Anyone else enjoy writing in spare time? share some ideas you have for short stories or full on novels

nah honestly real respect to you for working and builing upon this world from such a young age. i would scrap the vampires and just replace them with normal demons desu. i would also do a lot of research on biblical stories and themes for references. the human council sounds cool, are they hunting angels, demons, or both? and are the angels and demons fighting over dominion of earth or something else? if heaven is ruled by a winged ruler, does a god figure play into your story world at all or is it less biblical than i seem to be getting at? im no pro by any means so im not sure id be much help but i love discussing ideas like this
thanks for the ideas user i really like the inclusion of old pictures and belongings since nostalgia tends to be a theme i go back to again and again. the waves will def play a part as well since i think the imagery of them crashing on rocks that a ighthouse is founded upon is both majestic and primal

It's about a depressed girl (her older brother was killed in a robbery and her family fell apart) in her last months of high school. She leads a miserable life until she is visited by an angel in her dreams who gives her superpowers (like in magical girl shows, with dumb costume and all). She finds renewed purpose in life through her powers, but the world is so fucking shitty that nothing really improves and she slowly realizes how awful everything is and how powerless she is to stop anything. There is no big evil or demon empire or an antagonistic supernatural force, just our plain old world (and some other people who get powers later on).
I want it to be bleak and dark but different enough to not be be called a madoka rip-off.
It's also set in Japan for extra weeb points.
The key to keeping motivated is just realizing that it will be shit no matter what so might as well have fun while still trying to make it passable YA tier shit at least. Weed also helps.

I'm going to try that too.

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yeah honestly i think if you want to make money YA is a good start. ive been wanting to do a YA series about gambling like how kaiji does it in a less mature and grotesque manner but itd be really hard to do fresh new games off the top of my head and im not sure how well the tension will adapt to movies if i ever get that far, which is a dream of mine. what super powers would she have? i like the bleak aspect of it but i can see why youre lacking an eding. good luck to you user.

another story idea i had was about a man whose job it is to cleanup roadkill and who runs into his old dog one day who went feral but retained his old dogtag. he would ask for some time off work, something he's never done before, and try to find out what the fuck happened to his dog for nearly 2 decades after he got lost and come to peace with the story

a comfy slice-of-life/possible action story where two youngish (16-17 y/o) sisters roam the badlands of an alien planet, meet a colorful cast of characters and live their lives.
how does one write a good ending? i need some sage advice.

another idea i had is about a guy who gets in deep wiht the mob and is buried alive but with a corpse. he somehow makes it out but discovers the corpse' identity afterwards because he's obsessed with his traumatic experience down there with it. he finds that it was supposed to be a suicide but his close up look at the corpse show signs of foul play, covered up by mobbed up doctors and medical exmainers, and he goes on to get invovled with the corpse's family to ease their troubled minds about the suicide and prove hat he was framed while doing not much to the mob because hes scared as fuck but becomes tied up again in that scene anyways

Haven't written it yet, but I want to write a digital CCG (collectable card game) where the single player story is about memetics. Each card is like a memetic "organism" adapted to the game world, and each character has their own take on memetics. E.g. one would be really religious and treat the cards as actual spirits, another would be scared of them, another would just be like a shounen protagonist who wants to compete with them and be "the best", another wants to study them... etc.

i think thats very cool, esp since it lends itself to branching out to other mediums and a franchise even. the balance would be hard as fuck though. ive never been huge into ccg but i figure power balance is really a breaker in these kinds of things

Yeah it's one of the biggest problems with ccg. But it's not so bad for digital ones since you can just change the card if it's unbalanced and give everyone who got one of that kind a refund.

yeah good point. it must be a nightmare to try and balance in a novel though since ou have to explain so much. good luck though, i would be interested in reading it

I like your ideas user. And also I have the same problem with keeping things fresh like Jojo does with fights and powers or Death Note with mindgames, so I want to focus more on drama.
The powers are greatly influenced by the personality and mental state of people, so the application of her powers is mostly defensive and later she starts adapting it to be deadly. She starts with the usual force field shit and then more gimmicky uses like creating solid platforms to stand and jump from, making force fields explode, creating wings to glide through the air, creating force fields inside objects or people and cutting them, and so on.

>He dreams about movie adaptations
iktf

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Thanks! This is actually the first time I've mentioned the idea to anyone so it's encouraging that you're so supportive.

haha yeah its a long shot for sure but if we're trying to make it writng everything is a long shot so might as well go big right? does that mean there are others with powers that are influenced by their personalities? that would be more interseting to see how the powers reflect deep character values and how the upper hand is gained.
best of luck again user, it seems like a really hard route to go but i hope you can make it. make me a card one day in easter egg format

>middle aged alcoholic stockboy drinks to avoid his life and the noises he hears in the walls.
>teams up with rebellious teenage girl and mute crazy homeless woman to stop a serial child rapist
>tie in notchuluthu, missing homeless children, blood sacrifice and (((people))) in power
>robot finds meaning working in a homeless shelter

are those all the same stroy? how does the robot play into it? maybe since its the last bit but it seems like an afterthought more than anything else. have you done any research into serial killers/rapists and methods used to take them down?

No, I haven't done the research. Those are all the same story. The "robot" isn't a robot, just the stockboy from before. And yeah, I'm not sure I want him to find redemption at the end.

ah fair enough. yeah i dont think every character needs a redemption arc in a story. i do think its nic to include characer development and youve done so by connecting the stockboy with the homeless woman. i would def encourage research just to give your story that extra bit, it really does make a differnece and you feel more confident writing

A nature show (kinda of like national geographic) goes and researches and spends time with and native group from like africa or whatever. After staying their for a while they realize wierd things are happening like part of the camera crew goes missing or they start hearing wierd chants in the night. Later they found out the tribe are sacrificial cannibals and the tribe plans on killing and eating the Americans in horrific ways by trapping them and such. Idk onenof you guys write it bc i cant write lol.

why dont you write user? its nice to have your own ideas and worlds out on written word. everybody sucks at first, and honestly continues sucking, but if you have a desire try it out. i would also change it to a screenplay since that will capture the found footage feel your idea is giving off better

I like this idea, but I'm not sure I would in the "gets off on it" direction. At least, not in a sexual way. It might alienate the reader. Maybe he likes imagining what the people are like. Not sure what direction you were really aiming for, though.
The rapist isn't really the main villain, just a way to introduce the otherworldly things, that maybe live in sewers and subway tunnels and whatnot.
It's ultimately just a surrealist horror story about how easy it is to get lost and disappear, both metaphorically and physically in modern america, whether homeless or not.

thanks, and yeah im more intersted in the loneliness of the baggage claimer and how he wants to connect in a small way im not sure why i wrote gets off since its a sexual thing
thats a really nice take on it, and i think having otherworldly figures will be a good touch. i can understand the phsyical aspect but how do you plan on incorporating the metaphorical aspect of becoming lost?

Idk Im just really bad at grammer I geuss but its something i could defiantly work on, thanks user.

Oh. I meant like how a robot, as in an /r9k poster, is "lost" in modern America. Represented by the alcoholic stockboy who has given up on life. Similar to how your baggage handler could be considered to be lost. He just kind of fell through the cracks, ya know? And who knows what lies beneath?

no problem and good luck user. most people are grammatically handicapped anyways including myself lol. im an english major and i stilll have trouble being grammatically correct since thats not something that gets taught, at least in america, past elementary school. i think having an editor helps a lot but practice helps much more
ahh okay that makes so much more sense lol sorry about my reading skills. i love that theme a lot too, most of my ideas tend to have that kind of thing included

Also, gets off wasn't always just a sexual thing. Used to mean just something you enjoy, that gets your rocks off but intellectually. So your usage was right, just vague and misleading in the modern context.

hm thanks i didnt know that ive only ever heard it in the sexual context. i thin kill still avoid using it unless i want to include that sexual vibe since most modern reader would link the word to that meaning

i wrote a short story about a married swan couple where the female swan felt unfulfilled in her marriage and went on a night out and met a couple of black swans and ended up having getting involved in a gangbang, the husband swan found out and hung himself using reeds and the cygnet was left with a drug addicted mother swan and no father swan

I once thought of an idea inspired by PUBG. A naive High Schooler goes on vacation with his family to Aruba and gets left behind. Then he gets involved in gang warfare and has to fight his way back. By the end of the narrative he would be a hardened soldier.

Although I've wanted to get into writing for a while now I haven't had the patience to sit down and do it.

sounds like a modern version of mr tucket, a favorite of mine when i was a kid. yeah the sitting down and getting to it is a huge issues isnt it? fuck me i wish i could just focus more

I haven't written anything in a long time. I wrote a few characters for tabletop RPGs but they were nothing special, really.
Lately I've been wanting to write a manga or webcomic around the Tekken storyline. I feel like the series had a lot of potential storywise and a surprising amount of emotional depth, but being a fighting game the creators just stopped giving a shit about the story and sidecast after Tekken 4, which I think is a damn shame.

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ive never been into tekken or anyother fighting game but is jin and his family still the main focus of the games?

I used to love Gary Paulsen as a kid, but I never knew about that one. I still have The Rifle in my bookshelf but I liked Hatchet more.

>The Rifle
i have never heard of this, thanks user ill have to find the ebook of it and download it. desu idk how the tucker series holds up but it was all really good fun as a young kid. hatchet is based though fuck me gary paulsen made my young self feel like a man

Yeah, which would be fine if every single character apart from the main trio hadn't completely disappeared from focus. Hell, Tekken 7 didn't even have the standard arcade mode with midway cutscenes and narrated prologues and endings. The only thing each character got was one fight and a lame cutscene that looks like shit because it was created in the game engine and not animated seperately.

Lots of the smaller side-plots of other characters have been straight-up dropped or reduced to mere footnotes, and I want to fix that.

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i was a king/kuma 'main' as a kid since they were a bit different lol. suck at fighting games though

Just found Hatchet on someone's Google Drive: docs.google.com/file/d/0B7dN6H-S19wlLUl0bm1BeDRsV28/edit

based. i have it on my phone and have read it again a few months back. man it takes me back

After getting sick of the internet I thought of writing a Steam Punk narrative with legalized pot. The protagonist learns how to play guitar and his love interest keeps encouraging him. Eventually she starts playing guitar too and they sing a duet together at the town fair. I've been wanting to get good at guitar too instead of endlessly refreshing threads so it was partly a visualization of the goal and me trying to think of encouraging ideas.

Yeah, so do I. That's how it is when you're a weirdo who plays fighting games for the plot.

I've been thinking of writing this one for a while. It's about a guy who works in an old decaying fertilizer factory. The place is falling apart, so the sewage pipes leak and mix in with the fertilizer. All of the employees unknowingly get covered in each other's shit every day while working.

He ends up falling in love with a hooker who lives in his apartment complex, and they start dating. They move in together. On the side, he starts selling fertilizer with high ammonium nitrate levels to a domestic terror organization, just so that the hooker can stop working and so he can provide for her.

Eventually, the police start catching onto him. He feels the heat. After getting questioned, he goes home to talk to his girlfriend. He gets home, and his girlfriend is covered in shit from a client with a scat fetish. That's it. The one thing in his life not covered in shit has been corrupted.

That night, he goes into the factory that he works at, turns on the machines, shoots himself, and falls into a processing machine that grinds him up with the fertilizer.

Last paragraph describes his finger lying 2 feet underground in a nice old lady's garden with sunflowers growing above him.