Fever Paradox
I'm thinking about my next book, and ideas are coming to me OUT OF ORDER!
So frustrating.
I know who I want to be the hero and the heroine, but for some reason, it's two other characters who are filling my head.
For now, I'm just jotting down the out of order idea, and still concentrating on the two characters I have in mind. Either something will come to me, or they will get bumped back to another book. It's so weird to have this happen!
Anyway, over the weekend I was a little sick, had a very low fever and headache. For some reason, I thought this would be a good time to read KILL TIME by T. J. MacGregor. It's a good book, that's not the problem. The problem was that I already had a headache, and I was reading a book about shadow governments and time travel, which means there are paradoxes to consider...
For instance, if I travel back to yesterday and see myself, can I call myself on a cell phone and talk to me?
Try that with a fever!
I'm feeling better today, and will probably finish the book.
So how was your weekend?
posted by Jennifer at 9:32 AM
6 Comments:
if I travel back to yesterday and see myself, can I call myself on a cell phone and talk to me?
Ugh, I don't have a fever and I was like, "Waaait. Whaaat?" LOL! I'm going to go with the "no caffeine" excuse. ;-)
The jotting out of order ideas thing happened to me with the book I just finished, and that had never happened to me before...But it's definitely my strongest story yet! I just went with what was working at the time. And when I had enough ideas, I strung them all together so they made sense as a story...if THAT makes sense.
Need caffeine. I really shouldn't be commenting on blogs right now. Sorry. =:0
Hope you're feeling better!
Oh thank you, Michele! You reassured me that this will work out if I just write the ideas down and see what happens! I didn't know what else to do because this one witch hunter won't SHUT UP! He's bugging the heck out of me.
And yeah--paradoxes fascinate me, but they do twist my brain into pretzles.
I think writing down ideas is good. It's more like brainstorming and once it is all out there on paper, you'll be able to see what stories can be created.
I had a good weekend. I finished a quilting a pillow for a friend.
The cellphone or any phone is kind of a new twist to consider for me. The paradox of time travel says you can't meet yourself in time... which I think is hysterical. But it doesn't mention phones.
So consider Dennis Quaid in the movie where he contacts his son on a shortwave radio over the decades forward. It's not him he's contacting, but he does benefit from the contact.
The book the Mirror by Marlys Millhiser actually screws up the time travel paradox. But the screw up has kept the book in my mind for decades. You don't actually see the screw up, but realize it after the book is over.
Dru, how lovely that you quilted a pillow for your friend! Writing down ideas is good, but my agent also warned me that writing down ideas sometimes makes them too concrete and harder to keep brainstorming. Some I generally use "idea pages" to keep myself from getting locked in.
In other words, I play mind games with myself.
Cele, in this book, they could see themeslves in the past, but I don't think they talked to their "past self" face to face. But they had cell phones and it made it more complex. So if two partners traveled back in time one day to see their "past selves" they had to take NEW cell phones to communicate with their partner, because the "old" cell phone would call the "past" partner, if that makes sense.
I did find "flaws" but you know, the author can only do so much. HE did better than I could have. And it made the book interesting to consider the paradoxes.
Also in this book, an old TV Series about time travel kept changes as the characters changed things in the past.
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