I've got a few stories that are realy good but, how do I say this, I've grown away from them. They are good(for my standards) but not for me anymore. I dought I'll go back to them. They are shoujo manga short stories, after my lady, I dont realy want to do that kind of shoujo manga anymore.

so do you guys tend to have the same situations?


Later on, I'll post the stories here up for grabs. I want it seen to be done(kind of).. ^-^

Ooh, now that's a neat idea! Sort of a different flavor of mix it up -- to put stories that couldn't be written up for grabs and see who's interested in doing them? There's something strangely appealing about that, at least potentially. :)

I think every comic creator runs into something along those lines if they do this long enough. I have many ideas for my old superhero stuff but I decided to stop drawing superhero stuff (unless it's occasional parody, or for a good reason ).

Fluff material. I like to write serious stuff, some even dark.

I have a million stories I tried to write and couldnt.

Not so many that I never tried.

I have a manga story half written somewhere.

I do this with both my artwork and my stories ... I tend to keep unfinished stuff around. And work it back in later. In fact, the story I plan to tell right off the bat here, once my 8-page origin saga is complete, has elements from a story I never finished 9 years ago, a homework project I did 3 months ago, and a story idea I've wanted to tell for about the past 7 years. I finally figured out a way to fit the puzzle pieces together.

:-)

I had a story I wrote 10 pages of a general plotline for. Aliens, fighting, and some of my own little twists. I stopped writing it because eventually I got bored with it, plus I had written it around 5th or 6th grade, so it rather sucked.

Also, one of the key plot elements was used in a show later.

I have tons. One involved a high-school cooking club, another was a fantasy with a guy who is looking for his younger sister who turned evil after discovering magic with the story told in a sort of episodic way.

I'd say the most interesting was that I had a "Trading genders" comic. There are tons of stories out there that involve trading bodies, and sometimes it's a guy and a girl who trade, so naturally the regular gender-confusion rules apply. But what if gender was the ONLY thing traded? It'd be a lot harder to cover up, first of all, and the rules of each gender would start to impose themselves on the swappers in a different way. The two that I had swapping were the most violent girl in school and the one guy who'd willingly stop said girl by force.

EDIT: I can't help myself, I have to write out the whole thing. So, Girl A is the most violent person, let alone girl, in the entire school. She is extremely easy to provoke and often lashes out with violent action, something that has made her very unpopular with everybody. However, most of the guys are afraid of doing anything to her because of that "Don't hit girls" unspoken rule. One guy, Boy B, however, doesn't really care about that rule and is typically the only one able to make her stop by using physical force (Though it's usually a pin rather than fisticuffs). We later see Girl A crying in her room revealing that she is extremely depressed. In response to her depression, a cigar-smoking, Boston-accented little pixie godfather appears and says that he'll grant her a wish. She wishes she could be a boy ("All that physical power mine for the taking") The godfather then says that he needs a base to work from if he's to grant it, a sort of "Equivalent exchange" to swap the parts to and from (i.e, if she wants to become a boy, she has to find a boy to trade parts with), which then gives Girl A a devilish idea. So, Girl A lures Boy B out to an alley way to set off her trick.

I was thinking of making a thread like this earlier today and would have titled it "Brainstorming Bargain Bin!" or something.

I once had the idea of making: "Marble Magic".

It was about a group of four school boys who would play marbles, obviously. The would have super-shots and participate in tournaments and all that crap :)

I hardly ever finish anything. It isn't that I "decided" not to. They just fall back for a while. I have over 100 pages writen in this space adventure/drama I started 10 years ago.

I also have a fun story called "Strange Creatures" which is mostly a character centered comedic drama (which also includes a strange beast). It's by far my favorite (great characters...) and I add to it occasionally. It probably would make a decent comic, I guess, but I only ever intended it as a story and I certainly wouldn't be able to pull off the art for it. (After it is finished, if a comic artist is looking for a story, I'd probably have no qualms sharing it.) If you want to read it, I have it uploaded here: http://usedbooks.deviantart.com/gallery/

I had two, one a webcomic about a guy drawing a webcomic. The idea might have seemed simple, but it was much deeper. The guy in a webcomic I wanted to make was drawing a guy making a webcomic who was drawing a webcomic about a guy trying to make a webcomic. Except that the story focused on the development of the guy that was being drawn by the guy that was being drawnn by the guy that was the main character in the comic. Little by little, all the artists in the comic would realize that they are just trivial things and not real. It just shattered the concept of the fourth wall. I couldn't draw it because I kept getting confused about who was who in the story.

Hero By Default --

After a mysterious disease that targets a gene in Superheros, kills them all off, a drunk loser stumbles upon the corpse of a superhero, who's secret identity was a bartender at a local pub. The loser takes his identity and becomes a Hero by default, saving the world from the crime that had run rampant on the city.

Though then Hero By Night came out and I decided not to do it, maybe I'll just change the name...now I just need to learn to enjoy writing superhero comics and it still may get done one day.

I was gonna write a story about a world where the anti-animal product organizations, followed by the anti-plant product organizations (created when someone decided to use plants in place of animal products), followed by an organization formed to protest the idea of humans eating synthesized pills and synthetic products (created when someone figured out how to synthesize those animal and plant products using inorganic matter) all win... And it'd be a short story anyway since the generation in the story had been taught eating meat, vegetables, or synthetic products, and using anything made from those things was evil and no one wanted the government to get mad at them...

I can't write it anyway. I don't like mixing politics and social issues with comics. :)

When I think about it now, such a comic just wouldn't make any sense to write. Ahh, those wierd high school ideas...

kennatsu
I was gonna write a story about a world where the anti-animal product organizations, followed by the anti-plant product organizations (created when someone decided to use plants in place of animal products), followed by an organization formed to protest the idea of humans eating synthesized pills and synthetic products (created when someone figured out how to synthesize those animal and plant products using inorganic matter) all win... And it'd be a short story anyway since the generation in the story had been taught eating meat, vegetables, or synthetic products, and using anything made from those things was evil and no one wanted the government to get mad at them...

I can't write it anyway. I don't like mixing politics and social issues with comics. :)

When I think about it now, such a comic just wouldn't make any sense to write. Ahh, those wierd high school ideas...

if you like horror at all, check out the short story Babycakes by neil gaiman.

k, Im a bit embarrassed. These stories was develop in my much younger years, inspired by the weirdness and wantings of my friends. my stories that I will not write an is up for grabs:

Untitled:
Young jewelry designer falls out the the favor of high society. Running away from the embarrassments, she moves to a much smaller but lively city and meets an upcoming local artist. There she slowly remembers why she went into jewelry design in the first place while learning of the artist's dark past with family death.


Galactic Divine:
Comic from a world of vast tech and entertainment, its spring break, time to go to the beach but instead, our main girl becomes a 'goddess' to a world that is ruled by an ex-convict from her world.
Mostly a comedy, do what ever you want ^^

YMFL (magazine name, if you decided to get this, I'll tell what it is then cause now, Im feel too embarrassed):
and underage girl wins a magazine contest under her older sister's identity. She wins a trip to the house/mansion of a famous/secretive author of many romance novels. There she finds that a few other girls (older then her) also won the contest but in order to get the final prize (be the first fan to see the male author) the girls have to find and fulfill the small challenges scattered all over the mansion.
In truth, the author spies on all the contestents to find inspiration for his next novel...
I did have some thoughts about this title, but its not for me,so do what ever to this story.


This is the only thing that I would prefer not anyone to do, if you anything rated more then 16+ dont tell me about it. Thanks

I almost made my own, twisted version of the magical girl genre. It was going to be a slap to the face of your average magical girl story...I remember there were three main characters...one was called "Whiteness", and another called "Chainsaw" who, yes, carried a chainsaw....I forget the last one.
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...but then I decided my story sucked. XD And I just had no real urge to draw it.

Plus that's being done a lot nowadays.

SarahN
I almost made my own, twisted version of the magical girl genre. It was going to be a slap to the face of your average magical girl story...I remember there were three main characters...one was called "Whiteness", and another called "Chainsaw" who, yes, carried a chainsaw....I forget the last one.

I had an idea for that, too, but I had a bit of a different Idea.

I was gonna do a magical boy story. Virtually everything, down to the cute talking animal sidekick, would be like a magical girl story, only the hero would be a guy, and not a small, effeminate guy at that; We're talking someone who would look horrible in frills. As you can guess, the attitude would be different, as well, especially when his close female friends find out.

It's almost lead me to write an article I call "Theory on alternative Mahou-Shonen".

I LOVE stories with gender confusion for some reason. The main reason I was tempted to write this is that there are plenty of stories about girls being dropped into boy's roles, but not many of the opposite short of a sex-change. I think it would be entertaining!

a metroid fan comic of the 'metroid prime' series for the game cube:P

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that was cover art that I would've used.