Monday, 8 October 2012

The Problem With Ideas

The main difficulty one has with the idea of writing a novel is the physical act of writing a novel. There is nothing to write about; nothing in my head, unless I look for it. Most of the time, though, I don't know where to look. So a circular process starts: want to write, can't write.
Story Pitches (one line)
A girl and her cat are befriended by a unicorn from another dirmension who is convinced that the little girl is his own world's lost queen.
A man wakes up hungover in a side-street in downtown  Seoul with no recollection of how he got there. On his wrist is the word 'Jemima'. In his back pocket, a receipt from a nightclub with the words '£23m, 1800' and tomorrow's date. What does he do?
A man is befriended by his future self in the carraige of a train on a long journey. The older man is on the run, and needs to borrow something from his past to return to their future.
The internet, banking and IT records of the Western world were accidentally erased by a careless student on work experience at Cisco, causing the collapse of Western society and an unforeseen run on formerly niche items such as hessian and all-weather trousers.

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