Journal Entry #5: The Stories So Far

Date: November 3, 2007
Time: 22:58

In one of the Online Discussions, I mentioned that I’ve copyrighted 3 original stories, and in one of my blog entries, I mentioned writing a Doctor Who story. Since I’ve hopefully piqued the interest of some people who would like to know, not only what I’ve written, but what I’m also working on at present. Here goes.

The first Doctor Who story I wrote is called “An Impossible Adventure.” In it, a friend of mine meets up with a man who calls himself “The Doctor”. They travel in time and space, and then my friend comes back to tell me the story. It was inspired partly by something one of the actors from the program had said in an interview, and partly from an idea of my own.

The second Doctor Who story I wrote deals with The Doctor, and how he handles the death of a close friend. His companion at this time is his great granddaughter. He also meets up with the physical representation of Time, and Death.

I’m working on a third story right now. It’s a crossover between Doctor Who, and the American science-fiction drama, “Quantum Leap.” When the show Quantum Leap ended, I hated the way it ended. I had never been so angry with a television series’ producer in my life. So, I hate the ending, and I always had the idea that maybe I could’ve done it better. Now, for those of you who don’t know a great deal about the program Doctor Who, I’ll explain a little something. The being known as “The Doctor” comes from a planet called “Gallifrey”, and on this planet lives a race of beings called “The Time Lords”. Now the Time Lords feel that no other race in the universe is capable of possessing the knowledge of traveling through time. The reason they feel this way is because while all of the other races would get it into their heads to go back in time to change things, or forward to find out things that will benefit themselves in the present, all the Time Lords want to do is observe past and future events. That said, I’d always wondered what the Time Lords would have thought of Project: Quantum Leap.

This gave me the opportunity to not only end Quantum Leap the way I thought it should end, more or less, but it would also give me a chance to not only tie up some loose ends that were created by the series, but it gave me a chance to give an origin to that loose end in the first place. You see, during the show’s five-year run, we get introduced to a rival project. Only, it’s not so much a rival as it is an “anti-project”. While the character of Sam Beckett is leaping around, trying to fix things, the other project is doing their level best to foul things up.

I haven’t quite finished it yet as I’ve been working on it in sections, and I’m not quite sure how to link all of the sections up. The one bad thing is, I already have the ending in mind. Now, while some of you might think that that’s a good thing, I don’t. Well, if I have the ending, then I have to lead up to it, but the difficulty lies in not leading up to it so quickly.

The first of the three original stories are, “The Death of Childhood”. It tells the story of the physical embodiment of Childhood, and how it is dying, and of some of the people who have gone to Childhood’s Domain to pay their respects and say good-bye.

The second one is titled “The Beginning of the World”. It’s the story of an archaeology professor, who, when he goes on an expedition, finds a tablet that bears a riddle, and if he solves it, the world would benefit greatly from his findings.

The third story I had copyrighted is called “The Family of Man”. It’s the story of a newspaper reporter who finds more than he bargained for when he went to a zoo to do a “fluff piece” on the birth of a baby gorilla. It’s told in a first-person narrative, and it has a bit of a Twilight-Zone style twist at the end.

The stories I’m presently working on, when I have more than three seconds to breathe, when I am inspired to write, and when I feel like, are as follows:

The Doctor Who/Quantum Leap crossover, a series of detective stories featuring a detective who specializes in the paranormal, while still carrying out regular investigations, my autobiography, which I’ve entitled “Thursday’s Child”. I call it that because that’s the day I was born. And I just started a new story to give me a break from one of the detective stories. It’s about man who wakes up one day and is told by the person who woke him that he is that person’s imaginary friend. I’ve gotten to about 3 or 4 pages with that one.

And that’s how things stand with me and my writing at this point.