Plot bunny round up

[lupinelover.livejournal.com]

Hiya i was a lurker who came out of the closet and joined  so my offerings is a bit messed up as in i got an idea but i need help



right i have an idea for a fan fiction story Ryan/Colin pairing but right now it is just an idea

i need some help fleshing it out a little

if this isn't allowed then sorry i will delete my post

but i got the idea of Ryan and Colin as teenagers....

going to a comedy based summer camp for 2 months together

but i get stuck right at the begining

like should they know each other

be best friends

or complete strangers

i thought since you guys have to put up with it i thought it might be best asking you guys

Ratings don't matter and it most definately be slash

Comments

[clayangel.livejournal.com]

I love the summer camp idea. :) I'm curious as to how a comedy based camp would work. Do you have activities you're thinking of doing? And will there be regular camp activities as well?

Ooh, what about starting them out as enemies, Parent Trap style? Where they're in different cabins and pulling pranks on each other until they're forced to share an isolation cabin together?

[mollysheldon.livejournal.com]

Maybe not a strictly comedy camp, but like a drama class, junior actors camp. Acting exercises, improv play, talent shows. And a big show at the end of the summer- lots of "angst" could revolve around that. Humor too. Just a couple of my cents.

[lupinelover.livejournal.com]

hmmm i think i wil take the talent show idea because it was amazing and you can run around with a lot of ideas


i wonder if the other guys should be there with other pairings

should i make the camp male only and have a seperate female camp wwhih is mentioned but never really about

[clayangel.livejournal.com]

There could be a female camp across the lake (there's always the camp across the lake in movies, you know? ^_^).

Whether you should put the other guys in really depends on the feel you want for the story. Personally, even if you do put them in, I think there should be very little focus on them.

Novels usually have a large-ish cast, but do we ever get more than a fleeting glimpse into the minds of the secondary characters? No. Because they're not the story; they're support. To give them any more than what they're due would take away from the plot and muddy the story up.

And the other reason I think you should at the very least downplay any side pairings is that they can scare people away. There's a particular author who I always meant to read. Every story she's list three pairings. Two I adore; one I despise, and it's that last one that's kept me from reading her stories. It can also open you up to people who wouldn't have read otherwise, but still....keeping the story focused should be your main goal.

That's my two cents about the group fic thing.

[lupinelover.livejournal.com]

i actually stole the idea of the camp across the lake from welcome to camp nightmare from the goosebump collection by r.l stine

you are right after all it is easier to use existing characters thne use a whole group of mary sues or gary does

yeah i not a drew anyone fan unless it is so in the background it vanishes

thank you

[lupinelover.livejournal.com]

hmmmmm thank you it was plaging me for a while. activites i was thinking of split the groups to 3 sections: Improv, stand up and pysical comedy (think laural and hardy) I imagine that in the morning there is camp activites basically to let them run off their energy and after lunch there is various workshops for each groups. ooo that sounds good never watch the film hmmmm isolation cabin ooo the possibitlies

[clayangel.livejournal.com]

That sounds good about the activities. ^_^ I was just wondering because hikes of boating might be fun situations to write.

You've never seen the parent trap? :O I love that movie. My remembrance is mostly of the original as I've only seen the remake once. They're both good, though. The first....third of it or so is spent at a summer camp. There are these two girls who are identical twins who were separated at birth, so they meet and don't know they're twins and just get pissy at each other for having the same face. So they each have their own group of friends in their own cabins, and they keep pulling pranks on each others' cabins trying to one up the other. The tension continues to build until they get into an all out fist fight. The camp director is sick of it and forces them to move out of their old cabins and into an isolation cabin. So the two girls have to live together, do all their activities together, eat together, etc.

I think it's got a lot of potential story-wise. ^_^ I don't know if it's what you were really thinking of doing, but I'm throwing it out there.

And should totally see the parent trap. ^_^

[lupinelover.livejournal.com]

thanks yep and swimming maybe become friends later almost drowning from a bad prank just a thought not a cement idea

no i dont go for happy endings usually they make me cry alot explains why i started reading steven king at the age of 9

why not i mean all i have right now is a rough gist not even the opening