What's a 'this idea is so dumb, writing it anyway' story that you have written?

[Naruzeldamaster]

For the record, I mean 'dumb' in the way that 'why would anyone write this and why do *I* want to write it, but it sounds fun' rather than the actual idea being stupid.
After all, an idea being 'dumb' doesn't mean it's bad, it just means it's a project explicitly for you to enjoy writing and those are fun to write.
Second: technically there are no 'dumb' ideas unless they're executed poorly, at least I think so.

 

[pmmg]

My dumbest idea was probably thinking i could write fiction for a hobby and someone will buy it.

I dont recall my dumbest idea, but i do recall deleting large sections of stuff that was not working, specially in book 2.

 

[ThinkerX]

Years ago, we had a short story challenge here at Mythic Scribes. We made a list of the fifteen or twenty most ridiculous, worn-out, and just plain horrible plots or tropes or whatever you want to call them. Then, eight or ten of us wrote stories that incorporated at least two of those cliches. Most of those stories were pretty good.

It is not the idea. It is what you do with it.

 

[KATutin]

Literally any idea I come up with.

 

[Diana Silver]

Literally my current manuscript that I hit 110k wordcount on last week. The idea from the outset was: depressed teenager meets a witch girl who tells him he's the last spell of the most powerful sorceress that ever lived, reincarnated - and they have to save the world together.

The reason I even entertained a premise so stupidly cliche was I initially thought it up as the plot for my first attempt at drawing a manga (with zero manga-drawing skills). Then it turned out to be so compelling I switched to writing it as a novel - as it turned out the idea deserved my earnest effort and best skill.

Now it's two years since I started writing on it and it turned pretty insanely deep, if I say so myself.

 

[Naruzeldamaster]

Years ago, we had a short story challenge here at Mythic Scribes. We made a list of the fifteen or twenty most ridiculous, worn-out, and just plain horrible plots or tropes or whatever you want to call them. Then, eight or ten of us wrote stories that incorporated at least two of those cliches. Most of those stories were pretty good.

It is not the idea. It is what you do with it.

That's part of why I feel justified in (eventually) writing my King Midas parody.
The idea is silly/dumb but I plan to execute it in a way that's fun/entertaining without he uh...'sour' parts of that fandom. There are a few artists that engage in the fandom without those parts, but it's far and few between.

Literally my current manuscript that I hit 110k wordcount on last week. The idea from the outset was: depressed teenager meets a witch girl who tells him he's the last spell of the most powerful sorceress that ever lived, reincarnated - and they have to save the world together.

The reason I even entertained a premise so stupidly cliche was I initially thought it up as the plot for my first attempt at drawing a manga (with zero manga-drawing skills). Then it turned out to be so compelling I switched to writing it as a novel - as it turned out the idea deserved my earnest effort and best skill.

Now it's two years since I started writing on it and it turned pretty insanely deep, if I say so myself.

I mean you still could have it as a manga, just costs way more money to publish as you'd need to hire an artist (maybe two)

 

[Diana Silver]

Well I've got a whole lot better at drawing in those two years, too ^.^

 

[Naruzeldamaster]

Well I've got a whole lot better at drawing in those two years, too ^.^

The dream lives! >=3
Joking aside at least you have a full story now instead of drawing as you write lol
Regarding my story, I'm fairly certain most of the internet will find it too silly to read, but there is a certain side of the internet that will give it a go.
Not that I'm writing it explicitly for them, but it's just the nature of the kind of plot. I'd argue it'd be popular with anime likers too (who like those really goofy anime)