I keep a lot of sketchbooks with doodles and a sentence or two story idea. When I look through them and try and find useable story ideas I am always shocked how 90% of them are absolutely bizarre. They tend to be plot points and concepts for stories, but from reading them I’m starting to think I black-out and write random stuff down. Or I am being experimented on by aliens. Now that’s a cool idea. What if you are taken and experimented on, but when you are just free writing in a diary or sketch book, things start coming out and making sense…Anyway, some of my favorites from an older sketchbook -
- Twins. but boy is alien. Blue germs.
Glad I wrote that down! If only I could remember why I thought I needed to write that down…
- 11 kids. But the steamroller can only carry 5.
Ah, OK…
- Trees dance? What if he had no eyes? Difference between not having eyes and not seeing.
Yeah. This is a great idea…can you call it an idea? I think stories about things that don’t have eyes are the next big thing…
It’s wise to keep these bits and pieces of things. It’s good to get stuff out of your head so you can move on. I’m actually pretty entertained by the musings and their anti-usefullness aspects.
I have the same issue. I found a note the other day that said “Pikachu is above Tom’s house and no one else seems to have noticed.” Still working on what that means. I should probably take a look at Tom’s house.
Ha! I think those doodles are actually for the best. After I wrote that post I found more bits and pieces of the Aliens story about the twins.Then I remembered it. It’s actually pretty cool. Now do I ever find the time to sit sown and write it!?
I’m personally rather curious about the steamroller thing.
Me to.That’s the one that stands out, as I have no idea what it was about, and I don’t remember anything about writing it.
Thanks for being so fearless in sharing your midnight ramblings…I mean, we all have them, but you’re brave enough to actually post them! Made me laugh-great post!
Fearless I’m not so sure about! You should see the odd stuff I left out!
Completely hilarious, Mark. I think perhaps because many of us have been there. It’s like when you walk into another room for something but then you can’t remember why you went there in the first place.
It seemed like a good idea at the time.
Oh, I know that feeling too! I spend a great deal of my day wondering what I was about to do.