Like all underachieving zoomers I constantly have a thousand ideas in my head that will never come to fruition so here they are.
The first one is about a ghost that travels through space. I was thinking about the fact that a ghost is essentially immortal so they’ll stick around long after The Earth has been eaten by the sun. You could have the ghost look around at space and eventually find something special enough that they can finally pass on peacefully.
The second one is a book about humans discovering alien races. It is then discovered that all planets had Jesus show up at some point. I don’t want this book to be a preachy Christian book, rather I want it to be a look at how Christianity could have developed had, for example, everyone believed Jesus instantly. I want to book to be a series of interviews conducted by an impartial and agnostic individual. I don’t think the book even has to be about Christianity specifically but I just want to stick to what I know.
The last one might have already been done. I want to tell the story of a town through a few newspaper articles. This one is a more recent thought of mine and is not quite as fleshed out but I think it has potential. I’m pretty sure this sort of structure has been done before but I think it could still make a very engrossing book. If you do the entire news paper, obituaries, ads and all the other stuff I think you could make quite a few compelling threads beyond the main one. But it might be too difficult so maybe not.
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I always thought a story of Earth being inducted into the "intergalactic federation" where all our natural resources are more abundant on other alien species planet's, however no other race has been introduced to mind altering drugs and earth becomes a huge intergalactic drug empire.
There's probably been similar stories though, idk I don't read much sci-fi.
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I like this one. So do aliens come to Earth illicitly? I've never exactly seen humans are the exploitative criminals of the galaxy, but there's a lot out there.
Probably want to look at opium war stuff, British East India Company parallels. Megacorporations focused on addicting different species to different classes of narcotics.
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I think I'd want to start it a few decades after Earth's induction, so it doesn't get bogged down by minutiae. So, maybe the governing body doesn't understand the effects the drug market is going to have by it being completely open, and start trying to put regulations in place, however the cats already out of the bag.
I was thinking more smugglerish, but I like that idea of Earth being like a big drug resort. Also the targeted drug manufacturing sounds really cool too.
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That's the plot to Troy Rising by John Ringo, it's a bad book though.
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Even if there have been similar books, no one told it quite the same way. Tons of books share similar ideas. It's a pretty good premise, especially if you can bullshit your way through some pharmacology.
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I’m pretty sure all 3 of these have been /r/writingprompts posts lmao. Trans lives matter
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Here's some unsolicited critique:
1. Write this as a shorty story, 6k words max.
2. Hella boring, there has to be a plot. The story of a space anthropologist and somehow interweave lives of particular aliens? Idk. Books about general ideas are not fun to read.
3. For a published work this structure is incredibly tiresome. No one wants to work to read a narrative. Might work as a weird online publication where it's presented as a real newspaper.
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Isn't 3 similar to how Dracula is written?
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Dracula is a series of diary entries, so maybe somewhat similar but a diary is so much more personal than just a newspaper article.
The Onion used to do something like this with opinion columnists, my favs were Jim Anchower and Jean Teasdale. They were opinion pieces on their face but were more about the disastrous lives of the columnists
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You right, for whatever reason I thought it was a series of ledgers and stuff like that, and you kind of piece the story together that way. You can definitely convey a lot more emotion and feeling through diary entries.
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I think there were one or two newspaper clippings, maybe one about that vampire girl stealing kids, probably one about the dardanelles being closed and one about the plague? But i could be rememebering the movie Nosferatu instead
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Oh I didn’t think about making the last one an online installation piece. That’s a good idea if I could keep up the stamina for it. Thanks for the critique.
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I like the second one but it’d be a hard sell. Christcucks will see blasphemy or whatever and atheists don’t want to read about Jesus.
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