A clearinghouse of ideas.

Over the last few days, my randomly firing brain has spewed out a few separate ideas. None is especially fleshed out - some have major plot gaps, and I haven't found a way to connect them all. I am posting a couple here that I was able to commit to words before each flew away. All rights to these ideas are reserved by me so if any strikes your fancy and you want to develop it, please contact me so we can discuss licensing and royalties. Daddy gots to get paid, y'all.

1. We start, flashing back to a small area in the deserts of Arizona. A group of wandering pioneers decides to establish a town.

A few years down the road, the town founders, worried about [and here I don't know what threat to create] so they set up a doomsday/failsafe plan. This would be triggered by the presence of the word "drowned" in a death report. Unlikely for a town in the desert so they thought it cunning and [for some reason inherently related to the "threat" drowning would be an important indicator].

Cut to modern day. Guy watering his lawn. The spigot handle breaks. He takes out a screwdriver and unscrews it. Towards the end, water pressure shoots the screw up into his forehead, knocking him out. He falls back onto his lawn as the water keeps shooting out like a fountain into his face, drowning him.

Police come, the body is taken to the morgue where the coroner confirms that, in the middle of a desert, a guy died of drowning. This sets off the doomsday device which drives the plot to save the town (or, if one were to imagine that this drowning in fact IS what the founders were worried about, to avoid the threat the founders first imagine].




2. In which a man discovers a horrible conspiracy!

A guy realizes that in this artificial existence that we call life, the "overseers" [whoever is really in charge] have been giving us hints about the fake nature of our world, and yet we never see them. Every celebrity or politician is an actor playing a role of playing a role. The names are structured using literary and psychological devices.

Consider the names of the supposed "bad" guys according to the scripted drama sometimes called world War 2
HITler
MUSSolini
Names start with a verb indicating violence or disorder. [Hero-hito was considered a God by his people, a clear example of Hero worship, which is a bad thing]
And after the war, STALL In, CRUSHchev
The names betray the characters ' evil.
And the good guys?
CHURCHill
TRU MAN
names designed to evoke or trigger a sympathetic response in the audience.
Other characters exist, like the leader who wanted a SDI (Star Wars defense) named Ray-gun.
The guy tries to convince everyone that the world is a scripted set of lies. Cut to chase scenes.




3. The thought keepers. In the future scientists have dealt with the issue of forgetfulness. People were missing memories and having more thoughts than they can possibly juggle and recall. So science created human computers. These organic machines serve as cloud storage for every single thought. They shadow their human counterparts, connected by a neural net that outsources the brain in real time. Every thought and idea is filed and catalogued and each is available for recall at any time. When a person dies, his heir get access to all his experiences and ideas.
But what happens when some of the walking, talking, and telepathically connected new humans get kidnapped
Or
when someone starts hacking into the neural net, stealing ideas?
Or
the thought-keepers try to develop thoughts of their own