Fighting some writer’s block lately? Need an inspirational kick start? Then this is a little game/contest that I really wish I had thought of. However, it was the wonderful genius behind Paperback Writer who has come up with Dictionary: Impossible. How to play? Well, you can go over to her link and read her instructions. Basically, flip through a dictionary and write down the first ten random words you see.
My words:
Impair
Numerous
Obvious
Marrying
Contradictions
Forgiveness
Somewhere
Crushing
Horizon
Items
Step number two, turn those words into at least three novel titles.
My titles:
1. Numerous Contradictions
2. Crushing Horizon
3. Marrying Somewhere
4. Obvious Items
5. Impair Forgiveness
Lastly, create a story premise for each title.
My stories:
1. A Make Your Own Adventure story where you wake up one day and discover that the entire world disagrees with you on everything and anything. No matter what. You’re just wrong. Every page choice results in your death.
2. That sunset seems to be getting closer everyday…but it must be some kind of atmospheric optical illusion. If that’s the case, though, why are all the sunrises starting to get so unbearably hot?
3. Susie was supposed to be getting married today. But after a freak accident with the coffee maker and a semi truck that barreled through her living room at exactly 4:14 AM, she can’t quite remember where she’s getting married, or even who it’s to. But that truck driver is looking awfully handsome.
4. Turns out that household items such as silverware, kitchen appliances and doormats are in fact intelligent, extraterrestrial species that have been quietly invading the planet until they are ready to strike. That happens to be tomorrow morning, by the by. Enjoy your breakfast, human slaves.
5. Two men and their trained demon-flea circus decide to go on a mission to block God’s forgiveness from reaching humanity for the rest of eternity.
Now, she gives the option of taking this even further and will declare you the winner should you actually write the full stories for all of these titles. Anyone? Do I see that hand in the back? No? I just know someone is going to do this.
I see that smile.
Marrying Somewhere.
That one’s pretty good. But that’s Chick Lit or women’s fiction. 🙂
Mir
And who says I can’t do some genre hopping? Haven’t you seen my pen name on the pink-laced shelves? Look under “Buttercup.” And if I want to keep it paranormal, I can make the trucker some half-demon fellow with a cab full of lost souls that the woman must now help free while chasing down her memory. There’s always a twist.