Have you ever wondered what a masterpiece-level story is like? Do you have any plots in mind?
By @SW-User
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HumanEarth · F
I would go with this and here is my title idea The Cartographer’s Lie. Plus, it's a historical mystery
Premise: A brilliant but morally compromised 18th-century cartographer is commissioned to map a newly “discovered” inland sea. He fabricates features that benefit colonial investors. Two centuries later, a burned-out geographer and a local descendant discover the map’s truth, threatening national myths and current political power.
Core themes: maps as power, truth vs. myth, the legacy of deception.
Why it can be a masterpiece: Rich period detail, morally ambiguous protagonist, political stakes that resonate today.
Want more, I'll start writing a full actionable blueprint for it.
Premise: A brilliant but morally compromised 18th-century cartographer is commissioned to map a newly “discovered” inland sea. He fabricates features that benefit colonial investors. Two centuries later, a burned-out geographer and a local descendant discover the map’s truth, threatening national myths and current political power.
Core themes: maps as power, truth vs. myth, the legacy of deception.
Why it can be a masterpiece: Rich period detail, morally ambiguous protagonist, political stakes that resonate today.
Want more, I'll start writing a full actionable blueprint for it.
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
I've actually started one, but I'm wondering if I'll ever finish.
It's about a young man and his much older friend and mentor, who breaks him out of prison (where he's serving time for a murder he didn't commit). There's a whole chase scene, and the end up on mars, where the old man has a friend who's been tinkering with a time machine. The plan is to travel back a few years so he can hide out in peace, but an overzealous spaceport security officer shoots the machine, and the energy blast inadvertently sends the machine one billion years into the Martian past, to when it was a thriving world with elves and dwarves.
It's about a young man and his much older friend and mentor, who breaks him out of prison (where he's serving time for a murder he didn't commit). There's a whole chase scene, and the end up on mars, where the old man has a friend who's been tinkering with a time machine. The plan is to travel back a few years so he can hide out in peace, but an overzealous spaceport security officer shoots the machine, and the energy blast inadvertently sends the machine one billion years into the Martian past, to when it was a thriving world with elves and dwarves.
hunkalove · 70-79, M
I think my opus John Olinger Does the Kardashians in a Hot Air Balloon would qualify.
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
It would be banned in multiple countries.
Ferise1 · 46-50, M
No, all the stories have been told