Running on empty
Help!
My muse has up and left, taking the TV and half the CD collection. I seem to be completely lost (or found, as explained later), and I need some ideas from you lot…I must be desperate!!
Give me something, anything! Naughty or nice, obscene, innocent, twisted, simple, complex….just give me something! I’ll take a cattle prod to the brain right now if it helps stir something up there…
I haven’t been this empty on ideas for a long time and I’m almost starting to think straight, like a…*gasp* normal human being! I’m always lost in an interesting thought, or a devious plot line, a bloodcurdling array of sickening flashes that I can turn into a short story or the beginning my next novel. Without any ideas my mind is starting to clear away the fog of imagination and peer out into the…*gulp* real world, bleargh!
I don’t like it!
Hellllllllppp…
Just so you know, I'm not looking for a full blown synopsis. Just a "wouldn't it be funny if" or "x and y mean that z has to"…that kind of stuff.
Although a full blow by blow plot outline (including a signed disclaimer) wouldn't be turned away 😛
LOL to your post, comment and the picture! Aah…when the muse leaves us dry. A great suggestion for this instance is to have prompt bowl, into which you put all the ideas you think off at those odd times (like washing thr dishes). Doesn't have to be more than a line or two. Then, when the muse takes a well-earned holiday, you've got some ideas on standy-by.
Okay. Here's something that might get those brain cells firing:
You've decided to join the latest craze – zombies as pets – and buy a newly-turned zombie to keep your rat and seagull infestation at bay. But when you get it home it refuses to eat meat – it was a vegetarian in its previous life. What do you do with it?
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seems to me like you need a complete break from writing. I would guess your muse has packed her bikini and sun tan cream and gone off for poolside R & R. She'll come back if you give her a week or so off. 🙂
Have you tried this website: http://www.archetypewriting.com/muse/generators/plot.htm
Well seeing as it's Groundhog Day.. what if a pretty normal guy wakes up totally unexpected one morning as a Zombie and he has to live through lots of Groundhog Day loops until he finds out how/what/where/why.
I got nothing. My own muse pretty much just stuck a whisk in my ear and scrambled my brains. Sigh.