This time on AARON (35) LANDSCAPER…

Note: I’m still leaning towards dead body in the neighbors lawn, just letting it cook. And all of this is part of the process so we must proceed!

Upon review of our last session, I got to thinking, what if we combined some of those inciting incidents? For instances #8 Aaron has to leave while his apartment is being fumigated and #7 Aaron joins a dating app. We push them together to get this log line…

When Aaron is forced to leave his apartment for pest control, he joins a dating app to find couches to crash on.

It’s an interesting idea, but my main concern is that it’s so wildly out of character for Aaron. He’s the kind of guy that would just sleep in his car if he had to. Not to mention his extreme fear of intimacy and attachment. But you can see how these combinations can be valuable while sorting out your story.

Ok, something else. How about #12 Aaron walks into a bar and finds a horse and #3 Trivia night gets cancelled indefinitely. Which leads us to something roughly like this…

Aaron arrives at his weekly trivia night to find not only is the event canceled indefinitely, but there’s a live horse at the bar.

…which is not helpful. It doesn’t tell us anything. It just sounds like a silly brainstorm (which it is).

So why am I wasting your time with this?

To shed the bad ideas. Sometimes writing sucks. We trudge through mountains of our own idiocy to find tiny little grains that we can actually…