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What do you think, would using a random plot generator to generate a plot, then write a Choose Your Own Story about that? Would this be a good idea?

I've yet to find a random plot generator that actually generated much of a plot. They tend to provide a brief (and usually silly) synopsis. If you've actually found a good one, I'd love to know about it!

I tried the one on Tvtropes, but then I realized I was working on 3 billion different projects already, so my inspiration never came to be.

I never meant to find a good one... and the silly plots would be the thing that would make the story interesting.

I just want to know your opinion about it

Also, you are all over the CYOS, Morgan.

I am using this one:

http://writers-den.pantomimepony.co.uk/writers-plot-ideas.php

I just started making a storygame based on a plot it gave me:

"An ornithologist has 24 hours to finance a deal that will save thousands of jobs. The story is complicated by a storm."

Maybe someone else wants to try too?

That site is pretty funny and neat. The first one I generated:

"An abusive psychiatrist and a mermaid get together - after they are strapped to a bomb - to claim their birthright."

Uh... no thanks. Let's try again:

"A train driver has a day to finance a deal that will save thousands of jobs."

What? I mean sure, take an average person and have them save the world, but take an average person and have them finance some deal? What? What will the next "compelling plot" be: The school bus driver has to perform brain surgery on a 10-year old before they get to school or the bus will crash? Let's try once more:

"An experimental psychologist moves next door to an icy mummy."

Ok, now we're just getting silly. Let's try again:

"An alligator wrestler has 24 hours to find money to buy an overgrown garden."

Oh for the love of Pete! An overgrown garden? Because his alligators will die if they don't get access to the garden? Wow. Last one:

"A sexy witch has limited time to gain the assistance of a portal to another world. Events are extended by a pregnancy."

Hahahahaha! Ok, I really laughed at that one. Sadly, I'm afraid the feminists might get mad if I wrote that one, though! Fun stuff, though, really!

Hahahahha! That's awesome!

But here's an idea... try writing the first thing that the generator chooses? I am writing that thing with that bird lover and a finance deal to save thousands of jobs....hmmm...I think he's going to save a zoo!

Well, if I just need a push to spark writing, I might do just that. I dunno. I think for me to write a whole story, I need to really like the plot as well!

Okay... though I think it's a great challenge trying to write a story from what pops up!

"A nun has limited time to find a replacement. The plot is resolved by a pregnancy."

Well I guess that's one way of replacing a lost kid from the orphanage.

"A sexy ninja enroles on a course with a sadistic dog. The situation is begun by a pregnancy."

And I'm guessing their unholy offspring is the one the nun ends up using as the replacement.

Now those are some great ideas for your....errr..."specialities"

Can't wait to see that on maturity 7/8.

Wow. That's just... wow...

I'm just going to spend days playing with this instead of writing, aren't I?

"An undertaker has a day to create a run down farm."

What? Not a farm, but a run down farm? How do you create that? And why would an undertaker want to be a run-down farmer?

"A TV anchor battles with a sociopathic rapper. Events are worsened by a meeting."

Hahahaha! I can see the Monty-Python silliness in that one already! "Wait, stop shooting, we need to see to our meeting agenda first."

"An unattractive feminist has a day to use the information given by their dying guide to find: a lighthouse. The situation is endangered by an opportunity."

I can just see the deathbed scene: "Oh... Ah... (gasp) Don't forget the... the... lighthouse!"

"A loser is imprisoned for an arson attack."
What the actual fuck is an 'arson attack'!? Is that a special attack branch in Aikido?

"A sexy drug dealer and a pilot become allies -after they fail their exams- to disarm the bomb. The situation is worsened by a pregnancy."
Alright, what the fuck were they doing together anyway when the found this bomb!? Why? What kind of exam would a pilot and a drug dealer be taking together!? Where the fuck did the baby come from!?

"A sweet little old lady seduces an untrustworthy gangster."
And that, Briar_Rose, is how you were born!

"A cowboy backs his truck into a sadistic sailor."
Now, that's grounds for some pretty awesome dialogue, but maybe not a whole storygame.

"When their identity is stolen, a boatload of vikings go on a road trip."
Yes. Hollywood needs this one, comedies lack the batshit insanity that they used to have.

What if the cowboy and the sailor are gay? Now that could end up being quite a story...

I do absolutely love the vikings story, though! I'm not sure how you steal a viking's identity, but that's not important for this plot, now is it?

One of them signed up for a debit card so he could buy a new axe on Amazon, because it didn't accept a shipment of gold coins. A proficient identity thief, not knowing that the Viking didn't have much other money on the card, and thinking that this could be a lucrative deal, (a guy who buys medieval axes on the internet must be a rich hobbyist, right?) hacks into Amazon and uses his debit card to buy the axe himself, (And then some resalable electronics) before finding the account empty and going back to his mountain dew and Warcraft games.

When the Viking realizes that he isn't getting the axe, he writes an angry letter to Amazon, and when he gets a response saying that Amazon has indeed shipped the axe to the address given, he gets mucho pissed, calls over his boat full of crewmembers, and raids a used car lot, heading down a brutal warpath to destroy Amazon, and the identity thief. (And also meet some young, hot biker girl on the way or something. It seems to be an indisputable law that comedy movies need some degree of romance in them in order to be classy.)

see! It can be fun

"After a distracted junkie discovers a flying circus they are pursued by a flying circus. The circumstances are made critical by the imminent destruction of the base."

"Duuuude. Look at this circus I found. It can fly."

"Quick, after him! He's found our backup flying circus."

"Missiles incoming..."

"Duuuuude!"

That's the best dialog I have seen whole year (though it has just started)

"An unpopular stripper faces blackmail."

I got one where a chain smoking wizard was being blackmailed to perform blackmail.

A similar one was a corrupt Santa impersonator witnesses corruption. (He looked in a mirror)

MY TURN:

"After an evil loser buys a bankrupt holiday resort they are pursued by a troop of girl-scouts. Events are begun by an election."

Okay, I guess he didn't buy their cookies.

"An innocent feminist has a day to organize a musical"

Is she going to preform "Girl in a country song"

"A lawyer has limited time to provide their theory"

About what? Overpaying Lawyers? And the last one:

"After a geeky daughter finds an out of the way railway station they are pursued by two mousey women."

This is all wrong, especialy the grammar

 

"A taxi driver creates a gun."

What? Why? Out of what? Somehow I think the taxi driver would find it easier to just roll down his window and ask the locals for one.

"When their family is kidnapped, a troupe of burlesque dancers find money to buy an orphaned killer whale. The circumstances are made more complex by a race."

So... uh... the burlesque dancers have a family... and when their family is kidnapped, their first reaction is to raise money... to buy an orphaned killer whale! Well, of course! Anyone would do that. And in the middle of this, there is a race. Yes, I can see where that would make things more complex. After all, who has time for a race when they're trying to raise money to buy an orphaned killer whale after their family is kidnapped... while trying to work their day job as a burlesque dancer?

I don't think I'm going to top that one today.

Their families were kidnapped by an evil association that operates out of an abandoned soviet sub. They buy the killer whale so it can kill and devour the bad guys so they can save their families. But little do they know, the bad guys have Ski-doos, which leads to the killer whale chase scene of all killer whale chase scenes. While the whale is off tormenting them, they have time to find their families... But the bad guys also have harpoons. Do they save their families, or their new friend, Shamu?