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A kid or teenager or whatever wishes to become an adult. The wish is granted, but they skip forward in time doing this and don't remember anything that happened between then and the new present, so the premise is they have to figure out what happened in the pasty twenty-something years and all the poo poo they may or may not have done. I think that's a million dollar idea so if you turn that idea into a huge media empire you owe me a million dollars. Otherwise I'll take ten bucks for beer money.
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It would also be a good TV show or movie idea but those require other people and writing books is probably easy as gently caress, so go with the book first and then have other people make TV shows and movies and porn parodies and take in the cash.
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Aug 1, 2022 21:51
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Aug 1, 2022 21:53
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But has anyone written the Click novelization yet? That's free money just lying on the table.
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Aug 1, 2022 21:55
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Kevin James better hope he never gets really desperate for money or else Adam Sandler will make him star in a movie where it's just james getting kicked in the balls for 2 hours with a 4 hour director's cut.
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Aug 1, 2022 21:57
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How about a story where there's a sword in a rock and a hero has to get it out, like King Arthur, but in this case there's some immortal guy impaled on the sword and is screaming for centuries asking for some hero to get him the gently caress out of there. The movie adaptation would be a good role for Andy Dick or Pauly Shore or whoever is still alive at that time.
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Aug 1, 2022 22:03
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Mega64 posted:How about a story where there's a sword in a rock and a hero has to get it out, like King Arthur, but in this case there's some immortal guy impaled on the sword and is screaming for centuries asking for some hero to get him the gently caress out of there.
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Aug 1, 2022 22:07
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Mega64 posted:How about a story where there's a sword in a rock and a hero has to get it out, like King Arthur, but in this case there's some immortal guy impaled on the sword and is screaming for centuries asking for some hero to get him the gently caress out of there. If this was an Adam Sandler movie, the sword would be stuck in the guy's rear end.
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Aug 1, 2022 22:09
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The novel is based on the original script, not the final shooting script. You have major changes to the story, such as the inclusion of an antagonist character who can take photographs of people with a polaroid camera that the developed picture will always show exactly what their subject is doing at that current moment. But he and the main character learn their 'clickers' prevent either one from using their devices on the other. There is a zinger at the end of the film where we discover several 'click' objects have infiltrated our reality and gotten into the hands of random people. A man with a click gun, a woman with a click key, a man with a dog clicker, etc. All of them capable of doing their own thing and the realization that other click users are out there with a hint at a Click War sequel. Man, I wished they would have used the original script...
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Aug 1, 2022 22:13
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If it were a Twilight Zone, the kid would realize he's Hitler.
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Aug 1, 2022 22:13
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There should be one where a cult tries to convince a person that they are a child of chinese cops and that they don’t remember anything correctly from their childhood. In the absence of perfect photographic memory, the guy decides to look up some poo poo for nostalgias sake on the internet. The internet, however, has been altered. Song lyrics are different, historical references changed. Teetering on non-perfect memory and a prevalent exposition of altered facts, the guy develops a schism and starts believing that he is actually chinese (although he is Persian) and accepts that the internet is how things actually how things were, and maybe his memory is shaky because of all the abuse he didn’t remember from his chinese cop parents. So anyways he starts spouting off things he reads on the internet that don’t match up with history, and this triggers a number of INS flags. This stages a scenario where he can be nerve gassed at will for displaying any signs of being a foreign entity, or even worse, black ops start believing he’s an alien who didn’t even grow up on this planet. The cult begins initiating fact discrepancy triggers to kill him. Oh, my dear boy, you called the breakfast potatoes fries. Here comes somebody to gas you. The elastic in your socks has worn out. Gas. You cried during a sad movie. Death. Eventually the cult gets the government to kill him, and they hold this vigil where it’s like, jeez, we tried so hard to reform this guy. We gave him all the chances in life that a dog at a rescue shelter would have. I mean, we’re the real heroes here, this guy had his moments but he betrayed us with his accents and his clothes and basically any time he spoke we got super angry. He was the cop child we were going to turn into a good person, he was the bitch we were going to make good. But he was into all this stuff we couldn’t stand for, like speaking with an accent, speaking at all, speaking about things happening in front of him, wearing clothes that wasn’t like lovely or whatever, drinking coffee, not being chinese when needed, liking Chinese food or Chinese things or Chinese people, knowing facts from his own life and history. It was just too much you see, they had to kill him by proxy and claim his fame for money. It got to be too much, and he wasn’t in his role enough, and he doesn’t have a perfect photographic memory of his entire life like people who have been recording it all for profit and social gains.
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Aug 2, 2022 18:32
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Mega64 posted:A kid or teenager or whatever wishes to become an adult. The wish is granted, but they skip forward in time doing this and don't remember anything that happened between then and the new present, so the premise is they have to figure out what happened in the pasty twenty-something years and all the poo poo they may or may not have done. This is literally the plot of 13 Going On 30 OP
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Aug 2, 2022 19:33
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this idea isn’t free, it has negative value and i’m gonna have to send you an invoice for the time spent reading it
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Aug 2, 2022 19:40
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Bad Purchase posted:this idea isn’t free, it has negative value and i’m gonna have to send you an invoice for the time spent reading it Pssshhhh yeah I have engineering rates buddy. 
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Aug 2, 2022 22:02
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I have an idea for a book, there’s no teenagers in it.
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Aug 2, 2022 22:21
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Nigmaetcetera posted:I have an idea for a book, there’s no teenagers in it. But then how will I capitalize on that lucrative YA market?
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Aug 2, 2022 22:32
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Mega64 posted:But then how will I capitalize on that lucrative YA market? I heard on the news that kids love fentanyl. Sell the kids fentanyl.
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Aug 2, 2022 22:47
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Aug 2, 2022 22:49
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A cook book with edible pages that taste like the food it describes.
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Aug 2, 2022 23:19
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My book idea is about a guy who posts on a message board in 2022 and is slowly dying inside That's it
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Aug 2, 2022 23:28
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Shinjobi posted:My book idea is about a guy who posts on a message board in 2022 and is slowly dying inside I've read your draft and it sucks.
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Aug 2, 2022 23:34
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Yeah, it does
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Aug 2, 2022 23:39
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The Alchemist posted:A cook book with edible pages that taste like the food it describes.
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Yer a time cop, Barry
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Aug 3, 2022 00:51
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here’s a good idea for a book: a motorcycle with a poosay in the seat. now that’s paper
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Aug 3, 2022 00:53
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This is just 13 Going on 30.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:here’s a good idea for a book: a motorcycle with a poosay in the seat. now that’s paper Why not two? Two Dykes, One Bike, The Greatest Love Story Every Told Also it ends with the bad guy falling in the Grand Canyon with a plastic explosive duct taped to his chest and he’s able to scream “MOTHERF-“ as he explodes. I hope it’s clear from the context I was trying to be homoinclusive, not homophobic. Nigmaetcetera fucked around with this message at 02:05 on Aug 3, 2022 |
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Mega64 posted:How about a story where there's a sword in a rock and a hero has to get it out, like King Arthur, but in this case there's some immortal guy impaled on the sword and is screaming for centuries asking for some hero to get him the gently caress out of there. Yeah, Pauly Shore is still alive. I saw him perform at Helium a few months back. It went about how you might expect that to go. And he looks real fucken old now so the living for centuries thing is like, perfect casting. He'd also totally be down for the role, half of his act was about how he's upset that he's not popular any more.
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Aug 3, 2022 02:02
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OP, you clearly have excellent writing skills, as demonstrated by your use of a period in the thread title. So don't underestimate yourself, you can write these books and get rich! Write more like Chuck Tingle though, check out his books for style and plot ideas.
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Aug 3, 2022 03:04
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Still waiting for your novelization of “Paul Blart: Mall Cop”, OP. Get on that before you start on any new ideas!
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Aug 3, 2022 03:45
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I already wrote the best book idea. It's like what the OP posted except good and very classy. Assault On Ball's Deep
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BigBadSteve posted:OP, you clearly have excellent writing skills, as demonstrated by your use of a period in the thread title. So don't underestimate yourself, you can write these books and get rich! Write more like Chuck Tingle though, check out his books for style and plot ideas. There's a Chuck Tingle book where a Parasaurolophus is dating a talking motorcycle, but that relationship is very toxic. This is because the motorcycle symbolizes his self-destructive "bad boy" lifestyle. His relationship with the main character is obviously healthier and more fulfilling to them both, but he struggles with his old habits. It's a Harry Potter parody. What I'm saying is that OP's never going to reach Chuck Tingle's level.
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Blurry Gray Thing posted:There's a Chuck Tingle book where a Parasaurolophus is dating a talking motorcycle, but that relationship is very toxic. This is because the motorcycle symbolizes his self-destructive "bad boy" lifestyle. His relationship with the main character is obviously healthier and more fulfilling to them both, but he struggles with his old habits. I didn't know if you were joking so I googled it, and found the Amazon page and this lengthy literary review: http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/trans-wizard-harriet-porber-and-the-bad-boy-parasaurolophus-by-chuck-tingle Yep, that sure sounds like a work of genius.
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chuck posted:“I’m gay,” Bumbleborn says. [This is literally the first thing he says to Harriet when they meet.] Lmao
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END CHEMTRAILS NOW posted:Terrible idea. Imagine you're going through the book sampling the pages to try the recipes. You find one that's really delicious. It's so good you just keep eating it, then oh poo poo, now you don't have the recipe anymore. That's the beauty of it. Everyone has to buy at least two copies. Thats double the sales of a normal cook book 
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Aug 3, 2022 07:15
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A book series set in the 80s where the Pizza Hut "Book It" program inspires a group of kids to create a vast scamming and bullying empire in their school to acquire cheap/free pizza from Pizza Hut.
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JediTalentAgent posted:A book series set in the 80s where the Pizza Hut "Book It" program inspires a group of kids to create a vast scamming and bullying empire in their school to acquire cheap/free pizza from Pizza Hut. The Book It Club The Book It Club: Shakey-Down Pizza The Book It Club and the Great Anchovy Capers The Book It Club Says Cheese The Book It Club vs. the Math League The Book It Club Goes Hawaiian The Book It Club: Deep Dish Secrets The Book It Club: Counterfeit Dough The Book It Club: Hut of Cards The last book is "Book It: It's the Cops."
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Aug 3, 2022 10:41
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Das Boo posted:The Book It Club As if plucked from an alternate dimension, those titles are perfect!!
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Some kind of book that basically just explains all the english words in alphabetical order. Like wikipedia, but in physical books!
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The Alchemist posted:Some kind of book that basically just explains all the english words in alphabetical order. Like wikipedia, but in physical books! Impossible! There’s, like, a few hundred words, how you gonna fit those in one book? 
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