I am Reverend H.B. Snood, or "The Reverend" for short. I'm a writer and one day, hopefully, I'll manage to become an established journalist. In the meantime, this blog will serve the purpose of being an outlet for my more creative persuits. I have a lot of projects I want to work on, and the first one I'l be posting hear is my story-a-week challenge for the summer. Over on tvtropes.org, there's a page for a story generator, that ranomly generates several tropes to be used in the story. My challenge is that every Friday night, I will go to the story generator and then write a story using the tropes it gives me by the next Friday. I've set for myself a few rules:
1: The story absolutely has to use the tropes given by the generator. I can't simply have a character mention them as if they were critiquing a fictional work. I can play with them, turn them on their head, do unexpected things with them, but they still have to be recognizable examples of the trope.
2: Stories don't have to be self contained. If I get stuck I am allowed to revisit characters, settings, and plot threads from previous stories in the challenge. Knowing me this will probably happen more than once.
3: Pre-existing characters are allowed, but only if they are in the public domain. A mystery story involving Sherlock Holmes is acceptable, but a myster story involving Batman is not. That beings said, while it's not a hard and fast rule, I will try to have public domain characters, if I use them, be supporting characters.
Now to start things off, here's the first set of generated tropes:
| Setting: | New York Subway |
| Plot: | Brought Down To Normal |
| Narrative Device: | Framed For Heroism |
| Hero: | Action Hero |
| Villain: | The Corrupter |
| Character As Device: | Slogan Yelling Megaphone Guy |
| Characterization Device: | Blood Brothers |
I'll probably post updates as the week roles on.
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