nice.
keep it up!
a lot of your story ideas seem to be mixes of different fantasy elements, like super powers or vampires or samurais and stuff. Is that pretty much how you get the idea - "let's mix a X and a Y genre"?
That's basically it. It's the blood of pulp. Its the essence of all mass production quantity over quality writing in all its beauty. It's the fever swamp of idea generation that turns the idealistic dreamer into a typewriter warrior. And maybe, just maybe after smashing enough concepts together they come up with a gem. And if not a gem, then they have enough discipline to roll with any idea to create a finished product. Yes, a polished turd may still be a turd, but what of a polished pebble? What of a well moulded piece of clay? It may not be as great as a sculpture, but it is something.
or something like that.
Here's my Day 1
Prompt: Gun King
Ten serious men sat in the room with a boy around a large glass table. Outside the large glass windows, they could see the entirety of Checker City. The mega-city glimmered in all its complex brutalistic architecture. Every inch of its sky populated by airships, cruisers and grav lifts.
The men wore suits. The boy wore his highschool uniform. He'd taken the day off for this. He wouldn't miss it for the world.
"Ten Billion credits?" One man offered. It was the final offer. Three other callers were on the line, and this was the largest offer yet.
The boy, Carl Ozymandius smiled.
He'd worked very hard to come to this point in his life. In an age where the blade was infinitely more useful than superficial projectile weapons, he had risen above mediocrity, put himself university and become a renowned weapon designer.
And now he was selling 10 of those weapons for an exclusive deal with one of the many mercenary security forces in employ across the world.
10 billion credits was enough capital to buy a faster-than-light spacecraft. It was surely enough to continue his research.
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Okay before I write more I'm ending things here. Something frustrating and fun is happening.
1. The prompt has expanded to the story about a boy genius who becomes a gunmaker in a world where guns have historically fallen out of favour for the sake of magic, telekinetic abilities and swords. He starts arming governments and citizens that feel the pressures of living in such a world, and cuses world wide chaos.
2. The ideas are coming in great, but my narration has no flow. I wish I know what stick figures were for stories, because then I'd have a structure. As things are I can scribble story ideas well, but I have no idea how to draw a head and a body, how to sequentially progress from A to B.
I swear writing used to be so much easier haha