Here we go

I worte a page yesterday and stopped.
I was trying to start the story from the beginning and work my way through it. But quickly realized I need a guide. Something to keep me on track.

So I am scrapping the "let it develop from beggining to end" theory. And I've decided to continue with another plan. I am going to put together the time line, and the plot (very basic). Then from there I will develop each portion of the story. Kind of like a seed germinating. At first it is just a seed, then it swells and bursts, bit by bit it reaches out and develops into a beautiful plant (or story).

Here we go again...

expanding thoughts

I was thinking about this recently and came up with an interesting idea.

I could tell a story about a character that is stuck in a rut. Life with nowhere to go. Mundane to the max... you get the point. But suddenly, he is taken to another place, and as the story unfolds, he realizes another time, and in the body of another person. But when it happens... there should be another character that it happens to as well. Both characters chase each other though time. One believes that by killing the other they will return to a normal reality. the main character on the other hand is convinced that by completing specific tasks or quests he might make it back or understand better what is going on.

Each story will be random, each of the characters won't know when they are, or who each other is, what sex, what age, nothing. As each part of the story unfolds they find new adventures and have to adapt to their surroundings as well as try and figure out what in the time or space is going on?

I think I'm ready to start putting things together...

Plot ideas

Here is what I'm thinking...

This is a twist on Life on Mars (tv show), Lost (tv show), Quantum leap (tv show), Back to the Future (movie), and The Matrix (movie).

Time travel. Body snatching. Era changes. Interaction between jumps, development with or without resolution. The reactions between characters changes future events.

I would have to have a linear story line before creating the story the way it would be intended to be read.

Would I follow the timeline of a character? Like in 12 monkeys with Bruce Willis? His character was jumping through time, but his friends were crossing paths at different points in their journey. One friend would be dead, and then the next jump the same character would be alive again.

I like this idea. It keeps the reader guessing. And it makes for a read where you don't want to miss a single detail.

I love super heroes as well. So giving some characters abilities might be a cool idea as well.

I think this is going somewhere.

Time...

Time travel is cool.
I always loved movies with time travel in the plot.

I would love to write a story with time travel as an aspect of the story.

My wife is currently reading a romance story about someone who travels through time. falling in love in different eras. Its not really my thing, but one aspect of the story I like is that the character is stuck in the era and believes that she cannot return to the "regular" time period.

I watch the TV show "Lost". Something similar in that show occurred. The characters in the show became stuck 30 years in the past. They didn't know what to do so they just settled in. They never knew if they would ever get back.

I also like the idea that things can change when time travel is thrown in the loop. The show "Lost" is touching on the debate that whatever happened happened... but being the author, I can do whatever I like.

I think I'm going to put something together piece by piece here. Lets see how this unfolds.

Justification

The most interesting blog I ever spent time reading was the blog of an aspiring author. His short stories were so good. I really enjoyed wasting my time on his blog.

My wife has a blog, I really don't understand her obsession with sharing so many personal details with the world. It is very strange to me, this need to post photos and stories about any almost everything.

Since this is my blog I figured that I can do what i wish here. So I've decided that I am going to try and write. Lets see what happens from here.

I'm only going to post when I feel the need to do so. i am not doing this for anyone else but myself.

Time to process some of those ideas...

The Plan

My intention here is to write...

Alot of people say that they want to write. But how many of they just think about writing? I have no formal experience, or training. But I have alot of ideas. The plan here is to record the ideas and maybe actually write something.

Lets see what develops...

new day

Here we go...
test test test
Is this thing on?