I am still trying to put all my thoughts together for this book. Coming up with a framework for a story is pretty easy. The details just do not like to pop their heads in. One of my friends works the other way around and I envy him. He can come up with some of the most incredible stories, and even after the bits and pieces are put together, it still makes sense. He is just a great story teller.
Anyway, something that I heard on NPR's Fresh Air got me excited at first, and then disappointed. They had a physicist on, and he was talking about time travel. He believes that it is possible, but it would be very limited. The furthest back in time one could go would be to the point in which the time machine was created. However, I will not let that affect my story.
I will, unlike what I said before, need to explore the consequences of a time traveler telling people of the past where he/she is from. On the other hand, many other stories dealing with time travel already dealt with this topic. I will probably just make it a premise.
I think I am going include some small stories I have come up with before regarding aliens, and also a dream I had of being abducted (I think it was a dream, it was too weird of an abduction.)
I think I will just get the dream written out now so I do not forget to do so.
In my dream, I can remember waking up, and realizing I was essentially paralized. I was not on an alien bed or anything, but rather I was carried by these rather small purple aliens (they were all a little larger than my hand.) We were on the side of a highway (I do not know what highway) and this car started heading our way. It looked like a cop car. The aliens seemed frightened by this for some reason, and so ran (still carrying me) behind this brown van until the car passed. Then they opened up the back of the van and threw me in (ok, so throw is not really the right term for it, but it is the best one I can muster right now.) There was another guy in the van alongside me. The entire time I was not frightened at all, in fact I was a little amused by it all, but this guy was just absolutely frightened. I could not understand it. He was shaking all over, sweating up a storm, and this complete look of terror on his face. I tried to calm hi, but to no avail. Alas, I do not remember the rest of the dream, but I will probably just make up the ending to it.