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I want to practice writing short stories. Hit me with your best idea.
Keep in mind, it has to be a *short story* idea. Premises for open-ended novel series are easy; those just require a beginning. An idea for a novel needs both a beginning and an ending. An idea for a short story needs them to be separated by only a small amount of development.
The prisoner’s dilemma but played between a person and his own molecularly replicated self after a “teleportation” malfunction.
"Cooperate?" "Sure." They did.
"Sovereign citizen legal theories actually work. They are magicians of the legal realm (legomancy). Police are powerless against them. Unfortunately, it severely limits their ability to engage in transactions so they live on the outskirts of society."https://twitter.com/TommSciortino/status/1170068764903100416?s=19 …
(though I would call it "legimancy", partly because I'm pretty sure that's how the Latin would work, and partly so that readers won't think about Master Builders)pic.twitter.com/SvM63DmrcS
A failing apprentice magician is summoned by a prophecy to a world with only one school of magic, known to the people of that world as fizikus, based on the new and exciting premise that all magic is tiny waves of mana that follow precise mathematical rules.
They create an elaborate plan to exploit this and quickly become the most powerful fizikusist in this new world, using obvious insights that everyone missed. It fails on the first step.
Your idea of precisely bound demons seemed very interesting, I'd like to see your take on it.
I tried writing that and gave up after a couple of false starts. Also, it has to be a *short story* idea; that was a long story idea. Short story ideas are harder.
Plot: An ev psych prof wants to pivot into writing short stories, but his dialogue sounds like it was written by an alien who doesn't understand real human language, and a benign Rationalist coaches him on how to write better dialogue, using good and bad examples.
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