Hello again everyone. I know I just posted a creative construction post not too too long ago but I came up with a very intriguing one today. Possibly this would not be an easy one to respond to on the blog but if I can inspire someone to write my idea into reality then it'll be worth it. So my idea was . . .
a person's biography told by fortune cookie fortunes. I was just looking at some fortunes I'd collected over the years and thought to meself what if someone wrote a book about a person who can define the major events that occured in their life by different fortunes they recieved (via cookie). Like if I were to write the book the chapter headings would be the fortune and then it would tell how that fortune came to be true in real life.
For Example: If the fortune was for instance [Happy life is just in front of you.] (this was a particularly good fortune I got from Doc Chey's just yesterday) then the chapter would say when the person recieved the fortune. Then it would describe how the girl worked at an office with cubicles at that time and ended up being in a relationship with the guy in the cubicle across from her. Or something like that. So you see what I mean.
Also, as an interesting sub-idea. Has anyone had a fortune that later turned out to be true? Any good fortune cookie stories out there? Do tell.
2 comments:
I really like the idea of this. Especially because I definitely have a collection of fortune cookies in my wallet as we speak. I would almost be tempted to create a story from said collection. I know that one of my personal favorites that I've gotten is "You long to see the Great Pyramids of Egypt." The reaction I had was akin to- "a-huh-what?" because, I suppose that is true for some point of my life but it wasn't strikingly on my mind when I got that fortune. Also, that one strikes me as a fortune that some person who works in the shop was like- you know what- I'm tired of writing out the same old,
"good luck is around the corner" and "a happy moment will soon come to you." This person wanted to mess with society- to throw out more ambitious dreams and plans- and so, "You long to see the Great Pyramids of Egypt" was born. Perhaps, really, the worker longs to see them and they're just stuck in the fortune cookie mill all day. It's a plea for help. We need to depart and rescue.
I really like the You long to see the great pyramids of egypt one. that would be a pretty good chapter. like the person gets it, and similar to glynnis, goes "a-huh-wha-?" and then they forget about it. then a few months or whatever later some totally random circumstances occur where the hero/heroine has to go to egypt and while there they DO get to see the great pyramids of egypt.
OOOH what if in the book the hero/heroine got the wrong fortune once! Like they were eating with a friend and somehow they switched the fortunes that were meant for eachother. Hello conflict of the story! :)
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