I was thinking about this "Idea Parking Lot" and had a thought.
I can't speak for everyone, but once in a while I need to bounce an idea off of others and flesh it out. I always hesitate, however, because then I feel if I turn around and create a story from that fleshed out idea, is it mine, or the folks who helped me flesh it out. Moral conflict, so on and so forth. That's one of the reasons I haven't posted here before. Plus, I'm greedy about my ideas. I have this unrealistic attitude that I will get to write all of my ideas sometime before I die. (If I stop working, and I cut off all ties to the outside world including my family I might get to do, like, a third!)
So any way I had an idea. How about if we use this board as a fleshing zone where we discuss the validity of ideas, but generally agree that anyone in the group can freely use the ideas discussed as fodder for stories? I mean it might be interesting to see where each of us that participate take the same basic idea. I'm not talking about using the same
characters, settings, et. Just the same gem of idea. Sort of like a shared world antho.
If for instance we bounce around an idea about talking dogs, then anyone inspired to write such a story could do so with out feeling the idea belonged to someone else first. Sort of group ownership of any ideas discussed on this board. What do you think?
Crazy idea, right?