Pre-written outlines

[gauchecritic]

My own outlines are very vague and more often non-existant when I write but when I wrote a couple of humorous pieces I used established stories as basis. Fairy Story was roughly Sleeping Beauty with added characters and The Emperor's New Clothes which is fairly self explanatory but turns a bit surreal with the extra film story lines.

Now, the thing is, I've been thinking for a while of using "The Killing of Georgie" (Rod Stewart) as a story line, so the question: has anyone used something firmly entrenched in the collective consciousness as a basis for a story and what were your experiences?
Is it too constricting? Is it wonderfully liberating? Should it be just a basis or is it allowed to use the entirety. I'm assuming here that Georgie doesn't come under the heading of literary character and that a song isn't a literary story.

 

[pop_54]

My own outlines are very vague and more often non-existant when I write but when I wrote a couple of humorous pieces I used established stories as basis. Fairy Story was roughly Sleeping Beauty with added characters and The Emperor's New Clothes which is fairly self explanatory but turns a bit surreal with the extra film story lines.

Now, the thing is, I've been thinking for a while of using "The Killing of Georgie" (Rod Stewart) as a story line, so the question: has anyone used something firmly entrenched in the collective consciousness as a basis for a story and what were your experiences?
Is it too constricting? Is it wonderfully liberating? Should it be just a basis or is it allowed to use the entirety. I'm assuming here that Georgie doesn't come under the heading of literary character and that a song isn't a literary story.

Lo lad, how's it going

I've never yet written an outline or draft of anything other than real life work projects, tech sheets etc. The fiction comes straight out of my twisted head as I type, I rarely even think about it beforehand.

The one story I did write along the lines of your question was the 2003 Nano story which is an adult parody of the 'Famous Five & Secret Seven' kids stories combined. It is a total load of dribble really thrashed out in Nov/03 to the tune of a bit over 50,000 words. If you want to see how it turned out follow my story links and you'll find a 10,000 word first chapter in 'celeb' where it's been largly ignored because Buffy doesn't get shagged in it as she does in all the other stories in that cat. Me!! bitter that site admin as usual ignored my request of cat (humour and satire) and put it in an inappropriate cat... No not a bit of it.

 

[NoJo]

That's the first time I've seen pop pout.

 

[pop_54]

That's the first time I've seen pop pout.

You lying bitch, I pouted on webcam last week as you well know, just before you unloaded.

 

[NoJo]

You lying bitch, I pouted on webcam last week as you well know, just before you unloaded.

I meant pout, without being paid for it.

 

[pop_54]

I meant pout, without being paid for it.

I'm glad you brought that up, that bloody credit card number you gave me was out of date.


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