A few ideas for RP are in my mind since a long time, some related to Tolkien, but mostly not, and I would like to see if this place could be one, where this kind of idea has a writing future. I will post this first in Guru’s RP advertise thread, and see if it’s read over there, and I have no echo at all, open a new thread.
One idea that I wanted to write once in my life was a survivors tale – an old fascination for Robinson Crusoe and Jules Verne certainly. (and for a German book : Die Höhlenkinder) But unlike Robinson, I would like to develop how a group of people would survive in the wild, how they would organise themselves, overcome thier grief about the lifes they have lost, face the daily dangers, find a social structure, try to get away again, or rather decide to stay.
I don’t know why, I could very well picture a ship with emigrants to Australia sinking and a part of the passagers being saved whereas the rest drowned : so among those could be prisonners sent to Australia, which could add some interesting flavour to the future relationships on the island where they are rescued…. Some could be members of a family wishing to emigrate in hope for a better futre, or in the contrary who flee from something. I see a mixed group of men and women, some of them might have lost family members and others not… But his is just my personal idea, which is rather vague so far, I would just like to hear if I’m the only one who is interested in this kind of story, with a lot of psychologiacl and pratical implications (How do you build a house if you have no axe ? – How do you survive without musical instruments ? How do you light a fire ?) or if everybody else thinks that this idea has been done so many times, that there is nothing new under the sun for a story of this kind.
Another idea on my mind concerns an RP based in history, or rather a character I would just love to write one day… a venal 18th century Frenchman (a bit like Valmont of the Dangerous liaisons), maybe with a background set of prerevolutionnary France, where the noblemen are rather decadent – like a French travelling through Britain after a duel which were forbidden at court and trying make his living (and eventually hurting the mentality difference) which has been impossible in France due to his horrid (but true) reputation as a gambler and seductor…
The bell rings now, but I’ll try to come back with something Tolkien based next time –which should still be today.
edited for spelling