Thursday, May 22, 2003
Boomerang Lessons |3:31 PM| I started to teach Portal how to throw a boomerang.. Just as when I started (And to this day), the learning process requires a lot of running after your fallen boomerang.
When it doesn't land near you, It lands quite a distance away.
I came up with a story idea, but I'm still working out the details. I don't know if I'll be able to put it together in a cohesive fashion, but writing out a description is a good first step.
A man loses a friend in a tragic accident. Everyone's life moves on, and a week or so later, he's out to dinner with a group of his friends/coworkers. After dinner, he remembers something he meant to tell one of the people in attendence, and calls up the guy's house. The guy's girlfriend answers, and is appalled when the main character asks to speak with his friend. The friend has been dead for a week.
The main character remembers seeing the guy, remembers seeing both guy and girlfriend toether, all in the past week. No one else does.
The trend begins, his friends start vanishing, but he's the only one that remembers them being alive before they were suddenly "dead for several weeks". I was trying to figure out a way for the main character to convince other characters with the help of someone he thinks is about to vanish/be dead all along. The soon-to-be-dead guy/gal would have to have information that was independently verifiable, that wouldn't be shared among a large group of people, that would remain the same whether the person was alive or dead. A secret pregnancy that the soon-to-be-dead guy finds out about only after he "died". (As in, guy learns about pregnancy, vanishes, has now been dead since before even the pregnant girlfriend knew, so therefore if the main character knows about it, then he can proove to the pregnant woman "something unusual is happening")
Hmmm. I hope that's cohesive. If it is, or isn't, comments, suggestions, well I have a guestbook, and an email address. Drop me a line.
Boomerang Lessons |3:31 PM| I started to teach Portal how to throw a boomerang.. Just as when I started (And to this day), the learning process requires a lot of running after your fallen boomerang.
When it doesn't land near you, It lands quite a distance away.
I came up with a story idea, but I'm still working out the details. I don't know if I'll be able to put it together in a cohesive fashion, but writing out a description is a good first step.
A man loses a friend in a tragic accident. Everyone's life moves on, and a week or so later, he's out to dinner with a group of his friends/coworkers. After dinner, he remembers something he meant to tell one of the people in attendence, and calls up the guy's house. The guy's girlfriend answers, and is appalled when the main character asks to speak with his friend. The friend has been dead for a week.
The main character remembers seeing the guy, remembers seeing both guy and girlfriend toether, all in the past week. No one else does.
The trend begins, his friends start vanishing, but he's the only one that remembers them being alive before they were suddenly "dead for several weeks". I was trying to figure out a way for the main character to convince other characters with the help of someone he thinks is about to vanish/be dead all along. The soon-to-be-dead guy/gal would have to have information that was independently verifiable, that wouldn't be shared among a large group of people, that would remain the same whether the person was alive or dead. A secret pregnancy that the soon-to-be-dead guy finds out about only after he "died". (As in, guy learns about pregnancy, vanishes, has now been dead since before even the pregnant girlfriend knew, so therefore if the main character knows about it, then he can proove to the pregnant woman "something unusual is happening")
Hmmm. I hope that's cohesive. If it is, or isn't, comments, suggestions, well I have a guestbook, and an email address. Drop me a line.
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