has there ever been a concept that you just cant get enough of? you cant stop thinking about it, but something keeps stopping you from going through with turning it into reality.

tell me about it!

Akeya

I've always loved the concept of where like there a couple and one day, something tragic happens to one of them and they turn all evil and is like " I have to avenge (blank)!" or "I have to change this because (blank)!" and then their S/O is like, "Noooooooo! That's bad and  I love you so you can't do that!"

Then it turns into a story where the good one tries to make the "evil" one good again.

I could never do it because my writing skills aren't very good, but I'd love to see someone write it!

Cliodna

I have two stories that I've been really stuck on for...well, ages. It frustrates me because I could write fine back in my teenage days but nowadays I just...can't.


First one is based on some spinoff characters from a roleplay. It's basically a supernatural romantic drama set in late 18th century France, around the time of Gevauden attacks. I had a character called Dardariel/Darell Candiatis, who was a fallen angel that eventually eloped with a nun and died in World War II. I wanted to make a story that lead to the aforementioned eloping. It turnt out to be too difficult to figure out, however. I liked the general idea though, of Darell being found horribly mauled by The Beast of Gevaudan and how his story would unfold as he was being treated for his injuries in a monastery, possibly ending with him taking on The Beast in a climactic fight near the end. And in the meantime he'd be free to drink, brawl, develop his character, help with beekeeping and fail at looking local. I think what scrapped the idea was just the fact that I started getting stuck in historical accuracy, not knowing a THING about 18th century peasant life, medicine, beliefs or France in general.


There's also a seting I call "Dream of a better past" that I've worked on on-and-off for...soon close to a decade. I've tried starting a comic on it, a game project, some illustrations, but all I have is a short story I wrote back in basic school.

It's set in a dystopian future, where large swatches of the population suffer from poverty and disease/environmental damage related issues and the rich get to enjoy all the privileges. Time travel has just been invented (or more like, simultaneously leaked by agents from the future to all the major world powers to stop one country from getting an unfair advantage over the others) and the story largely circles around nostalgia for the 21st century and the issue of so-called "time immigration" - desperate people and mission-deserters trying to set themselves up in past eras.  Which causes issues because people aren't entirely sure whether such actions can mess up the timeline or not. I definitely know that there's at least one hitman specializing in taking down "time immigrants" and that there's a proper colony of them back in the Jurassic era.

The setting lay dormant until I dug it up for a school project last year, bringing in the character of Miira Pradhan, who's an industrial spy from about a century in the future, trying to get close to a man whom she knows is about to invent...something incredibly dangerous and valuable, but that he'll also destroy the blueprints and prototype of his own creation before they're revealed to the public. She wants to have a copy of them for her employers and bring them back to her era. And with her Pradhan brings...the first portable time-machine. Which is going to become an important McGuffin.