Stories you will never write

[Crusoe]

We all have story ideas that we have in our head, but know we will never write. (Maybe the topic would be too controversial, is the story too similar to something else or would it be a too ambitious project. There's many reasons for not working on a certain story.)

What's the story you'll never write and what is the reason you will never write it?

[childofbooks]

Good topic!

There's this story in my head about an assistant of a genius professor, the prof dies in front of the MC and leaves his research to her. However, MC gets kidnapped and forced to complete his research in some other strong country. She tries to run away with another girl who is a national athlete. They travel all around the world...

The problem is I planned the story too much. And I don't know where to start. The story itself is too much. So I probably will never write it because I'm afraid it will not turn out to be as fun as it is in my head.

[SplashOfExpression]

there are those stories where its just fun to imagine, but not write, you know?

[childofbooks]

Exactly! I like to imagine the scenes before sleep and smile by myself but that's it =')

[SplashOfExpression]

I had this story idea about a dystopian world, where every person who interrupts the absolute perfectness of the society is taken to a prison camp, and kinda sorta tortured? It's dark. But there's this one girl, who accidentally witnesses a person just arguing being taken to the prison camp, and she takes it upon herself to fix it. Idk when i would have the time to write this, which is probably half the reason I didn't write it, but also because it feels to cliche, and not that unique, you know?

[Hambonous]

This might not really count but I decided to make the story in question and I did it all traditionally with a quill ink pen (biggest mistake of my life.) I was in way over my head and was overly ambitious from the start without any fundamental knowledge in comic making. I made the first chapter during a summer break, over 60 pages long. It was going to be an epic story that spanned several volumes. Later on as my art progressed in terms of technical skill I didn't like the finished product so I called it quits. So yeah if someone that reads this decides to make a fantasy epic as their first project, DON'T! Other than that I think I will never do any sort of romance story that genre already seems to be going strong.

[arxianfall]

Stories for children.

NTR.

Superhero genre.

Stories where sexuality or political ideals are the main story.

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Specific:

I had a pandemic story where a bacteria spread through the water system. Once infected, it would eat you slowly and replace your body parts with its biofilm. In the end victims would become like a wooden mossy statue of themselves. It's main use was to treat heavy wounds.

The story started post pandemic, where people too far gone were living the last of their days in quarantine cities. In one of them, security falls because of a bombing and the MC tries to get out before lock-down with the few friends he can get.

MC meets the bomber who's also trying to figure out what happened.

By the end MC discovers that his dad was the one who orchestrated everything to come out on top and justify himself in a power struggle over the quarantined city.

Also MC loses both his legs which would have led to a more personal sequel.

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I kept onto this idea for more than a decade. Enough for a real pandemic to happen. Still afraid someone might nick this story now that I've revealed some main story points.

This is why I say "don't sit on a story, until you get better skills." It might be too late. Revisions and polishing can always happen, but too late is too late.

[liaroger]

So ... I'm a maladaptive daydreamer. I have A LOT of stories I'll never tell.

There is one story that was a major part of my daydreams for years though and I almost turned it into a novel (if only I'd had the discipline to write the whole thing back then): It's about a girl who finds an ancient egyptian amulet with a god/demon/spirit entity trapped in it and an antagonist who starts a cult to bring his dead family back and accidentally start a bit of a zombie apocalypse in the process (it makes sense in context ... they arent's typical zombies either, their bodies don't rot but their minds aren't the same as a living person and they basically become violent psychopaths because they're completely detached from the world of the living and being in it causes them suffering ... I used that concept in twice ). I'd plotted it all, but most of my daydreams were about the Egyptian gods and their relationships and life, and then I turned those gods into RPG characters with a friend and, well, 7 years of character development later they're nothing like their novel versions and I've outgrown my teenage protagonist who was a lot like me at age 18.
So yeah ... I'll probably never write that story down, even though it had potential.

Another story I'll never write (again because I've kind of outgrown it) is one about a teenage girl whose guardian "angel" (they're not angels, more like guardian spirits) is Death. The Grim Reaper. He calls himself Grim. What caused this was a minor near death incident and a fuck-up on Destiny's part (yes, she's a character. She also flirts with Grim a lot. It's cliché) and that's one of the reasons why I never even started working on this story - the whole premise is kinda meh. Then the main conflict was that Death couldn't reap everyone because of his guardian spirit duties and he couldn't stray too far from the girl for too long and, well, that same not-zombie apocalypse. Told you I used it twice. I do like the worldbuilding and characters though, besides Grim this story also featured a few witches and wizards, the other three horsepeople of the apocalypse, an anthropomorphic personification of Madness and Life and an intelligent magical horse called Pyotr. I might do something with these characters some day. Minus the "chosen one" teenage protagonist because that's just a tired trope imo and not what I enjoy writing. And I did recycle Destiny and put her in another story that I am planning to work on eventually.

I have A LOT more stories, including one about a parallel dimension (or hallucination or dream) with a lot of pirates, a, ahem cough illness that starts out with mild flu-like symptoms but then becomes deadly very quickly and leads everyone to quarantine with the main plotline being a bunch of people trapped in a shopping mall because one person had the disease and exploring their dynamics and the dark side of the human mind ... cough cough Back then I came up with a particularly nasty strain of Ebola. That was shortly before the Ebola epidemic. Needless to say I never wrote this and never will holy fuck this aged like milk), Lucifer as a babysitter, a story about a half vampire named Wolfgang living in a world where supernatural beings coexist pretty peacefully with humans (for the most part. It was meant to explore racism ...), a sci fi film noir crime story that explores classism, a thriller about a serial killer, a fairytale parody, a story about how time freezes for everyone but one guy for what feels like a year to him and his personal growth during that time, and a story about a genetically augmented intelligent rat.
...
I have a lot of stories.

[vothnthorvaldson]

@arxianfall
I have the pandemic problem with my current story, but I was already 2 years in I had to rewrite several chapters to make it less obvious, but that will still be there because it's a huge part of my plot

Stories I won't write: That one discussing social classes in Sumer as illustrated in a French medieval manuscript inspired by a older Arabic manuscript.
Gave up after many, many hours of research, that were probably only a few percents of the necessary research for that project.
If your story requires you to write 3 PhD thesis, you may have to reconsider it

[lomcia]

BL, Yaoi, Porn, never ever. I know it's on top now but it's just not for me. I had once Yuri, but I just abandoned whole project. I just don't feel comfortable with those type of stories, even if they look good in my head.

[eochoa92]

Do they have to be comics and or ones that are sort of within our reach to write?
For instance, I have some ideas for Doctor Who stories that I'm sure I'll never get to write.
When I talk about wanting to write a book on sex in Japan, people think I'm joking, but it's something I want to do. That'd be like a BIG story.
I also love crossovers. Since it hasn't been done (and probably never will), I'd love to do a Ninja Turtles/Street Sharks crossover story.

[Crusoe]

This is such a mood! As a kid I thought I was the only one doing this, but apparently not. I can never think of stories this way chronologically though, it's always disconnected scenes

[Crusoe]

Can be any and all stories that you have, but will probably not ever write.

[Stargazer31]

This will sound incredibly stupid, but a tongue in cheek parody of dystopian YA novels, where society is divided into 4 classes by an evil dictator. When a child turns 16, they are sent to a different group at random. A girl from the lowest class moves to the second highest group, where she meets a guy. Together, they escape to the desert surrounding the society, and join a group of rebels, where she meets another guy and has the obligatory tug of love while being a figurehead for a rebellion.

Now is probably a bad time to mention that you're sorted into the group according to who your favourite Beatle is (Ringo being the lowest class, John being the highest, McCartney being the second highest, George being the middle.) People who like them all are sent to the desert.
Also the dictator is the blue meanie, and everyone's name is a Beatles song pun. (The main character is called Octavia Garden, the two love interests are Jude Hey and Alan o'Rigby.)
Yoko is a president Coin style figure.
Also everyone is forced by the government to have Bowlcuts.

[TheDoublekey]

Dammit, I have SOOO many concepts in my head that will probably never see the light of day. Unfortunately, I can only work on a series at a time and sometimes it hurts my creativity.Just today I came up with a very cool concept, but scrapped it right after.

I hope I'll be able to finish the story I'm working on, at least,

[Crusoe]

That sounds hilarious!

[kmlangleyauthor]

I have so many stories I’ll never write that I literally couldn’t even start detailing them I have some daydreaming stories that are sort of just fun as internal creative “background noise” – the kind of thing that wouldn’t ever make a good story (no plot, underdeveloped characters, whatever) but is still fun to dream about and helps keep creativity and inspiration flowing over the last year or so, I have started writing story “fragments” that I know I won’t continue writing but they just will not get out of my head it’s good for my brain space and I guess it can be counted as writing practice? And, because I know the story isn’t going anywhere, it’s a super low pressure kind of writing

[Crusoe]

Oh that actually sounds like a really nice exercise! Maybe I should try it out

[MShadowlawn]

Back when I was a naive lil' bitch, I had a brilliant little idea: Go write a quality fanfiction to sell out and get popular on Wattpad, and then go write something that'll actually make me money. The core idea in particular was crossing One Step From Eden and RWBY.

Of course, I realized many things since that time in my life:
-Wattpad is a dogshit platform for organic growth. Why sell out if I don't get anything in return?
-I don't have the spark necessary to create that story
-I'd be miserable trying to write it, I think.

What I MIGHT actually do is go write a Killing Floor fanfic, though.

[arxianfall]

I play Santa but with the commando chicken head.