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Permalink Reply by Harry on June 21, 2011 at 6:40am

An idea for a story. A guy who is a maladaptive daydreamer. In his daydreams he is an ideal person. This is vague it means his self in real life minus all the problems. He has imagined a world with places and characters from real life. So everything is real,only people's reactions,conversations are imagined. He is in love with some real girl his daydream whom he has never spoken to. There are many other people too in his dreams who he has never really met. He tries to keep his dreams as real as possible. One day he meets with an accident and gets a head injury and forgets everything but somehow remembers his daydreams and now feels them to be real as if they really happened. What would happen after this?

Permalink Reply by Heinriech Heisner on June 21, 2011 at 10:15am

He only remembers a lifetime of memories that no one else shares. Interesting. Where are these memories coming from they wonder? And even as he realizes that these events didn't really happen, his attitude both towards others and around his self-confidence would change considerably. I bet that would make a great story. It could go in so many different directions.

Permalink Reply by Harry on June 21, 2011 at 8:19pm

Hello,

I have some ideas which i want to develop into stories. I haven't written before and struggle to get beyond just ideas. I do not know how to proceed. Anyone has any suggestions.

Permalink Reply by Heinriech Heisner on June 22, 2011 at 9:14am

That seems to be a common problem for MDs. I myself have found the writing process too cumbersome and slow to develop my ideas. However, I have found that I can return to a storyline if I have a picture of it and I am currently working on a project that involves creating a world through Sketchup, Photoshop and drawings on paper. You may need to find a partner who enjoys writing and will assist you in spending the time to write out your thoughts and ideas. Otherwise, you may just have to presume this is a long-term project and may have to come back to it after breaks. But I think the most important part to start off with is to just get a very broad and general story line written/drawn out and then you can focus and add details to specific parts later on.

Dushyant said:

Hello,

I have some ideas which i want to develop into stories. I haven't written before and struggle to get beyond just ideas. I do not know how to proceed. Anyone has any suggestions.

Permalink Reply by Heinriech Heisner on June 22, 2011 at 10:44am

I am hoping that one day there will be powerful mind-to-computer interfaces - writing would be so much easier in holographic form.

Permalink Reply by Delorean Jones on June 22, 2011 at 10:51pm

Well, you can make do with Dragon for now ~ it's a neat little program that records your voice and turns into magical digital words. it works pretty darn good I hear.

Permalink Reply by Truthful Alibi on July 28, 2011 at 8:33am

When I get around to it I'm OK starting stories, it's just carrying on with them that's the problem! I swear the reason my computer is so slow is because of all the junk on it that could politely be called 'the first chapter or so of several different stories'.

Off topic: Oh yeah, funny story (that happened for real), Delorean Jones' post reminded me of it: When I was a little kid we had to write stories based on Goldilocks and the 3 Bears, and a girl in my class used Dragon to write her story, and she kept saying 'Mummy unicorn' but it kept typing 'money unicorn' instead! OK, it's not that funny but, let's look on the bright side: it's one story I finished!

Permalink Reply by Jared on October 27, 2011 at 6:00am

I have the same problem, Truthful. I have at least 15 scrapped writing projects.

Here's one based closely on a daydream I had near the end of August.

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Permalink Reply by Sunshine on November 3, 2011 at 11:49pm

I think your story was very good. I enjoyed it. It is very fast paced.

Jared said:

I have the same problem, Truthful. I have at least 15 scrapped writing projects.

Here's one based closely on a daydream I had near the end of August.

Permalink Reply by Elizabeth on November 29, 2011 at 1:24pm

On a fantasy note, what if you were transported or by accident become part of your daydream world? And how would you (or the character you created) deal with being in his/her own fantasy world? would it be like they imagined? or would something go wrong or they miss their real friends and family? Then maybe they were somehow able to pull themselves back out into the real world and realize that you miss this life even if its considered mundane. Just a thought, it suddenly came to me.

Dushyant said:

An idea for a story. A guy who is a maladaptive daydreamer. In his daydreams he is an ideal person. This is vague it means his self in real life minus all the problems. He has imagined a world with places and characters from real life. So everything is real,only people's reactions,conversations are imagined. He is in love with some real girl his daydream whom he has never spoken to. There are many other people too in his dreams who he has never really met. He tries to keep his dreams as real as possible. One day he meets with an accident and gets a head injury and forgets everything but somehow remembers his daydreams and now feels them to be real as if they really happened. What would happen after this?

Permalink Reply by Delorean Jones on November 30, 2011 at 12:28am

Ah, nothing beats being a little kid and accomplishing something.

I do believe a lot of us are going toward a "step into the dream world" feel

My friend suggested the notion that real world problems show not only show up in the daydream, but they become much more epic to match you.

I think it's important we all really think about our prospective stories some more and come back with more data.

Break!

Elizabeth, do you write?

Truthful Alibi said:

When I get around to it I'm OK starting stories, it's just carrying on with them that's the problem! I swear the reason my computer is so slow is because of all the junk on it that could politely be called 'the first chapter or so of several different stories'.

Off topic: Oh yeah, funny story (that happened for real), Delorean Jones' post reminded me of it: When I was a little kid we had to write stories based on Goldilocks and the 3 Bears, and a girl in my class used Dragon to write her story, and she kept saying 'Mummy unicorn' but it kept typing 'money unicorn' instead! OK, it's not that funny but, let's look on the bright side: it's one story I finished!

Permalink Reply by Elizabeth on November 30, 2011 at 7:05am

I used to much more when I was little. I even came up with this whole story about an Indian girl named Sequoyah (I was told later that the name Sequoyah was usually guy names, but oh well I liked it for girl) and her daily adventures. I meant to enter it into one of those Reading Rainbow contests, but it went over the maximum word count :p. But now I've been thinking of trying to jot a few of my ideas down and do some short stories first and see where I end up. Its SO hard for me to focus, but I'd like to try. Do you write any yourself? Even brief snippets?