My dear readers,
As someone who enjoys human-made content, I always keep my eyes out for any present and upcoming book and home video with a unique plot that's guaranteed to entertain me, my blog readers. I also believe that all human beings have the right to read and watch whatever they want.
As someone who enjoys human-made content, I always keep my eyes out for any present and upcoming book and home video with a unique plot that's guaranteed to entertain me, my blog readers. I also believe that all human beings have the right to read and watch whatever they want.
With all the kinds of things I read and watch, I end up imagining my own novel-length plots, but I'm unable to write them down even as short stories.
So, this post is about my ideas for entertaining stories that I hope my fellow human beings (and NOT AI) might someday bring to life for all book lovers.
Please note I use the 24-hour format when describing time.
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| Self-Taught by Matus76 |
Meschita, Synagoga, Ecclesia: A Historical Fiction Story Set in the Holy Land๐⛪๐
Thought of this plot after watching Rick Steves' informative documentary special on Israel and Palestine and giving lessons on religious tolerance and diversity.
It is 1998, half a century after Israeli Jews were given their homes and the Palestinians lost theirs.
Amidst the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict, a Palestinian woman is abandoned by her hypocritical family and fake friends for becoming pregnant through adultery. With the Israeli man she truly loved and the Palestinian husband she wedded in an arranged marriage both dead in a murder-suicide, the poor widow struggles to survive.
As wars rage on, a human trafficking couple and their minions masquerade as a kind doctor and his simple staff to offer the woman refuge in their home and clinic (but are actually planning to harm her and her children).
On the fiftieth anniversary of Israeli independence, the widow gives birth to fraternal triplet girls one minute and one second apart: the first baby at 03:01:01, the second at 03:02:02, and the third at 03:03:03. After the woman wishes for her daughters with her dead Israeli boyfriend to be adopted by one family, she crumbles to dust and gets blown to all corners of Earth.
Ignoring the event, the traffickers' minions inform them of three well-off Israeli married couples who've been praying for years to have children, but have become too impatient to go through the legal adoption process. In exchange for thousands, the triplets are individually sold: one to a Muslim couple, the second to a Jewish couple, and the third to a Christian couple, along with forged birth certificates correctly listing May 14, 1998 as the sisters' date of birth.
The three couples know what a big sin they've committed, but hope God will forgive them for granting their own wish for a child, with each pair being told a unique lie about the events leading up to the illegal adoption: one girl was born to a Muslim teenager whose parents forced her to give the baby up; one girl was given up because her Jewish birth parents are married to other people; and one girl was abandoned at the hospital by her Christian birth father because he blames her for causing his wife's maternal death.
The triplets are later baptised in the same religions as their respective families, growing up to practice different beliefs in three areas of the Promised Land. In their thirteenth year, the sisters are enrolled in the same inclusive school where children are taught Monday to Thursday; with relatives and neighbours both amazed and repulsed by their birthdate, the three girls become best friends, unaware they're sisters.
The triplets feel proud of sharing the same birthday as Israel herself and know they're "adopted", yet nonetheless love the people who've been raising them since birth.
But even before their unexpected reunion, all three sisters share the same unsettling talent in correctly identifying a stranger they encounter as an Israeli, a Palestinian, a Muslim, a Jew, or a Christian; as the girls get to know one another's lives and religious beliefs, they meet other Israeli independence day babies born years apart yet sharing the same talent as the triplets.
As the Israelis and the Palestinians continue waging wars against each other, the triplets' custodians-who themselves remain oblivious to the exact origins of the girls they've come to love as their own-fear that their gift's a sign from God that He's unhappy with the kidnappings and that it's only a matter of time before authorities take the children away.
As everyone knows, hatred's no match for love, the only thing that'll help the three families when the truth reveals itself in the most unexpected way.
Heirs and Inheritance: A Succession Crisis๐
As a classic literature instructor, I've watched enough Shakespearean plays to know how heavy are the heads that wear crowns.
In a western monarchy where school and work occur Monday to Thursday, the old reigning King's childhood friend, a bachelor who had lived a scandalous life despite his charitable donations, has died.
The sad King's comforted by his wife the Queen, their only child the Crown Prince, his own wife the Crown Princess, and their personality-opposite twin children: David and Anneliese.
Even though David has been living a scandalous life himself, he's loved and spoiled rotten by his mother. As the kingdom's laws declare the reigning monarch's (biological or legally adopted) firstborn child heir apparent, David is his father and grandfather's successor, despite not being adored by the majority of the citizens.
On the day of the funeral of the man who had also been David's godfather, the twins are accompanied by their respective spouses and children: David's wife Saskia and adult son David Jr. (who both secretly dislike being royal), and Anneliese's immigrant husband Jonah, their happily married daughter Saffron, her wife Pia, and their adopted daughter Deborah.
As the deceased is being laid to rest, however, a rare earthquake scares the Crown Princess into confessing to having had an affair with her father-in-law's friend and that the twins may not be the King's grandchildren.
As the scandal spreads all over the world, the monarchs order paternity tests that come up with surprising results: Anneliese is biologically the Prince's daughter, but David was fathered by the dead man.
Despite the law regarding succession, the royal family becomes further estranged when the monarchs and the Crown Prince all tell David and the Princess how ashamed they are of the two's past and present misdeeds before publicly declaring Anneliese, Saffron, and Deborah the new heirs to the throne.
The populace nevertheless celebrate the news of a future Queen Anneliese as her brother, sister-in-law, and nephew are stripped of their royal titles and move away to a privately-owned house, accompanied by the disgraced Princess; David himself is numbed by the royals' judgement on him.
Stepping into the role of heiress apparent, Anneliese becomes one with the citizens, surprising herself and her family as her hidden leadership skills blossom and bear fruit after years of being in her half-brother's shadow.
Already despised by the people and needing to support himself, David sinks further into despair when tourists upload videos of him fighting with his mother while job hunting and then disowning her; back at home, Saskia and David Jr. enjoy being ex-royals, become good friends with their neighbours and their former stepfamily members as they too explore their hidden talents: one in carpentry and the other in baking.
With nowhere else to turn to, the fallen Princess returns to the Capital Palace, her father-in-law requesting she and his son attend marriage counselling and promising to respect their choice of continuing the marriage till death or getting a legal divorce.
In one final twist, Anneliese proves herself worthy of the throne when she summons David for him to do a particular request.
The Curse is a Blessing or When the Villains Become the Heroes๐ช
I enjoy plots that are entertainingly out-of-this-world and have you guessing what'll happen next.
A White transwoman and a Black transman fear they no longer love each other and that their decades-long marriage has come to an end at the same time their adopted granddaughter joyfully announces they're going to become great-grandparents; not wanting to overshadow the happy occasion, the couple keep their doubts a secret from their own adopted family.
Watching afar are two witches: a female witch who lusts after the husband and a warlock who lusts after the wife.
When they learn of the couple's plan to secretly divorce so as not to upset their pregnant granddaughter, the witches profess their feelings, but get rejected. Enraged, the witches curse the couple to become hideous monsters: the wife during the day and the husband during the night.
To everyone's surprise, however, the cursed couple enjoy their situation, believing it's the thing needed to rekindle their love and to remain married until death do them part.
But even after the witches reveal their true nature, how to lift the curse, and confess the reason for casting the spell, the spouses forgive them, but happily decline the offer and go about living both as human and monster.
Whether or not it shows love is skin deep, the answer is up to you.
Four Strings: A Generational Saga๐ป
Having read and watched One Hundred Years of Solitude and played What Remains of Edith Finch, I can see why a generational saga makes an interesting plotline.
I'm also fascinated by how the cycle of the four seasons bring beauty to nature in an annual series of birth, growth, death, and rebirth.
Popular girl band and quartet Pomegranate have just won their first Grammy award; to celebrate, they party with their families and friends and uploaded samples of their DNA to a genealogy website just for the fun of it.
A week later, the test results reveal that the quartet's late great-grandmothers were identical quadruplet sisters, making them cousins, as are their mothers and maternal grandmothers.
All twelve women are surprised because they were born and grew up in different parts of the country and had only met when Pomegranate first formed.
To find the answers, the three generations of women begin sharing the lives and deaths of their late matriarchs.
Named after the four seasons on the account of being born on Antonio Vivaldi's birthdate, quadruplet sisters Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter grow up close and impress others with their talent in music.
It's a delight to the masses when the sisters each take turns playing the soloist in a recorded performance of The Four Seasons.
When everyone thinks the sisters will make it big in the music industry, the four have a falling out when all of them get seduced and pregnant by a conman using various disguises to blackmail them.
Even after beating the jerk at his own game, each woman blames the others for not warning her about him, cutting ties, renaming herself, and moving to a different part of the country where she starts a new life with her daughter.
As four generations of women undergo changes themselves, the four families must now to choose whether to grow together or let history repeat itself.
Unlike Mother, Unlike Daughter๐ฉ๐ป๐ต๐ฟ
With millions interested in true crime stories, seldom are they interested in knowing the sides of the victims' and the perpetrators' innocent loved ones. So, it begs the question: are we defined by our own actions or the sins of our relatives?
On her thirteenth birthday, a White girl Josie's life unravels when her mother gets arrested and later imprisoned for life as punishment for murdering a Black man she was having an affair with to keep the relationship secret. As she grows into an adult, Josie loses her friends, and strangers falsely accuse her both in real life and online of being racist when she isn't, and she has always condemned her mother's crimes.
To show she is more than her mother's daughter, Josie gets a job at a charity dedicated to bringing missing people of colour home; showing her the ropes is her colleague Margaret-an older Black woman who knows what it's like being related to a criminal. Years prior, Margaret's greedy daughter killed their rich patriarch because of his decision to have all his money donated upon his death. Still missing her father, Margaret has since been working for the charity to show her estranged neighbours and relatives that she had no idea her own daughter-also serving life in prison-would commit such a horrific crime.
Unlike Mother, Unlike Daughter๐ฉ๐ป๐ต๐ฟ
With millions interested in true crime stories, seldom are they interested in knowing the sides of the victims' and the perpetrators' innocent loved ones. So, it begs the question: are we defined by our own actions or the sins of our relatives?
On her thirteenth birthday, a White girl Josie's life unravels when her mother gets arrested and later imprisoned for life as punishment for murdering a Black man she was having an affair with to keep the relationship secret. As she grows into an adult, Josie loses her friends, and strangers falsely accuse her both in real life and online of being racist when she isn't, and she has always condemned her mother's crimes.
To show she is more than her mother's daughter, Josie gets a job at a charity dedicated to bringing missing people of colour home; showing her the ropes is her colleague Margaret-an older Black woman who knows what it's like being related to a criminal. Years prior, Margaret's greedy daughter killed their rich patriarch because of his decision to have all his money donated upon his death. Still missing her father, Margaret has since been working for the charity to show her estranged neighbours and relatives that she had no idea her own daughter-also serving life in prison-would commit such a horrific crime.
As the two women become unexpected friends, the charity becomes their second home and they work hard to show that every person is defined by their own actions and not by their families.
Nancy Drew and the Mystery of the Old Clock: A Script Idea inspired by the Franchise by Carolyn Keene๐ต๐ผ♀️๐ฐ️
Nancy Drew, the franchise created by Edward Stratemeyer under the pen name of Carolyn Keene, will be turning 100 in 2030. Taking inspiration from the classic Mystery Stories, as well as the first and only good season of the 1977 TV show starring Pamela Sue Martin as the girl detective, Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, and Stefan Petrucha and the late Sho Murase's graphic novel adaptation, I came up with a script idea (which I won't upload now to avoid a lawsuit from Simon & Schuster) in commemoration.
In my imagined plot, the Clue Crew-Nancy Drew and her best friends the cousins George Fayne and Bess Marvin-are all adult women working as part-time investigators for Nancy's lawyer father Carson Drew and live on 915 Christie Street, River Heights, IL. When the sleuths learn that a rich, eccentric old man named Josiah Crowley has died leaving his vast fortune to his greedy cousins, the Topham family, the women travel around heir home state of Illinois to interrogate the late man's impoverished loved ones who all believe he wrote, signed, and hid a secret second last will and testament that decrees them as his true heirs. When one of Mr. Crowley's friends swears that she saw him hide a vital clue in his mantel clock, the Clue Crew must race against time, outsmarting both the Tophams and a trio of thieves, to ensure the correct people inherit the dead man's money.
Who knows? Who knows whether any of my plots will be published. I would like to collaborate with my fellow human beings in bringing my ideas to life somehow someway.
Best regards,
A. Eleazar
Nancy Drew and the Mystery of the Old Clock: A Script Idea inspired by the Franchise by Carolyn Keene๐ต๐ผ♀️๐ฐ️
Nancy Drew, the franchise created by Edward Stratemeyer under the pen name of Carolyn Keene, will be turning 100 in 2030. Taking inspiration from the classic Mystery Stories, as well as the first and only good season of the 1977 TV show starring Pamela Sue Martin as the girl detective, Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, and Stefan Petrucha and the late Sho Murase's graphic novel adaptation, I came up with a script idea (which I won't upload now to avoid a lawsuit from Simon & Schuster) in commemoration.
In my imagined plot, the Clue Crew-Nancy Drew and her best friends the cousins George Fayne and Bess Marvin-are all adult women working as part-time investigators for Nancy's lawyer father Carson Drew and live on 915 Christie Street, River Heights, IL. When the sleuths learn that a rich, eccentric old man named Josiah Crowley has died leaving his vast fortune to his greedy cousins, the Topham family, the women travel around heir home state of Illinois to interrogate the late man's impoverished loved ones who all believe he wrote, signed, and hid a secret second last will and testament that decrees them as his true heirs. When one of Mr. Crowley's friends swears that she saw him hide a vital clue in his mantel clock, the Clue Crew must race against time, outsmarting both the Tophams and a trio of thieves, to ensure the correct people inherit the dead man's money.
Who knows? Who knows whether any of my plots will be published. I would like to collaborate with my fellow human beings in bringing my ideas to life somehow someway.
Best regards,
A. Eleazar
