If I'm not mistaken there's a fiction forum at KMC. Though...after reading a few threads, I'd rather submit a blank sheet of paper than some of the actual stories there.
Now that's just unnecessary. Just because i want to get an idea from an already existing piece of fiction doesn't necessarily mean it's going to be a copy and paste job.
Reeeaaaaddddd. Go look stuff up. Don't ask other people. Seems like you're just looking for ideas to steal. Don't.
As a writer you don't want to draw from other people's experiences, but your own. If you haven't read something, don't go out of your way to read it just to take something from it.
When you go around asking for ideas, that's exactly what you're doing, whether they are for influence or copy/paste.
Using your own experience as influence however, is what makes a good writer. I'm just telling him to go read and research on his own. Other people telling him what to write about is going to leave their influence on his writing and not his own.
Let me see, let me see ... fictional sharpshooters. Uh...
+There's a sniper in one of the Final Fantasy games. He'c commisioned to gun down the badguy from the top of a rotating building, as I recall, but it doesn't work out.
+One of the villains of MGS is "Sniper Wolf," who is supposed to have once remained motionless for days waiting for her target, and is perpetually on some sort of drug that steadies her aim.
+In "The Living Daylights," (the story; I don't know what the movie's like) James Bond covers an agents escape from enemy territory by sniping at an enemy sniper. Since he's had casual sex with the enemy agent the day before, he contents himself with "scaring the living daylights" out of her, rather then a fatal shot.
+The villain of "Day of the Jackel" is a sharpshooter, I believe.
(Regarding the debate that's going on, I don't think it's inherently bad to want to know what other people have done with the topic you're writing about, but certainly you don't want to be stealing their ideas)
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