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Story Idea

Story idea #1: The world has ended. For all she knows, she's the only one alive. Using her knowledge and skills as a researcher and clinician, she artificially inseminates...whoever--herself maybe--to revive humanity in a completely new world—new animals, new climates, and new plants.

The Problem: There is almost no genetic diversity among the next generation, and humanity will fade away entirely.

The Fear: Her fear is more visceral than primal. It is about survival, but there's hardly anyone left. For all she knows, there are no survivors. Ample resources, a lot of urban decay, probably a lot of time indoors with the insulation and blankets, maybe some videogames, and a lot of books. Who really knows if the internet still works?

The Quest: Probably the ongoing attempts to successfully clone a human being to adulthood and then parenting them.

The Truth: Everything is going to be okay.

OR

Story Idea #2: Her fairytale did not end with a happily ever after. The world ended. For all she knows, she's the only one alive. With no experience in artificial insemination and cloning, she scours literature and puts together a makeshift lab to revive humanity or create a better world.

Genre:  I would categorize this as Sci-Fi. Unlike the other two story ideas, it's almost entirely not romantic. Romance died--literally--maybe a few days ago, and all she has is his corpse, so she collects his sperm and a skin biopsy and does her thing.

The Fear: The fear is, once again, visceral. Since there are no humans around, it isn't really a struggle to survive, and she isn't going to just decide to not bathe and crawl around on all fours. But for part of the book, there is going to be this anxiety about potentially bumping into other human beings, especially when the world has fallen apart.

Rising Action: she finds the body of her Prince Charming. Unable to handle the grief of losing him, she clones him and carries his clone in her body. The dilemma is that now his genetic clone is technically her child—to both the child and to herself. And she's a kinda/sorta virgin.

Ending: using her psychic abilities, she creates better humans.

OR

Story Idea #3:  unlike the other two stories, this is more of a romantic sci fi. LCK and her in the tundra living off of unlimited supplies of canned foods—I'm thinking of a lifetime supply of food. Since she's the only person alive, LCK tolerates her and feels sorry for her. Their plan is to move down south to warmer temperatures but find that a meteorite had split the continent into smaller chunks (similar to Pangea splitting into seven continents).

They try to revive humanity and the animals and plants they rely on through artificial insemination and cloning since LCK won't sleep with her. She refuses to have a baby until he does, and it must come with genuine love and devotion.

(Artificial insemination for animals to make sure that they're not related)

(Artificial insemination for her bc he won't do the deed with her)

Then LCK meets someone he has a one night stand with. One day while out catching fish and romancing, a whale swallows her. She's fine. Something happens to her later (not bc of the whale).

Then maybe they meet more people down the road and someone is sexually interested in her. And she's like... I would rather be artificially inseminated (but she doesn't verbally say this out loud).

I guess they're in the tundra for the seed bank (for plants), but I don't know how they would get there. There's a sperm bank somewhere too.

Their goal:  #1. Repopulate humanity #2 Build a homestead where nature does a lot of the work and they raise quails for meat bc they only live up to 2 years, mature fast, and also bred fast. Quails are also hardy against the cold. Maybe they don't live in the tundra anymore, but it still has four seasons.

Her fear:  she will never be LCK's one and only

Her goal:  live happily ever after with LCK. Monogamously.

The truth:  she was LCK's one and only this entire time. Fate dragging her around before the end of the world and now she is literally the only one that remains with him during this entire odyssey. They even sail to France and have a romantic evening under the Eiffel Tower at sunset—with a picnic they prepared together.

LCK falls madly in love.

Then they somehow live for hundreds more years after finding the cure for old age

This time, he chooses her even when he has the option to find someone else (now that there are more humans on earth than her or the colony of the last surviving humans trying to birth as many children as they can in their lifetime)

Story 1:  girl power with romance
Story 2:  pure sci-fi with no love
Story 3:  romantic sci-fi/erotica with too much emphasis on LCK's chest and pecs and broad shoulders and large hands with long, pretty fingers

Exercise:  write anything

My intended career path was more conventional, but somehow after a couple of emails and much persuasion, I ended up as an intern at a pet cloning facility. I felt like I was helping people deal with their grief - even if it meant giving them an entirely new pet, just with identical genes and phenotypes. 

SKIP

Now here I was, flipping through literature on my phone while surrounded by bodies of the decreased, and hoping one of them was fresh enough for cloning. 

SKIP

The first body is someone I nicknamed Brutus. I didn't know him personally although I wish I was less acquainted with him. He had been a psychiatric patient with a criminal record before the world officially ended. Before the psyche ward, he thought pounding his fists would somehow dehumanize people enough to go against their better judgements. I skipped over his body and glanced over at the rest. 

(I'm wondering if the emphasis on this means that this character becomes the main antagonist or if this character represents the end of the previous world and will never be mentioned again.)

The second was an elderly woman with the gentlest soul. Beside her, a veteran with a heart of gold. 

The last was someone dear to me. Someone I didn't know how to let go. 

(This story could be entirely about this person right here and the actual grief of essentially loving someone who just isn't the same person as the previous person, no matter if their genetics and phenotypes are identical). 

(I'm also wondering.......... It'll take time for them to grow up. So it's weird. Like is the protagonist going to use her own uterus and body to carry the embryo? Is she essentially his biological mother (or one half of one)? Or will she have someone else birth him and another person to care of him as a teacher? Isn't she then just................ Isn't she kinda a pedophile then, waiting for him to grow up to become the same person she fell in love with? But he never becomes that person.)

(And she's upset b/c maybe he doesn't look identical to him. Even identical twins don't look exactly alike. Maybe it'll just look like his twin.)