Super Hero Guy
10-28-2005, 07:49 PM
Okay, I've been working on this story idea for months and months, almost a year. Despite this I haven't written a word of it yet other than a couple of rough notes. This is because the story I'm writing requires a very complex world and it spans several decades. I have no plans on ever actually writing this unless some time in the future I can ever spend all my time writing, because this would be an epic. Here's a brief sypnopsis. I haven't actually filled in all the gaps in the story yet, so bear with me.
It's a Fantasy story, in the same vein as Tolkien (except without the hobbits, elves, and dwarves.) Actually, I think Fantasy might not be quite the right term. It's also inspired slightly on The Odyssey.
The first sentance I believe would be, "There once was a village surrounded all about by trees." The village is called Puniz, and it is based a bit on The Shire. The people have lived here for as long as they can remember, it is surrounded by acres and acres of forrest. The people know there is an outside world but don't actually know anything about it or try to find out. They live in normal peaceful lives.
The hero of the story is Abec Hygufodi. As the story starts he a regular seven year boy. He is filled with curiosity and an adventerous spirit. In fact, he is first seen with a group of friends playing. The other friends have all climbed up a small tree and are sitting in the branches. But Abec is unsatisfied with that tree and insteads turns his intentions to the largest tree bordering the village, a monsterous old tree. He climbs on despite the protest of his friends down below. Finally, almost at the top, he stops to stare at the sunset. The forrest stretches out as far as he can see. He looks at the sun setting and wonder where it sinks to. As he tries to finish climbing, the his grip slips and he falls to the ground.
Luckily his father had heard the cries of the other children and had come, and catches him safely in his arms. His father scolds him for climbing up so high and takes him home. The son tells his father that he justed wanted to do something different. He was tired of always climbing the same tree, just like he was tired of the whole village, which always the same. All he wanted was a chance to see a little farther, but all he saw were trees. His father smiles kindly. The next morning he takes him up to the tallest hill in the village, holds him up on his shoulders and askes him what he sees. He says all sees are trees. Then his father tells him to look further. That's when Abec notices there was something more, a blue outline beyond the forrest. His father told him that it was water, and that the river that flowed through the village ran out to there.
That's when Abec notices the sun was rising in a different place than from where it set. He asks his father where the sun disappears to when it sets. The father tells him truthfully that nobody know that, but according to what he learned as a child, the sizzled away into nothingness as it falls towards the Earth, but it leaves behind its children, the moon and the stars. And when the time comes the moon and stars join together down on the Earth to make a new sun, and the same thing happened everyday. Abec scaughs at this notion, he says that if the sun rises and sets at different places, it probably never stops moving, but rather it's probably lighting up another world underneath theirs. His father laughs, but Abec tells him that some day he'll leave Puniz, and he'll keep walking forever until he reaches the place where the sun sets and he'll see the whole world. His father tells him that there's no reason to want to leave Poniz, and that he'd miss his son. Than he shows him a tree growing in front of his house, and tells him that that tree was planted the same day Abec was born, and that his father hoped that his son could always have that tree to remind him of his father.
Abec's father was a wood-cutter, not a very common profession since most of the village never left much farther than the border of the town. His mother had died giving birth to him. He would often tell a similar story as that as the sun, explaining that the world sometime's had to take the life of one very wonderful person to allow an even more wonderful person to come to life. Abec was always a curious boy, all his life he searched every corner of the village, but by now he knew everything there was to know, and he also knew the dull clockwork to the people's lives. His father felt bad for him, so on the day of his eighth birthday he decided to take him along while he went out and to fetch lumber.
to be continued...
It's a Fantasy story, in the same vein as Tolkien (except without the hobbits, elves, and dwarves.) Actually, I think Fantasy might not be quite the right term. It's also inspired slightly on The Odyssey.
The first sentance I believe would be, "There once was a village surrounded all about by trees." The village is called Puniz, and it is based a bit on The Shire. The people have lived here for as long as they can remember, it is surrounded by acres and acres of forrest. The people know there is an outside world but don't actually know anything about it or try to find out. They live in normal peaceful lives.
The hero of the story is Abec Hygufodi. As the story starts he a regular seven year boy. He is filled with curiosity and an adventerous spirit. In fact, he is first seen with a group of friends playing. The other friends have all climbed up a small tree and are sitting in the branches. But Abec is unsatisfied with that tree and insteads turns his intentions to the largest tree bordering the village, a monsterous old tree. He climbs on despite the protest of his friends down below. Finally, almost at the top, he stops to stare at the sunset. The forrest stretches out as far as he can see. He looks at the sun setting and wonder where it sinks to. As he tries to finish climbing, the his grip slips and he falls to the ground.
Luckily his father had heard the cries of the other children and had come, and catches him safely in his arms. His father scolds him for climbing up so high and takes him home. The son tells his father that he justed wanted to do something different. He was tired of always climbing the same tree, just like he was tired of the whole village, which always the same. All he wanted was a chance to see a little farther, but all he saw were trees. His father smiles kindly. The next morning he takes him up to the tallest hill in the village, holds him up on his shoulders and askes him what he sees. He says all sees are trees. Then his father tells him to look further. That's when Abec notices there was something more, a blue outline beyond the forrest. His father told him that it was water, and that the river that flowed through the village ran out to there.
That's when Abec notices the sun was rising in a different place than from where it set. He asks his father where the sun disappears to when it sets. The father tells him truthfully that nobody know that, but according to what he learned as a child, the sizzled away into nothingness as it falls towards the Earth, but it leaves behind its children, the moon and the stars. And when the time comes the moon and stars join together down on the Earth to make a new sun, and the same thing happened everyday. Abec scaughs at this notion, he says that if the sun rises and sets at different places, it probably never stops moving, but rather it's probably lighting up another world underneath theirs. His father laughs, but Abec tells him that some day he'll leave Puniz, and he'll keep walking forever until he reaches the place where the sun sets and he'll see the whole world. His father tells him that there's no reason to want to leave Poniz, and that he'd miss his son. Than he shows him a tree growing in front of his house, and tells him that that tree was planted the same day Abec was born, and that his father hoped that his son could always have that tree to remind him of his father.
Abec's father was a wood-cutter, not a very common profession since most of the village never left much farther than the border of the town. His mother had died giving birth to him. He would often tell a similar story as that as the sun, explaining that the world sometime's had to take the life of one very wonderful person to allow an even more wonderful person to come to life. Abec was always a curious boy, all his life he searched every corner of the village, but by now he knew everything there was to know, and he also knew the dull clockwork to the people's lives. His father felt bad for him, so on the day of his eighth birthday he decided to take him along while he went out and to fetch lumber.
to be continued...