Then a third
selected the genre.
It was crime.

Finally, we created a log line using these elements:

"A Bail Bondsman tracks his skip to the 1939 World's Fair"

Next, by switching out only one element at a time,
we had new stories and loglines!
So roll the dice and join in the game of Clueless!

"A stripper falls for a wealthy World's Fair visitor and pretends she is also a worldy woman."

"A group of prisoner's smuggle in a stripper."

"A stripper tries to break her boyfriend out of prison."

"A stripper/mob informant hides out in Amish Country."

"A waitress witnesses a murder commited by an Amish Preacher."

"A cannery is a front for illegal drugs and a waitress gets a loaded can."

"A German Waitress during World War 2 finds the cans are filled with people."

"A patient tells a therapist of a murder in a cannery."

"A therapist picks up the wrong pictures at a photolab, they show grusome murders."

"A screenwriter can't sell a script, must work at a one-hour photo."

"A horror writer gets trapped in a mansion with his most horrifying creation."

"A screenwriter builds a haunted mansion on Mars to send his friends."

"A screenwriter falls in love with a ghost of an antebellum mansion."

PLOT GENERATION

Now, these were truly random and not all (or any) of them are guaranteed blockbusters. But, you can always grab ahold of one particular logline and begin to flesh it out. Make two lists, one noting the protagonist plans and the other noting what the protagonist is up against.

PLAN	UP AGAINST
He could buy the place. He could team with the Historical Society He could get a film studio involved He could raise money by marketing the house as haunted He could pretend their is a phony buyer	The city council wants the building demolished The WAL-MART who needs the land The demolition crew who doesn't care The mansion is decaying itself The ghost wants her freedom