Writers Block: What Timeline Would Like to See?

As the title says, I've been having a bad case of writer's block recently. I know many of you would like to see my continue/wrap up my recent timelines. Right now I'm just not feeling it. The idea for an alternate Clinton Presidency was promising, but for whatever reason it just hasn't stuck with me. The basic purpose of this post is to flesh out some creative ideas for a new timeline. I've written a lot about politics in the 2000s. That's the area where I know the most (followed by the 1960s.) But don't let that limit your ideas.

Here are some basic concepts for what I want to do next:
-Something mainstream. I'd like to work on a timeline that the majority of readers can understand and enjoy. That's been the general direction of my timelines so far and I want to continue it.
-Something creative. I know this appears contradictory to my first point, but the reason why I typically grow bored of my projects is because they get stale. I want to do something different.
-Something worth asking. Far too often I find that this forum gets caught up in the little things. What I find so compelling about alternate history is that it is an opportunity for individuals to paint a different image of the past. With that in mind, I'd like to address a topic that forum members would like to see. That's somewhat redundant to the first point. Specifically, I mean to say that I'd like to address a major POD.

As to style, I find that I'm most engaged by writers who use the 3rd person limited narration. I've been reading ASOIAF and I really enjoy GRRM's style. I'd like to do something akin to that with several main characters. I believe this would make the story more compelling while also creating an often left-out element of AH's, mystery.

So, commence with the ideas!
 

BlondieBC

Banned
The Vietnam war in JFK lives and wins a second term.

Gore/Nader ticket. Gore wins.

The 1960's where the Bay of Pigs worked.

GWB decides at last minute not to invade Iraq and not make Axis of Evil speech. USA focuses on Afghanistan.
 
Just a random idea I've had spinning around my head for a while:

The basic POD is that Adolf Hitler dies on 21st of April 1918 instead of Manfred von Richtrofen. The Central Powers still lose the First World War and the Treaty of Versailles is still harsh. His experiences in the war (including developing PTSD), lead Richtrofen to become a socialist, and he enters politics, using his reputation and his natural leadership abilities to become one of the leaders of the socialist movement in Germany. Gradually, however, as he reads more about the fascist movement in Italy and elsewhere, Richtrofen becomes more and more authoritarian, gradually leading to him splitting from the Social Democrats and the mainstream German center-left to form his own party that rapidly grows in popularity in the late-20s and early 30s.

At the same time, without the public speaking skills of Hitler to unify behind, the Volkisch movement becomes only powerful enough to threaten the system, like the Communists, but not enough to overthrow it. Instead, the right wing of Germany becomes dominated by Monarchists lead by von Lettow-Vorbeck, who, like the Red Baron (called that as much for his political position as much as the color of his plane in the war), is gradually more and more influenced by fascism.

Eventually, things lead up to the elections of 1932 where, apparently besieged by the Communists and the Volkisch, the traditional democratic German parties lose support among the populace, and instead the two biggest parties are the DNVP, led by Vorbeck, and Richtrofen's Fascist-Socialist (what a strange combo!) party, who form a "Grand Unity Government" in the face of the "crisis" gradually turning Germany into a fascist state.

 
Just a random idea I've had spinning around my head for a while:

The basic POD is that Adolf Hitler dies on 21st of April 1918 instead of Manfred von Richtrofen. The Central Powers still lose the First World War and the Treaty of Versailles is still harsh. His experiences in the war (including developing PTSD), lead Richtrofen to become a socialist, and he enters politics, using his reputation and his natural leadership abilities to become one of the leaders of the socialist movement in Germany. Gradually, however, as he reads more about the fascist movement in Italy and elsewhere, Richtrofen becomes more and more authoritarian, gradually leading to him splitting from the Social Democrats and the mainstream German center-left to form his own party that rapidly grows in popularity in the late-20s and early 30s.

At the same time, without the public speaking skills of Hitler to unify behind, the Volkisch movement becomes only powerful enough to threaten the system, like the Communists, but not enough to overthrow it. Instead, the right wing of Germany becomes dominated by Monarchists lead by von Lettow-Vorbeck, who, like the Red Baron (called that as much for his political position as much as the color of his plane in the war), is gradually more and more influenced by fascism.

Eventually, things lead up to the elections of 1932 where, apparently besieged by the Communists and the Volkisch, the traditional democratic German parties lose support among the populace, and instead the two biggest parties are the DNVP, led by Vorbeck, and Richtrofen's Fascist-Socialist (what a strange combo!) party, who form a "Grand Unity Government" in the face of the "crisis" gradually turning Germany into a fascist state.

There is a TL that does something very similar but it hasn't been updated lately, here is the link if you are interested.
https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=234830
 

MSZ

Banned
-Something mainstream. I'd like to work on a timeline that the majority of readers can understand and enjoy. That's been the general direction of my timelines so far and I want to continue it.

For this, how about another Red Alert scenario? Huge WW2 with Stalin as the baddie, All-European alliance fighting a Stalingrad-grade battle at the gates of Berlin, ending with them marching on the Red Square?

-Something creative. I know this appears contradictory to my first point, but the reason why I typically grow bored of my projects is because they get stale. I want to do something different.

White victory in the Russian Civil War is something that comes remarkably rarely. So a Whites victory followed by a very different XXth century, no USSR preventing Nazis from getting to power letting Weimar survive, fascist not taking power in Italy, USA joining the LoN from the start, etc.

-Something worth asking. Far too often I find that this forum gets caught up in the little things. What I find so compelling about alternate history is that it is an opportunity for individuals to paint a different image of the past. With that in mind, I'd like to address a topic that forum members would like to see. That's somewhat redundant to the first point. Specifically, I mean to say that I'd like to address a major POD.

What if the republican concept of democracy never took off as well as it did OTL, ans most people concidering monarchies with the monarchs having some executive powers to be perfectly normal? A different spring of nations where rather than crushing the liberals, they get something to say, creating more constitutional monarchies which survive much longer, even into OTL. This might be an interesting "domestic" timeline for either a different Austro-Hungary, or a 1848-united Germany. How they develop and reform, influencing other countries to introduce a similar mentality across the globe.
 
Quebec votes for independence in 1996

FARC or Shining Path or FMLN take control in Colombia, Peru or El Salvador

Al Gore runs in 2004

King Hussein of Jordan decides to stick with his original sucession plan and names his 23-year old son Ali Bin Al-Hussein as his heir in 1999 instead of his older brother Abdullah.

Allies decide to adopt the Morgenthau Plan instead of the Oder-Neisse line as the new German border after WW2 (I am sure there is something, somewhere in AH that discussess this, but I still think it makes for a great TL).
 
As the title says, I've been having a bad case of writer's block recently. I know many of you would like to see my continue/wrap up my recent timelines. Right now I'm just not feeling it. The idea for an alternate Clinton Presidency was promising, but for whatever reason it just hasn't stuck with me. The basic purpose of this post is to flesh out some creative ideas for a new timeline. I've written a lot about politics in the 2000s. That's the area where I know the most (followed by the 1960s.) But don't let that limit your ideas.

Here are some basic concepts for what I want to do next:
-Something mainstream. I'd like to work on a timeline that the majority of readers can understand and enjoy. That's been the general direction of my timelines so far and I want to continue it.
-Something creative. I know this appears contradictory to my first point, but the reason why I typically grow bored of my projects is because they get stale. I want to do something different.
-Something worth asking. Far too often I find that this forum gets caught up in the little things. What I find so compelling about alternate history is that it is an opportunity for individuals to paint a different image of the past. With that in mind, I'd like to address a topic that forum members would like to see. That's somewhat redundant to the first point. Specifically, I mean to say that I'd like to address a major POD.

As to style, I find that I'm most engaged by writers who use the 3rd person limited narration. I've been reading ASOIAF and I really enjoy GRRM's style. I'd like to do something akin to that with several main characters. I believe this would make the story more compelling while also creating an often left-out element of AH's, mystery.

So, commence with the ideas!

Ford Wins in '76, no Reagan and a Democratic 80s. Gary Hart is not caught cheating? Gore wins in 2000 (this one has never been done right).
 
Ford Wins in '76, no Reagan and a Democratic 80s. Gary Hart is not caught cheating? Gore wins in 2000 (this one has never been done right).

Those are some interesting ones. I agree that the Al Gore scenario has never been given justice. A second Ford term would also allow for an interesting scenario.
 
Operation Downfall, US invasion of Japan 45/46

Wargames, the computer launches an all out attack and Falken cant stop it(Yes, that movie)
 
How about you take another crack at that Obama TL that you did on Election Atlas forums last summer, hcallega. I think you should have Robert Reich as Treasury Secretary in the new version though, but still have Howard Dean as Health Secretary.
 
gnew's tax evasion comes out over a year earlier, and butterflies lead to a better candidate than mcGovern (Humphrey, Muskie, heck even Lassie if the dog was still alive would draw more votes:D). Nixon needs a new Vice President, one who won't be forced to resign.

He decides to draw blacks back after the Godlwater debacle of '64 and picks Edward Brooke, statign privately that, "I've got this race in the bag" and that he wants to do soemthign that will *really* enhance his public legacy (becasue he seems to be the kidn who trie to do anythign to improve his legacy.)

How does the first African-American President 34 years early handle thigns? how does America? (Or, if you prefer, pick another VP)

(Alternatively, if there's a way to get Douglas Wilder into the White House; 1992 or 2000 if something happens to Gore, or if he's Clinton's VP)
 
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