Whu?

[naomi_jay]

So I'm trawling through my old lj entries tagged "writing," because... Well, because. And I find this entry from way back in the summer of 2008:

I should write some kind of thing where this girl is, like, addicted to magic somehow, except it turns out she's a mage and she's channelling magic without realising it and causing all kinds of chaos. And maybe there's another a mage who causes car accidents on purpose with his magic, then gets the drivers to sue each other for a cut of the winnings. Or something.

Why have I forgotten this and why have I not done this yet? Is this an actual idea, or the half-baked ramblings of a woman with too much sugar in her system?

Comments

[jongibbs.livejournal.com]

I love finding those little notes :)

[naomi-jay.livejournal.com]

Yep :) I think there's a story there somewhere!

[i-am-toast.livejournal.com]

I recently found a whole blog story I'd written in a fit of dissertation ARGH and had completely forgotten. That was kinda entertaining :)

The first idea sounds entertaining although it's feeling a bit Willow-esque to me: however the concept of a druggy-esque unreliable narrator for a magic-fantastic story is rather fabulous, in all senses of the word (admittedly I'm envisioning a cross between Hunter S. Thompson and gritty romantic fantasy, which is probably in a different time zone to your actual idea...).

[naomi-jay.livejournal.com]

Actually, I like the sound of Thompson meets romantic fantasy... Although I suspect the reason I didn't remember this idea the first time round is that I couldn't think of anything, you know... good to do with it.