on 11/7/02 5:41 PM, Gerald Jordan at starfire@brainerd.net wrote:
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From: Gerald Jordan
To: animexovers@yahoogroups.com
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Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 7:38 PM
Subject: Story Idea
Will here is another idea:
The wedding never happen. Nodoka say that Ranma can marry anyone he what and
move Ranma out of Tendo home to a house opposite side of the high school.
There is no cure for the curse, so Nodoka have Ranma in female form on each
other day.
The family of A-ko, B-ko, C-ko and the alien crew and their ship (force) to
transfer out of Graviton City to Nerima Ward. A-ko and C-ko know Ranma (and
thank to Genma) future wife. C-ko mother will visit here daughter.
Principal Kuno is no longer the principal of Furinkan High. Hinako Ninomiya is
the principal. Tatewaki is in the last year of school. Kodachi transfer to
Furinkan. All the houses aroung the school been level and giving to the school
(need room to fight).
Cologne know who A-ko mother and grandmother is. Shampoo and Mousse are now
students in Furinkan. With Nodoka help (cheaper tham Nabiki) Ukyo is now
female in the records and Konstsu Kunoichi also in school (Nodoka is very
rich, unknow to Genma).
Can anyone turn this into a story?
Jerry
All I see are basic concepts here. What are you trying to accomplish with
the story in itself?
Do you want Ranma to get hitched to A-ko? If so, then you have to find out
why would he be in a position to be with A-ko in the first place. How do you
ditch Akane? How do you ditch the other 5 billion other fiances? Why would
Ranma want to go with A-ko?
What's this about the curse? Every other day? You want a altiverse story
where he changes sex at sunrise?
Principal Kuno and Hinako? What will having Hinako being principal
accomplish? Do you want a plot thread where she sucks the aura dry from the
student body?
What about Kodachi? Does she finally go to the psycho ward? Why would she go
to Furinkan?
Houses being leveled? Did Ryoga get discovered as P-Chan and the town was
leveled by Akane trying to neuter him?
Now once these questions can be answered, you can then add filler. You
mentioned Shampoo and Mousse are students of Furinkan. Ok, why? Do you want
them to spend time together to get eventually hitched? Now, that could be a
story into itself, unless for some reason they getting together can drive
the plot to get Ranma together with A-ko.
I've found that story ideas are a dime a dozen. However, once you can focus
on a core idea and STAY FOCUSED, you have the potential to make a good tale.
Is the core idea to get Ranma with A-ko? If so, then maybe look at what I
did recently.
I did a story called "Sailor Ranko: Tunnel Vision". The story started out
simple enough. I wanted to put Sailor Moon in a position where she would
make her speech to an enemy who would pull out a gun and blast her. Ok, the
first question was... What enemy would not hesitate to blast a soldier of
Love and Justice? Human enemies were ruled out because they would gawk at
the dress and youma always listened to the stupid speech. Then I came to the
idea of maybe a robot and decided on the Terminator.
Ok. Now, how do I get Sailor Moon to fight the Terminator? The time travel
issue was no good since a single terminator would be blasted by one of
Sailor Moon's friends. So, how to I get her to fight an army of Terminators?
I spent 5 hours one night making the plot overview. I started with chapter
names like "Final Conflict", "Meeting the Enemy" and "Judgment Day". After
each heading I put in single sentences describing key plot elements. In
time, I added the Sailor Ranko (Ranma) characters and found everything
worked. Every plot twist and time event was accounted for.
I wanted Ryoga to deliver the killing blow. To do it, I wanted him to power
a SHI-SHI-HOKODAN into a nuclear reactor. To do that, he needed to be
depressed. What better way that to get him married to Akari or Akane
(Couldn't use Akane since in Twice in a Millenium she got married to Ranma),
then make him the happiest man in the world and throw him into the depths of
hell.
Then came the fun part...
Plot holes!
Since I didn't want John Connor to show up, I had to ditch the Terminator
being sent back to kill someone thread. Instead, a Terminator was sent back
to create Skynet. However, Sailor Pluto would see the timeline disturbance
and fix it immediately... So, I had to get rid of Sailor Pluto's time travel
abilities... So, I came up with a plot thread where the time travel was
hidden but it was to keep the soldiers of 2029 from sending a warrior to
stop the time disturbance. It also kept Sailor Pluto out of the loop until
it was too late.
Skynet was not stupid. It would plan for everything, this made some parts of
the story challenging since I couldn't have the Sailor Scouts win by love.
They had to fight tooth and nail to kick this things butt. However, since
Sailor Saturn had the Silence Glaive, I had to make Skynet's base a secret
until the end. Otherwise, the Sailors would just teleport to space and nuke
the site from orbit. Even then, I still was able to come up with ways to
defend the Skynet base.
I looked over the outline and tried to see if I missed things. Did I make
someone out of character? As I did this, I found new ideas and "filler" that
I added. Once the outline was approved and I had what I wanted...
Time to write the tale. Of course as I was writing it, it developed a life
of its own and several parts just appeared out of thin air as I was writing
it. Some ideas on the outline looked great in outline form but really didn't
do anything for me when committed to story form. There was a lot that ended
on the cutting room floor so to speak.
So firstly, if you want someone to write a story with A-ko, someone has to
flesh out the outline, plug up plot holes and then write the thing. I for
one do not know the story of A-ko so I'm a poor choice.
Second, try to use a little better grammar. The text you typed was a little
had to follow.
I'll crawl back under my rock now.
Bill Heineman
Some loser who writes from time to time.
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