I once had a writing professor who told me to never tell anyone your ideas, just write it, because once you tell them you have completed your expression and will lose interest. I think this may be true, but, I seem to lose interest, whether I tell my ideas or not.

I am thinking of doing the story of a young couple living in a house when it is broken into one night. The story would move back and forth between the criminals (a father and his teenage son), and the couple (mid-twenties). The father has just about lost it and has little hope. He basically convinces his son to do this and if anything goes wrong to just keep fighting to the end. While they are breaking in the young couple hears them and has a small amount of time to prepare. Not enough to call the police and they have no weapons except a small pocket knife. Well, there is a bit of action here and when all is said and done the young man ends up holding the father at knife point and the boy has a gun on the young woman in seperate rooms. (trust me, I can make it happen).

Anyway this is where most of the dialogue would happen with the young man discussing with the father and the woman and boy talking. Eveyone trying to figure out what to do, not even knowing if the there family member in the other room is winning or losing, alive or dead. This is, of course, the place where you have to avoid "SAP." If you don't know what sap is then watch the movie "Gremlins" in the part where Phoebe Cates is discussing how her father broke his neck imitating Santa Claus on Christmas Eve. That is sap. I think I could make it work, but sap can be hard to avoid. Anyway, at the end of the movie. . . Well, I am not going to give you everything, but there would be more action. Perhaps a shoot-out.

What do you think? I am open to any and all ideas.

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