How to find a story idea

[elfs]

Omaha and I were out in the back yard, dismantling the pile of rubble that had once been the kids' treefort. The supports turned out to be rotten, so it was a good thing that I was taking it down. The main space was wasp-infested, and the kids didn't go up there anyway.

Our neighbor offered to take the untreated wood off our hands so he could burn it in our shop, and we were pulling the nails out of the various 2x4s and 4x4s. The guy who put this thing together was a dwarf in a former life: hundreds of nails made the treefort insanely difficult and dangerous to disassemble.

At one point, I pulled out a 6-foot 2x4 that had come free from some frame. Fifteen rusty ten-penny nails stuck out of it at various points along its length. "Another orc club," I commented to Omaha. She snorted.

That thought led to: "I'm not just the president of the Orc Club For Men, I'm also a client!"

Which led to: "Huh. A client at the Orc Club for Men. Sounds like a man-for-man escort service in Shadowrun."

That's where story ideas come from.

Now the trick is to incorporate all three ideas into the same story.

Comments

[amindofiron.livejournal.com]

nah, not an escort service so much as the name of a high end ork gay bar. which I gotta say, for alot of shadowrunners that would be a kinda scary place to visit unless you're into the whole leather daddy/bear thing.

[zonereyrie.livejournal.com]

The Orc Club for Men sounds like a service looking to hookup gay human males for whom human bears just don't do it anymore.

Once you go Orc you never... what?

[bldrnrpdx.livejournal.com]

"... go bork".

I think.

[zonereyrie.livejournal.com]

I don't know. I think once you go Orc, you're b0rked.

[halloranelder.livejournal.com]

I can't wait to read it. :)