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The Man With A Golden Eye: Steampunk
The man with the one golden eye smiled at her. His cheek puckered around the scars surrounding the golden orb implanted in his eye socket. "You have juice on your chin," he told her. She glared at him. "It's hard to drink tidily when you're tied to a chair and a goon is pouring juice down your throat." He whisked out his handkerchief and approached ( Read more... ) -
Face Time: Science Fiction
It was time for the faces to go out, to be seen on the streets, so they ducked into their changing rooms and put on their hero clothes and their big bright smiles, and washed away the bloodstains and the whiskey sweats. The heels lounged around and rested in their dressing rooms. Everybody knew the heels only came out at night. Now and then, they ( Read more... ) -
Cultural Psychosis: Spec-fic
The cultural psychosis had began, they thought, after the major war was lost and the popular president was booted from office in a temporary fit of spite. His successors seemed to take the booting as a sign that they shouldn't be such nice guys, regular guys despite at all, after all. So they didn't. And they weren't. It didn't help that the first ( Read more... ) -
Villain to Hero: Genre Undetermined
A "hero" who thinks he's doing the wrong thing (counterpoint to the "villain" who thinks he's doing the right thing).
Inspiration: From "Reinventing the Adventure" panel at Wiscon.
Potential: High.
Notes: And yes, this brain splashiness is something that happens whenever I go to good panels. Be warned.
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Hate the Underdog: Action
Idea - Start in media res - for example a car wreck - start with character in peril to make you care (go, underdog!), have yourself being happy he survived, step back in time to plot, realize he's a bad guy, cut back to survival and now you're totally against him. Readers remember getting headfucked! action, mystery, villainy, thriller, headfuck, high potential