Everything's going fine in the real world. Some daily stresses, a few undone chores, some goals, a vet appointment, a school meeting: but otherwise pretty uneventful.
I saw Cloud Atlas. Awesome movie. The nudity sucks, but at least it's surprisingly brief for a relatively romantic film.
I'm reading a book called The Cloud Atlas, which is not like the movie at all, haha. It's about the Japanese war balloon crisis in 1945. A pretty okay book. It's starting to get interesting. I only started reading it a while ago.
In the roleplay world, I already mentioned the debuting of multiple sites happening with in the next few weeks. It's all going smooth and silky.
But then there's writing.
D:
So, it's day 7 and everything's going great, then suddenly...
A plot bunny popped up.
It wiggled its button nose, flicked its ears, wagged its tail.
It was cute, but could be ignored.
Then another one appeared.
Then another.
THEN another.
And... wait for it...
ANOTHER ONE!
Darn things have started breeding again. Granted, they aren't enough to get in the way of Through Struggle, but they're becoming more and more demanding. I find my thoughts drifting to these little bunnies more often than I should.
I want to blame movies on this.
You see, I'm the sort of person who watches a movie (this rarely happens with books) and I think, "I could have made this better."
And then the movie plots I liked and the concepts I enjoy playing with and my ideas of how to make it better build up on each other.
It all started with Ender's Game. I have loved the concept of child soldiers ever since... well, I cannot remember. But it's been there for years and years.
When I saw Ender's Game, it reawakened the intrigue for that concept. I let it churn in my head.
On the same day, in the previews, I had seen a trailer for this movie called Delivery Man. Now don't freak out at the word I'm about to use. In it, a man donated sperm to a sperm bank, and after a mix up at the bank, he wound up with 500 kids.
So the concept of someone having 500 kids churned in my head. I myself am a big fan of having huge families, either through natural process or adoption or both. (One family I know adopted 14 kids.)
Then I was online this week going over my site the Hunger Games.
And as I lay awake in bed going over story ideas, I thought about having to read book 2 and 3 of the HG series. I thought about what my friend told me is going to happen, the characters I'll meet, and then I thought of a fanfiction concerning Finnick Odair.
I am in love with District 4, mostly because I love water. So Finnick Odair, ever since I first heard of him, struck me as an awesome guy.
So while I was thinking of Hunger Games, my sporadic brain slammed me with Ender's Game and that Delivery Man trailer and suddenly: intense idea!
The idea was this (will be taken down from here because I am paranoid of plagiarism):
Before the games portion of the Hunger Games begin, during the stylist stage, a sample of their, well, heh, reproductive stuff > . > is taken from each tribute. When the victor has been decided, all other samples are destroyed.
Instead of following the tributes in the Games, the beginning of the story follows the journey of the sample of Katniss Everdeen. It sits in a cryo chamber awaiting its fate. As she is announced the victor of the Hunger Games along with Peeta Mellark, the rest of the samples are destroyed.
Only the stuff of victors is worth anything anyway.
More samples are taken from Katniss and Peeta. Many, many more during their surgeries at the Capital.
Then these lucky samples are shipped to the island of Hawaii.
Inside a genetic laboratory, these samples are fused with samples from other victors. They are altered and rearranged and transformed. Eventually, the samples are stimulated to come together and create an actual being.
Grown inside special, amniotic chambers, the fetuses develop into babies, and from there, they begin a structured developmental cycle as they are trained to be soldiers.
Children soldiers.
The main character of this story is one of three hundred, all siblings, all genetically engineered children of Katniss Everdeen and Finnick Odair.
And from there, I have a million and one plot holes and an equal number of plots. Who do they fight? Where? How does Katniss' rebellion affect them? Do they ever rebel themselves? Etc.
It might become an actual book someday, minus the Hunger Games portion, but for now it is the only fanfiction I will ever be writing. I think. If I ever do.
So yah, what about you guys? What do movie trailers or books or music or movies inspire you to write? What brilliant ideas come to mind? How many do you throw together, and how does it all come together in the end?
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