busy1) Your main character is a diplomat responsible for maintaining peaceful relations across a variety of planets (science fiction), dimensions (fantasy or horror), nations (espionage or fantasy), etc. Flesh out this character in depth.
2) Roll a d100 three times on "The 100 Worst Ideas of the Century." (If one item seems trivial or silly, try attaching extreme religious or political significance to it.) Your protagonist is plagued by three diplomatic incidents bearing a vague resemblance to these historic examples, which arrive all at once.
3) Browse this list of biomes and pick three to define the environment from which each of the incidents originates. This will influence the culture (and perhaps species) of the people involved.
4) Create three supporting characters, each to argue the case for the diplomatic incident from their home and make demands of the diplomat. Sketch out a few memorable details for each of these characters. Include one thing per character (such as clothing, food preference, houseplant or pet, thermal comfort zone, etc.) which derives from their home environment.
5) While your protagonist is trying to resolve these three incidents, someone destroys half the office facility. None of the three supporting characters have an alibi, and each of them accuses the other two of the attack. Now your protagonist needs to find out who really did it (which does not have to be ANY of them, or could be a combination) and keep them from killing each other or creating yet another incident. Write the results.
August 7 2010, 21:21:30 UTC 10 years ago
August 7 2010, 22:20:40 UTC 10 years ago
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,991230,00.html
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August 7 2010, 22:31:11 UTC 10 years ago
Fixed!
August 7 2010, 22:30:25 UTC 10 years ago
August 8 2010, 00:09:58 UTC 10 years ago