Ogwaros Iwenâl » writing http://www.brianupton.net Into the depths of the fiery abyss Sat, 10 Jul 2010 06:05:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Uncomfortable plot summaries http://www.brianupton.net/2009/05/12/uncomfortable-plot-summaries/ http://www.brianupton.net/2009/05/12/uncomfortable-plot-summaries/#comments Wed, 13 May 2009 04:03:46 +0000 Brian Upton http://www.brianupton.net/?p=89 The premise: Take the plot of a movie, book or TV show and reword it to totally misrepresent the original work.  This is similar to the idea of trailer recuts I posted a while back.

The results: Hilarity.  Be sure to read the comments as well.  While a lot of the people seem to be missing the point, there are some gems buried in the comments.

As for my own untitled work:  Boy moves to a magical underwater city, becomes a great leader, lives forever.

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Not that I’m participating in NaNoWriMo — and it would be cheating to start with my existing material anyway — but I would like to start making progress again. I just need to find a way to focus on it. Installing Q10 seemed to help some, but I think this is just going to be one of those force-of-sheer-will things.

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