Must- resist- can’t- AAAAARGH!
November 1, 2010
So I think I’m gonna do WriMo this year. Why, when November seems to be out to get me? Because I’m already recuperating from an October surgery that has hopefully stopped a tiny little scrap of early breast cancer from getting out of hand– er, I mean, you know.
So in the spirit of the unofficial motto of the Young Survival Coalition– “Fuck YOU Cancer!”– I’m going to go ahead and do it.
Besides, I still can’t drive for another two weeks and it’s either this or Rune Factory Frontier– again.
So to prepare for November, I installed the WriMoDemon app by Kris Jacque onto my iPhone, and found a cute little app nearby called “Story Seed Generator” by D. Brad Talton Jr. When I fired it up for the first time, I got the following suggestion:
This is a mythology story.
The Main Character is… a guild of bards.
The Setting is… A constitutional republic where dreams become truth.
The Story is about… The death of a nation.
Sounds enough like Tigana that I’m going to spin again. Here goes…
This is a fairy tale story.
The Main Character is… A cool-headed thief’s identical twin and a spunky lady.
The Setting is… The dark ages, in a dungeon in the underworld/heaven/the depths of hell/a faraway land.
The Story is about… A tournament to decide the greatest rider in the land.
Hmm, this smacks of the exploits of Hanse Shadowspawn and just about everything Terry Pratchett has ever written. M’kay, let’s try again…
This is a supernatural thriller story.
The MC is… A thoughtless police chief who is unable to avert the terrible calamity to come.
The Setting is… A world where a lost city has been rediscovered.
The Story is about… A tragic series of murders.
Dingdingding! I can’t do this one because it sounds too much like The City of Ember.
But this is fun and I could do it all day…
Oakie-doakie, so far I’ve come across The Caves of Steel, Heart of Darkness, Huckleberry Finn, and everything ever printed by Clive Cussler, including the new collaborations with his son. The fact that these were all generated by a randomizing app is proof that every possible story has already been written.
So I think I might go with the Lovejoy-esque story “A detective thriller story wheere e main character is an artistic pirate who thinks everyone is watching him set in a monarchical nation where births are arranged by the state and an unforeseeable series of murders unfold.” Or maybe the one about the wise hotel manager with a mark that condemns him as a criminal during the roaring twnties in a secret clubhouse, where one man’s search for truth in a world gone mad leads to some kind of conclusion. Then again, the cool inventor with the power to regenerate from any wound who lives in Charleston WV in the distant future who gets involved with a powerful alien technology and discovers that using it has a cost sounds great… Except that it’s the inversion of 1632, and I already have a 1632 fanfic underway…
Hmmm….
