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Title: How to get writing ideas.
Post by: The Lost One on March 29, 2006, 07:51:15 PM: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12061682/

I think this college student's methods are less effective but the article does give some idea of how boring Des Moines, Iowa is. Also, he did get a measure of publicity from this stunt (I just question whether he got any story ideas).
Title: Re: How to get writing ideas.
Post by: Tekiel on March 29, 2006, 08:42:20 PM: Quote
has been contacted by New Line Cinema about a movie concept

By the sounds of it, this kid spent 41 hours basically being bored in a Walmart. What kind of a movie could possibly be created by that?
Title: Re: How to get writing ideas.
Post by: MsFish on March 29, 2006, 10:24:58 PM: It could make an *awesome* movie if they had a good screenwriter and a good director. There could be chase scenes. He could have a romantic sub-plot with a checker.

Man, I want to *write* that story now. I wish I'd had that idea.
Title: Re: How to get writing ideas.
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on March 30, 2006, 09:44:21 AM: yeah, I'm still having a hard time getting excited about that. Maybe if it opened at hour 41 when he started hallucinating, that'd be good. but still.
Title: Re: How to get writing ideas.
Post by: The Lost One on March 30, 2006, 12:50:21 PM: If you are living in Des Moines, going to Walmart is one of the few exciting things to do. And people in Des Moine wondered why I wanted to move.

The student did amit that his experiment was a failure so I don't think that there will be a movie or anything other then a few news stories.
Title: Re: How to get writing ideas.
Post by: PixelFish on August 30, 2006, 12:20:06 AM: Quote

By the sounds of it, this kid spent 41 hours basically being bored in a Walmart. What kind of a movie could possibly be created by that?

It's like the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, but with less Met.

(In Mixed Up Files, two kids run away from home to live in the Metropoliton Museum of Art. I REALLY wanted to do that when I was a kid.)
Title: Re: How to get writing ideas.
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on August 30, 2006, 10:12:24 AM: Pixel, you're wandering into resurrection zone. Others will start to get annoyed soon. Just an FYI. So far your comments are better than our average dead raiser, I'm just sayin'. S'all.