Fascinating news for fiction writers: it turns out, according to Paperback Writer, that there's a random plot point generator online if you're stuck for creating a plot point in your novel or script. There's also a random character generator, a generator of character descriptions, as well as a plant generator (for those of us who never go outdoors, I guess) and a science fiction medical tool generator (handy if you want to do a spec script for a show on the SciFi Channel).
I tried them all out and they work. But the results aren't terribly helpful. Plots need to grow organically. You can't just have them turn on random events (at least, not mysteries). Characters need to be created to suit plot and vice versa. If I need to identify a plant, I'll probably find it through Google. And I don't write sci fi--at least, not yet.
I think I'll just stick to relying on my own overactive imagination.
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