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telophase ([personal profile] telophase) wrote2019-06-05 11:28 am

It's the moment you've been waiting for!

The Newbery Award-Winning Title and Plot Generator is DONE and LIVE! Here for all your Problem Novel needs, ready to create a needlessly depressing book suitable to teach innocent children that this world sucks and there's nothing you can do about it!

Massive thanks to [personal profile] rachelmanija for compiling dozens upon dozens of plot and character elements.



Hound Arm
In the beginning, a sad child travels to the time of the Civil War after he accidentally buries himself alive. Things seem to be looking up when he befriends a snail. But when his new friend goes out in the sun and dies, he learns a valuable lesson about addiction and that beauty isn't skin-deep.

A Paperboy of Apathy
In the beginning, a hardworking teenager begs for a kitten after his father mistakes him for his mother and tries to murder him. Things seem to be looking up when he befriends a deaf boy. But when his new friend dies of a ruptured stomach caused by bulimia, he learns a valuable lesson about Theodore Roosevelt, fighting patriot and that alcoholism is a disease.

(and of course I notice a gender disagreement problem that crops up very rarely after I go live! Must think on how best to fix it.)
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[personal profile] ellen_fremedon 2019-06-05 05:29 pm (UTC)(link)
It is really disturbing how many of these elements I recognize.
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[personal profile] rachelmanija 2019-06-05 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
All the Irritation
In the beginning, a conscientious teenager is paralyzed from the waist down after being diagnosed with celiac. Things seem to be looking up when she befriends a snail. But when her new friend is falsely accused of being a murderer and sentenced to death, she learns a valuable lesson about abortion and that racism is bad.
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[personal profile] movingfinger 2019-06-05 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
WTAF

After the Rain

In the beginning, an imaginative kitten must re-learn how to read and write after stepping on a mine and losing both legs. Things seem to be looking up when he befriends an elephant born without a trunk. But when his new friend gets rabies and has to be shot, he learns a valuable lesson about abortion and that humanity is doomed.
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[personal profile] movingfinger 2019-06-05 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm visualizing the kitten one as a Little Golden Book, fwiw.

A lot of them are horribly plausible!

Wishing Jazz St. Johns

In the beginning, a lonely child is caught up in a war after the family house burns down. Things seem to be looking up when she befriends a very old woman who always wears long-sleeved shirts. But when her new friend dies of a heart attack after being publicly accused of being a German spy, she learns a valuable lesson about homicide and that believing in magic leads to your best friend dying alone.

This one will be coming out in 2022, I believe:

Millennium to Cry

In the beginning, a sullen teenager is sent away to live with an eccentric aunt after becoming a climate change refugee. Things seem to be looking up when he befriends the victim of a hate crime. But when his new friend is eaten by wild dogs, he learns a valuable lesson about the exploitation of immigrant labor and that friends die.
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[personal profile] rachelmanija 2019-06-05 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Those both could 100% be real books.

The Ocean of the Bright Blackberry

In the beginning, a wayward child is caught up in a war after his mother dies of a back-alley abortion. Things seem to be looking up when he befriends a man with a scarred face. But when his new friend is devoured by locusts, he learns a valuable lesson about allergies and that believing in magic leads to institutionalization.
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[personal profile] elistaire 2019-06-07 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
Why are so many of those books so depressing?? Whatever happened to escapist fiction where booklife is better than reallife?