Abbreviated Account Ideas - How To Have Them
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- September 29th, 2008 |
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Hopefully, when you deprivation abbreviated account ideas, you don’t guard thither inactivity for inspiration. It’s better to compose anything, and do it right now. English writer Graham Green attributes much of his achiever to a simple habit: He forced himself to compose at least 500 words daily, whether he felt like it or not. Perhaps creative inspiration can achieve at any time, but it strikes more often when thither is activity instead of inactivity.
What do you compose tho’? Here are a couple new ideas for generating new abbreviated account ideas.
Explain This
I once created a car jaunt game called “Explain This.” Individual suggests an different scenario in a condemn or cardinal, and so each player explains it in a plausible artifact. It’s an entertaining artifact to pass the miles, but also a great artifact to come up with abbreviated account ideas.
Just start with an odd environment, anything that pops into your head. You might start, for example, with “Todd handed out the dollar bills to the people as they walked by, trying to distribute as many as he could quickly, before the police could act him.” Now explain that. Our minds insist on explaining things, so you’ll find an explanation if you attempt. If it’s interesting enough, you have your next abbreviated account.
As I look at the environment in my mind, I imagine the dollar bills are autographed or otherwise identifiable, and they can be traded at a big seminar for a gift deserving even more. A person could drop it and get a salt - or get something truly important for it. Maybe this will go in the marketing ideas file instead of the abbreviated account ideas file.
Maybe Todd is handing out the last of his money as per the instructions of his sacred leader. Could it be a “get rich quick” cult that requires all members to start from adjust? A religious movement based on getting rich? Individual could make it into a plausible account.
Abbreviated Account Ideas From Combining Stories
Here’s a fun model that is hopefully functional, but is at least deserving a few laughs. Just combine old stories into new ones. The less similar the stories you start with, the better. The account of Adam and Eve combined with “I Robot,” for example, could lead to an interesting new account. Maybe a pair of robots start a new class. “Original sin” might be the arising of their own consciousness, or their rejection of man as their master.
Hmm… “The Miracle Girl” and “Gorillas In The Mist?” Struggles of an ape that learns at last to communicate and be independent? “Character Wars” and “Cool Hand Luke?” The account of a man who livens up the deathly atmosphere of a penal colony in area? “Frankenstein” and “Gone With The Curve?” The possibilities are endless. Start cranking out those new abbreviated account ideas.