Stories you will never write

[lizardlullabye]

I had an idea for a powerpuff girl fanfiction.

After the powerpuff girls defeated MojoJojo, their crimefighting days have become very monotonous and simple which has given them more time to focus on a normal life. A new villain group is trying to take the superpowers away from the powerpuff girls, which includes recruiting a key ingredient to their scheme, the omniscient Narrator's son who is also telling the story.

It was awkward storytelling, since the Narrator's son is bombarded with everything that's happening in real time so his poor focus is always just zip-zapping around.

I stopped writing fanfictions after I got a insult as the only comment and my computer with the fanfic crashed and died.

[Iris-Grimoire]

My favorite OC's misadventures throughout the multiverse. At the time, it had dozens of arcs, random characters I thought of on the spot, many twists and turns, everything collected from 10-20 year old me's brainstorming late at night.

I'd never write it. It's too long. It's too long. Even my novel projects aren't going past a bunch of books with a definitive end for that group's journey.

[thedude3445]

No fan fiction, even if it's absurdly popular and gets hundreds of thousands of views, is going to help authors make money. Publishers don't care and readers don't tend to follow you to your original work. I've learned that one the real hard way over the years. Only write fan fictions if you truly love the story you want to tell.

[vinoff]

I have an entire notebook in my Evernote for the stories I'll never get to tell. It's filled with points, details and background stories with little to no plot!

I'll share this one story that I think is too ambitious for me to write. I call it The Constellations Trilogy. It's about an organized crime group whose agents are named after stars. They are divided into other teams such as Zodiac, which is the elite team, etc. The head of this group is called Night Sky.

BOOK 1: GEMINI
An unsuspecting young man was taken into an illegal service agency, beaten to almost death for defying orders only to be revealed as the twin brother of an agent called Gemini. When Gemini came back, he bonded with his twin brother and persuaded him to stay. Of course he declined and demanded to be returned to his home. But the agency only gave him two options: stay or be killed. So he stayed and trained as one of their soldiers.

In the end, the reader would find out that he was a government spy, assigned to infiltrate the agency's base.

BOOK 2: CONSTELLATIONS
The twin brother became one of the Zodiac members after he killed one of them. He worked hard for the Constellations and for the government. Then Hercules were beaten by their rival agency. Night Sky was angry and focused on beating the rival.

This is where Gemini found out that his twin brother was a mole.

In the end, the reader found out that they were triplets and their third brother was a prodigy of their rival agency. Constellations won, the twin brother was no where to be found.

BOOK 3: NIGHT SKY
After rival agency gave a huge blow to Constellations, Gemini agreed to work with the government and tell them about Night Sky and Constellations. The government pit Constellations against their rival agency to lure Night Sky out of his hiding.

The government managed to wipe out the entire Constellations. Twin brother rescued Gemini and the prodigy, let them escape and start over.

Phew... I'll be relieved if there's anyone who wishes to adopt this.

[Jenny-Toons]

My favorite OC's misadventures throughout the multiverse. At the time, it had dozens of arcs, random characters I thought of on the spot, many twists and turns, everything collected from 10-20 year old me's brainstorming late at night.

Same XD

I got six sibling OCs I've worked with since grade school, and they'll never had a specific comic for their lore. I could make AUs, and that's about it. The lore for them is just so twisted, complicated, and personal that there's no way I could ever post anything openly for them.

Love them to pieces, but they're staying in my sketch books for safe keeping.

[Crusoe]

Guess I should add one of my own too

So, my problem is that I love writing fluff because it makes me happy, but a lot of the story ideas that I end up with are dark as hell. One of these would be 'blackbox' which would follow a girl whose genetics have been modified with a rare method which only works on a few people. This genetic modification allows her to regenerate incredibly fast and even adapt through mutation when necessary and exposed to trouble for a long time. She has specifically been chosen because of her indifference towards life and the lives of others, which makes her the perfect person to serve as a sort of 'human 'blackbox' who record all information available through a chip in her brain.

The story would follow her and a lot of the horrible experiences she has to go through, such as the killing of the previous model of human 'blackbox', the choice to bom a city and the fallout from that, etc. The main conflict here would be her moral greyness as she does start to care for other human beings despite taking decisions that show her indifference.

Will never write this one probably, because it's too dark for my current writing tastes. Then again, maybe I'll reuse some parts of her story for other projects.

[Crippling_Anxiety]

I am a daydreamer and been that way since I was a kid so I come up with lots of stories. One I will never write though is one where a reporter goes to the house of a middle aged man who lives all alone and who has been a suspect in a whole series of killings of women, the ages ranging from 10-30. The women were used for their organs to sell on the black market. So the reporter (who is a female about 20 years of age) interviews him but feels uneasy the whole time. She then gets a call from her manager saying to get out of there now because the police have now connected everything to this man. She tries to leave but ends up getting killed too. At the end the perspective switches to the police who were listening to that whole situation on the recording try to find the man again.
The only reason why I don't want to write this is because I feel like there will probably be something like this out there and because i don't think I can actually pull off writing this and making it sound good,
Sorry for all the words.

[Yulek]

idk if that counts but I have so. many. oneshots. or stories that I started and then ended after one chapter.

I usually have a very specific scene in my head that won't let go unless I type it out. and once that's done Poof. my motication is gone haha

I kinda thrive with my episodic comic for that reason, I can bullshit a whole new scenario every week no need to commit muahaha

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but I also know that I will never write some genres and themes because I don't think I would enjoy the neccessary research.
aka, anything political or with like, a huge organization behind it.

I'm good at character focused plot, so I'll stay in that lane

[thetalentedmrwulf]

I don't know. I have a ton of one offs and series and that kind of thing in my head. Heck, I've got six series just in one shared universe, so I try not to put big walls up around "never write" ideas.

That said, there is an exception. I had two separate ideas, one kind of sprouting from the other, but both distinct. The first one was a 1920s American set superhero story with different takes on heroes. Specifically, Punisher, Daredevil, Moon Knight, and Ghost Rider as a team hunting supernaturally powered mobsters. Even had a pitch all written up to be read as a radio show in Mid-Atlantic English. It was going to be an all women cast of characters. Moon Knight would shift from Khonshu to Sehkmet, Ghost Rider would be an old twenties stunt horse diver, Punisher was Francine "Frankie" Castle, wife of a murdered arms dealer who took over the business, and Marsha Murdoch, who was a pretty standard gender swap of a character.

The concept and the thought of filing off the Marvel serial numbers led me to thinking about a group of women escaping west from terrible conditions in America in the 1800s. Most everyone would come from a maligned group of the time - heavily built Irish enforcer from Boston, Chinese rail worker, freed woman leaving the South, and a German gunrunner wrangling with corrupt rail magnates making demonic deals and sacrificing people for success.

I just don't think a middle-aged white dude is the right person to tell those stories. Maybe someday with a collaborator, but I've got a ton of other projects that I can do that aren't walking into somebody else's life and telling a story using their experiences as fodder.

[NinaWrites]

Everyday life stories (like slice if life). Or a story that doesn't have some fantasy element in it.

[TunaPrincess]

Oh booooooy.

I feel like stories I will never write probably would be autobio comics? I've thought about it because I've had a little bit of a crazy life and I think it might be a fun read, but it would just be too close to home I think?

I guess another story that I really want to create but I'm unsure if I will get around to it, is re-adapting an old novel I wrote about two people (with amnesia) stuck in a weird coma-like dreamland. Both characters see the world a little differently and it relates to how they arrived in the weird dreamscape. It would need some HEAVY editing because I originally wrote it when I was in high school, but I keep thinking about the concept from time to time.

[MHSly]

I have a story idea for a crime drama. I probably will never write it because it goes to some really dark places and I don't know if I could get into that kind of headspace.