Nighthawks at the Diner (a new suggested writing thread)

[Moejoe]

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Okay folks, here's the deal. You pick your favourite Edward Hopper painting (gallery link below), you post back here with that painting and I'm going to tie them all up together in a series of linked short stories.

The working title of this (suggested by Zelda_Pinwheel) is: Nighthawks at the Diner.

Here's the Edward Hopper gallery http://www.interesting.com/artist/Hopper/gallery.html (25 in all)

So have at it, choose your painting, and I'll write them in the order they come (if we get enough suggestions that is)

EDIT: The name of the fictional city where all this takes place is called Hoppersville.

EDIT 2: As per Ralph Sir Edwards suggestion, I'm going for a domino link to the stories - one character from each story will be the 'lead' in the next...

They say it was an artist who gave Hoppersville its name.
Some lonely and forgotten kook hidden away in a loft somewhere waiting
for recognition. He died before that recognition ever came along, but the
paintings remained. Twenty five in all that captured the very nature of
Hoppersville. A stations of the cross for the modern era. And still some
say that those paintings were Hoppersville, that without those
paintings the place and the people wouldn't even exist...

As ever, you will get full credit once the book is released on Feedbooks

Story Listing

1: Nighthawks - Zelda_Pinwheel (COMPLETE)

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2: Room in New York (changed to A Room in Hoppersville)- Moe The Cat [COMPLETE]

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3: Chop Suey - Ralph Sir Edward
4: House by the Railroad - Evenstr
5: High Noon - montsnmags
6: Office at Night - Wetdogeared
7: Rooms by the Sea - Verencat
8: New York Movie - Dreams
9: The Long Leg - Slite
10: Gas - Ravenlife

[zelda_pinwheel]

well, this one seems like a given :



but in case you're running short, i love this one too :



(but i have to admit, the one you first posted is one of my favourites

[Moejoe]

Now i wonder if I should let myself go free reign with the stories, set them all in the 40's or should I let Sam Luka take the reigns, seeing as he's from that era

EDIT: Maybe they could all be mystery stories written by Sam Luka?

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Moejoe

Now i wonder if I should let myself go free reign with the stories, set them all in the 40's or should I let Sam Luka take the reigns, seeing as he's from that era

well i certainly won't try to stop you.

[Moe The Cat]

How about this one? Title: A Classified Affair



Might fit as a Sam Luka story.

[zelda_pinwheel]

that's excellent moe. i love that one.

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by Moe The Cat

How about this one? Title: A Classified Affair

Excellent choice I have (one of the very few books I have left) a beautiful Edward Hopper gallery book. This is 2nd in the list Moe The Cat

[zelda_pinwheel]

i'm excited to read these already.

[Greg Anos]

The Picture "Chop Suey"

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

i'm excited to read these already.

Me too, and I haven't written them yet, although I do have an opening line in mind if it was Sam Luka doing "Nighthawks"

Steinbeck sniffed out the Frankfurters from across the street. Least I thought that's what he was sniffing. Turned out it was murder on the menu at the Nighthawk Diner that midnight.

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Moejoe

Me too, and I haven't written them yet, although I do have an opening line in mind if it was Sam Luka doing "Nighthawks"

nice !

[Greg Anos]

Maybe they might be linked stories?

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward

The Picture "Chop Suey"

Done, now in at no 3

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward

Maybe they might be linked stories?

Yes, that would definitely work. There's 25 in all, so each could lead into the next, new suspects, new locations and such.

[animedude01]

Well, I like Nighthawks the best.