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This is so cool, reading about all you guys’ stories.

@kate ‘s interests me. I really like high concept ideas like that. It sounds like it could turn out amazing.

@gabbyj Your story reminds me of the Dragons of Starlight series by Bryan Davis. Have you read it?

Most of my stories revolve around duality.

For example, one of my stories is about a bad boy who is being forced to be good, and a good boy who is being forced to be bad. Then they’re set against each other an a roman-esque fight to the death. The bad boy has to stop the good boy from killing him in order to do something good, and the good boy has to stop the bad boy from killing him in order to do something bad.

The stories I’ve been thinking about most recently are stories about how there are no heroes. Or more specifically, there’s only one Hero.

The one I’ll probably write first is about a writer who gets sucked into his own story by the villain, who is trying to prove that anyone can become a hero. Villain’s plan is to take Writer’s place as the writer, thus proving that even a villain can become a hero. Hero, the hero of Writer’s original story, is trying to stop him because of all the villainous things he’s done. And Writer has to stop him because there’s only one hero of the story: Hero.

Or is it Hero?

I originally wanted it to be an allegory about how The Writer of this story came into the world, but with an imperfect messiah type. There’s enough Christian allegories out there with perfect messiah types. But there are none in the Bible. Unless you count Jesus, but He is the Messiah, so…

Like I said, I haven’t really started writing it yet. Just jotting down ideas, trying to build the story before I start writing. I’m not sure how that will work. I guess I’ll see.

The other is just an idea as of yet, but it’s a superhero story where the theme is that people are not basically good. Because, really. People are not basically good. If we were, we wouldn’t need the Savior.

There is one project I’m actually writing though. I’m writing it with another guy, who I’m pretty sure is not on here. He’s big on conspiracy theories, so I pitched this idea to him, and he went for it.

It’s about two guys, a conspiracy theorist (Cyrus Hancock, his character), and a musician (Thomas Truman, my character). After a government plan goes horribly wrong, and “relocation” starts happening, Cyrus (who is the only one who knows what’s really going on) carjacks Thomas just outside of Las Vegas and forces him to drive him to D.C., where he plans to put the government’s plans to a halt, and save America from total tyranny.

The heart of the story is the duality: Cyrus trusts no one, Thomas trusts everyone. Cyrus has to learn that some people can be trusted, and Thomas has to learn that some people cannot be trusted. And forcing them together for so long facilitates that.

I like simple ideas, so I have a lot of them. I don’t think I’ll ever run out of good ideas for stories.

What gets me excited about writing stories is this duality. Walking the line of truth between two opposing views. Bending my mind to balance on the line. And discovering spiritual truths as I write allegorical stories.

By the way, @cassandaraia are we the only ones who write stand-alones?

@daeus-lamb I am leaving town for the next week or two. I may or may not find time to get on here. I’ll be kind of away from my computer. I plan on taking it with me, but I’m not sure if I’ll get it out, or if I do, if I’ll be able to get online.