A jock & a nerd...

[darksolid358]

What about one where a male jock falls for a female nerd?

 

[sirhugs]

maybe it's just me but I was SO hoping for the opposite... a basketball or volleyball gal appreciates her study buddy.

 

[Hypoxia]

Or subvert the stereotypes. The jock (of any gender) is also an ace student. The nerd is a game geek of no special intelligence or character, but maybe some nice physical attributes. The jock scholar sees possibilities in the geek nerd and brings them into the real world. Maybe the nerd is geeky because of psychological trauma leading to repression, withdrawal, a fantasy life. And the jock has their own traumatic issues to deal with. So they fuck, right?

 

[Carnevil9]

I'd make this one a same-sex story. It could work for two dudes or two chicks. In either case, both partners have always been "straight," until they meet each other and fall head over heels. Sort of an "opposites attract" but times two: they are opposites in that one is a jock and one is a nerd, and they are ALSO opposites in that they are the opposite sex to what they are usually attracted to, if you follow my meaning.

 

[Hypoxia]

I'd make this one a same-sex story.

Following-up on your idea and my reply on a nearby thread -- make this one "a jock and a nerd -- at a nude beach!" As you said, it'll speed up the action a bit.

Throw in a naked volleyball match and it REALLY gets fun!

 

[loquere]

What about one where a male jock falls for a female nerd?

This exists already. Do you have a unique spin, story, concept, idea?

 

[LWulf]

This is generally the flipped version of the romance between (nerd) Robert Carradine and (cheerleader) Julia Montgomery in the movie 'Revenge of the Nerds' (1984), the "jocks" being represented by their female associative; or cheerleaders.

While I won't say the idea isn't a bad one, you have to go further afield to make this seem like a new idea.

 

[Hypoxia]

While I won't say the idea isn't a bad one, you have to go further afield to make this seem like a new idea.

New ideas are 1) few and far between, and 2) generally disliked. That's why we read (and write) zillions of tales with old ideas -- but hopefully presented in an entertaining manner.

Introduce variation here by twisting the stereotypes (as in the scholar-jock & useless-geek scenario I posted above) or taking them in strange directions. Introspective ping-pong jock plus exuberant killer-chess nerd. Identical twins, one a nerd, one a jock, who confound their dates. The stereotypical nerd+jock repulsion-->attraction -- but they don't know that they're actually siblings who've been adopted into different families -- inadvertent incest! The geek+jock who are great friends (or enemies) until they learn A Dreadful Secret. Et fucking cetera.

 

[LWulf]

New ideas are 1) few and far between, and 2) generally disliked. That's why we read (and write) zillions of tales with old ideas -- but hopefully presented in an entertaining manner.

Introduce variation here by twisting the stereotypes (as in the scholar-jock & useless-geek scenario I posted above) or taking them in strange directions. Introspective ping-pong jock plus exuberant killer-chess nerd. Identical twins, one a nerd, one a jock, who confound their dates. The stereotypical nerd+jock repulsion-->attraction -- but they don't know that they're actually siblings who've been adopted into different families -- inadvertent incest! The geek+jock who are great friends (or enemies) until they learn A Dreadful Secret. Et fucking cetera.

okay so to reiterate what I said, using your semantics:

...you have to go further afield to take this old idea, hopefully presented in an entertaining manner

Better? Not if you ask me, but to me, a rose, by any other name... is still a fucking rose.

Dude. You are the king of twisting. (Did you have a thing for Chubby Checkers? ) That is your creative style though and as much as it rankles me, I accept that's how you get things done without my saying any many comments.
I wish you'd accept my trying to get an OP to pony up more than one or two word concepts before I invest my creative style (looking for plot holes and fleshing in a concept without making many changes).

 

[StrayKat]

The nerd is a game geek of no special intelligence or character

There are girls (probably boys too) who play games to get attention but I havent heard of single one that is a real geek without intelligence and character. Being a geek IS having a character even if others cant understand it or disagree.