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Looking for a Plot?

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plblair
, June 20th, 2010 at 10:38 AM (456 Views)
I've started doing some posting on Yahoo's "Answers" site, and I'm surprised - also amazed and appalled - at the number of people who write something along the lines of "I want to be a writer. Somebody give me ideas for plots/characters/all of the above." Granted, a lot of those are kids (early teens or younger), but I worry that some of them may be young adults (or not-so-young adults). What's happening to imagination and the desire to create-it-yourself? Even at 11 or 12 or 15, I would never have asked someone else to provide me with a plot or names/descriptions of my characters.
I worry that we're raising a generation (or more than one) of people with no, or limited, imagination. If it's true, it's worse than sad.

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  1. Holbrook's Avatar
    No more than any generation that has gone before them.

    What annoys me is when you get folks posting on writing forums, saying, "I have this idea/plot/characters/200,000 words of rubbish I have written, now I need a writer to beat it into shape/write the novel, so I can be a best seller and have lots of money!"
  2. plblair's Avatar
    Unfortunately, Holbrook, you're right about the imagination part. As for the idea/plot/characters, you can always counter-offer to ghost-write the novel for a share of the profits.