[Radioactive Poltergeist]

So this is a thread where board members give me ideas for this awful "creative" writing course I took for kicks at university.

I just realised that every word I have written so far has been written simply to mock the person who, as I have just now discovered, is marking my work.

[Radioactive Poltergeist]

And this of course involves me having no sleep tonight

[MellySingsDoom]

Idea #1 - you're in a room (any room) in which you've woken up. On the floor is a dead body, and there's banging on the door. You can just about climb out of the window, but what do you do? Escape, and become a murder susepct, or stay and explain your way out of it?

[Radioactive Poltergeist]

Interesting. But who is behind the door? This will have major implications for the plot.

[Cantankerous]

Originally Posted by Radioactive Poltergeist

Interesting. But who is behind the door? This will have major implications for the plot.

you're supposed to be CREATIVE, you can't think of anything on your own?

[MellySingsDoom]

Originally Posted by Radioactive Poltergeist

Interesting. But who is behind the door? This will have major implications for the plot.

It's not the police, or the mafia etc - imagine it to be someone whose voice you vaguely recognise, and not for particularly good reasons either - a voice that gives you a vague sense of dread.

[Radioactive Poltergeist]

Who do you think is behind the door cantankerous?

[Cantankerous]

whoever the fuck you want to be behind the door. jesus. groucho marx. whoever.

[Radioactive Poltergeist]

Originally Posted by MellySingsDoom

It's not the police, or the mafia etc - imagine it to be someone whose voice you vaguely recognise, and not for particularly good reasons either - a voice that gives you a vague sense of dread.

I am imagining someone like Milo from catch 22.

[pbradley]

How long does the short story have to be?

[Radioactive Poltergeist]

I'm looking at 5000 words. I can't really take it seriously. The lectures are talking earnestly about all these groundbreaking post modern techniques and all I want to do is laugh at them.

[Radioactive Poltergeist]

Originally Posted by Shaka Moloch

Ideas:
Write in another language.

Using a free translation tool on the internet this could potentially be hilarious.

[pbradley]

I have lots of ideas for short stories but I can't really describe them without writing them entirely out. Often they are just snippet descriptions about reactions, thoughts, movement, observations. A little while ago I thought of a scene in which a girl waited for me in my room and asked about a painting on my wall. As of right now, I feel like writing some Shakespearian/Dune inspired Sci-Fi because of a dream I had.

[pbradley]

If you want to bore the tears out of the reader, describe a writer writing about a writier describing another writer writing about another writer writing, etc.

[Radioactive Poltergeist]

I react to that kind of thing as well, but if I try to add more depth I always ending up by badly immitating Borges.

[Radioactive Poltergeist]

Originally Posted by pbradley

If you want to bore the tears out of the reader, describe a writer writing about a writier describing another writer writing about another writer writing, etc.

The marker would eat that up. Probably talk some crap about breaking the boundries of the page. Creative Writing teachers remind me of Fifteen year olds who have just discovered French philosophy for the first time.

[Radioactive Poltergeist]

Allen Ginsberg did this quite a lot. This is also similar to one day in the life of Ivan Denisovich I think...

[MellySingsDoom]

Write a story about a boy wizard and his magic powers, and entitle it "Parry Hotter".

[Radioactive Poltergeist]

I might write about this guy who gets pissed off about the Israelis shelling his house

[ALIEN ANAL]

A man comes across a never ending drip coming from the sky and builds a massive factory around it and never tells anyone about the water and yeh