Lori needs a new story idea.

[Elok]

Oh, I read SftD, actually (one of the few SF books I have read); I was thinking of a totally different scenario, at a more primitive level of technology, where the colonists take seven years just to send a message back to Earth and no more starships are expected. So it's just a couple hundred of them staring uncomfortably at about twelve million aliens. I'd never write it myself, but since that's basically a kill-or-be-killed scenario it struck me as an interesting idea and I wondered if anybody else had handled the morally extremely queasy scenario.

[Lorizael]

Turns out my last idea was crap. Hit me again, Apolyton.

[Jon Miller]

squad broken, but with ewoks

JM

[MikeH]

2001: A Space Odyssey, but with Ewoks

[Lorizael]

Thanks for the help, but with ewoks.

[MikeH]

If George Lucas had performed this kind of analysis we might have avoided a lot of **** in the star wars franchise.

[Lorizael]

If the prequels were all NaNoWriMo (or Script Frenzy) stories that George Lucas never bothered editing, it all suddenly makes a lot of sense.

[Lorizael]

I have decided that there will be an incestuous cult in my story. This may or may not have anything to do with me just having watched Game of Thrones.

[MikeH]

Small furry humanoids worship golden robot as if it was a god, and all shag each other inspired by a kiss/love interest between human brother and sister.

[Lorizael]

No furry aliens.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

5 people working from home on the same team project for a multinational, residing in different parts of the world... and the impact of some sort of doomsday scenario on them... with Shaun of the Dead story tone

Story develops in Waco, Calgary, Wroclaw, Bangalore and Sydney.

[Uncle Sparky]

Make sure there is a lot of tasteful nudity and cannibalism. Try writing it as a series of texts or tweets.

[Lorizael]

Tasty cannibalism.

[-Jrabbit]

The incest cult should be totally gratuitous except as unwitting repository of some key story element.

"Screw your sister, save the world."

[DaShi]

I came up with a great idea for you, Lori, while watching the last Harry Potter movie. As disturbed as everyone else was by that 19 years later bit, I thought about what the wizarding world would be like a thousand years later. There, muggles have developed such technology to appear as magic to the wizards, who are still going through the same routine they were since at least Jack and Jill Potter with the odd dark wizard here and there. You could write from the perspective of a young wizard who gets accepted into Oxford, only to discover that all he learned at Hogwarts is not only useless, but grossly obsolete.