Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Start With a Title, End With an Idea

So.... Its been a long time since a plinky topic has made me want to complete it badly enough that I came back to it a second time. I have to say that plinky is a real let down when you don't get through to the end of a post before you need to shut off etc. I suppose that is why I should write my own blog posts rather than simply answer these.



Thats irrelevant today because Plinky just asked me to title my masterpiece. I have to say that that is one of my favourite off and on hobbies. Books titles and ideas come to me all the time. Sometimes I write them down, sometimes I don't. I hope some day, when my writing abilities magically multiplies, that I can turn one of these casual story lines into a fully fledged book.


On the Bus
Emma is a mid-twenties city-dwelling office-working bore. At least that is why her colleagues say about her. She a vegetarian - and not one of those fashionable ones - not big on sharing her cause or making a song and dance out of her reasoning. She doesn't smoke, she doesn't drink, she's never rocked up to work on a Friday bleary eyed or attempted to use Mondayitis as an excuse for a three day weekend. Nobody knows exactly what she does in her spare time - simply that it must not be very interesting.



Tom could care less. He wears his formal business clothes a bit daggier than he should. He leaves work early when he feels like it. Nobody is about to tell him off - he's the boss. He isn't hugely into the parties these days but anything other than work is great so party he does - as many nights a week as possible. Unfortunately the one person senior to him is his mum. And she makes him help the environment by catching the bus to work..



This is a love affair of two people who happen to share the same bus to work. And how maybe they aren't as different as they seem...


Drop Dead Fred
A satire of every story that gave the main character everything they ever wanted.



Who knew Melanie had a great Uncle named Fred who wanted to give her everything he owned in life? Which was 10 million dollars, a bookstore and a library of first additions. She's a sensible girl she's seen the movies. Maybe the money isn't where she should find her pleasures. She tries to make herself content with the shop. Runs it herself... Every time she has a day off she experiences more of that party scene that having money to waste gives you access to. She realises - to hell with being good and right and following the script of a good girl's life - this money provides EXACTLY what she wanted all her life. She loves the men, loves the action. This girl just wants to have fun.


Sand Bottom Sound
A long long way from Iron Bottom Sound there lives a girl. A girl who knows the dangers of the every changing sands and the other underwater hazards of her home town. She also knows the darker secrets beneath the still waters of the Sound. How will she convince the new comer to town that the waters are unsafe? That even if you were to avoid the sand banks a far darker experience awaits anybody who dares take a boat out upon those waters.


Ellipse
A romance... completely unrelated to anything Twilight and Eclipse :P... This one is more of a just a title than some of the others I've mentioned... But something to do with a graphic artist. It talks about being incomplete and how perfection isn't necessarily the way society sees it. Maybe geniuses can draw perfect circles... and maybe they can draw beautiful ellipses instead.


An as yet unnamed romance
Despite all of the different ideas up there... If I was to write a story it would be a romance. Romance is the genre I know best, the genre I love best. I could never write a suspense thriller - I can't even watch thriller movie trailers... When I create a story in my head however it starts by the end it has a boy and a girl a conflict, a resolution and a happily ever after... I'll keep you posted :P


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