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"Let me write you a film"

Hi, I'm Alistair Gray. You may remember from such staff topics as 'Stop bugging me,' and 'I'll look into it.' This is a serious topic, not really work related, this is me writing from home - hey, it doesn't happen very often, so savour every moment. You may or may not know, but my capacity here at Special Reserve is writer, I do the news, the e-mails and some of the reviews. But what I really want, is to write a film/book. And this is where you help me.

I need an idea. I'm a perfectly competent writer, I know all about structure, balancing, character development and all that jazz, but I just need a spark, something to set me writing. I need an idea, a good idea that I can base a film around. God knows I have enough spare time (I'm here aren't I?) and I'm really into the idea of writing some serious stuff, rather than news about a game with monkeys in it. Seeing as the standard of writing in these forums is through the roof, I was wondering if any of you fine people have some ideas you'd like to share for such a project - just ideas, premises, floaty notions - anything at all to get me started, because once I'm off, it'll be done within a week. I'm looking at people like Grix, Meka, Mr. Happy and Goaty, and the others who write such fine stories day in, day out right here on these very forums. You can help me fulfill my potential.

If you have any ideas you'd like to share, or just anything you feel could help me, please e-mail me at [email protected] and let me know, because I'm eager to get started quickly. I'm not looking for anything too heavy, but I don't want to write a comedy either, because... well, basically I don't think I'm funny.

Please, with your help, you can put a smile on the News Monkey's face and fill his spare time with things other than eating. Any thoughts at all, let them flow and I'll thank you profusely in the credits when I'm rich and famous. Cheers.

Ali

Do it.
From their point of view.

You can have loads of apes fighting and f####ing and stealing electrical equipment and getting monged on weed.

Okay. One's going to wear glasses, and smoke a cigar. Another's gonna wear a top hat, and the third's going to wear shoes. I'm going to write this, right now.

Mr.Snuggly wrote:
> (a) I'd end up confusing the reader
> (b) I'd end up confusing myself
> (c) I'm not that clever
>
> I'm just waiting for someone to come up to me and go 'I've got the
> nuts of an idea, but can't write for toffee. Here, write my story and
> make lots of money. And have sex with me.'
>
> This person is a woman.

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B****r.
Well...write one about super-intelligent monkeys that go on crime-sprees.

Mr.Snuggly wrote:
> This person is a woman.

With boobs?

(a) I'd end up confusing the reader
(b) I'd end up confusing myself
(c) I'm not that clever

I'm just waiting for someone to come up to me and go 'I've got the nuts of an idea, but can't write for toffee. Here, write my story and make lots of money. And have sex with me.'

This person is a woman.

Monkeys.
Angry, trained monkeys.

I'd read it

Why not two books - one about the couple's public side and one about what they're like behind closed doors? Even alternating chapters, or paragraphs, just to confuse the reader?

Goatboy wrote:
> Not copy.
> Adapt.
>
> Bloke in new house with wife.
> Odd neighbours.
> Suburban murderdeathkill cult.

That's Arlington Road. I want a Fincher-like twist, but I'm crap at thinking up anything that doesn't involve monkeys, or super-monkeys.

Not copy.
Adapt.

Bloke in new house with wife.
Odd neighbours.
Suburban murderdeathkill cult.

So I can either copy Mason, or write one about a rock band that goes wigglywoo. Cheers.

Actually, I've already started writing stuff, with no context whatsoever. It's about a man who moves into a new house with his new wife. It's rubbish so far, but I'm good at it.