? The school idea is kinda cool and I might use that for a future novel, but what the heck was I talking about with that teacher!)
2. A garbage man kills people and hides their bodies in the truck
(Side note: ok...this is hella vague and kinda cliche. I'm sure the garbage man would get caught in like 5 seconds when the DNA is found in his truck and they notice only people on his route are dying...but ok)
3. Pop diva witnesses a crime and gets caught by the bad guy
(Side note: I'll admit, this one was either inspired by or a straight rip off from an episode of Case Closed -an anime they used to air on adult swim, google it, it's good- but yea, still really vague.
4. Man steals pets, cooks, and eats them
(Side note: ok...still very vague and I have no idea where I was going with this one)
5. Trick or treater finds razor blades in his candy
(Side note: this one is hellllllllla cliche and done to DEATH!)
6. Sister is dead (twist ending)
(Side note: Cliche and would totally be seen a million miles away)
7. Literal broken heart
(Side note: This one I remember, it's supposed to be like a literal broken heart, like in the sense that someone gets dumped and dies from a broken heart -like the break up literally broke their heart- I think I was going for another twist ending on this one too. This one is too big-brained for me to do right I guess.)
8. Zombie book
(Side note: 1. this isn't an idea and 2. I actually am working on a zombie book at the moment, so this one technically doesn't count toward my 'will never get back to it' theme.)
9. Man wakes up and he's the last man alive
(Side note: Cliche as hell again.)
10. got into a fight with someone at a tailgate party. A girl is there with pink hair (she thinks she's an elf). Hit the ground and blacks out. Wakes up somewhere different. finds out the girl with pink hair is an elf and he died in the fight. The elf helped him and turned him into an elf. live in a different world. they have over 800 months and their hair changes color on all major ones, tattoos can be visible. Gets into a fight at the tattoo shop with a goblin who studied human at college, Doesn't believe he used to be human. (trivia questions, can't answer most of them). Throws out human money and stuff. The goblin believes him. Runs away in tears (his forever an elf).
(Side note: I honestly left this one unedited on purpose to show you how I write when I don't think anyone is going to see it. It's not pretty, also I don't even know where I was going with this one in order to fix it haha.)
11. A girl named Mary Mcdonald has a crush on a boy named Terrence Ortiz. Mary believes she's an elf named MaiTahl. She wears pointy ears and cares a dagger in her backpack. She's been kicked out of school several times for having it and keeps bringing it back. Charity Goodman is popular (not rich, just popular). Charity has a crush on Terrence. MaiTahl gets jealous of Charity. Charity tries to keep people from picking on Mary. Mary is convinced people don't like her because she isn't human. To prove she's strong and to get respect she sneaks into Charity's house, we know it as a trailer, but Mary sees it as a beautiful mansion. She kills Charity with her dagger. Police find out and Mary goes to a mental hospital. Several years go by and Mary gets better. She tells the doctors she's faking it and that she knows she's human so they let her go. She leaves and it's discovered Mary is still delusional about being an Elf.
(Side note: This one I felt had some kind of potential honestly. It could be reworked and fixed to be done well. My only problem is I wrote this years ago and my view on writing mentally ill characters as the bad guys isn't the same as it used to be. I don't agree with making the bad guy bad strictly because they have a mental illness. So for that reason, I won't be touching this idea.)
12. Racheal can’t sleep. Nightmares, pain, and paranoia keep her conscience throughout the night. Men from -insert name here- university are sponsoring a sleep study and are willing to help Racheal find peace while dreaming. What they don't know is Racheal has an ugly past and even uglier battle scars to show for it. Soon, what started as a sleep research program slowly turns into a night the students will never forget and may come to haunt their dreams as well.
(Side note: I actually do like this one and if I can find the time to finish my multiple other projects, I might actually get back to this one.)
So tell me what you think? Am I a dumpster fire of a writer or do you have sporadic story ideas as well? So you might be asking: Why did I show you this? Well, I wanted to show you that just because you have a bunch of "bad ideas" for stories that it doesn't mean you're a bad writer.
Many of us deal with this same problem. The solution is to write your ideas down, work on one or two projects at a time, and come back to them later. If you still think it's good and/or you think you can fix it up, then go for it.
The only bad idea a writer can have is to not try at all and to not write. Those are the only bad ideas.
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