What is the synopsis of the stories people are writing?

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  1. Commandante Lemming

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    but in all seriousness it sounds good.
     
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    cutecat22 The Strange One Contributor

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    I'm especially proud of the end scene where one of the robots is so advanced, he actually dies like a real person! spluttering, weeping, and forgiving his killers.

    o_O:D
     
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    cutecat22 The Strange One Contributor

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    Thanks!
     
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    HAHAHAHAHAHA!!
     
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    A young boy reflects on the past three years during his first week of seventh grade.

    Alien conspiracies, lightning, having ones wrist broken in an arm wrestle, confronting a close friend about the fate of their father, and traumatic nightmares. These are what the jackanape remembers.

    Oh, and dragons return after a 2012-year absence.
     
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    My story is about sibling rivalry at it's worst, one is willing to destroy the other and everything they hold dear just to get back at them.
     
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    Main project: A fantasy novel four recruits to an organisation that hunts monsters have to stop a plan to wipe out the remnants of humanity. Generic, but I'm trying to do an interesting setting.

    Side: A fantasy comedy about a group of idiotic heroes in training are kicked out of the academy after it is taken by an anti hero who tries to make everything gritty and extreme. The students then have to work out what to do between helping the academy, becoming mercenaries, or going home to cry to their mothers.

    Admittedly I do like fantasy.
     
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    A lonely crook finds that he broke into the wrong home.
     
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    Is Kryton from Red Dwarf the lead character?
     
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    cutecat22 The Strange One Contributor

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    No. Lol.

    I hope you realise we were joking ... My book doesn't feature robots at all.
     
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    No, cyborgs. At the end the cyborg is told "but you can't feel emotions, you are a machine" and its head explodes.
     
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    Not even in the symbolic sense? :confused:

    :p
     
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    My current WIP is about a girl who falls in love with a guy. The twist is, the guy is a billionaire philanthropist control freak by day and the abominable snowman by night.
     
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    Writing: Canadian Western about an aristocratic werewolf hunting for lost Martian artifacts. With zombies.

    Researching: Soviet Socialist Realism novel about the colonization of Tau Ceti.
     
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    ....oh dear, I've created a monster
     
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    cutecat22 The Strange One Contributor

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    No, they let him believe what he thinks until he drifts off into the robot afterlife. Then, they throw his body on the scrap heap and order a new robot.
     
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    Yes I did pick up on that. Easy to imagine Kryton blubbering over failing to iron the handkerchiefs.

    He is going to silicon heaven with all the calculators.
     
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    I thought the robot afterlife was just, like, Dropbox.
     
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    *giggling*
     
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    More, dropbot ... :-D
     
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    I have a bad habit of starting things, dropping them for a while, then maybe coming back later, so I have like eighteen stories going right now. :oops:

    The one I'm putting the most focus on right now is that there's a girl who almost dies in a freak accident. She's saved by her only friend, who ends up dying instead. Word gets out about what happened, and everyone starts to blame her for his death. She has to try and deal with both the guilt and the accusations, which she doesn't do very well.
     
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    Some of these posts are hilarious. Great, funny start to 6am Sunday morning.

    1. White Wolf Trilogy (Current Project)
    A young werewolf's parents were brutally murdered when she younger. Now she has to fight for control of her family's pack, while being submitted to all kinds of abuse from the alpha that took control. She then needs to deal with humans finding out about them and the difficulties along with it (stretches into book 2 and 3). An old enemy of her family begins to rise, the main issue she has no knowledge of this enemy or the feud between him and her family (Starts at the end of book 1 and stretches across 2 and 3).
    That's all I've got for that one so far. I'm still working on figuring out the rest of the story line but those are the main story lines for the entire trilogy. (BTW my werewolves have a Greek background).

    2. Fragments of the Past (Stand alone novel) (Next Project)
    A seventeen year old girl living in Charleville, Australia, gets hit by a speeding car and is somehow transported into another world.
    I'm still creating this world and need to come up with the conflicts and story line. I have my ending but I don't want to share it.

    3. The Jewel of Elements (5 part series (Not sure if 5 large books or five mini-books, depends on how it writes later))
    It follows the life of a uniquely gifted apprentice mage in the middle ages.
    I'm still working out the specifics of this story as well. But it's not very high on my writing list at the moment.
    ---------------------------------------------

    I only work on one specific project at a time, but if I get blocked while writing my current project I usually try and do some more planning and world creating. Since 2 and 3 are based in an entirely fictional worlds they need a bit more planning and map creating.
     
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    I don't know if this really counts as a story (perhaps I could come up with a new juicy term like "lazy story") but my project is generally about a fictional country and it's peculiar politicians. I love mashing up genres so this is parody with spices from everything else. They have already taken over Twitter and various websites where their lives and ...adventures can be followed. (Or not. I'd rather spare the links for people who know me and my obscure sense of humor and politics.) So, there are characters, as well as a setting and some vague storylines but no story, if we consider a story as something with a bunch of words written down. It's like an inside joke gone wild.

    But anyway, reading about peoples stories is far too inspiring. I feel like starting something new!
     
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    My WIP is a guy meets girl thing. About a Mr Offwhyte who likes spanking and controlling a woman he meets. It's a trilogy, housewives will love it.
     
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    It's not plagiarism to use a core idea that's been done before. Pretty much that has at least a thread of truth about everyone's novels.

    Daily Beast
     

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