Friday, September 21, 2012

Dimensions of Sarah: Creative writing idea for collab

I've been wanting to work on a multiple dimension story for a while now. This idea has some similarities to Jason's, and also to the sci-fi book I've been re-reading, To Say Nothing of the Dog, but hopefully it could seem cool and a bit original. Here's the idea:

Dimensions of Sarah

Sometime in the distant future a fellow named Justal gets a job at a high security government sponsored research facility, perhaps editing for them. Despite the security around the center, his work seems pretty standard. He thinks some of the documents he’s edited have been written in double-speak. Anyways, after a while he notices some strange things are happening, things that just don’t make sense, even things that ought to be impossible.

What’s going on? Research into Alternate Dimensions. The other dimensions are beginning to noticeably affect and apparently be affected by Justal’s dimension. At the core of the Research project is Sarah. Now, she could be the head honcho scientist, or be an accidental traveler across the dimensions, or have somehow have an understanding of the dimensions downloaded into her head. But Sarah and Justal start interacting, romantic tension and dramatic tension build as the dimensions interact more and more. Eventually Justal has to decide what to do about it. Does he simply try and alleviate the negative affects of the dimension crossings, or does he try and put a stop to it altogether? 

This is not the first dimension to have access to the inter-dimension research and technology. Some of the information and perhaps some of the tech came from one of those other dimensions, which was likely not the starting place of the research either. We are all connected.

I’d prefer a somewhat ambiguous ending. Perhaps implying that Justal will be able to help Sarah manage the dimension connections so that there are more positive affects than negative affects; impying that Justal and Sarah will live happily until the end of their days; implying that even the scary new things can have great worth. No guarantees.

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