Dunno if this is the right name for it but ... anyone else got not much happening? Maybe following someone around, or just a bunch of random people getting together and talking about life ... Breakfast Club, Before Sunset?

I've got two strangers holed up in a phonebox waiting for the rain to stop ...

Ha. That's what my characters will be doing for a good portion of the script. lockdown at school, holed up in the house so they don't get shot (english essays have decided to come up with a plot this year. i had no choice but to obey. they have power over my ap english grade). so basically the entire plot will be them running from location to location, sitting and waiting, talking, and trying not to die. thats it. im going to the dare page!

right now...they're sitting in a classroom and I'm trying to somehow bring the riot to them....hmmmm....oh well! plot hole shall be fixed later. DARE TIME!

My characters have nothing to do but talk. That's alright. they talk to the audience... I am really bad at this I've decided. Although I am writing about real life. I just overhear conversation and try to adapt it in.

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I have a comic book about people falling in love and falling out of love and getting abused and finding surrogate fathers and injecting testosterone and getting surgeries and starting dance studios.

I have no idea what it's about, but I guess it goes here. People are always calling Alex Robinson "slice of life" and he's a big influence on me, so why not?

tomdg: You know, right after you mentioned Before Sunset, I realized that my story is a similar concept. I got a slice-of-life anthology going on where people have chats on trains throughout the span of a day. And yeah, I think that's the right name for it... dunno how else to classify it.

sbschiemann: That's pretty much what I'm doing as well... I take real-life situations/conversations that I've had (or have seen) and put a bit of a spin on it (thanks to my overactive imagination). Nothing fantastical or anything though, just exaggerations on real events. I used to spend a lot of time on trains/buses, so a lot of the stories in my anthology are inspired by that.

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headlessclown - that sounds like a really great idea!

I'm guessing (not least given your location) that it's not set in the UK :) All the time I used to take buses and trains in the UK I only ever spoke to two people I didn't already know. They were both South Africans!

Or do the people who are chatting already know each other?

Tom

I think therefore I am pretentious.

Sydney, Australia, actually. :) We have a pretty horrible transit system here, but it's what I'm most recently familiar with, so I went with it. I was originally gonna do stories from different train systems from around the world. Would've been interesting to do some stories in London and Paris, for example. Toronto is another one that I would've liked to talk about. For some reason I loved the trains there. Maybe a sequel. ;)

The two people at the beginning of my story have previously just met at a hostel, oddly enough (as you can tell, I like to travel, so I've incorporated it into one of my storylines). All the chapters in the story tend to focus on a person (or persons) who is in the middle of a journey of one form or another. I thought it'd be an interesting challenge to try to come up with different types of stories that can happen in the one setting, and also relate it back to a common theme.

Going well so far, though evidently not as well as some of you guys. Jeebuz, and here I was happy just meeting quota. Good work.

-Adrian

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Mine is sort of like this-only instead of slice of life, it's a lot of vignettes of slices of lives, and goes cradle to grave following 4 siblings around.

Supposedly there's a theme and some larger question involved that will get answered, but I'm rather unsure how things will get resolved (or what the bigger question actually is).

Writing is a process of discovery. So I'm discovering--what I'll write next is a mystery to me!

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