[quote]Open - :) [s][/s][/quote] The quick and dirty: Oh yes. Verra quick. Verra dirty. What to expect: [indent]* I like to collect good writers. Join the Monster Harem! Muahahahaha! * I am fairly open to just about anything. I love open, wild ideas which allow us both to create a world with moose toting machine guns on their substantive racks, shape changing amoeba bankers, and horses that die only to be replaced by giant, sentient gennets. If not those, then realistic stories are okay too. * I am somewhat very much not regular a poster for long spates of time in the year due to work taking over my life as well as my social and family life being given precedence. [u]But[/u] I do remain constant and will come back time and time again so long as you want me. I have a very resilient muse. *I do not do long posts for no reason, nor do I do one-liners with no purpose. A story has a rhythm which our different styles will set into place. This may be four paragraphs or it could be a ton of writing, but together we will find it. [/indent] Things I do do (heh - doodoo): [indent]1. ALWAYS come back. No matter how long I've been gone. I've a good Muse Resuscitation Kit. 2. Romance, sometimes. Adventure always. Fantasy, science fiction, real life, fun writing, yes. Scary, horrific, happy endings, yep! 3. Play with multitudes of characters in multitudes of ways. 4. Go off the beaten path[/indent] Things I don't do: [indent]1. Angst for the sake of angst. Romance for the sake of romance. Pain for the sake of pain. Etc, ad nauseum. 2. Stupidity as a plot device. If a character sees through that guilt trip or the oncoming trap door, there's nothing I will do to stop them. If we want an idiot as a character device, we'll discuss it and have it in place to begin with. I also won't make a character smarter than I am, or even smarter than we are collectively. 3. Slugs. Moose yes. Slugs - no. Just, no. [/indent] [hider=So. List of ideas, if we need some.] * C'mon, centaurs are awesome. Space centaurs and/or water dentists definitely rock. * A dude ranch for over worked executives or aliens or disenfranchised cat people. Better yet, a sheep ranch. * Some kinda Harry Potter (OMG, I'm totally NOT okay with this, and yet if it were the right treatment, I'd love to dabble in the world - but seriously, magical school and the differences in characterizations are just begging to be redone and made anew and amazing and.. and... Pick this one only if you like Rowlingphobitis) * How's bout a random story thread? You pick a character, I pick a character, we play them until one of us says "switch!" and then we go on to the next? It could be fun just as a random brainstorming act. You might find you've got a Character One Must Make Into a Book Some Day and wouldn't that just be awesome? * a retelling of a fairy tale, or a modern retelling of a fairy tale * haven't done a post apocalypse story in a while - what happens if there is a town, far to the north, where the end of the world just didn't touch outside of the trucks stopped bringing in their tri-monthly shipments of Cheetos? What happens in that town? * A research facility does DNA testing - creates something in a living, adult. Mermaids or a mutation or ... only to discover, that this isn't the first time such an anomaly has occurred in the world. * It would be fun to have two people who HATE one another, be stuck together somehow. I'm not fixed on the idea of it becoming "love" in the end, but some kind of coming to terms with one another is fun. * A woman/man is driving along the road and suddenly a knight in full armor upon a destrier appears in the middle of the road. * Gender hiding is fun because it creates all kinds of mistakes and mistaken experiences. Think Viola or Millie/Willie, Tootsie - true gender not specific, even lack of gender would be interesting. * C'mon, Seattle has an underside to it, the underground city isn't completely empty - and maybe there is something more down there, a reason folk don't come up top-level except as street performers or during the night. *What about a science fiction which is fantastical? Much like any/all of Terry Gilliam's work? Turn a corner and there may be a party of airplane manufacturers who deny the possibility of flight - Sit in a cubicle and work on the gradation of the thread on a four hundred dollar bolt, then write a letter to management about why your gradation is better than the other fellows. Only to, a moment after, find that the veneer of strange life is nothing compared to what comes after when a strange fellow allows one to take a flight to a vacation island (on another planet). ** ^__^ Hell, anything we dream up together is fair game. [/hider] One last thing - I love to do brain storming with my partners. (I don't require it, we can just drop right in and start off too, but that's neither here nor there.) I do, however, tend to need some food for my brainstorming. When I toss four or five ideas out there and at least two of them aren't completely insane and involving hamsters with bright green ears, then get a one liner answer back with nothing, then my muse grumbles and starves. You don't have to live with her. She's not fun when she's hungry. Please don't starve my muse by giving her nothing. She might pack up and leave without us. This would maybe make you sad. Or maybe you're not feeding her because of the green eared hamsters and you're not sure how to sidle out the back door quietly, in which case that's okay then. Nab me and let me know what would be fun! Post here or PM me, I check both.