Each Tuesday, rather than a POSSIBLY
IRRITATING ESSAY, I'd like to both challenge you and lend a helping hand. I
generate more speculative and teen story ideas than I can ever use. My family
rolls its collective eyes when I say, "Hang on a second! I just have to
write down this idea..." Here, I'll include the initial inspiration
(quote, website, podcast, etc.) and then a thought or two that came to mind.
These will simply be seeds -- plant, nurture, fertilize, chemically treat,
irradiate, test or stress them as you see fit. I only ask if you let me know if
anything comes of them. Regarding
Fantasy, this insight was startling: “I see the fantasy genre as an
ever-shifting metaphor for life in this world, an innocuous medium that allows
the author to examine difficult, even controversial, subjects with impunity.
Honor, religion, politics, nobility, integrity, greed—we’ve an endless list of
ideals to be dissected and explored. And maybe learned from.” – Melissa
McPhail.
F Trope: good vs
evil If you’ve never read THE DARK IS RISING series by Susan Cooper – you
should!
But this is just
an idea day, so read the article above about the possibility of Vladimir Putin
reassembling the old USSR out of its original annexed nations.
What if he was
training a group of teens and then lost control of them to the demon Blud, who
sows disorientation – chaos – wherever he goes… and a group of them met at an
abandoned “reeducation camp” east of Moscow…to discover they were avatars of
Perun, Morana, Triglav, and Belobog…and didn’t particularly WANT the Union to
pull back together? What if they set out to stop Vladimir Putin, who, by all
accounts is a devout Christian (http://hollowverse.com/vladimir-putin/)...
Names: All
Russian or Polish...
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