Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Boredom as story starters update

Some stories I started out of pure boredom, such as:
  • "Guilt" (formerly a one-shot that I hoped to continue past the one-shot stage... but I still have some slight plotline issues)
  • "After His Last Case" (originally a one-shot I wrote one night when struggling to sleep, but I wanted to see where it went, so I continued it)
  • "Shower Intruder" (I was just bored and thought it'd be funny to write, but I'd been considering writing it for a while)
  • "Chem Is Try: A Christmas Carol Spoof" (I was bored in my AP US History class the last day before winter vacation my junior year of high school, so I satirized my chemistry teacher)
  • "Curtis Watches TV" (again, I wanted to write something funny while just bored)
  • "Fool of a Took" (I was bored one night my first year of college while watching TMZ, and they interviewed Billy Boyd that night, so I was inspired to write this story)
  • "Hey Norman" (again, I wanted to write something funny while just bored)
  • "Mr. B. and the Motel" (I was wasting time before going to a basketball game in college, but I didn't want to do homework)
  • "Paint" (I tuned my friends out one day at lunch in high school to write this... I'm such a bad friend)
  • "Snow" (I was up late one Saturday night, but I didn't feel like going to sleep or watching SNL)
  • "The Janitor's Name" (another one-shot I wrote one night while trying to fall asleep)
  • "Tobias" (I was bored one New Year's Eve while waiting for the Time's Square ball drop and related TV shows to come on, so I decided to start this)
  • "Two Brothers, Plus One?" (another one-shot that I wanted to continue if I came up with a solid plot... and now has become a multi-chapter story)
  • "Ways to Pass the AP US History Exam" (my friends and I were bored one day during one of the review class periods in AP US History, so they started writing this on the chalkboard, and I copied it down because it was so funny)
  • "Tamia" (I'm pretty sure I wrote this out of boredom the same evening as "Mr. B. and the Motel." I had just started the first Crank book, and I was inspired by one of my high school buddies)

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