I don't know how often I'll do these
“dream log” things, but there have been several times over my
writing career where someone has told me there might be some value in
them, so since I think I've got a compelling one for once, I'll give
it a shot and see where it goes.
This particular dream happened the
morning of August 7, 2018, and was about my somehow being famous for
a Sonic the Hedgehog fan fiction storyline I'd written in the late
1990s and early 2000s. The setting was a discussion of some sort
with at least one other fan author from back then who was telling me
that I was more popular than I realized. My response was that I
could take a compliment, but at the time, I was just a college kid,
mostly, wasting time on that when I should have been working on
homework and other school-related projects.
From there, there was a thorough, if
not lenghty, going over of what I'd written, which was the story of a
human space traveller from Earth who'd gotten stranded on Sonic's
planet in the timeline of the 1993 Saturday morning show and wound up
an ambassador there after helping the heroes take the planet back
while building his spaceship to go back home on. For this segment,
it seemed like there was more than just the two of us at the
beginning, and that it was part of a program of some sort. I don't
recall if there was some reason why we were using my work
specifically for the example or if that part of it were just a
product of it being a dream in my own head. That's mostly because
there were actually quite a few authors back then who were at least
as good, if not better, than I was.
The final question before I woke up was
if I might be willing to revisit the character and/or storyline
somehow, since it was still somewhat memorable to my co-panelests
20-some years on. Within the context of the dream, it seemed like it
was to be something for the IDW reboot of the comic that draws heavy
inspiration from the previously mentioned cartoon series and the
Archie comic series that worked off it until it ended a couple years
back.
In a more real sense, I have been
considering redoing that particular storyline for awhile now. I have
a few ideas for things I'd do differently, if I were to do such a
thing. After all, I've grown and changed at least a little bit since
then, and am a different guy now that I'm in my 40s rather than in my
late teens and early 20s.
Either way, I'm not sure I should or
would, or will do it. As cool as it would be to see if I could make
something of that again, to know that I've still got that “it” I
used to have, I'm also hesitant because, as I said, I'm in my 40s now
and really should move onto a “new and different” stage of all
this. At the same time, I kind of have done that, by way of this
blog, and am not really sure I've gotten anywhere in particular with
it in spite of whatever intentions I've had and the efforts I've
made.
Regardless, I guess it's something to
think about and consider, though I'm not sure what may come of it.
Either way, see you soon with more
non-video-game stuff, hopefully.
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