Generating Concepts - Homestretch

Okay, so if you did each of the three concept generating exercises—Netflix, CSI, and What If?—and did each one daily for a week each, you should have anywhere from 21 – 210 concepts. If you did the bonus AI round, and were able to get decent results, you might have 28 – 280 concepts. That, in itself, is awesome. But we’re not done yet.
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For this next exercise, scroll through your existing concepts and apply the Netflix strategy. Pick three random concepts and combine their elements to see if they inspire a new concept. For example, below are three concepts from my Netflix post:

1. When Armageddon strikes during their after-school detention, a gang of mismatched teens rely on one another’s strengths to defend the school so that they can survive.
2. When a famous actress returns to her alma mater to give a speech during Homecoming, the current Homecoming Queen plots to have her kidnapped for stealing her thunder.
3. Everyone in the world wakes to discover Armageddon happened while they were sleeping…twenty years ago. Can the survivors pick up the pieces and reclaim a world that’s been overrun by mother nature?

 
And here are some new concepts that I see:

• When the entire boarding school mysteriously passes out and wakes during the Homecoming dance, they are convinced that they are subjects of the Homecoming Court. When the queen kills her king to claim the throne for her own, the lower classmen rally for a coup.
• When a famous actress is hired for a feature film on a princess, largely chosen for similar looks, the two women meet, and the princess goes missing. Or is the princess merely pretending to be her doppelganger so that she can get a break from the royal life?

• Armageddon is at our doorstep and only the holy rollers are left behind. Pissed that their faithfulness wasn’t rewarded, they give in to the true selves they had been denying their whole lives.
  

Here are another three concepts from an earlier post:

• What if I jokingly responded to that Nigerian prince’s email and got sucked up in some international scandal?
• What if the reason my doctor was making me wait for so long was that the patient before me died, and he was trying to hide the body?
• What if, while researching details for a story, the FBI and NSA showed up at my door because my searches eerily matched an actual crime scene?

And some new concepts they get me to see:

• A fringe group follows the plot of a novel verbatim to assassinate the president. When authorities show up at the writer's house for questioning, the writer swears he is oblivious...and he is also learns that this group follows him like a messiah, just as his next book with a plot that triggers Armageddon hits the shelves.
• While waiting for his doctor appointment for a long time, a patient takes a bio break. When he returns, he notices he is the only one in the waiting room, and all office staff have gone missing. He investigates to find the doctors and staff have tied up all the other patients and are harvesting organs for the black market.
• After reverse-scamming a "Nigerian prince" to teach the scammers a lesson, black ops group arrives to put a woman into hiding--The Nigerian Prince is coming for payback! But her rescuers have come just a little too late.

Keep randomly picking three concepts from your library and try to generate 10 concepts per day for a week.