We’re halfway through the second week of the challenge. I hope you’re enjoying the posts. Today, our letter is I. As an author, I essentially live inside my head, creating mysteries, romances, fantasies, and whatever comes to mind. After yesterday’s eclipse, I have some sci-fi possibilities floating through my head.
Today’s letter is I for imagination. So, I did a little quick brainstorming because I’m not ready to write a new book yet, since I have to finish Listen to the Stones, and sci-fi would be a new genre for me, but yesterday’s eclipse got me thinking. I’ve decided to share three separate ideas that have come up.
At first, I contemplated a time travel story where the eclipse creates a rift in time, and my fighter pilot flying over the Pacific gets sucked back in time say five thousand years, and crash lands on an island.
What does she do? How is she received? Does she decide to stay there with friendly natives or does she have to fight for survival against cannibals? Would she be alone or would there be another pilot with her? The more I think about it, the more the idea has merit.
A second idea floating around involves the Bermuda Triangle. I know the path of totality wasn’t eclipse wasn’t visible there this time, but the partial one was visible. And, as an author, I can use literary license in the story. What if she’s a helicopter pilot(I like that occupation) delivering supplies from Nassau to one of the other inhabited islands in the Bahamas and during the eclipse her chopper’s instruments fail and she crashes her chopper on a remote island. She encounters people marooned there during a storm some four hundred years ago. Does she stay? Could she fall in love and give up her life? Does she fix her chopper and head back to what she hopes is Nassau in the twenty-first century? Does she report them or let them continue to live in anonymity? Is she alone? So many possibilities there.
Every time we’ve gone on a cruise, we’ve traveled through the Bermuda Triangle. Nothing weird has happened to us, but you can read countless stories written about people. planes, and boats that have vanished.
The last idea, and possibly the one that presents the greatest challenge is going back to revamp a space exploration novel I started years ago. In the novel, the last vestiges of humanity are looking for a new planet to call home and have to deal with a saboteur onboard. What if they land on a primitive planet just before or just after a solar eclipse? Would the inhabitants see them as a danger or a blessing? Again, lots of possibilities.
And there you have it. My imagination at work. Come back tomorrow for the letter J.
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I like your ideas. There are a lot of stories set in medieval times that have an eclipse play a part in the plot. I think one I read was a time travel story and the character knew when the eclipse would happen and used it to show he had “powers”.
Donna @ <a href=https://www.girl-who-reads.com/2024/04/i-is-for-instructional-books.html>Girl Who Reads </a>
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There was an eclipse in one of Mark Twain’s books, too.
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It probably was the Mark Twain story I was thinking about as I read most of his novels the summer between high school and college.
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These are all fantastic ideas! The possibilities really are endless, and as you write, you might get even more along the way. Good luck on your WIP!
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Maybe I will. That’s always part of the fun of writing.
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I did Imagination today too, and I did the Bermuda Triangle a couple of years ago!
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Tim Brannan
The Other Side: 2024 A to Z of Dungeons & Dragons.
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Yes I like the time travel movies especially when they go back to see family. I’d even like to go back in seeing myself, my memories forgotten and my parents in younger years. Hmm maybe something I might like to write. How ideas are born.
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Exactly!
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