Why is it that we torture ourselves with things we can’t accomplish in real life, by putting them in movies, video games, and books? Wouldn’t it be nice to actually invent things first in the realm of reality, then the realm of fiction. Then a boy wouldn’t get depresses when he realizes that he can’t really fly and a girl wouldn’t be upset when she learns she can’t be a real wizard like Hermione.
It’s reasons like this that confuse me. If we have enough brain power to put it into a virtual form, why try and make it a reality. It would be nice to get something supernatural out of life for once. Perhaps a time machine, a jetpack, an immortality potion, a unicorn, cloning device, ray gun, pet dinosaurs, vampires, werewolves, artificial intelligence(the real kind), or even new foods.
I’m talking to you scientist. I know you can make it happen, so why not?
It’s been a long time since I’ve actually worked on any of my old material or started something new, so I decided to get back to it.
I have lots of ideas but my inspiration has entirely disappear, one reason being the fact that I no longer have a computer to save it all on (I currently do all my tumblr business on my phone lol).
My latest idea is about a love story. The world is set in fiction and follows one man. A man who easily falls in love with women. Not like your average person. Shortly moments into a date he can fall in love with a women, 10 seconds into meeting a girl he can fall for her, and even the moment he bumps into her he gains feelings. This story deals with a nice guy trying not to finish last. Its moral is that love isn’t obvious. It takes more than falling for small similarities like music, style, books, and movies. He learns to fall in love with the little things, and in that he finds his true love.
I plan to make the genre a romantic dramedy(which I hope you know means dramatic comedy), with a little dark humor. It won’t be your usual romance like Love Actually or The Proposal, it would be like (500) Day of Summer, but in a more fictitious sense. I still don’t know whether I want it to be a screenplay or a book yet, but time will tell.
I hope to post my progress of the untitled work in the future, along with some samples of it, so I look forward to getting some feedback :)
A rocket ship lands on a distant alien planet. For convenience
sake, let’s say it’s a fifties-style rocket – kind of
a Buck Rogers rocket with racing stripes and fins. The
rocket lands and the captain sends out a landing party.
Among the members of the party are a father – a middle
aged rocket engineer named Frank—and Frank’s strapping
twenty-year-old son, Bob.
The landing party is not far from the ship when they
are attacked by an alien monster that looks suspiciously
like a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Frank is killed. In fact, everyone
in the landing party is killed except for Frank’s son,
Bob, who hides in a convenient cave. The monster then
turns on the ship, ready to attack.
For the sake of the rest of the crew, the captain must
order the ship to take off, abandoning Bob. The bridge
crew looks at the captain and the captain says, “I can’t
leave Bob behind. He’s my son.”
Who is the captain?
Pat Murphy, a renowned female Science Fiction writer, once said this in a speech at WisCon. There’s more to this speech aside from this story and it gives a very large outlook on our perception.
It’s scary how much this makes you think about gender roles and assumptions in our modern society. We don’t expect the captain to be female because we see what we expect to see, and distort other evidence to fit our expectations. Its one of the major problems of today and it needs to be fix. It’s not the job of solely women to aid in altering these perceptions, it the whole of our people. Change lies in everyone’s hands.
P.S. Everyone should check out Pat Murphy’s speech titled “Illusion And Expectation” from WisCon 15 March 2 1991. It’s one of the most alluring things I’ve read recently and it forces you to think about how you perceive gender in this society. So check it out.
