My next free story? - You decide

This feels weird.

Hello esteemed humanoids and others.

I’m posting a story soon for August, but before then, I want to get a head start for September’s story.

There is an issue however.

I have too many ideas.

But I have a solution.

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Rather than tell you the ideas I have and let you pick from them, I’m going to write something entirely new. And since you’re my audience, it seems only fair you get some say in what you will be reading next month. So I want you to suggest ideas, and I’ll write a story inspired by them in the next two weeks.

Think of it like a commission, but you don’t have to pay me.

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I used to do this as a Creative Writing exercise at college and uni.

Task 1: Sit down, have an idea for a story, and don’t write it.

Task 2: Give it to the person to your left.

Task 3: Write the story the person to your right just gave you.

It was an unconventional exercise and I’m pretty sure I invented it, but it does work. Yes, it makes some writers uncomfortable (especially if they don’t want to give the idea for a poem about the girl they fancy, to the girl they fancy) but it’s worth doing. It rattles all those wires in your head. You have to abandon your idea baby and someone thrusts another one into your vacant arms. It’s got reptilian skin and glowing eyes. Is that normal?

So, you are all now sat to my right in this classroom of ideas.

Please pour story ideas into this comment box. I will take my favourite ideas and try to make a story that combines all of them. You can write something as small as one word or as big as a paragraph.

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But that’s not all.

I will give it a few days for ideas to roll in, and will write the story on a livestream. This will be broadcast on Youtube, so don’t worry if you miss it, it will be up there until long after my inevitable demise.

So, ideas?

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This week’s freebies for Science Fiction (by other authors, though I am on these shelves)

UFOs on the beach - summer sci-fi giveaway

Sci-Fi romance - aliens doing the kissy kissy, etcetera

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WBTH1

In the first universe, an afterlife simulator called Lucy vows to bring the humans back, no matter the cost.

In the second, Professor Nori Furukawa reinvents the time machine; Bill Bines discovers the dark truth about the Swamphenge UFO crash, and Darlene plots to assassinate Lax Morales, the enigmatic founder of Virtualism and Earth's last hope.

In the third, Tin foil Tim tries to convince his readers that his erotic novel about aliens is based on a true story; shaky cyborgs start having nightmares about weird creatures called 'Humans' and for some reason you have complete control over how this comedic universe ends.

And this is just three universes out of eleven.

Which one will you visit first?