Thanks for all the feedback guys, I really do appreciate it!

I’ve been struggling with this idea for about a year now, I just have no ideas on what specific external conflicts could arise.

The MC is basically a scrawny, nearly blind teenager who wears lumberjack attire (flannel, boots, the whole 9 yards.) Because of his obvious lack of manliness, nobody takes him seriously when he wants to be a lumberjack. People also perceive him as a hipster because “nobody understands him.” A lot of it just plays off of society’s view of the common hipster.

As far as external obstacles, I see the story going in two ways:

1.) MC and a friend drive out to the middle of nowhere to cut down a tree, the tree crushes their car and they must survive in the wilderness.

2.) MC basically goes on a road trip and talks to different people on what they think it means to be a man. Sounds serious, but it wouldn’t be. I had one pretty funny scene scripted out where he visits a Wal-Mart (or some made-up store chain) to buy a knife, because all men carry knives, right? But the guy working in the knife/gun section persists that he needs a gun, because all real men have guns. Just trying to focus in on that everyone has different views on what it means to be a man in today’s society. Not much conflict in the one though…