Basically, it would seem my imagination saves its best workings for some select times at night when I'm sleeping. A couple of weeks ago I had this dream, and now I've decided I might actually turn it into yet another novel...
First, the dream...
[spoiler]Surreal.
It took place in a not-so-distant future in a way, since I was there and wasn't anywhere over twenty years old; but, at the same time, everything was different.
Technology was apparently quite advanced. I was living on my own... and, while everything was somehow dark and eerie - always covered with a fog - it was also covered with trees everywhere.
So one day I find myself in this park; and as I look around, I find my guy's friends playing american football... Just some sort of scrimmage, per say, without uniforms or anything... just a bunch of guys that got together to play.
But my guy isn't there, and I can't help but wonder where he is, and to miss him dearly. Next thing I know I leave the park and jump on a train... all the roads I go through are surrounded by trees. For some reason I arrive at my destination in a car... It's a small shack somewhere far out from the city. I get out from the car and an old man comes out to meet me from within his workshop.
"I need to use your time machine." I say.
"It's not a time machine - it's a second chance." His eyes seem to ask for a good reason to want to use it.
Out from my pocket I pull out a bunch of little pieces of paper, each with a different time and place written on it.
That's when it switched into flasback mode.
I'm 15 or 16 again. I'm at my current house; and, for some reason, my guy shows up at my doorstep. We've never actually talked much. He hasn't said anything, neither have I, but somehow we both know we have mutual feelings for each other. We get to talking, and then a storm starts brewing.
That's when I woke up... The rain never actually fell, and I never got to see the "explanations", but somehow I knew them anyway.
We fell in love and were happy together; that is, until there was some sort of misunderstanding that drove us apart. He kept trying to explain, thus the pieces of paper he sent, but I refused to talk to him.
And so the years went by; we remained apart until that day I went to the park and somehow everything about the misunderstanding became clear. I'd been wrong all along.
And so I went with the old man to try and go back to change things.[/spoiler]
So that was the basic inspiration of it all. At first it was just this dream I had and really loved, but then one day I was talking with a friend and ended up telling her about it... what surprised me was she actually loved it... so I told other friends and they all said I should really consider making at least a short story out of it.
And then it got really personal, since in the dream it was me I just couldn't make up these characters in their entirety... which is why everyone, or at least the main characters, are based on real people - something I think will definitely add to the story.
Right... by now I've defined the misunderstanding that originally drove them apart:
Chase (the guy) gets a scholarship offer in a city very far from where Samantha is (one thing that does need defining is why she's so dead set on staying exactly where she is, and her going with him isn't an option)... He goes off to tell her about it, but with the intention of actually proposing and telling her he's going to stay with her [all the sappy romantic stuff here]... Yet when he goes, she doesn't let him finish, and becomes stuck in the part about him "leaving". She feels partly betrayed, but also doesn't want to hinder his future, so she refuses to talk to him after that.
Ohh, and something else... the title so far is Rewind, and the basic idea is that when you go back, you do just that - rewind. It's not like Back to the Future or actual time travel kinda thing... No young and older version of the same person or "you can't see yourself 'cause the universe will explode" kinda thing... You literaly rewind, but obviously keeping the knowledge of everyting that happened and how it needs changing... that clear? haha
Okay, yeah, so, opinions??
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