Story ideas to work on:
- M meets a woman A, and they're both attracted to each other but neither speak the other's language. Therefore his friend C, who speaks both languages, translates between them. But to make a good impression, C decides to add a little pizzazz to the things that M says. Therefore A likes M more and more and finds his personality super funny. But M relies more and more on C to sound cool. Therefore M decides to ask C for help sounding more like him, so that he A will fall in love with the real M and not A. But the more M tries to find his own voice, the more confused A gets (she wants the "old" him back.) Therefore, in an act of desperation [M does something dramatic!]. But it backfires and blows the whole charade wide open. Therefore A realizes she really loved C all along. [Ben says this is basically Cyrano de Bergerac]
- The Buddha wants to learn horse stance. Therefore, he climbs up a steep mountain in search of a teacher. But instead of a teacher, he finds a young woman who appears to know very little about kungfu. Therefore he