Okay this is it guys (and girls), my choice of career lies in your hands. If I get a runners up place in this competition then I will get such a great confidence boost that will boost me to finishing my book. If I don't I will assume my story is bad and I will just become a trolly boy down at the local Asda. Please decide on my very brief and vague explanations of my ideas and also on the rules and recomendations set which can be found here. I have some time so I will be shutting this vote off in a month, so you have untill the 16th of may if my PC clock is correct. I have also provided a score based on my thoughts on the ideas but please advise on alterations on originality if need be as I am not all wise and have not seen everything the world has to offer!
Idea 1
Idea 1 is about how time travelers try to stop an intergalactic war that devastates their governments economy by going back in time to kill the people that started the war. Idea 1 reveals that the time travelers actually were the ones that started the war revealing my belief that if time travelers have traveled to a point of time before us then they actually start the events that they attempt to stop.
Originality Factor: 2/5
Easiness to write: 3-4/5
Feelings for Idea: 2/5
Overall score for idea: 2/5
Idea 2
Idea 2 takes place on a massive space hauler that the Earth's populace was transfered to after the Earth became inhabitable. Things degrade on this ship from factions and religions rising to terrorists threatening to blow up the oxygen tanks unless everyone agrees to follow their beliefs. This is mainly a story about even in the slumiest of situations there will always be people grabbing for power.
Originality Factor: 3-4/5
Easiness to write: 4/5
Feelings for Idea: 3/5
Overall score for idea: 3/5
Idea 3
Idea 3 is a kind of a first person view of what it would be like to be a zombie. No not just a page of "BRAAAAAAIIIIIIINNNNNNNNSSSSSS!!!" but the subconcious of the zombie, the thoughts of the original host of the body. Of course the zombies would have to be more of a 28 days later infected with a virus zombie rather than Night of the Living Dead's undead zombie as when death takes over thought ceases to be where as with a virus the original host is still alive to a degree, it's just that the violent tendencies take over with the added urge to spread the virus.
Originality factor: 3-4/5
Easiness to write: 4/5
Feelings for Idea: 3/5
Overall score for idea: 3/5
Idea 4
Idea 4 is a play on the human condition of fearing an 'ultimate being'. When a wierd signal is picked up on the edge of the galaxy claims that it is god three factions race to the source. The church (now the last religion on the planet) to worship the being, a government to use the being as a weapon and a third faction of people who believe that the being would destroy civilisation and set out to kill it. In the end the chirch refuse to worship it as it proves the bible wrong, the government can't use it as a weapon and they both attempt to kill this being.
Originality Factor: 2/5
Easiness to write: 2/5
Feelings for idea: 3/5
Overall score for idea: 2/5
Idea 5
Idea 5 is based in a near future where global warming has taken it's toll and there is mass migration to the few remaining habital areas of the earth like Alaska. A play on the theory that due to the last 200 years there has been a mass transition from survival of the fittest to the survival of the richest. So far unsure how to write this in to a story but I think this could be a very thought provoking subject.
Originality Factor: 4/5
Easiness to write: 3-4/5
Feelings for idea: 4/5
Overall score for idea: 4/5
Idea 6
Idea 6 is a description of the last thoughts of a man trapped in a dark room, huddled over a candle to protect himself from whatever lurks in the darkness, only for the reader to find out the fear is of the darkness itself! The idea would be that shadow is now absorbing everything and that this man is not in a room but outside, it's just darkness has engulfed everything! I take inspiration from my childhood fear of the dark itself, not monsters that lurk among it.
Originality factor: 4/5
Easiness to write: 3/5
Feelings for idea:4/5
Overall score for idea: 4/5
I may add more through the gift of edit post so check back often in case you want to change your vote. :D Untill then though thats it for this blog post. Thanks for reading!