Brain Block: Lost Story Ideas
Recent years I've been writing a bit. I've been writing most of my life, but recently it's shifted. The past several years, I've been doing more blog posts, more informative posts. It's even reflecting on what I'm reading, which is more non-fiction now a days. It's like I'm becoming my dad or something.
But making stories was something I grew up doing. Something I enjoyed. And in the past decade, I just seemed to have lost that.
Lost with it were some story ideas lying around in my head. They were never fully developed, and after all these years they're still just ideas.
So, for the hell of it, I'm deciding to just put them out there. Hopefully it will somehow help me get back to that old writing self I knew.
First up is a story idea simply called "Brown"
People always wondered why I liked the color brown and always wore brown. And it's a question worth raising: It's not a color often worn by people today. It's all either all black or dark colors, or at least where I live. Anyways, I wanted a story that kind of explained why I wore brown, or at least give a mythos to it.
The basis of Brown is about a young girl, living in an urban environment, who one day notices a young boy, who appears about her age, wearing just all brown. However, it seems as if only she can see him and nobody else. From there, they form a friendship and help each other out, him trying his best to help any of her issues, and her helping him trying to unravel his mystery, which even he's not sure about.
Between the two, there would be a quite a contrast. Not just speaking in color, but also in personality and how they both do things. And as they go deeper into the rabbit hole and get closer to (as she just decides to dub him) Brown's mystery, everything just becomes even weirder...
The other and last story idea I'm sharing for now is "Eye Of The Forest"
Speaking in terms of storms, the 'eye' is the safest area in a storm and is generally in the center of it all. The surrounding 'eyewall' is the most dangerous. I decided what if I apply that logic to a completely different setting: A forest.
The very basic story idea is that our protagonist decides to sneak out late at night with some friends during a camping trip, and after what seems just a few steps away from the campsite, he finds himself in the eye of the forest.
All that surrounds him is just a wall thick of trees and danger. And it doesn't take too long for him to find out that this is no ordinary forest...
Naturally, he needs to find a way to escape, but it's not at all going to be easy...
Also, "Eye of the Forest" may also have another meanings to it...
Think Castaway meets Lost, but in the woods...
And that's all I had with these ideas. Again, they were never fully developed. I think my problem with these was that, like many story ideas, it started with a "what if" situation, and I just never went beyond that. Not to mention that these ideas were there when I started to just drift away from fiction nearly a decade ago, so they've just been left untouched since...
This year, one of my other new years resolutions was to flex more of my creativity muscle, which really needs to be exercised. Hopefully just sharing these ideas will help me get that spark I've been looking for: A first step.
And when that happens, I'll be sure to tell you the story...
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