/lit/ - Literature

What about a mother lamenting that God took away her unborn baby? I dunno, just popped into my head.

Do a story about Osama bin Laden's youngest wife going Kill Bill on everyone in that situation room picture

jimmy carter killed with a methane bomb by a secret society, its leader must be wiped out. you owe me one.

>>1756543
Yeah I was going to say do a story about osama's revenge. Like have a terrorist who wants to revenege osama go to a circus where he wants to blow up the crowd. But he becomes fixated on the scene around him: the elephants dancing, the clowns scaring the children, the ring leader in the middle obscured by the cornucopia of the circus. The terrorist decides not to blow it all up, or maybe he'll do it in the parking lot. Then ironically he chokes on popcorn and dies. The End. Hello Pushcart!

How about an idea that doesn't sound like it was pulled out of random plot generator website.

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the murders have long been completed. a young man killed a person or group of persons in an accident. he maybe was injured or maybe not, but didn't get charged for some reason. do a short story on how he lives his day-to-day life, and how to go on living is his revenge. spin the idea of the quote.
captcha: hallis avoided.

>>1756530

what about this....dude decides to seek revenge, on his way he finds a magic ring, decides to keep magic ring. He is then instructed by an ancient wizard that he must destroy the ring in a volcano. He agrees.

>>1756665
Only if I can involve giant eagles.

what about giving it a sci-fi slant? dude seeking revenge gets pulled into time-travelling wormhole?

>>1756530
Describe murder

Describe search for revenge

Describe revenge and/or lack

Include the idea that the characters focus on revenge has essentially meant three lives have been lost opposes to one.

change foul to fowl and write about somebody avenging the death of a chicken

>>1756702
Made me laugh.

1. Tell the story in the first-person omniscient.
2. Have the protagonist (the one telling the story) get everyone's attention during some storytime: a long road trip, a campfire, a drinking session, a police interview room
3. (Think "Usual Suspects" if it helps. You want that kind of tension and atmosphere. Your protagonist is smarter than everyone, even the reader)
4. Have a scene where he's doing some thing seemingly nefarious. Have him do something violent to someone. Suddenly twist the reader's affections for him by having him explain WHY...this person was involved in the "most unnatural murder" of someone dear to him.
5. Tell the tale, with him hunting down and avenging his murdered loved-one. Go for the sympathy angle, with his victims revealing more and more of the gruesome details of how they murdered this person.
6. By the end of the story, the reader will have completely empathized with the protagonist, and his avenging murders, because they've practically lived the original crime through the victims' confessions.

>>1756695
And ends up will having to have will did commit the murder in the first place, after undergoing cosmetic surgery to prevent fucking with his own life, and it turns out he's the guy he wanted revenge on!

inb4 Heinlein did it.

It's a school project, it doesn't have to be completely original, besides, all these original ideas suck anyway. Focus on making it a good story, and nobody will care you ripped off Lazarus Long's works.

>>1756702
we think alike my friend