Weekend Writing Warriors

[Houk]

Three words:

Sentient potato chip

Three more words:

Runs for President

...You're eating potato chips, aren't you?

I made myself sick on them

Did you know that one bag of Lay's Cheddar & Sour Cream potato chips has your full RDA of potassium and vitamin C? (Along with waaay too much saturated fat and sodium!)

[Phoenix_Apollo]

^^^Better than getting yourself sick on Apple strudel. Gah...

[Lyner Barfless]

All right, next weekend I'll set aside an hour to write about:

"Two international spies who finished spreading a new government-backed pathogen into a foreign country, which they were told after their mission successfully debilitated that land and its people. One of these agents was forced into his position and was made to take the assignment against his will and is, therefore, severely underpaid. He has poor credit and tries to take a loan out in order to put a down payment on a car for his 16-year-old daughter, when suddenly... zombies appear."

Hrm. We'll see. I've got some ideas. Anyone want to play along and accept it if I decide to "pass" the story to someone else for the following week?

[vampko]

I wouldn't have posted here if I wasn't game ~

[lordryo]

This sounds like a lot of fun, I wanna play. But could we maybe add some outer space elements to it? Maybe something along the lines of...

"Two international spies who finished spreading a new government-backed pathogen into a foreign planet, which they were told after their mission successfully debilitated that planet and its race. One of these agents was forced into his position and was made to take the assignment against his will and is, therefore, severely underpaid. He has poor credit and tries to take a loan out in order to put a down payment on a car for his 16-year-old daughter, when suddenly... zombies appear."

Just trying to improvise. I like the way this is going, but I really astronomy too.

[Seventh]

Clearly a plot twist should involved discovering the zombies were created by his ex-wife.

[vampko]

This sounds like a lot of fun, I wanna play. But could we maybe add some outer space elements to it? Maybe something along the lines of...

"Two international spies who finished spreading a new government-backed pathogen into a foreign planet, which they were told after their mission successfully debilitated that planet and its race. One of these agents was forced into his position and was made to take the assignment against his will and is, therefore, severely underpaid. He has poor credit and tries to take a loan out in order to put a down payment on a car for his 16-year-old daughter, when suddenly... zombies appear."

Just trying to improvise. I like the way this is going, but I really astronomy too.

With the way this works, it only takes a few creative plot twists to bring the story to outer space, or even bring outer space to the story.

[Lyner Barfless]

This sounds like a lot of fun, I wanna play. But could we maybe add some outer space elements to it? Maybe something along the lines of...

"Two international spies who finished spreading a new government-backed pathogen into a foreign planet, which they were told after their mission successfully debilitated that planet and its race. One of these agents was forced into his position and was made to take the assignment against his will and is, therefore, severely underpaid. He has poor credit and tries to take a loan out in order to put a down payment on a car for his 16-year-old daughter, when suddenly... zombies appear."

Just trying to improvise. I like the way this is going, but I really astronomy too.

With the way this works, it only takes a few creative plot twists to bring the story to outer space, or even bring outer space to the story.

Quite so. Start small, build up. The main purpose of this exercise is to increase the flexibility of your writing to react to ideas not your own. Do you take their plot twists and abandon any you had in mind, or can you rationally bring yours back while still holding to their introduced ideas?

And whoever I pass to, don't feel like you have to write as much as I do... My pace is pretty insane because I've had a lot of practice over the years =)

[Necrofantasia]

This story idea intrigues me and I would like to subscribe to its newsletter.

By its end, I think it really needs to include all of the following elements/scenes/characters:
-a car chase
-a fancy dress ball
-an artist searching for his muse
-the revelation that one character is actually another major character's father
-the formation of a mysterious group called the Red-Headed League
-a ninja maid

[Ubiquitor]

It is very good to see a Barfless-based project in Random. I certainly look forward to the product of Lyner's mind.

Nevertheless, I must always make reference to the past whenever appropriate. There is a similarity, but this thread is different and/or superior in various ways: most notably the presence of the Barfless.

[leinaud]

Hmm, this sounds interesting and fun! I remember writing a few short stores and made a small book (only 100 pages) way back in high school although I've slacked off writing for a while now.

[Phoenix_Apollo]

I'm writing a book currently myself. It's, uh, going interesting right now. My biggest issue is cliches (plot points that is) and how I'm going to have to ride the line when I use them.

[Rednal]

TvTropes is your friend.

[Phoenix_Apollo]

TvTropes is your friend.

Oh, trust me. I've been there a looooooot. Perhaps I can just iron out the excess cliches in future draft editions...

[Lyner Barfless]

I lied. I'm writing for more than an hour because I want to get it completely started. It's just getting to the meat of the plot after a few pages! Surely I can be forgiven...?