ideas

Imagine that; a seperate universe existed a long time ago and was attacked by a vast creature of nearly unimaginable size. The beings of this universe fought back to no avail, and sought to flee from the universe into another. So, they opened a gateway in the heart of the universe and in a line stretching from the Core some hundred billion lightyears long, they gathered to set through this portal. The creature (who is called the God-Cloud until i come up with a better less cliche name) attacks attempts to attack the core and in a final blow the beings of the universe strike down with a weapon which causes the Universe to fold back, which causes the Abyss to reach up and swallow the God Cloud, essentially trapping it in some Other Plane. The blow starts a chain reaction which slowly destroys the universe, and the 3 surviving members of the War gather at the portal, look back and see nothing but decay, and move on into another universe. which, naturally, is ours. and so they set up civilization, bla bla bla, create the human race, and eventully in the far future we create a religion which is to find this portal to the dying universe and discover our origins. We fly around in planet sized World Ships named Gethsemane and such, looking for the answer. dunno what the story will be calle,d but for the last 4 years ive been working on it and ive only done the intro.
ok second story- its a short story, somewhat based on the one above. Man dies all of a sudden, and asks God or someone of a similar biblical nature what went wrong. The (deity?) then tells man that at the far end of the universe a star exploded at a very precise frequency which caused the entire universe to vibrate in one giant sine wave. The wave comprised of teh energy of teh universe, and when the wave passed over earth the energy was shifted upwars billion lightyears, essentially leaving earth without any energy to support itself. Thus, the entire planet collapsed into dust.
third story- SENTIENT INC.- In the near future, a court case is held deciding on whether or not an animal is self aware enough to be held liable for a crime. The defendent says no, the prosecutor, yes. In some wierd scifi way, the defendant tells the judge it can prove the animal was aware and the judge tells them to come back in a month with the evidence. The two (brothers?) go off and create an implant which they introduce to teh animal and make it sentient. After that theres a blank zone of approx a year in which i have to think of something to occur. After a year, the brothers are getting famous for their discovery aaaaaand there experimenting with other animals. people want it for their pets, and eventually, like in the Rats of NiMH, a sentient animal escapes and starts doing its own thing. It'll prolly actually be a rat, seeing as they can go undetected for long periods of time. Maybe a pigeon. hmm. Thats all I have of the first book. The second book, which is untitled as of yet, has a front cover showing a mouse playing in a wheatfield with a radar dish coming out of its head. This book will go on to describe the problems created when a sentient animal starts creating its own sentient counterparts instead of just humans doing it. The third book will tell of a distant future where all the animals are sentient, most likely including germs and virus'. Mankind will be either challenged or helped by these sentients, depending on my mood. I like it when evil wins, so prolly challenged. There arent any plans for a 4th book, but it would be on a wildy futuristic scale where animals have conquered the galaxy and are moving onward. Imagine a book of stories about mice trading with tigers and the Great Jellyfish Conquest of Aquatia IV. hmm. and the algae has great spaceborn oceans which they keep in orbit around Sirius and constantly have to fight off the beings living in the sun for energy? GREAT. ok. those are my ideas. sorriy for spelling the like teh and the bad grammar. bye now.

The reason Foundation was voted Best Series of All Time and won out LOTR was not because it depicted the decline and fall of a Galactic Empire with its super epic awesome action scenes (for it has none) but is because it enfolds an idea, and that idea is fully realized to the reader. The action is off screen, somewhere else, and the reader is left to imagien it for themselves.

More housekeeping?

1. This is for all, even those who attend the Writing Club regularly:

All submissions must be sent to thechswritingclub@gmail.com ... ALL.

Just do it, okay?

Idea Post

When the last Bell tolls at the end of the world, Man will say "I was"

"He wasn't in the army, or the navy. Nope, Johnny was a member of the freakin' skyfalling space marines. Yessir, 35th division, corporal 2nd class. Won 3 medals his first year, won 3 more for taking out Ceranus. When that planet cracked open, the Generals, they said Johnny was the best they got. Gave him the solid silver cross for that one. Course the Ceranids weren't too happy. Maybe t'was why they hung 'im up on the streetlight like that, organs all tore to pieces..."
Morgan frowned and walked away.

Im trying to not sound like a certain fictionpress message board labeled "what if". So far i'm succeeding.

Bella is God?

What if I took a poem, took each line, spread them out on a page, and made up a story underneath each one that told of my interpretation of the line? damn./ T'would be interesting.

Sooooo you take an everyday event, make it so epic/thoughtful its a story in itself, and BOOM. good scifi. Or you take an everyday idea, such as....feeding a plant, and replace the plantfood with plutonium or something (shit liek that happened everyday back the 40's and 50s ya know) and all of a sudden you have a giant mutant plant on your hands. BOOM. Good scifi.

Little known fact-good scifi stories do not generally make good scifi movies. Case in point, Battlefield Earth and Jerome Bixby's "It's a Good Life"

Idea Dump?

Hey so I think the Writing Club blog would be a great place to share any ideas we pick up from our experiences for anyone to use. Things you might not be able to think of a use for but that other people would be able to incorporate into a written piece. I don't know how you guys feel about it. Maybe you'd rather be greedy. What do you think? (I'll wait for a response before I let my ideas go)

Setting, Character, and Plot

So I thought about this today: the laws in the world of a realistic story can reflect the laws of the real world. Setting, character, and plot are all present in real life too, and they all influence each other. There's a reason why people don't hold birthday parties in mortuaries, why people get stressed out when they're living in a warzone, and why a warzone doesn't looks ruined after a war. Events, environments, and people are all interconnected. If one is changing, then there's a good chance another one is changing too. This relationship expleins the necessity for art in the video game "The Sims". If you give your person too dull of an environment he will literally break down and cry. I'd never really though of how much that aspect of the game holds true in regars to the real world.
There is also the realtionships between events, between people, and between environments. The ocean is constantly interacting with the pine studded shore. The man in solitary confinement is growing lonely. The war is ruining the birthday party. There are three dimensions to everything and those dimensions interact in all ways possible, and always.
I would even venture to say that there can be no person/place/action without place/person/action and action/place/person. This trinity is perhaps even as fundamental as rock, paper scissors, as Heaven, Hell, and Earth or as Bulbasaur, Squirtle, Charmander. Perhaps there is even an analogy to be made, that every change spawns two more changes. All things fork out. Perhaps this forking is the essence of freewill and the soul of consequence: there is always a good and a bad reaction. But there are actually far more than two reactions, well, there are three since character affects character. But there is certainly more than one character setting and action. But there are three characteristics in which we group the objective world (in literature).

What do you think?

Housekeeping

Blah blah blah this isn't very creative stuffs, but if we want the lit mag to run smoothly...

1. Did we settle a few days for the contributing editors (and is that really the right name?) to meet and review the submissions? I don't think we did. We have, scheduled, for the magazines to be printed and bound from December 9-11. This means that we should have entries picked, edited/uploaded onto a computer, artfully arranged in a pleasing manner and ready to go by Wednesday Dec. 9... The Friday before is Coffeehouse, so the contributing editors couldn't meet on that day (unless they didn't mind not helping out the prep for C-house).
If the editors don't mind meeting on a Saturday, December 5, for the whole day, I would assume, then we could maybe just scrape by in time. Email thechswritingclub@gmail.com if this day works and email thechswritingclub@gmail.com if it doesn't, or just comment, what the Hell.

2. Here's the list of assignments:

• Editor: Cote
• Advertising Director: Zeb
• Art Director: Dan
• Photographer: Felix
• Contributing Editors (I really don't think that's the right term): Cote, Libby, Dan, Aaron, Veronica... (What about Submission Directors?)
• Feature Contributors: Whoever we can get. Suggestions are: Ms. Belair, Mr. Sica and other such teachers.
• Cote holds the post of going on announcements, but what about submitting something to be read, everyday until we stop submissions? We could write something pithy and creative.

Right. This is kindasortareally important and as such we should move with all deliberate speed.