Hi.

I've been hit hard by writer's block lately and started to build up a catalog of undeveloped and abandoned scripts and ideas. It was bound to happen sooner or later.

So, I thought it might be fun if we shared some ideas that we thought of and then decided we weren't going to develop into a script (at least, not yet), and the reasons behind shelving them.

In my case, I think my capacity to "yes, and" myself is simply running out. I have a text file with a few ideas and tags jotted down, and all of them seem too ridiculous, beyond my skill to execute properly, or too similar to existing works.

Anyway, here's a few of the unformed scripts I have languishing in ideas.txt, and why they're stuck there.

Feel free to take any of these and run with them, although I might do the same at some point before the heat death of the universe:

• Welcome to SUBway [Threesome][Subs][but also, Subs][Lame Puns][Get Sandwiched][No Copyright Infringement Intended]
  • I can barely keep track of what goes where in two-person sex scenes, how the heck am I going to manage the logistics of a threesome? And are the sandwiches literal, metaphorical or both?
• Bilingual Backfire Brings Blissful Bondage (your friend overhears you talking with someone in another language about how much you want your friend to tie you up and have their way with you, not knowing that they also understand that language. Then Things Happen)
  • An alliterative title isn't enough to turn people on (please correct me if you found yourself losing it during V's speech in V for Vendetta). Also, I can't decide whether to stretch my Tagalog skills again, or make a confused effort at dirty talk in Mandarin so I can disappoint my elders in multiple ways at once.
• Last night with your Katipunero lover before he goes to fight the Spanish
  • A super-dramatic, historical Philippine Revolution script with two star-crossed lovers would be great, but I'd rather it be done right or not at all, and I don't have the expertise to make historically accurate dialogue. Paumanhin po.
• Smut Author Gets "Inspiration" from Reader
  • This premise was born of frustration at writer's block, but it just felt a little too cliché, and a few similar scripts popped up just as I started on this one. Plus, writing the whole writer/fan dynamic ended up making me feel a bit creepy, being a writer myself and all.

How about you? What's on your cutting room floor?