Comments on: Story Idea

By: Johanna

Johanna — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:33:30 +0000

Sniff. I like your twist.

By: James Schee

James Schee — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:19:18 +0000

He’s a workaholic whose job and drive leaves him little free time or any kind of personal life. On holidays his work is shut down, his few friends (all coworkers) are with their own families, so he feels lost.

The two meet because she dropped her cellphone in the parking lot of one of those food places that never close. He picks it up and returns it to her. She makes him let her buy his lunch as thanks, and the two hit it off in their mutual hate of holidays (for its life interruption) and drive to succeed. (she wants to be a singer, hence her patience with the rich, married boyfriend who is a record producer)

The two agree to share the holidays together, so they won’t be alone, sharing where they have gotten in their pursuits.

Everything’s great, they only meet on holidays and are caught up in the specialness of their relationship. Then one holiday he just doesn’t show up at their meeting place. She then realizes how much she’s come to look forward to the time with him. Now she wonders what happened, and whether she has the right to find out.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:07:15 +0000

Well, that’s a bit different from the romantic comedy *I* was envisioning, but different strokes make the world go round. :)

By: Rivkah

Rivkah — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:33:58 +0000

Male Protagonist is actually a hit man hired to take out Female Protagonist on the wife’s orders, but of course, he falls in love and ends up trying to take out the boyfriend instead. Plot Twist: Boyfriend’s wife is Male Protagonist’s ex-wife who’s actually trying to get him arrested and thrown in jail so she’ll no longer have to pay alimony. Two birds with one stone. Plans backfire for all. 50′s style bungled antic comedy ensues.

By: steve B.

steve B. — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:10:46 +0000

Make them Jewish and have it so that they only get together on Shabbas. Call it Shabbooty Call.

By: gary

gary — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:22:41 +0000

they are actually meeting every holiday doing charity work ie soup kitchen

ironic twist: he’s there because he has to perform community service

By: Johanna

Johanna — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 03:43:27 +0000

Oh, I like that. I was hoping people would play along in a kind of shared storytelling.

By: Matt Blind

Matt Blind — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 03:07:51 +0000

…works as a window dresser.

Has to work like a dog for the 2-3 days (or a week) before — but when the actual holiday rolls around, there is nothing to do but step back, appreciate the presentation, and ‘meet cute’ with the lonely young lead who has been literally left wanting on the curb in front of his/her store.

If it’s a major department store with a well-known window display, then our earnest window-dresser always has to work for the next holiday or psuedo-holiday (president’s day isn’t quite christmas) but the needs of the calendar lends a natural rhythm to the story — maybe the Miss is a model dating the owner of the Department Store; she and the Lead only meet in a series of cocktail parties to celebrate each ‘holiday’ — they never meet each other socially, or in a professional capacity; only in the artificial observations of the so called holidays every six weeks or so.

Sort of a modern-day “Holiday Inn”, if you recognise the reference to the Astaire movie and not just to the corporate chain that followed…