Hello fellow Escapists! Let me just give you a little bit of background information on what prompted this topic. Today, after school, as it is the weekend I decided to take a nap to catch up on my sleep. I had a strange dream in which I was a hobo, living on the streets of a nearby large city. I would sit there for hours with my coffee mug held out, asking for change. Usually there would be nickles and dimes, and if I was lucky, a quarter here or there. But one changegivers was different from the others. He looked kind of like my real-life self. Instead of dimes, he handed me a shiny, golden coin with strange glyphs on it. It was definately foreign, but I didn't recognize the language.
The man said, "Don't try to spend this, no store will take it. Don't pawn it off or gift it or chuck it aside. It is incredibly valuable, but you'll want to keep it - the money you'd get for selling it would pale in comparisson to the things the coin will give you." Then he walked away, disappearing in the crowd. I stared at the coin for a long time, and decided to follow the advice of the man who looked like me.
Long story short, The dream ended with me becoming very successful, and thinking it was brought on by the good luck of the coin. But when it is stolen, my luck doesn't vanish - I had made my own luck. My friend pointed out that it was similar to the movie "Bruce Almighty", except without the religious mumbo-jumbo. As far as I think, it's pretty original.
My point is that I thought this whole dream was pretty cool. So cool, in fact, that I decided right then and there that I would try to adapt this into a novel. I'm only a High School (For you Brits, that means I'm in the 15-18 years old range) student, so it probably wouldn't be very good. But anything can happen, right?
So Escapists, have you ever/will you ever/are you writing a novel? Or, hell, apply this to any publishable material. Newspaper columns/artcles, poetry, short stories, prose, anything! Tell us about how the idea came to you and what it's about. Exerpts are good if you have them. Tell us about your personal Authorship Escapades. : )
The man said, "Don't try to spend this, no store will take it. Don't pawn it off or gift it or chuck it aside. It is incredibly valuable, but you'll want to keep it - the money you'd get for selling it would pale in comparisson to the things the coin will give you." Then he walked away, disappearing in the crowd. I stared at the coin for a long time, and decided to follow the advice of the man who looked like me.
Long story short, The dream ended with me becoming very successful, and thinking it was brought on by the good luck of the coin. But when it is stolen, my luck doesn't vanish - I had made my own luck. My friend pointed out that it was similar to the movie "Bruce Almighty", except without the religious mumbo-jumbo. As far as I think, it's pretty original.
My point is that I thought this whole dream was pretty cool. So cool, in fact, that I decided right then and there that I would try to adapt this into a novel. I'm only a High School (For you Brits, that means I'm in the 15-18 years old range) student, so it probably wouldn't be very good. But anything can happen, right?
So Escapists, have you ever/will you ever/are you writing a novel? Or, hell, apply this to any publishable material. Newspaper columns/artcles, poetry, short stories, prose, anything! Tell us about how the idea came to you and what it's about. Exerpts are good if you have them. Tell us about your personal Authorship Escapades. : )
