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**Super Duck** · 09-20-2006 09:17 PM

Hi.
Ducky here. I don't post in The Lounge a lot -(I'm an Attaining Lucidity kinda guy)- so you might not know me. Anyway, that's beside the point.
Ok...my problem.

The other day, I was set some homework. I have to write a story (anything between 2-4 pages) that has a big twist in the tale.

I write stories all the time but now I have writers block and it's due for Thursday next week. I have soooo many pieces of paper in the bin...so help me stop wasting trees and help me avoid big trouble at school!

PLEASE give me any ideas you have!!!!!!!!!& #33;!!!!!!

Thanks in advance,
Super Duck

**Bonsay** · 09-20-2006 09:21 PM

What kind of story? Can it be relating to anything? I'm sure you'll make it till thursday. I'm not much of a writing kind of guy, but if something pops up, I'll inform you!

**Seeker** · 09-20-2006 09:49 PM

You know, you could write something along the LD type of thing. Start out in a false awakening and let it get more and more weird until you finally realize it is a dream and then kill some zombies or something....

**The Blue Meanie** · 09-20-2006 10:02 PM

Originally Posted by Seeker

You know, you could write something along the LD type of thing. Start out in a false awakening and let it get more and more weird until you finally realize it is a dream and then kill some zombies or something....

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Hey, here's a better idea: if you're looking for a good idea for a story, a good method is to think up a sort of common, clichéd plot idea, and totally turn it on its head.

So, here's an idea:

Instead of having a surreal situation which your character gradually realises is a dream... INSTEAD, why don't you write a story that is surreal, warped, and dream-like, in which the main character believes he is dreaming... only to later discover that he/she is, in fact, NOT dreaming... sort of "Oh my god, this is real!

That way, the character will have to deal with the actions he/she took while he/she thought it was all a dream and was playing out his/her secret fantasies. Something along the lines of "Oh my freaking god! I just robbed a bank and had sex with my hot auntie!"

Not that I have a secret fantasy of robbing a bank. Or having sex with my auntie.

Honestly, I don't. My aunties are all over 50 anyway.

Not that, if they were under 50, I WOULD have fantasies of having sex with them

Honestly.

Man, I'm just digging myself a deeper and deeper pit here, aren't I?

**Bonsay** · 09-20-2006 10:22 PM

Haha! Blue Meanies idea is great! Do something like that!

**Casualtie** · 09-21-2006 03:09 AM

Originally Posted by Super

Hi.
Ducky here. I don't post in The Lounge a lot -(I'm an Attaining Lucidity kinda guy)- so you might not know me. Anyway, that's beside the point.
Ok...my problem.

The other day, I was set some homework. I have to write a story (anything between 2-4 pages) that has a big twist in the tale.

I write stories all the time but now I have writers block and it's due for Thursday next week. I have soooo many pieces of paper in the bin...so help me stop wasting trees and help me avoid big trouble at school!

PLEASE give me any ideas you have!!!!!!!!!& #33;!!!!!!

Thanks in advance,
Super Duck
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you and three friends are doing something. the one friend is better than the other. the good friend ends up getting mysteriously killed. you and your friend go around finding clues and and stuff. you get really close to figuring out who it is and woosh a knife going right for your back. the murderer was your friend the entire time. know you spend the rest of the story chasing this friend. and you finally catch him/her in a wacky "scooby doo" type trap.

what a twist!!

**Super Duck** · 09-21-2006 04:48 PM

Wow...thanks everyone for the ideas.
I came back after one night and all of this was here.

This is all great...apart from the fact that I got mental images of Blue Meanie having sex with a hot 50 yr old whist robbing a bank!

Besides that...this has really helped. Thanks.

Keep 'em coming,
Mr Quack-face

P.S.
Is my new avatar too harsh or is it just a bit of a mean joke that only a nerd like Leo couldn't take...?

**lord_cliff_turtle** · 09-21-2006 07:43 PM

Nah, I reckon your avatars cool.

What about a dark character whose some kind of lone assassin, or vampire? He is all alone in his world and lives in the night time. He is more powerful than anything on earth, but is always seperate from the rest of the world. Possibly an interesting character with some issues, could develop into something powerfull...

Or try and draw on your personal experiences, such as a cool dream you enjoyed. Elaborate on it and maybe even mix several dreams together in a surreal story? Make a character that you'd have fun being yourself, and picture how he would act.

**Super Duck** · 09-23-2006 08:38 AM

Thanks everyone. I've written it now! If you fancy reading it, it's attatched but I can only get it in MS Word. You'll have to get someone else to change it if ur Mac.

If ur not doing anythin, you could point out some typos or how i could make it better. i can't make it any longer so the ending is rushed...so tell me if u actually understand what the fec is goin on at the end.

Cheers,
Ducky

P.S.
If you read it twice, things from the beginning start making sense...u'll know what I mean
And if a word doesn't make sense to you...it's cos i'm brittish (England)

**The Blue Meanie** · 09-23-2006 09:27 AM

Heheheh. That'd pretty good. There's one error that leaps out at me, however: when you are making a noun a plural, don't add an apostrophe. You only need apostrophes to make nouns possessive.

For instance:

"It didn’t take long before the Court’s were ready. "

SHOULD be:

"It didn’t take long before the Courts were ready. "

I think this crops up a few times in the story. But other than that, it's a good story. Good plot, good twist, and good writing. I think the thing you did BEST, was the dialogue - you tried to write the dialogue as the characters would say it, with all the contractions and stuff, like:

“Y’know what, boy? I’ve gots myself another job on me hands. I went to see Florence, the baker, t’day, an’ I asked fer a currant bun. Well, y’know what I got? I got a bun, alright, but there was a huge black lump on it! Well, that made me mad, it did. So I was thinkin’ about this all day, right.[/b]

I think you did this quite well. You did it enough to give the dialogue character, but you didn't go overboard and make it hard to read.

**Neruo** · 09-23-2006 02:31 PM

Does it need to be perfect? Just write a story, anything that comes to your head. You can allways 'get some inspiration'. Just steal a great stroy, but do totally give it your own twist.

For instance have your main figure work for this government, he likes his government, he thinks it does great things, and he's on missions and all, however his missions get increasingly immorral. In the end the character turns away from his government and joins the rebellion (add some love-factor into it, a nice ressistance-girl he falls in love with). At the end of the story the reader finds out he was working for hitler germany.

Hmm I should write a story about that. The moral would like be that it's easy to get brainwashed, but in the end one should see right from wrong. Or something.

Good luck.

**Super Duck** · 09-24-2006 05:31 PM

Originally Posted by The

Heheheh. That'd pretty good. There's one error that leaps out at me, however: when you are making a noun a plural, don't add an apostrophe. You only need apostrophes to make nouns possessive.

For instance:

"It didn’t take long before the Court’s were ready. "

SHOULD be:

"It didn’t take long before the Courts were ready. "

I think this crops up a few times in the story. But other than that, it's a good story. Good plot, good twist, and good writing. I think the thing you did BEST, was the dialogue - you tried to write the dialogue as the characters would say it, with all the contractions and stuff, like:

I think you did this quite well. You did it enough to give the dialogue character, but you didn't go overboard and make it hard to read.
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thanks for the comments. and as for the apostraphe rule, i know that rule back to front, so i don't really know why it cropped up at all! well, i did it all in one so maybe i wasa just tired

**Super Duck** · 09-24-2006 06:19 PM

OK...i've edited all the typos, but it's not worth re-attaching it, because it's exactly the same (with decent grammer).

**lord_cliff_turtle** · 09-25-2006 05:50 PM

Very nice story, love the twist at the end. Fear the Jack Russels! And the character of Sweeny is nice and evil (oxyworon w00&#33

Hope your teacher likes it. By the way, what year are you in?

**TweaK** · 09-25-2006 06:04 PM

Originally Posted by Super

OK...i've edited all the typos, but it's not worth re-attaching it, because it's exactly the same (with decent grammar).
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Now work on your spelling and you're all set!!

(Just kidding, it's a nice story man)

**Super Duck** · 09-25-2006 09:53 PM

lol. i noticed that after i had read the post through. i couldn't be bothered to edit the post. i dont give a flying-fec about spelling when i'm chattin on forums. lol

**Super Duck** · 12-23-2006 04:56 PM

wow. this post is ancient except i never said what year i was in! i'll say it now in case. yr 10 but i wouldn't be surprised if i had been in yr 9 when i started this post! lol.