What Do You Think of My Story Idea?

This is appealing because it's quite realistic. A single mother struggling with bills, food etc., that's very real and many people are attracted to reality in stories. The story seems interesting, but it feels a little unfinished to me. Maybe there needs to be a sub-plot of some sort? Or maybe change POVs from time to time in the story and do it in the POV of her son? I don't know. But I feel this could work out if you plan it well.

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A simple story about acceptance. A girl, who's been stuck in the middle of no-where, sees a train pass by everyday, a train going home. But she can't get on it and feels really frustrated. But one day she waits for the train to come and when it arrives, she asks the train to send a message home; a message saying she's doing fine. She's alright where she is. The train disappears and she walks away, content.

I think that would definitely work as a one shot or a short story and would be really interesting, but I'm not sure it would carry too well as a full chaptered story.
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I haven't thought loads about it, but I've really wanted to write a sort of scifi/AU story where the world is just one piece of land. As in, the theory that the continents were actually once all connected but split apart, only.. they didn't split apart. I'd like to focus more on the way the world was run, and how different it would be to our societies rather than a major event happening. Possibly focusing on two or three people living at the furthest points of land... or something.

I think it's an interesting concept, a Pangaea story would certainly be different but as you previously said, it's kind of vague right now. But it sounds a very interesting starting point.

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So, it's a story idea that's been knocking around in my head for a while now.

A kinda late-twenty, early thirties female research scientist at a struggling university decides to kill herself due to a myriad of small reasons and leaps from one of the university buildings. On the way, she feels "caught" and is pulled into the building. She then meets the two Fatals: Strophe and Antistrophe.

Strophe is a youngish, cheerful woman dressed in white and Antistrophe is her husband, a middle aged, misanthropic bloke dressed in black. The research scientist is then pulled through the labyrinthine Afterlife in which many key figureheads of many religions and mythologies are represented in various ways, Kafkaesque interviews with Afterlife Security firm Cornucopia Inc. Eventually, as an atheist, she is assigned an Afterlife by help desk employee Joan of Arc.

She is assigned to visit Unit 23 in which the Christian dogma is how she will be judged; meeting silver-haired, acid tongued git God, camp, muscular, oily Adonis Jesus and raven haired, shadowy vixen Holly Spirit.

The judgment is based less on actions but based around elimination game shows in which to gain a place in Heaven, she has to - alongside her fellow contestants - humiliate herself in ridiculous challenges dead and alive; glimpsing her own funeral through the Dimititrope before finally triumphing and choosing Oblivion instead of Heaven - a decision made only once by Judas Iscariot.

Oh my fucking God write it! I am such a sucker for Biblical things made ~modern and this idea sounds almost concrete in your head. The tricky thing I think, would be in the characters's dialog - it's where you'll differentiate all these historical figures/personified ideologies with a modern twist. It's very unique and endlessly interesting. It won't hurt if you add angels and other such beings too. I really adore the supernatural element to it. Honestly though, write it, please, I already love it so much.


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About a serial killer who targets evil corrupt corporate figureheads, using objects from their office to murder them, leaving no traces - and the detective/cop who's in charge of the case behind the scenes. The catch is that the two are dating outside of their 'jobs', with neither of them knowing the other's position in the investigation. It'll be pretty lighthearted despite the albeit gruesome premise (), a romance and a comedy, but more so the latter.

I think you'd have to be careful to keep all the details straight, but if you can do that, it would be wonderful And you'd have to be able to make the murders sort of... amusing? I'm not sure how to describe that... personally, I think it would make it better if everyone was killed in realistic, yet somewhat rediculous ways. But then, I have a rather twisted sense of humor... But I would totally read it xD Murderous romantic comedy = win.

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I've been wanting for a while to write a story based around the Guitar Hero III setlist. It would almost be a musical, but like, each chapter would be named after a song (starting with "Slow Ride" and the last chapter would be "Through The Fire and the Flames") making a sort of songfic inside a songfic I'm not QUITE sure on a plot yet, but I think it would revolve around the love of video games in general. Because I'm a total nerd like that

That sounds pretty unique, but you'd have to make sure you actually made it interesting enough to read and stuff, and not let it become really cheesy (unlike you want to make it some sort of comedy, which could be fun).

This is a story I wanted to write a while ago, but it was way too complicated for me at the time. I still don't know if I can manage it, but I figured I'd get an opinion. This might be sort of long, sorry. xD

So, there are 10 teenagers. The boys are 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20. The girls are 11, 13, 15, 17, and 19. They all share the same birthday. On that birthday, they are stolen from their homes and put in this place (I don't know where it will be, and they don't know where it is either). The man who did it says he wants to create a new world, but in reality he's just sadistic and loves torturing people emotionally. Each of the teenagers is paired up with someone of the opposite gender, doesn't matter what age. And as partners they have to complete tasks. Different tasks for each pair. The only one I know so far is that one of the boys has to get a girl pregnant.
Anyways, so the people they left behind when the teenagers were stolen are worried about them and sad and stuff, but the one person that the stolen teenagers care about most in the world all start to see visions. Fathers, friends, girlfriends...etc. Two of the girls stolen are actually sisters, though their parents are divorced and one lives with the mom, one with the dad. They haven't spoken in years. But the person that the older sister cares about most is actually the younger sister, so in addition to being stolen she starts to see visions too. I don't know what the visions are, but they tell them to do things. In the end, the visions tell each of the people that see them that if they want to save the stolen teenagers, they need to kill themselves. The oldest boy, who's 20, cared about his grandmother and she saw the visions, but shortly after he was stolen she died of old age or something. So he had no way to be saved. The man who set all this up intended that, and at the end he ends up taking on the boy as an apprentice. There'll be a sequel for sure.

Yes please That sound amazing, and if you wrote it right and mixed confusion into the plot while it all made sense in a way it could become a real page turner. The visions: they sound creepy. It all sounds amazingly disturbing. If you post this, please PM me. The way you described it seemed brilliant.

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I've had this idea in my head for a while. Two boys meet in school, they are about twelve/thirteen and they become friends. Boy #1 starts to become really sick and weak, but when Boy #2 confronts him about it, he discovers he has cancer and it's incurable. He's going to die soon. Very soon.

I'm not sure if I want the traditional bucket list, but something a little different. I'm considering Boy #2 trying to cure Boy #1 but it doesn't work. I don't see it ending happily.

ahhh i love unhappy yet true endings! sounds good!
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I had this idea of writing a story from different stereotypes.
Like the goth, emo,scene, hipster, school whore.
Then reversing it and having it in a real life type of stereotype
For instance
stereotypical cheerleader-
Hi everyone! I'm Brittany! I'm the perky blonde cheerleader with big boobs! I like to go around and steal all the scene girls boyfriends just to make them mad!
Real life cheerleader-
Hey i'm Brittany. I have short hair and i'm not really in the popular clique. I really like this guy and all but he's got a girlfriend so i should stay away. Right?

It just seems too cliche for me. There's a crap ton of stories like that and I don't see the originality there. :/

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The Duende is one creature of many. Each is given their own protector, though many turn against their rightful duties for greed of the creature’s gifts. Each creature possesses a different gift; some have similar ones though none are completely the same.

Back in the day these creatures were kept safe in a haven. Now it seems to be unnecessary. In most, if not all cases these creatures know not of what they truly are. Their guardians manage to stay undetected while becoming connected with them either through friendship or other means.

Now however, it seems there is a present danger. One that could put the Duende in mortal danger. Harper is forced to approach the creature with the knowledge of what she is and take her to somewhere safe. The long lost Haven.

Wow, that sounds way interesting. I myself love stories with background and history to them, so I definitely wouldn't mind reading that one. This is just an idea but perhaps the organization that delivers these "guardians" could be in the process of a conspiracy to absorb the powers of these gifted people. Or maybe just a few people within it could be planning to steal them.

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This one is set in a post-apocalyptic society in which a deadly epidemic has struck the earth and drastically reduced its population, subsequent nuclear war has ensued and knowledge has been lost. There is a type of "haven" that exists, but is corrupt and controlling. The main character comes in at the beginning of this disaster and is one of the first to be accepted in one of these newly built cities. He, however, is a lover of all things historic and knowledgable and desires to go out into the U.S. wilderness to recover lost artifacts and pieces of literature and preserve them. He is a quiet, and doesn't ever consider the concepts of love or family for himself until, on one of his expeditions, he comes across a woman in distress. She is awfully awkward, innocent and naive for such a harsh world and he at first does not take her seriously. Then she tells him she is also looking for historical artifacts to preserve and discovers she has a very rare and important document in her possession: the Declaration of Independence. He has already decided that she is unfit to take care of it, and he is caught up in his desire to obtain and protect this piece of history. She, however, won't part with it and argues fiercely that she is just as capable of protecting it as he is. As the story progresses and the two travel together and get into tight spots together, he relies she is much more reliable and intelligent that he had assumed at first. And, of course, he falls in love with her.

Whoa long. Sorry!

This could work. There are certainly elements I like in this. The relationship would have to be written very well or it could get tedious. Also, I think you'd do best to stick to one solid reason for this apocalypse of sorts. To me, disease and then nuclear warfare just seems like an unrealistic double whammy; you could pull that off, but if it were me I might just pick one and go with it.

Ok. I'm already writing on this one, but I'll ask about it anyway. I've got an idea for a sort of Doctor Who fanfic. In it, a American man named James jumps ahead a year in time every 12 minutes. I am not sure if the origin or true nature of this problem will ever be explained (or at least, not explained in any manner other than The Doctor's 100 mile an hour technobabble.) In this fashion, much of James's life flies by. He experiences 8 jumps before his health is so compromised that he is out of years to jump (the jumps take a toll on his health, at age 40 he is much weaker than he should be.) This is when The Doctor finally shows up and helps him. He fixes the "time and space error" affecting James, so that if James were to recover some of his health he wouldn't have to worry about jumping anymore. I considered not making this a fanfic, but I figured The Doctor was the only one capable of understanding and fixing the unique problem James has. Also, I began getting dialogue for him and James in my head. I'm a bit nervous for it being a bit Doctor-lite, but to me there's really only room for him closer to the end. I'm also nervous because James is narrating it and he's a bit, well... he has nasty habits and foul language, for example. I think I can make it work though... Sorry, this was so long!

Well, I don't really know anything at all about Doctor Who, but it reminds me a little of The Time-Traveler's Wife (or this fanfic I read that was inspired by it), with the time jumping. But the 12-minute thing, that seems so drastic. That would be, like, 120 jumps a day. But you said his health is compromised after only eight jumps, so...I'm a bit lost on this. The rest of it sounds fine, it's just that ratio that seems kind of nuts.
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This one isn't fully developed yet, but it'll be my next chaptered fic. It's a Tom-centric Tokio Hotel fiction, no twincest involved. Tom suffers from depression and PTSD (and possible schizophrenia, if that's how it goes) after all the build up from a constant, looming feeling of inferiority compared to his brother (inferiority complex). He ends up snapping at one point, never forgiving himself for how he hurts Bill, and never moving on from it, and months later attempts suicide. It puts him into a psychiactric ward, where Tom's been shrinking away from his brother and being taken over by his disorders. It's sort of a story on his road to recovery, both in his own mind and in his relationship with his brother, but not a typical The Bell Jar type of story. Bill's sort of very fucked up too and he really is to blame for everything, while the reader mostly thinks it's in Tom's head for awhile. Told through chapters of not only narrative, but also tape recordings (Tom and his therapist; script) and journal entries (Bill's).

(The ratio was actually even more dramatic when I first got the idea!)

Anyway, I think we worked on this one together a bit, did we not? (Fleshing out the psych disorders and whatnot) Um, anywho, I think it has definite promise. Your style so far with it was good. The only fear I would have is getting a bit confused or figuring out the exact nature of the illness Tom is suffering (there's definitely a LOT going on there!)

Another idea! A Doctor Who and X-Files Crossover. I'm not 100% percent sure on very many details because this one is still very early in "pre-production", but it will involve The Doctor showing up in Mulder and Scully's time and eventually helping them against some sort of alien threat.

That sounds like an interesting story. I'd sooo read that one!

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A girl's point of view of her drunken mother whose husband left her and lost her job (public speaking) Her mother hits her when she's drunk, and is slowly beginning to lose custody of her 15 year old daughter. FICTION!

A bit of a cliche idea, but if it was well written that wouldn't matter. It might take some research though for the legal parts.

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Based off this idea:

Roseh; thank you:

I think all the dating sites people get on Mibba should all just merge together and form one big freaky site that every mibbian can get adverts for.

It would be something along the lines of: GaySingleMuslimSeniorOverweightInterracialMatureGeekPlentyOfFish.com

A story about someone running the mentioned dating site xD

Yes! I love it. If you do it, let me know!

Ok. I'm already writing on this one, but I'll ask about it anyway. I've got an idea for a sort of Doctor Who fanfic. In it, a American man named James jumps ahead a year in time every 12 minutes. I am not sure if the origin or true nature of this problem will ever be explained (or at least, not explained in any manner other than The Doctor's 100 mile an hour technobabble.) In this fashion, much of James's life flies by. He experiences 8 jumps before his health is so compromised that he is out of years to jump (the jumps take a toll on his health, at age 40 he is much weaker than he should be.) This is when The Doctor finally shows up and helps him. He fixes the "time and space error" affecting James, so that if James were to recover some of his health he wouldn't have to worry about jumping anymore. I considered not making this a fanfic, but I figured The Doctor was the only one capable of understanding and fixing the unique problem James has. Also, I began getting dialogue for him and James in my head. I'm a bit nervous for it being a bit Doctor-lite, but to me there's really only room for him closer to the end. I'm also nervous because James is narrating it and he's a bit, well... he has nasty habits and foul language, for example. I think I can make it work though... Sorry, this was so long!

I love the idea, but I don't understand how he'd still be alive. If he's been growing a year older every twelve minutes since birth, he'd be 43829 years older in one year. I'm confused as how it would work out without him dying. Wait, it only happens 8 times? So then how could it happen every 12 minutes? I'm quite confused.

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I'm quite nervous about this one. It's a Twilight fic. (Only book one compliant!)

Sam (the alpha of the wolf pack) has been leading the pack for a few years now. Jacob also has the alpha gene (as in the books) and so has been confronting Sam about decisions when he should just be going along with it. It's becoming steadily worse, and Sam grows frustrated and angry.

One day, Seth joins the pack. Jacob's late to a meeting because he was hanging out with Bella again. He arrives at the meeting, planning on sneaking in and avoiding Sam because he knows Sam is mad at him. His plan dies a horrible death, though, because he spots Seth. And imprints on him. He's pretty freaked out, because Seth's male. He plans to keep it a secret until he's figured things out, but Seth's a newbie and blows his cover. The whole pack's pretty freaked out.

Later on in the story, the they are chucked out of the pack and are forced to stay with the Cullens. (Edward's surprisingly nice now Jacob's not a threat to Bella). Jacob and Seth imprint on Emmett, but strive to keep it a secret for as long as possible, until eventually their secret is discovered. (There's a lot more to the plot as well, and I'm considering multiple sub-plots too).

From the moment they imprint on Emmett, Jacob and Seth are slowly dying because their body recognizes the lack of a relationship with Emmett as rejection.

I think that sounds really interesting. I really like the idea of focusing more on the wolves and developing their characters, although I thought that a wolf only imprinted on the person "best suited to pass on their genes" (or something similar to that) so I think you may need to find a way around that. Why do I now imagine Emmett as a transgender? But overall, I like the idea alot.

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After running away from a spot of troublemaking, the four Marauders find a mirror. Each one looks in and sees a vision of themselves as adults, and whether each is true or not depends on decisions each one has, or already had, to make. Sirius sees himself as a Death Eater, having conformed to his family's wishes and ideals. Remus sees what his life could be like if he wasn't a werewolf - he sees himself happy, intelligent, with a family and in a very high post in the Ministry of Magic. James sees what will happen if he does not entrust the secret to Peter: himself with Lily and a teenage boy, that looks very similar to himself, although he has Lily's eyes. Peter sees what would happen if he kept the secret, and had not had to spend twelve years living as a rat, and the Marauders were still together.

^ OMG yes That would be awesome, and you could pull it off Wait, so Remus would be smart if he wasn't a werewolf? xD

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Re-writting a fairy tale but used HP characters. Probably Cinderella or maybe The Little Mermaid if I'm feeling creative. Most definately a humor piece.

Sounds Kingdom-Heartish, but with a twist. I like it a lot. :D

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What if everyone were subconsciencly a god of their own world? What if we were simply a projection of someone's imagination, like, perhaps, a writer's? And we, the "characters", were actually, as creative thinkers, creating our own worlds and governing them?