What's the story you would write if you were an author?

A lot of people worldbuild when they daydream and have the bones of a story kicking around in their brain, but have to pay the bills and raise the kids etc so they never flesh it out and write it down. What's your story's premise? Fantasy, sci-fi, alternate history, mystery, western, whatever genre.

Cracks_InTheWalls , (edited )
@Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works avatar

I'd love to write a really good acid western. So far all I have are daydreams about being a badass old west drifter to the music of Spindrift.

Edit: I suppose there's also what I started when I tried (and failed) NaNoWriMo, which was a horror story about a pathogen that made people deranged killers of a spectacular nature. There was a fight in a stained glass factory, that was kinda cool. Should see if the laptop with the draft still boots...

(If I recall the movie correctly, it was basically The Crazies, but more violent and written before the 2010 version came out [never saw the 1973 version])

Kowowow , (edited )

I've been wanting to even just story board/sketch is the idea of a character with the ability to affect momentum like charging up a ball bearing bouncing it between his hands till it's like a rail gun or stopping bullets but I think the ultimate thing he could do would be to remove ALL momentum("momentum zero") and have the earth, the galaxy and everything(thousands of meters per second I think) leave something behind or smash it into a wall or the ground, but for a power that strong I think he should have an enate sense of how things are moving to avoid blowing a massive hole in a building with a rock

Also a bunch of loosely connected ideas that I just want make into more of an encyclopedia because I hate charterer growth

fern ,

First part has Sanderson Cosmere ability energy.

Resol ,
@Resol@lemmy.world avatar

I couldn't really think of anything other than an autobiography, or ANOTHER science fiction story set in space (with fish and Toki Pona this time around, and four girls as the protagonists). Actually, I prefer that last thing to be an animated cartoon than a novel.

shinigamiookamiryuu ,

I'm already an author.

Cryophilia OP ,

You would write a story where you were already an author?

shinigamiookamiryuu ,

No, I was referring to the title which I thought referred to "if" I was an author. Though very, very few of my writings are fiction and most are vents/guides.

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