Writer's Gramps

 Number 3 - Having another go at computer based story lines -  2 Someone who looks at tourist attractions but never goes out to look around. This might carry. Someone looking at the Taj Mahal but not smelling the orient. He has just returned from a walk along the Great Wall and his partner wants to tell him about someone they met, a gypsy or someone from a strange place.  She wants him to taste a delicacy the stranger gave her. It must finish with him going to a local beauty spot. Let's use Lorraine Mace's five checks from Writers' Forum magazine. a, Is this complex enough to carry a story? If the protagonist has some reason for being an armchair tourist, yes. Maybe he's been a climber and lost a leg in a fall. Maybe they lost a child to food poisoning in the Far East, for example. He feels it's all he can do, she's now the breadwinner. b, can hurdles be created? He's in a wheelchair. He's waiting for an appointment. He'd have to go by air and he...

 Number 3 - Having another go at computer based story lines -  2 Someone who looks at tourist attractions but never goes out to look around. This might carry. Someone looking at the Taj Mahal but not smelling the orient. He has just returned from a walk along the Great Wall and his partner wants to tell him about someone they met, a gypsy or someone from a strange place.  She wants him to taste a delicacy the stranger gave her. It must finish with him going to a local beauty spot. Let's use Lorraine Mace's five checks from Writers' Forum magazine. a, Is this complex enough to carry a story? If the protagonist has some reason for being an armchair tourist, yes. Maybe he's been a climber and lost a leg in a fall. Maybe they lost a child to food poisoning in the Far East, for example. He feels it's all he can do, she's now the breadwinner. b, can hurdles be created? He's in a wheelchair. He's waiting for an appointment. He'd have to go by air and he...

Looking a bit deeper into the computer based story lines -  2 Someone who looks at tourist attractions but never goes out to look around. This might carry. Someone looking at the Taj Mahal but not smelling the orient. He has just returned from a walk along the Great Wall and his partner wants to tell him about someone they met, a gypsy or someone from a strange place.  She wants him to taste a delicacy the stranger gave her. It must finish with him going to a local beauty spot. Let's use Lorraine Mace's five checks from Writers' Forum magazine. a, Is this complex enough to carry a story? If the protagonist has some reason for being an armchair tourist, yes. Maybe he's been a climber and lost a leg in a fall. Maybe they lost a child to food poisoning in the Far East, for example. He feels it's all he can do, she's now the breadwinner. b, can hurdles be created? He's in a wheelchair. He's waiting for an appointment. He'd have to go by air and he's ...

Discarding the story lines I don't like, I'm left with 2 Someone who looks at tourist attractions but never goes out to look around. This might carry. Someone looking at the Taj Mahal but not smelling the orient. He has just returned from a walk along the Great Wall and his partner wants to tell him about someone they met, a gypsy or someone from a strange place.  She wants him to taste a delicacy the stranger gave her. It must finish with him going to a local beauty spot. 3 Someone who buys antiques on the web. Maybe they could find treasure, or a money bag. Where did it come from? The Romanovs? The Mafia? A robbery? Or just an old family heirloom, maybe someone from the old family is ill and needs treatment, which would make a crisis of conscience. Two possibilities, the money belongs to crooks, the family sold the item to gat money for the operation. Maybe there is a third, it's the title deed to the site of Buckingham Palace or the Albert Hall, even Westminster. I like ...

Pushing things a bit further  1 A games nerd who can no longer distinguish games from real life and plays out his characters at work. I don't like this much. I don't think I could make it believable. NO 2 Someone who looks at tourist attractions but never goes out to look around. This might carry. Someone looking at the Taj Mahal but not smelling the orient. 3 Someone who buys antiques on the web. Maybe they could fins treasure, or a money bag. Where did it come from? The Romanovs? The Mafia? A robbery? Or just an old family heirloom, maybe someone from the family is ill and needs treatment, which would make a crisis of conscience. 4 Someone who plants fake news. And almost creates a war? That's a long story as it needs to show the consequences, or how they are avoided. NO 5 A policeman looking for scams or porn. The policeman might become fascinated but it doesn't need to be a policeman, maybe a family person. Not my style. Too dark. 6 Someone researching history who f...