My adhd means I end up collecting ideas for games and books, but I can never manage to have the motivation for long enough to make them real.

I’m also considering making a community for this sort of thing, just not sure how used it will be

  • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    I wanted to write a book where each chapter has the same exact setting and timeframe, but a different narrator. Say a single college lecture, but each chapter is the inner monologue of a different person in the class: one narrator is struggling with the material, another is bored with how easy it is, another is preoccupied with their weekend plans, another is having romantic problems, another is stoned and keeps getting distracted, etc.

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      6 days ago

      The first thing that comes to mind is this episode from the Simpsons, which is essentially that, the episode starts normally and follows what homer does in the day, at some point it goes back to breakfast and starts following Lisa instead then it goes back again and follows Bart. It’s an interesting episode from a narrative perspective.

        • hirihit640@sh.itjust.works
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          5 days ago

          I feel like this is common in crime thrillers or mystery stories. Revealing each person’s perspective like puzzle pieces to the crime. Most recent one I remember that follows a similar structure is the movie Weapons