HCC: High Concept Challenge # 49: Slice of Life!

Andrew Perron pwerdna at gmail.com
Thu Oct 9 20:29:25 PDT 2014


On 10/9/2014 10:27 PM, Tom Russell wrote:
> Two or more[1] genre characters[2] share a pizza[3], and nothing happens.[4]
>
> I want to keep it pretty simple, but I guess some definitions might be in order:
>
> [1]: Because one genre character really can't "share" a pizza, natch.
> [2]: Superheroes, occult investigators, what-have-you. New characters, old favorites-- the only requirement is that they be characters who usually do more in a story than share a pizza.
> [3]: Because, "slice".
> [4]: "Nothing happens" in terms of genre conventions/traditional plot development: no one attacks the pizzeria, the delivery boy isn't turned into a death weapon, etc. Plenty can happen in terms of characterization, dialogue (which could certainly be *about* genre stuff), and damn fine writing.

Oooooooh, nice.

Andrew "NO .SIG MAN" "Juan" Perron, definitely writing something for this one.


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