The Past Apocalypse Story

I am always amazed at what I find when I do a bit of late summer cleaning.

Case in point, an old journal of mine from my senior year at High School. Well...I should not say journal, it was more of an attempt by me to write a novel [epic at that]. Briefly flipping through the pages of my handwritings, I saw that I had a lot of potential...but mostly a lot of head rubbing, with thoughts of "What in the hell was I thinking!"

Here is a bit of a rundown as to what I was writing, and don't worry I will not torture anyone with actual passages from my attempt in the writing department. The book was titled: "Apocalypse: Dream Wars" Don't know where I came up with that title, but that's what I had picked when writing this story. The story was suppose to be about a young guy named, Malcolm, who is unable to separate his dreams from his reality. In the beginning chapters it actually starts with the world coming to and untimely end [this is way before watching the movie or ever hearing of the book: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. So if I had attempted to write that book I could of probably been brought in for plagiarism...glad I didn't,even though I didn't mean to on purpose].

If there was any good thing that I saw in my writings was that I wanted to write in a unconventional way: 1) Having the hero be someone who doesn't want to be THAT hero 2) The Good guy doesn't win all the time and innocent people get hurt, you hate to say that but it happens...read the last few Harry Potter books to see where I'm coming from. 3) Having the lines between "What's Right" and "What's Wrong" blurred so much that everything is just a gray area. What I mean by that is, if you go the movies or read a book, you know who the good guys are and who the bad guys are. [side note: bad guys usually dress in all black, live in/near/around a volcano, explain their plans in details to the "good guy" just to have it foiled, and they always have the craziest laugh]. What happen if the people you think you are fighting with are good, but turn out to be bad? What extreme is an individual willing to go to ensure their survival? What if a battle that normally happens on a barren-like wasteland happen in their own backyard? Those were just some of the questions, I wanted my story to incorporate.

Hmmm...Maybe in finding that old dusty notebook with notes on characters, plots, developments, and such was a sign, that I should get back into writing. Now that I am older and a little bit more seasoned, that I can craft a better story. Well I know one thing that would change...that's the Title for damn sure.

Well, I'm off...

Until Next time,