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Post by debbi on Jan 4, 2010 15:47:58 GMT -5
"Things I want to do when I grow up"
Have the MC go through a list they made when they were 13 (or whatever age you choose). Maybe they could even rewrite them if they were way too out there "go to outterspace and visit the moon" type thing, but they could visit a moon musuem or NASA or something.
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Post by debbi on Jan 4, 2010 15:49:59 GMT -5
MC and family moves into a new home. Neighborhood BBQ (or something similar). Neighbors acting strange. MC has obsession to find out what is going on....
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Post by debbi on Jan 4, 2010 15:53:56 GMT -5
This was my second November novel (only 26k or so written) and maybe others will want to use it. MC female. Goes on a diet. Details her diet in a blog or journal. She lives life as best she can on the diet. How her life changes because of the diet and after the diet. How she works on the diet. how she feels and other feels towards her dieting and getting skinnier (even skinnier then some of them). How do people react to her new skinny body. How she reacts.
Okay not the best idea, but I've been trying to loose a little weight and this helped.
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Post by debbi on Jan 4, 2010 16:00:58 GMT -5
Here's something I remember my mom telling me that happened with her. 1950s children playing by a river (back then they were open). The other side is a convent. They find what looks like human skulls. Little ones, like babies. They tell the adults, but the adults don't believe them. They're too scared to come back to that river.
Years later....
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Post by debbi on Jan 4, 2010 16:03:46 GMT -5
Horoscopes section keeps getting the MC's horoscope correct. Except one day...
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Post by cryndyl on Jan 4, 2010 23:21:13 GMT -5
MC finds "Professor Dalrymple's Patented Fairy Catching System" TM Running Press, in the atic/basement. Thinking it a joke they use it just to be a smart-butt and end up catching one of the wee-folk. How does MC react? How do they smooth over things with fairy/brownie, etc? Does the fairy cause them problems or ask for something that is had to obtain? Make MC go on quest that ends up being for their own good?
BTW Fairy Catching system is real I have it on top of the computer monitor, here's what it contains: 48- page notebook/manual on how-to-use and fairy ettiquette, fairy holding vial, catching net, glitter bait, magnifying glass and a convenient carrying pouch for all of your gear. www.perseusbooksgroup.com/runningpress/book_detail.jsp?isbn=0762429186
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Post by Elizabeth Sabourin on Jan 5, 2010 13:17:39 GMT -5
Here's something I remember my mom telling me that happened with her. 1950s children playing by a river (back then they were open). The other side is a convent. They find what looks like human skulls. Little ones, like babies. They tell the adults, but the adults don't believe them. They're too scared to come back to that river.
Years later....
Stealing! I might modify a little, but I have to write that. That's hilarious. Reminds me a little of Artemis Fowl too.
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Post by debbi on Jan 5, 2010 15:14:23 GMT -5
An Angel who tries to guide people to help them with their life. A demon who tries to mess up what the angel has done.
Sort of an Angel vs. Demon vs. Humans type book (can be done again if in a unique way). Each fighting to win the soul of that human. Of course the human has the mind to do what they want, but these two give them ideas.
You could even have them do things to distract each other so they can work on the humans soul. Such as getting another human else to do something and the other has to work with that human.
--------------- okay that would need some work, but there's the general idea...
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Post by ChoKiba on Jan 6, 2010 16:14:30 GMT -5
An Angel who tries to guide people to help them with their life. A demon who tries to mess up what the angel has done.
Sort of an Angel vs. Demon vs. Humans type book (can be done again if in a unique way). Each fighting to win the soul of that human. Of course the human has the mind to do what they want, but these two give them ideas.
You could even have them do things to distract each other so they can work on the humans soul. Such as getting another human else to do something and the other has to work with that human.
--------------- okay that would need some work, but there's the general idea... Woah....um actually a little while back about four or five years ago, I had an idea kind of like this, but in an odd way. It makes me kind of want to go back to it and rework it and start it all over again *plots* >.<
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Post by debbi on Jan 6, 2010 17:32:04 GMT -5
It's interesting how these pop up among writers, that's why we see the same books out there, I think.
I had an idea years ago for a Gennie in a Bottle type thing. A male gennie appearing to a woman. then I'm looking at books (of course) and there it is. Kind of. Not the same plot, but the general idea.
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Post by debbi on Jan 6, 2010 17:37:51 GMT -5
Going with the Gennie in a Bottle idea...
Life of a Gennie. A gennie gives a person 3 wishes. That person makes the wishes within a certain amount of time. Then gives the bottle to a stranger. And so on. Sounds like short stories... maybe "A Year In the Life of a Gennie" or something... Maybe a series... one persons 3 wishes for each book... or 3 people with 3 wishes for each book... I guess depending on how much detail or what the wish is.
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Post by debbi on Jan 8, 2010 17:24:56 GMT -5
I was thinking about twins because my best friend has two year old twins. Then I remember she said her 9 y.o. is a flirt. I thought about the twins when they get older and start dating. There could be some fights among them. But for a novel, that is too over done (maybe).
So how about a comedy-romance type novel?
Twins are best friends and try to set up the other twin on dates. Maybe they are trying to get the other married so the single one can date all she wants without having a twin to compete. But they go about it a fun way. Confusion because they look alike (or don't--my bff's twins are faternal and don't even wear the same size).
This could be a two part novel... each novel on the romance of the twin... if made into a triology, how about another sister, younger or older who they help.
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Post by debbi on Jan 14, 2010 12:02:17 GMT -5
"The Devil Made Me Do It"
Try to make this unique. Maybe something small for the preson but big for another person, such as made a joke about their hair color and the other person become wicked and mean to everyone from that point forward.
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