A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 25

This is the fifth year in a row I’ve run this series in April.

Today’s story: Baby DJ School.

Beat-oriented Brooklyn babies ages 0–3 can learn the basics of DJing thanks to Brooklyn’s new Baby DJ School. The eight-week course will teach babies how to play records and mix beats for $200. Some Brooklynians aren’t pleased. “Brooklyn used to be cool just because. Now it’s cool because you can afford to pay $200 for your toddler to drool over vinyl,” said one resident.

Okay, this just struck me as the single dumbest idea I’d heard in a long time, so I saved it and figured when April 25, 2014 rolled around, I could come up with something to do with the concept. I mean look at this:

Okay, so what if we do this:

* Some toddler turns out to be a DJ genius and becomes a media phenomenon. It’s Scratch meets Baby Geniuses.

* A hip hop dance story… only all the characters are played by kids. It’s Step Up meets Bugsy Malone.

* A DJ who has lost his chops and fallen from the top of the game suddenly discovers he’s a father. Forced to take over parental care of his 8 year-old daughter. But what if she has the golden musical DJ touch. So he’s a front for her talent. It’s Cyrano de Bergerac meets It’s All Gone Pete Tong.

* Finally what about School of Rock for adolescent DJ wannabes?

Other than that, I got nothin’.

There you go: My twenty fifth story idea for the month. And it’s yours. Free!

What would you do with it?

Each day this month, I invite you to join me in comments to do some brainstorming. Gender bend, genre bend, what if. Take each day’s story idea and see what it can become when we play around with it. These are all valuable skills for a writer to develop.

See you in comments (hit Reply to join the conversation). And come back tomorrow for another Story Idea Each Day For A Month.

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