What Do You Think of My Story Idea?

  • SecretPiggyMafia

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    Wow, that sounds really good. :) I'm guessing that it is going to have original characters, right? I appreciate people who post a good original fiction. The idea sounds great, I like how he only can know what happened by looking at photographs. However, how does the young woman seem not to have a name? Is she actually nameless? Will you be explaining it in the story? Now, would I read it: sure. Sounds interesting.

    My idea: A famous (well, famous in her corner of the planet) pop star is dropped by her record company and her contract is cancelled because it is discovered she is pregnant. She must now adjust to life without fame, and she decides to move to a country that she's not famous in and start over as an underground musician. Plus, while she's there, she might as well track down the foreigner whom she had a relationship with (he's the baby's dad) when his underground band were on tour in her country last year. However, this story is set in the distant future, and not on Earth.
    January 28th, 2014 at 03:48pm
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    It all seemed kinda cliche up until the other planet-distant future part. I don't really understand why they'd drop an artist for being pregnant, though, because that happens all the time.
    Narrated from the point of view of Death, about a girl named Olivia. Olivia is the creator of life. When a murderer goes on a spree, killing people Death decides to find out why because 1) the killings take away from his time with Olivia and 2) Olivia makes life and he doesn't want her creations to go to waste. He finds that the murderer is after a set of artifacts, and when he tells Olivia she decides to immerse herself into the killer's life to follow him and Death tags along. As it turns out, Olivia made the murderer special: she wanted this to happen, so she could have some fun with Death, but he doesn't like how she's playing with human lives like she is.
    February 2nd, 2014 at 01:56am
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    Wow. That sounds incredible- perhaps one of the most original ideas I've ever seen on here! I love that you've got a whole thing between Death & Life, very exciting. I might just have to find this if you write it, and read it!

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    OK, so this is still a little rusty, but yeah. Basically, it's a fan-fiction where the male protagonist, Matt, is a time-traveller. He specifies in going forward in time and seeing his future rather than dipping into the past, though he often struggles morally with whether to go forward and see the cause of his death, or whether something will drastically change his life. And so, he chooses to use his strange talent for someone else. Enter, Katie. She is rather unextraordinary, but Matt knows about her entire life. He knows that they will fall in love on one particular day. He knows that the place they met turned into a grocery store a year after they met. But he also knows that she's going to be diagnosed with cancer. And he has to decide whether to save her by using his talent to head forward into the future to find a cure for her cancer, or whether to let time run its course and not start playing God with the time man.
    February 2nd, 2014 at 10:22am
  • SecretPiggyMafia

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    This idea. I love this idea. I really like how Matt specifies in travelling to the future, however, you have to have an explanation in your story as to why he doesn't travel to the past, just FYI. I also love the conflict he has of saving the life of the love of his life (whom he's not even in love with yet) or letting things happen the way they seem to be meant to be. The whole "playing God" theme can be cliché, but not when done right. However, I really do hope that you actually include the part where he discovers that he and her will fall in love someday. Actually put that scene in the story. Don't just say something like, "She's the woman that Matt knew would be his lover due to one of his trips to the future" or something like that. Show him actually discovering that fact. Would I read this story? Sure.

    My idea: Mine is a fanfiction (though I'm 100 percent sure that NO ONE, with the exception of myself, is familiar with the person that it's about). The main character won't be portrayed as a well-known singer (as she is in real life) but as a non-famous girl who is rich. Correction. Used to be rich. Due to the passing of her provider (her parent, despite the fact that she's a young adult), and things just going wrong, she is no longer rich and has to start out on her own and has to ...gulp, get a job. She decides to move to America (she's from another country) because it's supposedly the land of opportunity and from what she's always been told, a lot of the men there are rich and it's easy to get rich there. She leaves her old life behind and tries to, in a way, re-invent herself in America. She goes to the West Coast in an attempt to become famous because, as she says, "Why work my a** off for little to no money, when I can get an easy life doing hardly anything other than enjoying the fame and earn more money than I can ever spend?" Also, she attempts to find a rich man, too. This story is basically just about the troubles she encounters in her new life and how things weren't as easy as she'd thought they'd be.

    I know you've all seen it before. The rich, over-pampered spoiled brat that's allergic to a nine-to five and sees men as walking ATMs. However, do we ever know why these characters are this way? Other than the fact that they've only knew a life of luxury and nothing else? Well, for one, my character didn't always live a life of luxury. Also, there is actually a reason she is the way she is, why she views money and material objects the way she does. This will be explained through her thoughts as well as a few flashbacks too. Basically, she feels like if a man doesn't spend loads on her he a. Doesn't love her and b. Isn't worth a crap. Why does she believe this? It will be explained but I don't want to give it away. Is there a method to her money-grubbing ways?

    Also, she's not the typical mean stuck-up stereotype that most rich girls are. She's actually very kind and doesn't mind if people are below her. She also does have the ability to make it on her own without having to ride on fame or someone else's money; she just doesn't know it yet. She's actually a mentally strong character and can be morally strong as well. And she does indeed have the capability to love. She's actually a pretty good person in general despite her selfishness. I mean, we all have ugliness in us, and her love of cash just happens to be hers.

    However, being a rich man's lady takes fierceness and a cut throat, only care about number one attitude. Does she even have what it takes to be conniving to even worm her way through the heart of a rich man in the first place?
    March 25th, 2014 at 06:58am
  • aubs

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    The idea is very interesting to me for two reasons: the small cliche that is in the plot just pulls me in and because of the main character. You have taken a cliche plot and placed a well thought out harasser in the mix, while also asking questions about the plot itself and why the situation is what it is, if that makes any sense. XD I would totally read it.
    The story is set in Victorian England. A king is found to be murdered with no know cause and no know suspects. Only months after his death, the princess goes missing and no one will confess. The new suspects of the murder of the king and the missing princess are the distraut queen and a sneaky prince.

    It's only a rough idea that I can't really explain. XD
    March 27th, 2014 at 07:06pm
  • archivist

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    I like it. Mystery and Victorian England go hand in hand in my book. With properly developed characters and sneaky little side-plots, it could be amazing. I'd read it for sure!
    An idea for a short-story:A drug-addicted geneticist and a chronically socially anxious kindergarten teacher are trapped in an air tram seven hundred years in the future, with nothing but a time ring (a watch for your finger) and a mug of coffee to get them out.
    March 27th, 2014 at 11:19pm
  • Mirabile dictu

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    An intriguing idea, I would be interested in seeing how you work with that material.

    My idea - I've already started writing it and have asked questions on this forum before, but may as well get feedback here too:

    A teenage girl rapes her friend on Halloween while she is drunk. The imagery is intended to evoke the old superstition of the witching hour - one of the myths about sleep paralysis was that when men experienced it, it was actually caused by witches somehow getting into their beds and raping them as they slept. The girl just happens to have dressed as a witch.

    However, in the story she did not realise that it constituted rape until afterwards and is then filled by guilt and wants the victim to forgive her. Naturally he also has many issues to deal with as a result, such as losing his virginity to rape. I consider the story to be essentially a character driven drama.
    March 28th, 2014 at 07:28pm
  • Alsoldey

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    And I really like the explanation to it all! Really, I like reading stories where the woman is kind of the villain, or the person to kick start a big drama. It's also always man chasing woman, when it's woman chasing man...well then it get's interesting to me. I do hope you post about it!
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    I have this idea that's been floating around in my head, but pretty much it deals with what I stated above. Woman chasing man, woman terrorizing man. I want to write about an innocent succubus haunting a young man in his dreams, and slowly...ever so slowly he starts to lose his mind.

    That's all I have right now though.
    March 29th, 2014 at 03:36am
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    That sounds fairly interesting, actually, surely suspenseful and captivating. (Assuming you're still doing that since it's been 3 months.) Dark fantasy is such an intriguing genre.

    Here's what I just typed and it sucks but anyways:

    It took fifty-three years for the fires to burn themselves out.

    However, it only took two for humanity to return, lush peach and rich cocoa and elegant ivory and brushed copper, almost-metaphors sweeping carelessly through the streets, and it took a good fifteen years before it was over again.

    It took Scovidy Parker a year to get there, and he wasn't sure it had been worth the ride.

    Scovidy slid gracelessly from his multi-v and wobbled a few feet from it, sweat caking his forehead and stickying his hands. He wiped them on his suit with a disgusted frown and glanced around him in severe disappointment.

    Welcome to HARMEN, greeted the large white road sign just beside him. Scovidy peered at it, then up at the city. He was met with glittering spires of ash and glass dust.

    Without another moment's hesitation Scovidy wriggled into his RM bodysuit and crawled back onto the multi-v, activating the insuit AC as soon as its battery powered on. Goosebumps sufficiently raised, he heaved a huge sigh and started along the final road to Harmen City.

    Scovidy nonchalantly passed an old toll booth, soaring above it in his multi-v and wondering briefly what the toll had been. Did they even use blades in this part of the world back then? Scovidy had the feeling that something big and huge and infinite had happened, but he was not sure what it could be.

    Chewing his cheek, Scovidy scooted along, the ash pillars looming like solemn feathers in the near distance. He pulled up at the edge of town near an ancient gas pump, hopped off the multi-v, transformed it into a buggy, and got rolling.

    It was worse than he had imagined. There was little left, just glass and cinders and the remains of fabrics and flags torn in the dirt. Scovidy didn't know what to do. He rattled along in his buggy, hands in his pockets, humming to the tune of the air conditioner circuit and staring up at the destructive beauty surrounding him.

    It only took him a few hours to remember that it had been him who caused it.
    July 9th, 2014 at 08:24am
  • Jeremy Ford

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    I am currently about to start picking my writing back up and I have wrote a relatively vague synopsis for my story, On the Devil's Wings. I have not written in quite some time, but this is a story that I have been inspired to write (ideas are storming through my mind) due to the Fifty Shades of Grey movie/trilogy, Hush Hush series, Fallen series, and a combination of just all other stories. I have my own unique plot twists that I want for this book but I am just looking for feedback on what I have so far for book one!

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    A war has been brewing between Heaven and Hell for several years and Jerrick is sent down from Heaven to discover and prevent a war from happening. He senses a nearby pull to a woman named Caroline who he discovers has powerful Foresight abilities. Jerrick decides to use Caroline to help show him where demons are beginning to surface on Earth to prepare for the upcoming battle. This conflicts with Caroline's day-to-day life as her daughter, Lucy is preparing to graduate.

    Lucy Slater, 23, is a recent college graduate and as a congratulatory gift her mother who buys her a house, with she moves in with her gay best friend, Ethan. Lucy and Ethan begin searching for jobs in the city and after Lucy gets a job offer from a notable psychologist as an assistant. To celebrate she plans a party at her mother's with the rest of her family. In the middle of the party, Jerrick and Lucy are introduced to each other. Lucy immediately falls for him.

    Unaware of his impact on her, Jerrick continues on his mission to destroy the arriving demonic forces. One night, while Ethan and Lucy go out to a bar with some friends a demon tries to lure a drunk Lucy into sex. Jerrick arrives and saves Lucy from the demonic force without revealing himself as an angel. From there, the two begin to fall in love with each other.

    This endangers Lucy that much more, as she is now seen as a way to get to Jerrick. Without revealing himself, Jerrick must keep Lucy safe as he begins to realize that he not only has to protect humanity from a nearing apocalypse but he must also protect the girl he loves.
    February 17th, 2015 at 03:23am
  • Pandora7

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    I like it. It sounds like it could be very interesting. I also like that it was an Angel that Lucy would fall for not the cliche demon/vampire that she helps find redemption. The synopsis makes me want to know if they get a happy ending. It also makes me want to know more about Ethan, is there more than meets the eye to him? Does Lucy take after her mom with the foresight? Yeah, you absolutely made me want to read it.

    My most recent idea and yea I'm pretty sure its cliche but...
    In a small rural high school, your social circles are very important and very ridged. About three months before graduation, one of the social outcasts, sits down across the lunch table from one of the socially chosen ones.“I have a proposition for you,” She said “I want you to come to prom with me, These are the most words we have ever spoken to each other in the past four years of high school and 2 years of middle school before that. I’m offering you an experience. Come and sit with me at lunch come to prom with me. You have lived the same life everyday for the past four years, I guarantee you’ll have more fun in these last few months of senior year than you did every day of high school before, combined. You don’t have to answer me today but I’d like to know by Friday.”

    Despite his social prejudice, he decides to accept. And in those few months she shows him how big of an asshole that he alway had been and why you cant judge a book its cover.

    I don't think I want her to fall in love with him, but maybe him with her or maybe just the idea of her and her values that she shows him. Idk what do you think?
    April 9th, 2015 at 10:52pm
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    I think it sounds pretty interesting, especially if he falls in love with "the idea of her" as opposed to just falling in love with her. I'd also be curious as to what drove this girl to give the guy the proposition in the first place.
    My newest idea is a little cliche as well, but it's one of those ideas that just won't leave me alone so I'm going to write it. Savannah Holbrook is in her mid-20s and still single. Her wealthy parents are pushing her to get married (however, her parents won't be rude and mean, because I feel like that's really stereoptypical) but only because they want her to have a good life. She gets tired of them bugging her about her love life, so she "hires" a guy to be her boyfriend. But she falls in love with someone else, someone her parents wouldn't really approve of. I can't really say too much else without giving away something, but what do you think?
    May 17th, 2015 at 12:18am
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    I want to revive this thread!

    Well yeah it's not super unique but stories don't always have to be. It sounds like if you give it some cool twists and use some irony and good story telling, it could be a fun read!

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    Jeon Jungkook is a 20 year old prodigy, everyone knows him in his small town. One day he mysterioualy disappears without a trace and a lot of secrets begin to surface. Jungkook is secretly an indigo kid and his disappearance could have been a crime....
    September 5th, 2017 at 03:08am
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    @ Kim Taehyung
    That sounds awesome! (Although I did have to look up what indigo kid was XD) The feel of just the little summary seems like a mystery, crime, drama story, which, personally, I love reading. I like how it would be set in a small town because I feel that in a small town, everyone is hiding secrets that no one else knows about.
    My idea, which is just a rough idea, is about a journalist who everyone finds to be super nosy in everything she does. But one day her mother disappears while the journalist is home. Some think she was kidnapped while others think it was related to a past (and I mean way past) drug problem. But basically the daughter/ journalist will stick her nose into anything to find out what happened to her mother and hopefully bring her back home safely.
    September 8th, 2017 at 04:50am
  • mythologydiva

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    Even though it's been a year since the last post, I think this is a great idea for a thread and want to revive it!
    @aubs

    I personally prefer fantasy or historical fiction, so if I saw a book with this idea in the bookstore I wouldn't necessarily be drawn to it, but I also wouldn't be drawn to any other works in the contemporary genre. I do think that your story has potential, though. Like you said, it's a rough idea, but add a few details and it could be an entertaining drama. I like the idea of the mother previously being a drug addict since you could make her the victim of her former dealer (for example, if she owed him money). I think you could add a lot of interesting characters that the journalist daughter meets in her investigations. So, overall, I think it's a good idea. Smile
    This is actually a pretty extensively developed idea that I've had for awhile, so I'll try to make it as short as possible. The story is a sort of fairytale mashup. The characters and plot would be based off that of the original work, not Disney.

    After Snow White's happily ever after, the Evil Queen, who was banished from the kingdom, regains power. Snow White and her prince, James, are forced to flee and seek help from an allied kingdom, Brigidia, which is ruled by Rosamond and Xavier (aka Sleeping Beauty and her prince). On their way to Brigidia, they become lost and end up in the kingdom of Nottingham, ruled by the oafish King John and his two main advisers, the obsessive Sheriff of Nottingham and conniving Sir Lancelot.

    There Snow White and James meet a starving outlaw, a stiff-necked seventeen-year-old named Arthur, who fortunately knows the way to Brigidia, and agrees to guide them there in exchange for twenty gold coins. Along the way they are robbed by Robin Hood and his Merry Men, and are nearly killed by a fierce yet beautiful young huntress named Guinevere, who lives in a cottage in the forest with her elderly godfather, a wizard named Merlin.

    Once in Brigidia, it isn't long before Snow White and James discover that the Evil Queen is not working alone, but has the help of the Dark Fairy (the one who curses Sleeping Beauty) and a witch named Dame Gothel (from Rapunzel). Through a series of adventures Rapunzel and her prince, Cinderella and her prince, and several other fairytale characters are introduced. Arthur finds out that he is the true king of Nottingham and has an epic battle with the power hungry Sir Lancelot to save the girl he loves (spolier alert: it's Guinevere). Prince Xavier and his page, Jack, are nearly cooked alive by a ogre. And Rapunzel has to find a way to cure her prince's blindness that was caused due to Dame Gothel's spell. But in the end, they all find happiness, and whether or not it lasts ever after will be up to the reader.
    December 19th, 2018 at 11:10pm
  • meow2413

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    @ mythologydiva

    It certainly sounds like an adventure. I say go for it, could be a blast to read AND write. There's a lot of potential to it too. (Sorry I'm not really good at giving criticism on things)
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    My idea is supposed to be an urban fantasy one but it isn't an available genre in the publishing thing.

    From the reformation center full of people who clearly don't give a damn to a labyrinth on a time limit.
    60 participants, willing or otherwise, are chosen to try and clear several trials, 1 every half hour. Only 12 will make it out whether or not they are intact or alive. Along the way, they uncover clues and hints pointing towards a problem much much bigger than their current situation and the corruption of the reformation center will be exposed.

    The story will switch between 11 characters who have all been sent to the center for reasons and weren't expecting this to happen.

    (They're important by the way)

    This is set in an urban fantasy world, with what I hope is a good mix of modern and fantasy.

    There are 5 girls and 6 boys. Two girls and 1 boy are 16, 2 14-year olds both either gender, an 18-year old boy, male and female 20 something adults, a male 12-year old, and a pair of 10-year-olds, one boy and one girl. All 11 of them are at the center for their own reasons but are suddenly pulled into a labyrinth designed to kill them until there are 12 survivors left.

    To survive the labyrinth, they must all solve puzzles and riddles every half hour until 12 of them have been completed. With seemingly no other choice and no way out, these 11 participants will be brought together and find a way to survive. There is, however, someone watching from above the entire time and they don't intend on making things easy.

    I actually do have a bit of a chapter written out but when I post it it's going to be a pilot kind of chapter so I can get feedback on it. I'm not too confident in my writing.

    Hope you all like it.
    January 11th, 2019 at 03:47am
  • VixL

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    Don’t be unconfident! That’s the point of the whole drafting process! Honestly this sounds pretty bad ass and epic! Also like really cool type horror or dystopian movie! Definitely think you should write this and put your own spin in every aspect of it!

    This is something a lot of people would LOVE to read!
    A boy and a girl’s love story from when they met in High School throughout their entire lives.

    The catch: they don’t get together until the end of their lives.

    Is this worth writing?
    January 12th, 2019 at 02:43pm
  • nearly witches.

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    I love that idea. It's almost like having to squeeze an entire lifetime into a few short months, which I think is a great and really unique concept.
    A Jewish-German family living in Germany during the Kristallnacht are forced from their homes and into hiding to avoid the wrath of the Nazis. Their friends take them in, but they have to continually move around to avoid being caught.
    January 15th, 2019 at 07:40pm
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    @ VixL
    I'm glad you like it! Thanks for the reply.
    January 20th, 2019 at 01:11am
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    @ nearly witches.
    I would read this, watch a movie on this, and even go to the play version of this story idea lol! This is a period of history that should never stop having stories told about it In Love
    January 20th, 2019 at 01:14am