If you’re just hearing about #RANDOMfest for the first time, Click Here for a full description, and there’s still time to sign up below. The short version of this entertaining activity – find a random story idea you have that never went anywhere and share it with us in your own blog.
If you’ve got shorter ideas – a single sentence or maybe just a story title, we’re also going to try and tweet them all day long with the #RANDOMfest hashtag, so join us there ^_^
I have tons of these things. My ‘Writing’ folder has aproximately 300 documents in it. A lot of these ideas have gone somewhere in one for or another, but I pulled out one that was awesomely vauge to share today:
Document Name: Dream from last night.doc (this file is at least five years old)
First two paragraphs:
Dream from last night, that all the while that I was dreaming it seemed like it might lend itself to a really good story, but now that I’m conscious I’m not so sure.
Girl ends up on the porch of her best friends house with a couple of bags of suitcases, she’s been kicked out of her own home for some reason. Something to do with a fight with her father, or brother, something. Maybe she just can’t afford to pay her rent any more, or her roommate doesn’t want her around any more. I guess she’s not the super sweet like-able type of character I usually put in my stories. She has some friends and then there’s some people who just don’t care one way or the other and others who just don’t like her. That would explain how she managed to lose her place to live.
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LOL I like all the “something” in it, when I write things down I do that to sometimes cause it hasn’t quite formed my thoughts all the way. Thanks for hosting the blogfest- I had fun with it.
*grins* NICE. And I love the document’s title. Such a great clue as to what’s inside, lol.
GREAT idea to host this fest!!! I had fun going through my random files. I also confused the hell out of myself, but it was great fun.
It’s gratifying to know other people save the same kind of random stuff I do. Maybe this will make us use some of this unmined gold.
What a good random file! I usually come up with an opener (like in my entry) and go nowhere with it 🙂 Mine’s at least a year old.
I love that the idea came from a dream too.
Yay for #randomfest! Great file title there 😉 and I like how it’s lacking in detail. There are probably a hundred different directions the idea could go. That’s part of the fun with old ideas, especially if you can’t remember where you initially planned it to go.
I almost forgot! Whew, did get the entry up, though. Great idea for a festival!
Keeping track of your dreams is super smart. Never know what idea they will spark. I wish I had the discipline for that.