This document provides 4 silly and unrealistic scenarios intended as brainstorming exercises for a pre-NaNoWriMo workshop. Each scenario includes a protagonist, genre, setting, antagonist, conflict, and resolution. The scenarios involve magical cookies resolving all conflict, everyone dying except the milkman, being crushed by an elephant, and the protagonist dying while the antagonist gets rich. The scenarios are meant to generate silly ideas without concern for realistic plotlines or story elements.

1. Silly Plotlines
Pre-NaNoWriMo Brainstorming
Workshop
Idea-Generator Exercise
30th October, 2012

2. Silly Scenario # 1
O Protagonist: Lucy Israel—chubby (not fat), brown
hair, 14 years old. Likes Tarot Cards and candy.
O Genre: Magical Realism
O Setting: Metropolitan America; upper-middle class
urban neighborhood. Hamptons, Beverly Hills, etc…
O Antagonist: An old grey-haired man (70 years old).
He is selfish and a pervert. He hates children and
loves causing misery for others.
O Conflict: Both the antagonist and protagonist are
trying out for the same position as lead in the school
play because they are each secretly in love with the
drama teacher.
O Resolution: A bird dropped magic cookies and
everyone ate them and peace settled upon the land.

3. Silly Scenario # 2
O Protagonist: Older lady who works at Dunkin
Donuts, 55 years old, from the Valley, Widow, has
one child still at home, desires to be a contestant
on Jeopardy.
O Genre: Biblical Fantasy
O Setting: Beijing, China. It is the year 2015. China
has become the most powerful country in the
world.
O Antagonist: The angry shopkeeper, Mr. Haring,
who is on the city council.
O Conflict: The Antagonist wants to tie the
protagonist to a railroad track, but the protagonist
is not being cooperative.
O Resolution: Everyone dies except the milkman.

4. Silly Scenario # 3
O Protagonist: Jessica Marie Waller, age 16, works as
a babysitter for neighborhood kids, does not have a
boyfriend, is good at art, has trouble with math and
does not easily make friends. She is very shy, very
short, and has glasses.
O Genre: Space-Western
O Setting: Dunkin Donuts in a South Carolina city
during the winder before Election Day.
O Antagonist: A middle-school aged orphan with
unconventional super powers that terrorizes the 7th
grade.
O Conflict: An island has been discovered near the
coast of South America. On this island, dinosaurs still
live. People have been summoned to capture the
creatures.
O Resolution: And then I died, crushed beneath the
very elephant we tried so hard to tame.

5. Silly Scenario # 4
O Protagonist: Billy, a troubled teenager who is
having trouble fitting in at school. He likes to draw
and practice karate. He also likes pranking others
unexpectedly (the source of his problems).
O Genre: Coming-of-age story—realistic
O Setting: Karate class/studio shared with ballet,
gymnastics, dance, and yoga classes.
O Antagonist: Mechanic fixing the car is used to
cheating everyone.
O Conflict: The couch won’t fit around the turn in
the stairs on move-in day.
O Resolution: Protagonist dies and the antagonist
becomes filthy rich.

6. Good Luck, Novelists!