Goofy Ideas Haunt Me

There are a few fiction ideas running through my head right now. I’m drawn to a bartender or restaurant type of character. It’s one I know well, when I lived it, out in California for five years. It’s a sleazy anti-hero type, who’s stealing from his boss, since the boss is a big-box corporate, evil empire. I keep thinking about pairing this character model with science fiction. Like starting the story with, “Without a doubt, aliens are the worst tippers.” ...Wow. that idea seems even dumber now that I see it in print, haha. But maybe it would work... who knows...

Another idea I had was all about changing size. This idea has been with me for a while too. The idea that if you can get really, really big, you can travel short distances quicker. Kind of like how a 50-foot tall giant can run across a city faster than a normal person. So if you use that concept in space travel, imagine a ship getting enormous, turning into a sort of mist, it’s so big, but then it can resize, or shrink, nearer to its destination. I may have blogged this idea before. It’s dumb, but it’s haunting me.

Then to the other side of the coin, the shrink-the-size idea, and we are talking super-shrink it. That’s where my time-machine idea comes in. Tying travel to memory. Only travelling to the past, or present, not future, because nobody remembers the future, unless they’re from the future. (I promise I’m not high right now.) A memory is a piece of the past, right? How does a memory work? What if you could locate the actual atoms in your brain that make a memory, and then shrink down small enough to go there. And its not just brain synapses, it's the actual past itself. Of course, this is far-fetched. And I know nothing about science, or even science-fiction. So I’d have to use vague terms... or alien terms... Maybe I could tie this memory-visit concept into dementia or Alzheimer's. Nah, that’s nuts.

There's another idea that hit me about having to check into social media, because the government required it. Kind of like you have to be addicted to FB or else. But that idea seems like one that must saturate the market.

Anyway, just some goofy ideas. I’m airing it out, just for fun, and to further prove that writers are insane. At the end of the day, an idea, no matter how strange, is just another writing prompt. So jump into one and see if it catches flame.