Generator

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See also:	Plot
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Fans, recognizing the cliches in plot, scripts, canon, and fannish behavior, create "generators," activities which poke fun at these predictabilities.

Some examples:

• Our Favorite Things #10 includes a plot generator
• The Omnipotent Third Season Star Trek Script Generator
• The Official Star Trek Rumor Generator.
• Random Pairing Generator.
• Code 7 #2 contains a Starsky/Hutch fanfiction generator by Paula Smith.
• Elf Fetish has a Badslash Story Generator and a Mary Sue Story Generator.
• Telophase has created several random generators, including The Kinkfic generator, and the YA Dystopia Story Generator which has inspired a flashfic community and a commentfic meme.
• Seventh Sanctum houses many random generators, including a number relating to fandom, such as a crossover generator and a story title generator for Harry Potter.
• Hot from the Stereotypewriter Dept: So You Want to Write Trek-fic? (1980)

A Professionals Example

"The topic is The Ten Best Reasons for Taking Your Partner to Bed. Want to write a slash story? Pick one of these and Go For It:

• The girl jilted me. (Or him.)
• I was drunk.
• I was sick.
• I was almost dead.
• I was dead.
• I needed to Reaffirm Life in order to Go On in this lousy, depressing, death-ridden job.
• I wanted you the first time I saw your arse twitch.
• It-Was-For-Your-Own-Good-You'll-Thank-Me-In-The-Morning
• Cowley told me to.
• So no one else would.
• No one understands us but us."

Examples Wanted: Editors are encouraged to add more examples or a wider variety of examples.

Gallery of Some Examples

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  The Omnipotent Third Season Star Trek Script Generator by Jim Steele, from Warped Space #3, 1975, click to read

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  from Partners, part one

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  from Partners, part two