Ideas I Can't Use (Yet)

[elfs]

This afternoon as I was walking home, I looked down at a patch of grass and saw something. "Oh," I thought. "An undeveloped desireline." And then I thought that that phrase, Undeveloped Desireline, was a great title for a story.

Now I just have to figure out what story.

It'll probably end up in the Graveyard of Great Titles, right next to The Princess Warehouse, another title for which I have no clue what to write next.

Comments

[memegarden.livejournal.com]

If it was undeveloped, what made it a desireline? Did it look as though a few people were using it, but it hadn't fully worn in yet?

I had to look up "desireline" to see what you were talking about:
http://www.wordspy.com/words/desireline.asp

[elfs.livejournal.com]

One of the things some architects do, especially for large multi-building campuses, is to not put any walkways down at all. Over the first few weeks desirelines appear, and then they're mapped and formally developed-- concrete is poured and guides installed. This guarantees that there won't be any wasted concrete put where no one will care to walk, and preserves as much grass and greenery as possible. And undeveloped desireline is one where the owner of the property either has not or won't install some sort of pathway or markers.

[duskwuff.livejournal.com]

I've actually seen this in action at my school last fall. Quite a few students were taking a detour across a bit of landscaping that interrupted a path to a building that had been added that summer. A few weeks later, concrete was poured.

Perhaps a Princess Warehouse might be...

[(Anonymous)]

The Princess Warehouse sounds to me like a title for a story about an elite boarding school for the scions of the nobility and royalty. It would be, of course, a nickname, with the real name being something like: "The Rutger P. Fitzwillie School for Gifted Girls".

[memegarden.livejournal.com]

Ah, "undeveloped" in the sense of "not paved or railed". Got it.

The Princess Warehouse

[(Anonymous)]

The Princess Warehouse seems easy enough. Where they store fembots with special programming, saucy manners, an overblown view of their own self-worth, and proper bodies intended for royalty without suitable offspring of their own. All part of a single production run, to be doled out as required. The fun part happens when one of them being shipped to a far off star system is hijacked by interstellar pirates who have a rather different idea of her station in life.

And no, I'm not worried about you stealing my ideas. We could both start off from the identical premise above and end up with completely different stories.

---DB_Story