Ideas

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The Seven Deadly Sins becomes Deadly Sins – Why?

As stated in my first post, I got the idea because I couldn’t remember what all the seven deadly sins were.  After finding out the extras about the ‘other’ seven in the bible I thought it would make a good framework for a suspense series. 

The theme of the seven deadly sins has clearly been used before but I’ve dropped the ‘seven’ from the title so originality restored. 

At the time I thought it would probably be no more than writing practice as I had other ideas further ahead in the queue.  Also I don’t have much/any experience writing suspense/horror.  Just to get the juices flowing I had a look in my parent’s library.

I really don’t like the cover of this book.  It makes it seem like the stories are much more gruesome and gore-ish than they actually are.  Also it’s odd because the book is actually a collection of short stories by women writers.  Thank goodness on this occasion I did not judge book by its cover.  I was pleased to find Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery inside which I’d always been meaning to re-read.  Also, stories by Agatha Christie and Elizabeth Gaskell.

Then I was hit by something like inspiration.

Ambuya Mafaticook/Kuruta

– The first story I wrote for the series

Fatcooks are a delicious doughy snack mostly found in Southern Africa.  Think of fat as opposed to flat pancakes.

A greedy boy finds the delicious snacks of

Ambuya Mafaticook come at a very

high price.

I was convalescing at my parent’s place.  I’m still there now but for the purposes of not paying rent, not recovery.   My Dad has a fascinating collection of books from their time in the UK (over 30 years).  I particularly like the year compendiums and short story anthologies.  I found a book entitled

In that book there was a story by Philip.K.Dick called

The Cookie Lady.  I enjoyed the story and it hit me that this would be a good story to adapt and use for the theme of Gluttony.

I typed contact Philip.K.Dick in Google search bar and found a way of requesting permission to adapt his material.  Philip.K.Dick is a giant of sci fi writing with many of his novels/stories having been adapted for film.  Most famous being Blade Runner from his novel, Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep? 

On this contact Philip.K.Dick site I also found a request for anyone who has a copy of an old television adaptation of The Cookie Lady.  Spooky huh?  Apparently the show was shown on US television in the 70’s.  I thought it was an extremely good sign that his people were looking for a copy of the same thing I want to adapt but I’ve yet to hear from them.  I sent the email about a month ago.  I will keep trying but I will also do the adaptation anyway.  Worst case scenario I will use the episode as a pilot.  

Tales of the Unexpected Vs Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Namely an episode called The Man from the South.