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Post by Enchant on Apr 4, 2008 11:41:07 GMT -5
We all have seen RPs based on Harry Potter and other more popular storylines. But how do you create something original?
For me I think it hard now adays. Everything has pretty much been redone. So I try and take several ideas into mind.
First, if I just read a book, I will try and merge the plot with a favorite tv show, and then imagine it in a real world news issue. For example....
Lets just use HP as it is well know....I will take the concept of a school for magical beings, then perhaps mesh it with the idea of cop show, and then have something I saw in the news relevant to the story...like the kids that found the severed head on the beach. (true story)
So perhaps my plot would be something like Body parts have been washing up on the shores all over the Gulf of Mexico. The local cops have no clues, but a patch that had a crest on it. Unbeknownst to the cops there is a magical school that sits in the center of the Gulf, hidden within the realm of magic.
The magical society have no clue as to what is causing this disaster, all they know is that it is either coming from within or below its school...
and soo on.....that is how I usually come up with plots What about you?
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Nemaisare
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Post by Nemaisare on Apr 5, 2008 20:24:35 GMT -5
Me? Hmm, I just think up stuff, but it is mostly taking ideas from other plots, movies, books, tv shows, what have you, and giving them a twist of my own. For instance, I was just reading a pirate book, and happen to like the idea of sailors and the different perils they faced. But putting a ship through storm after hurricane after freak storm can get rather monotonous, even if your charries wouldn't agree. But then if you take the ships, and think up on some of the superstitions sailors had and sometimes still have, and mix those together, then you've got an adventure of epic propportion on seas inhabited by all manner of creatures. Not just sailing, but magic and all that as well. Just an example... since I'm thinking of that right now. Heh
But yeah, generally, I'll take some small idea I got from one of the different medias and just use a what if scenario. Say, what if the government were really vampires and the press is starting to discover evidence these vampire politicians want to keep buried? Or, what if dragonsbegan to mysteriously die off (after having mysteriously appeared in the first place lol) and decide that they need to share their knowledge with the other races of the world? What if the world really was all water, but strange portals were opening up everywhere and bringing through them odd polluting effects from another world?
That's all I do, maybe I suddenly think of a character and just bring up a plot around them, generally half forgetting the character in the process, so it turns out well.
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