The All Knowing Idea Vomit Thread

[dustinzgirl]

Ok in this thread we are going to play a kind of game.
In no more than a paragraph, vomit out your best, worst, most boring, most interesting, most common or most odd ideas.

The point is to get the ideas out of the head....it doesn't have to be great, or perfect, or even grammatically correct. It just has to be an idea that you want to get out, hence: Idea Vomit.

I think this can help record some of our basic ideas, you know those little story snippets you think about when you are supposed to be thinking about something else or when you aren't even thinking about thinking about plots for stories.....

Basically, Idea Vomit.

I have this idea about a group of kids who are born at the exact same time, in the exact same hospital, with the exact same odd medical problem (a third eye perhaps?) and as these kids age, the parents begin to notice that they all look exactly the same, like in Village of the Damned. Only, instead of being evil, these children are supposed to be the bringers of good. But, the townspeople fear them and thier oddness and even thier parents try to kill them (like in that Buffy episode with the troll and hansel and gretel). So the kids escape, but are seperated as they escape and the rest of the story is about how they find each other again and begin to make changes in the world, small changes that have big impacts.

 

[jackokent]

Sounds good. Is there some reason why they need to be together, need to find eachother. I guess you'd need to have a reason why they were born like that in the first place... ie the grand plan.

Here's mine (not thought through at all)

Set in future, earth miliary exploration to another planet. Planet is peaceful but inhabitants that look like humans have many special abilities. This leads to to twitchyness and fear from humans and figting breaks out through complete misunderstanding. Earth miliary kill a lot of inhabitants and in fear of what they've done they decided to do a high level coverup and declare planet hostile and destroy whole thing. However, one very young alian sneaks abord ship coming back to earth and grows up plotting his revenge - downfall of human race. Indistinguishable from humans but with special abilities he rises to top of tree (either miliary or industry). Finally his goal is in site, he is in the position to start world war 3 or whatever. But having lived most of his life among humans can he really finally bring himself to destroy them all....

 

[thecommabandit]

One of the background ideas for one of my sci-fi stories is the idea of the Animus Machina (literally: soul machines) and the story of Adam, the first self-aware AI in history. He didn't rebel, he didn't hate his creators or try to kill humankind, he simply learned, lived and eventually requested to be deactivated. He was built a mobile frame after a few years, and went to meet all his younger brothers and sisters around the world, but was met with much mis-understood hatred. To this day all Animus Machina still refer to him as 'Our Adam' and regard him as the first of their kind, a savior and an example.

I also want to write a short story about the Animi's fight for equal rights and the eventual amendment of the UN Declaration of Human Rights to encompass animus-kind as well. It would detail the fight of OB50 and the Animus Movement's push for equal rights and would have similarities to protests in the '60's and the movement for equal rights for black people (I'm thinking perhaps a robotic Martin Luther King here, with a great speech with thousands of Animi and humans somewhere, a pivotal moment in Earth's history, just like Martin Luther King's Speech).

Hell, I feel like writing that second one right now!

(I wont though...)

Ooh! And looking through my concept documents on my computer, I remember an idea I had a while back to have a binary planet (two planets orbiting tightly around each other) called Romeo and Juliet. =) Awww, ain't it sweet?

 

[dustinzgirl]

Since I've been on this whole Jupiter kick since last night, I had this idea that I scratched out:

So say we were able to send a hot helium balloon (the only kind that could float in Jupiter's cold helium atmosphere) and were able to record all sorts of nifty stuff about Jupiter's insanely violent weather patterns....now say that there actually is life on Jupiter. Like, giant jelly fish that can float around in all the jet stream layers....like jelly angels, and are intelligent hydrogen (rather than water, since Jupiter has more H than H2O)....what would they think like, act like, behave like? What would the arrogant no life outside of earth human thoughts be like? Would we be afraid, curious, destructive or perservative? Could the story be written from the Jupiter jelly fish angel perspective, or would thier thought patterns be so unlike ours that it would be impossible to comprehend?

 

[chrispenycate]

Hot hydrogen balloon, not hot helium (read "a meeting with medusa" Arthur C. Clarke – oh, you have) Hydrogen's half the density of helium (four times the nucleus, but the helium molecule's monatomic, against the hydrogen's diatomic)
And with that much storm energy available wouldn't be more fun to have a variable geometry glider? Particularly as we don't know how widely separated the shear planes will be in Jupiter's agitated atmosphere, and the balloon would have to be enormous.
Oh, dear, just toss me an idea, and it's immediate regurgitation time; I knew I had a reasn to stay away from this thread.

 

[HardScienceFan]

I am reminded of the Adolf Schaller painting here
some of them online i see

 

[dustinzgirl]

Hot hydrogen balloon, not hot helium (read "a meeting with medusa" Arthur C. Clarke – oh, you have) Hydrogen's half the density of helium (four times the nucleus, but the helium molecule's monatomic, against the hydrogen's diatomic)
And with that much storm energy available wouldn't be more fun to have a variable geometry glider? Particularly as we don't know how widely separated the shear planes will be in Jupiter's agitated atmosphere, and the balloon would have to be enormous.
Oh, dear, just toss me an idea, and it's immediate regurgitation time; I knew I had a reasn to stay away from this thread.

Pendantics, semantics, schmantics!

They both start with H, after all.....

 

[HardScienceFan]

so look up Adolf Schaller in Google picture search Dusty

 

[The Ace]

Hmmm. OK, I've been bouncing this one around for a while;

The empire and the nomads have been bitter enemies since time immemorial, but the cult of the nameless goddess has unleashed a horror upon the world that only by fighting on the same side can they save humanity from an eternal damnation that makes extinction look pleasant.

 

[dustinzgirl]

so look up Adolf Schaller in Google picture search Dusty

Wow I didn't know that was his name! I've got several of his images saved to my desktop from nasa artist renderings. Cool.

 

[DarkBunni]

Alternate universe, nazis won the war, jews exterminated. People living in big brother type setting from '1964' Blonde blue eyed people nobility while brunettes are lower classes. red hair non exsistant., i dont know why.
story surronds free thinking teen boy in hitler youth and how the class divide affects him, how he is trying to grow up in the third reich and how events around him (people rioting, possible uprising) affects his opinions and veiws on life.

 

[anthorn]

Alternate universe, nazis won the war, jews exterminated. People living in big brother type setting from '1964'


1984 not 1964

 

[Paramour]

Oh, neat thread ^_^

Lyla House is starting her first year of High School. Though, unfortunately, she’s quiet unenthusiastic about it. Then again, one must consider her, well, most unique defect. Lyla, like her parents, are were-wolves. Lyla had previously attended Briarwood, a small, very private school, with kids much like herself. Lyla would have gone back to Briarwood Academy, had she not enraged the principle the past year and gotten herself expelled for bad behavior. With expulsion behind her, Lyla had to move into the open. It didn’t thrill her parents and it thrilled her even less. The rebellious red-head was keen on keeping to herself, but fate wouldn’t have it that way. Lylas first day has her thrown into a much more social, fast flowing life than the cold stones and routine of Briarwood. Lyla successfully alienates herself from the rest of the school when she defends a child prodigy, Kip, from a group of bullies. Her animalistic bluffs and growls don’t sit well with the bullies. Lyla may have scared them off, but her actions would have rumors spreading within days. Kip, who is unafraid of her oddity, quickly becomes her first friend. He introduces her to Eirainne, his sister and only other friend in the school. Together the trio try and navigate the social cliques without being eaten alive. Lyla joins the cross-country team, much to every ones distaste, where she quickly becomes the swiftest athlete on the team. This just gives the other girls another reason to hate her – she’s weird and better than them. On the end of her practice runs one day, Lyla stops in a secluded forest area and shifts into her wolf form to take a swim. She was supposed to meet Eirainne and Kip there later in the day, to fish. Kip and Eirainne arrive early and witness Lyla as she shifts back to her human self. Both are shocked and Lyla is embaresssed – but none run away. Kip, very shaken, tries to approach the situation scientifically. Eirainne, being the fantasy buff she was, is over-joyed that her best friend is a werewolf in disguise. Eirainne wants Lyla to bite her, so she can be one too – but Lyla has to explain that it doesn’t work that way, you have to be born one from at least one werewolf parent. Eirainne is simply beside herself with excitement at learning there are more people like Lyla.

Erm...that idea kinda ran away when I started typing In short, its a four part series that follow Lyla and her two friends through their highschool career. It's meant for the younger readers, mid-grade catagory, perhaps YA, I haven't actually written anything about it yet.

 

[igloo15]

Ok here is my idea for Science Fiction novel

Set in the future where another world war has been set off opposing factions are US and China and the world has been divided up among these lines. A nuclear war occurs and the entire world is utterly destroyed the remnant people of both factions now live in a post Apocalyptic world. One of the factions traveling though Egypt stumbles upon one of the Nuclear blasts that targeted the Pyramid area now a huge valley of rumble the pyramids are gone but under them an alien ship is found.

Inside the alien ship they find remnants of alien DNA and decide to start a project to embed the alien DNA in humans. Creating 14 space living ships with BIO domes and using all their possible resources they wipe the memories of 140,000 people and split them up among each of the vessels telling them that Earth is fine and they are on an exploration mission. Each of the vessels then have one of the alien/human hybrid babies put on them. The ships are sent into orbit with a 100,000 people on each. The people have no idea that the alien/human hybrid is among them except for a few select scientists.

The purpose is to instill the alien/human hybrids with a love for the humans and way of life around them so that when they come back to earth they will want to fight to save those people and way of life.

Thats how the book would of started I never was able to write it but I did alot of research and outlining hopefully one day I can get back to it.

 

[DarkBunni]

Alternate universe, nazis won the war, jews exterminated. People living in big brother type setting from '1964'


1984 not 1964

my bad ^^

 

[thecommabandit]

Weee, another one!

Well this time I just feel like writing a dungeon-crawl kind of thing, except in a sci-fi/cyberpunk setting. It's be awesome; I'd have mold-breaking characters like a hyperactive and obnoxious sniper instead of the steely, quiet and aloof one; a really tomboy-ish woman who isn't just a love interest, doesn't wear a bikini and only has an average skill with guns rather than being an uber-awesome-mega-sharpshooter who's sole purpose is being a "Look! We're totally not sexist!" character. And they'd all travel around the Orion Arm looking for alien ruins (kind of prehistoric/stone-age, not uber-technological) where they could find alien artefacts to sell as high art. It'd be like a generic D&D adventure except in space!

Man I've gotta write that sometime...

 

[dustinzgirl]

Weee, another one!

Well this time I just feel like writing a dungeon-crawl kind of thing, except in a sci-fi/cyberpunk setting. It's be awesome; I'd have mold-breaking characters like a hyperactive and obnoxious sniper instead of the steely, quiet and aloof one; a really tomboy-ish woman who isn't just a love interest, doesn't wear a bikini and only has an average skill with guns rather than being an uber-awesome-mega-sharpshooter who's sole purpose is being a "Look! We're totally not sexist!" character. And they'd all travel around the Orion Arm looking for alien ruins (kind of prehistoric/stone-age, not uber-technological) where they could find alien artefacts to sell as high art. It'd be like a generic D&D adventure except in space!

Man I've gotta write that sometime...

I'd read it. Especially if the woman is a normal and not super like they show men being...that would be refreshing.

 

[Aes]

How did I miss this gem of a thread?

Anyway, I've been tossing this idea around for a few days, but as usual, I'm hitting a brick wall with everyone's names, so it may or may not happen.

General setting: Your typical low-magic fantasy world, with the only "magic" existing in artifacts left from an ancient civilization*. For the most part, kingdoms have a ruling class, nobility, middle class, and then a poor class, pretty much like what we have in this day and age, minus the technology.

(* This is not implying any sort of post-apocalyptic world.)

Idea: The main character (tentatively named "Tarlia" with no last name, yet) is a typical, yet nontypical poor/middle class woman living with her mother and siblings to help make ends meet. She's incredibly artistic, not only with drawing and painting, but she also sings, dances, and acts at the local theatre with several of her friends.

Unfortunately for her family, they just can't make ends meet, so the city officials seize most of their money, possessions, and send our heroine to work the rest of the debt off in a brothel, or something similarly soul-crushing. (If it does end up being a brothel, I'll be avoiding as much of the smutty stuff as possible, don't worry)

So her outlook on basically everything sinks lower and lower, until one day, somebody being pursued, without any other options remaining, gives her a "memorystone" -- a relic from the old world capable of archiving a person's memories, thoughts, and anything they witness for others to see. What lies inside this particular stone is capable of unraveling a conspiracy that blankets the entire kingdom, although to learn anything from such a stone, one must first know what to look for, and how to access it. Of course, this kind of thing will be hunted endlessly by those whom it threatens, until it and anyone with the knowledge it holds is destroyed.

I'd continue to elaborate, but this is supposed to be a topic for general ideas, not short stories.

 

[Addy]

Alternate universe, nazis won the war, jews exterminated. People living in big brother type setting from '1964' Blonde blue eyed people nobility while brunettes are lower classes. red hair non exsistant., i dont know why.
story surronds free thinking teen boy in hitler youth and how the class divide affects him, how he is trying to grow up in the third reich and how events around him (people rioting, possible uprising) affects his opinions and veiws on life.

That sounds a lot like one of Philip K. Dick's novels. I forget which one.

 

[Addy]

Ok in this thread we are going to play a kind of game.
In no more than a paragraph, vomit out your best, worst, most boring, most interesting, most common or most odd ideas.

The point is to get the ideas out of the head....it doesn't have to be great, or perfect, or even grammatically correct. It just has to be an idea that you want to get out, hence: Idea Vomit.

I think this can help record some of our basic ideas, you know those little story snippets you think about when you are supposed to be thinking about something else or when you aren't even thinking about thinking about plots for stories.....

Basically, Idea Vomit.

I have this idea about a group of kids who are born at the exact same time, in the exact same hospital, with the exact same odd medical problem (a third eye perhaps?) and as these kids age, the parents begin to notice that they all look exactly the same, like in Village of the Damned. Only, instead of being evil, these children are supposed to be the bringers of good. But, the townspeople fear them and thier oddness and even thier parents try to kill them (like in that Buffy episode with the troll and hansel and gretel). So the kids escape, but are seperated as they escape and the rest of the story is about how they find each other again and begin to make changes in the world, small changes that have big impacts.

I like this one. Maybe you could write a thorough outline. Or a short story to be developed later into a novel.