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I have started writing a story about two guys who live next door to each other from about age 10, and who hate each other.
They compete at everything for the rest of their long lives in one way or another, and it isn't funny.
Imagine 'Grumpy Old Men', but with no jokes and no happy ending.
One has a biological son that the other raises because the mother marries the other guy.
The mother dies because one guy won't sign off on the University's funding for the other guy's research.
(Etc.)
When the kid's an adult, there's massive ice storm that is killing people who didn't evacuate in time.
Neither guy will leave because that means the other guy wins.
One house gets broken down the middle by a tree but keeps electricity, while the other remains intact, without any power.
They both want to claim the son as their own, but when he tries to get them to reroute power to the intact building to sit out the storm together, they both push him out into the night and disown him.
In the end, he's sitting in car with a tree across one end of it, holding a lit road flare, next to a frozen dead guy who is holding a burned-out flare.
They compete at everything for the rest of their long lives in one way or another, and it isn't funny.
Imagine 'Grumpy Old Men', but with no jokes and no happy ending.
One has a biological son that the other raises because the mother marries the other guy.
The mother dies because one guy won't sign off on the University's funding for the other guy's research.
(Etc.)
When the kid's an adult, there's massive ice storm that is killing people who didn't evacuate in time.
Neither guy will leave because that means the other guy wins.
One house gets broken down the middle by a tree but keeps electricity, while the other remains intact, without any power.
They both want to claim the son as their own, but when he tries to get them to reroute power to the intact building to sit out the storm together, they both push him out into the night and disown him.
In the end, he's sitting in car with a tree across one end of it, holding a lit road flare, next to a frozen dead guy who is holding a burned-out flare.
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Re: Is this someone else's idea already?
Thu, January 15, 2009 - 1:29 PMListen, as Solomon was so good at pointing out in Ecclesiastes, there is nothing new under the sun. There is no new story. What IS new is your take and interpretation of the story. Don't worry if it's been told before. Work instead on how to be true to your own unique take on the story. -
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Re: Is this someone else's idea already?
Tue, February 3, 2009 - 2:51 PMThanks for mentioning Solomon.
I now see that this is a story about cutting the baby in half.
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Re: Is this someone else's idea already?
Sat, February 14, 2009 - 8:52 AMUnless you read it some where it's is yours - period.
Screw the possibility that the same sort of idea had occurred to some one else.
Think about it: Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love. Obstacles arise to their being together. Boy overcomes obstacles. Girl loves boy. They squeeze out pupppies and live happily ever after
There is nothing new under the sun.
