[stylist] barb's sci-fi thinking

[James Canaday M.A. N6YR]

bwhahahahaha
one can sell a lot of books scaring people Angela.

I realize that Barb's message that triggered my thinking was on 
writers chat and I posted this on stylist.
jc
Jim Canaday M.A.
Lawrence, KS

At 03:38 PM 9/15/2009, you wrote:
>Jim, stop please! Your scaring me! Lol.
>
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>Dear Barb and friends,
>talking with you about telling oneself a story to fall asleep set me to
>thinking, a very dangerous thing.  you were talking about star trek.  some
>of the computer facilities in the original series, I remembered too.
>
>what if this were invented: a device, maybe call it "the author's own hand"
>and it writes as you think.  you tell yourself the story, you include the
>imagery, the dialogue, and as you thinkit, it is exactly recorded by this
>device.  the device might have a few parts: a cap you put on your head; a
>box or computer cpu type unit that receives and translates the E.E.G.
>signals, translating them into the story as you think it.  then of course
>the system would have a printer, or braille embosser and a monitor for the
>visually impaired.
>
>imagine someone has that, using it, gets quite used to it.
>
>trouble is, it just records everything as the author's mind goes.
>
>I thought of several potential plot twists: perhaps author forgets he or she
>is connected, does a few things, then moves to plotting a crime.  plotting
>that crime is entirely recorded just as if it were a story.
>
>or, if the cap is wireless, Barb you like romance, and she forgets to take
>it off, and her husband comes home from a long trip and well ...
>um, they're awfully glad to see each other.
>
>or, maybe the author forgets the cap is on, and in his or her day job is an
>analyst for the CIA.  and the mind just returns to top secret material,
>processes it.  but the author doesn't realize its been recorded.
>
>I also could imagine in a sci-fi way that the cpu/box  programming might
>have a problem and start feeding back to the author.  so, the author's
>actual  life might start to resemble a story creation.
>
>like I said, that comment from Barb  started me thinking.  what if I'd been
>wearing the cap?  oh gee, you'd have several pages to wade through, probably
>get bored and delete the message after twenty or thirty lines!
>lol
>jc
>Jim Canaday M.A.
>Lawrence, KS
>
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