Somewhere · 5:05am Mar 17th, 2012
Somewhere past the sun and the moon and even the stars, there is a world where the sky is green and the ground is blue and the trees grow upside-down. Inside that world is a little sun, and all the leaves of the upside-down trees stretch toward it day and night, for day and night are not times there, but places. Creatures frolic and play in the daylight inside, and when they are tired they return to their cool, dark homes in the wide open night to sleep.
Somewhere in the quiet metropolis of 3:53am, a little girl gazed at the stars, and wondered what the world would be like if the sky were blue...
There's a story there. Maybe the tale is fully told in those four sentences, or maybe there's a whole world there waiting for a daring author to explore it.
That author won't be me. But perhaps someone else out there will be inspired to put pen to paper. I'd love to see what it could turn into.
For me, it's back to writing my narcissism/romance and laying plans for my grand novel-length adventure story.
I'm pretty sure you just described one of Xanth's moons....
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Wait, did I? I'm only a few books behind, but it's been ages since I've read most of them. That would just figure, though.
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Not positive and it might not be a single moon but an amalgamation...I'm positive about the ones where times are places and the sky and land are reversed. The upside down trees... not so much.
"A good story, you don't really write. It was always there. You just uncover it." Or something along those lines.
"With each idea, we spawn a whole new universe of opportunity, which will grow, no matter how little attention we pay to it." ~Unknown
Oh now I remember where that green sky idea came from. It was this. Damn, the concept this spawned in my head is terrible. How did it get so twisted?
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And this was itself spawned from a conversation with a coworker that (tangentially) involved a green sky. Weird how ideas get around. Where did it come up again for you? I'm curious to hear what it's mutated into now.
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One of those traumatizing stories I would never write because when others write them it makes me want to slap someone.
Something that does not need to exist because it stems from the desert of darkness and pain that FiM is an oasis of sunshine and rainbows in. And because it stems from a base ineffectual desire cause pain to illustrate a perceived "wrong" that never needed to be addressed.
If you REALLY want to know, I'll PM you but I'd rather this crappy worthless concept stay stuck in my head.
The only reason I mentioned it is because I've had it slicing through my brain for days now and I just remembered where the initial imagery came from.
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Fair enough. I'll trust your judgement and not inquire further. Still very interesting to see an idea spring up again like that though, I'm glad you mentioned it.