# Book or story ideas A list of book names that come to me, regardless of their topic: - Waiting for Godot but with a focus on intersecting realities, where it’s almost like a tunnel - like that of the *Us* movie - but there’s a pipe or hole that leads to a depth *other* reality of experience. The main character experiences those by interacting with people, inside and outside of those holes, like social interactions. - I’m 90% this was #thoughtful - A non-fiction book on [[My PKM workflow]] - It’s a pragmatic melding of many systems out there that… Seemingly works…? - Doing something of a Youtube video on it first would be a great interest check * The universe of my love * A story about a boy, told through the symbolism of the universe, where distance is measured in heat and love * Leaving the galaxy feels cold, but you realize that there are other galaxies with other suns that provide new warmth and love, in ways you never thought possible. * The Fall of the End of Times * Sci-fi * It’s a challenging book to read and comprehend - as in the reader - because it’s such futuristic evolution of mind that the dialogue is sparse in actually gleaning the theme of the book. * The story is about the end of universal time where the shift in life changes. Humans exist, but they act as gods of time who travel into the past of human civilization. * They access the past freely through their minds. They have omnipotence in those moments. * They decipher the world as it truly was and understand everything for truth. So for every right vs. wrong, they knew what was right and wrong. They could validate science, philosophy, and everything. * Yet, they couldn’t always agree on each other’s interpretations of the past, which led to the fall of the end of times * Even in truth, there is discord amongst them, the gods. * Untitled, based on Johnson Family restaurant in St. Mary’s, Montana * Message sent to [[Matt Johnson]]: * Context: I had another story idea after we had dinner at a restaurant in St. Marys Montana that was started and remains operating under the same family for 73 years. I was reading about their history and it triggered a story idea as we were driving back. * History (from their menu - I snapped a picture): We were small ranchers working in Browning to support a herd of cows and a bunch of kids. While on a Sunday drive with Ed Hilton, he mentioned he had leased a spot at St. Mary for a gas station. We had bought a temporary shop from a contractor just before this, to tear down. It was 40 feet square, and new lumber. We offered the building for a combination restaurant and gas station. It was crude, no electricity or running water.In 1952 we got electricity. We hauled our water in barrels from St. Mary River. We slept in a tent behind the restaurant for five years. We started the restaurant with no experience, 10 lbs. of hamburger and a loaf of bread. Ruth worked 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day. I ran the ranch but gave it up after three years, and sold the cattle to buy this land on the hill. In 1957 we made a deal to purchase this land. It was at that time just a bare hill. We rented equipment and made a level spot up here. We bought the original log building from Bob Garrow. It was built in the 1940s and was the caretaker's house at Sherburne Dam (near Many Glacier). We had the building moved in. The first few years, the dining room was only half the size of the present log structure, the kitchen took up the other half. We opened up here in May of 1963. The first years we hired a waitress or two, but Ruth and I along with some of our children did most of the work. Every few years we would try to add on. We added the campground in early 1970, and the lower dining room in 1977. We-now have fully furnished camping cabins. * Lester passed away in 2008, Ruth passed away in 2014, and Kristin passed in 2016, and now our grandsons Nathan and Kyle St. Goddard manage the business. Our son, Hugo and his son, Hugo Jr. (Snicky) take care of maintenance for the whole place. Our late daughter Elizabeth Dee Ray's children run the Red Eagle Motel next to the restaurant. * Rough story idea: two men who grew up as best friends in Montana went their separate ways in life after high school only to rekindle their relationship 40 years later after one returns to Montana by stumbling into his old friend’s restaurant that he opened shortly after high school - he's maintained it for 40 years, never leaving Montana. Their relationship redevelops and they become inseparable as best friends. They eat breakfast together every morning at the restaurant, becoming a staple ritual of their relationship and how they bond. But, eventually, his friend, who owns the restaurant, reveals that he has cancer and will be dying in the next several months. Enter a lot of filler here… Long story short, the friend passes and the book ends with the friend eating breakfast alone and putting on his best friend’s apron as the new owner of the restaurant, carrying the torch of his best friend’s legacy * It has a Tuesdays with Maury feeling to it. Focuses on the value and purpose of simplicity and friendship in life. * Montana ghost town thriller * Message sent to [[Matt Johnson]] on [[2023-08-01]] and [[2023-08-06]] * Creative writing idea: Your grandpa owns property that is home to a mysterious ghost town from the 1800s in Montana. You take it upon yourself to start digging around and what you find begins to puzzle you. There is an opaque, sinister and seemingly dark force surrounding the devolution of the information you discover. It all centers around one person, a lone wanderer who marked a downturn in the trajectory of the town. People began choosing sides and everything became more and more distanced from logic, reason, and rationale reality. Yet, the town became sycophants of this mysterious stranger and it ended in their demise… Your challenge is understanding who that mysterious stranger was, what their motives were, and what happened. There could be some political connotations to this 😉 * Context: We were driving past a ghost town in Montana and I was just thinking about how interesting it would be to center a story around something like that. We’d watched Yellowjackets some time ago and I found the “supernatural” elements of an area to be a really interesting and unpredictable element of the narration and thought that it’d be cool to encapsulate that in a person as well. That gave way to sort of drawing a parallel to the leadership in our world right now, so it felt like a cool idea. * The Purposes of Life * From [[Upon This Rock - 6-11-2023]] * Tracking here: [[The purposes of life]] * The Arcane Art of Happiness * Fiction book about a fire watcher in a fire tower * ChatGPT * Title: Watchtower * Logline: When a fire watcher in a remote fire tower witnesses a deadly wildfire, she must fight for survival while confronting the trauma of her past. * Synopsis: * Ava has been working as a fire watcher in the Montana wilderness for years. The job suits her solitary nature and provides a perfect escape from the traumatic memories that haunt her. She spends her days scanning the vast expanse of forest from her fire tower, looking for signs of smoke and fire. * One day, while Ava is on duty, she spots a plume of smoke on the horizon. At first, she thinks it's just a small campfire, but soon realizes that it's a massive wildfire spreading rapidly through the forest. Ava immediately calls for help, but the nearest firefighters are hours away. * As the fire rages closer to her tower, Ava is forced to confront her past trauma and fight for her survival. She battles the flames, the smoke, and her own fears, determined to make it through the night alive. Along the way, she discovers a strength and resilience she never knew she had. * With the help of a helicopter pilot and a team of firefighters, Ava manages to escape the tower just as the fire engulfs it. But the trauma of the experience lingers, and Ava must come to terms with her past in order to move forward. * As the forest slowly recovers from the devastation of the wildfire, Ava returns to her tower, determined to continue her work as a fire watcher. But she knows that the scars of the fire will never fully heal, and that the memories will always be with her. * A fiction book that is an allegory of the fall and resurrection of an [[Ego Death]] * A circular adventure where each chapter represents a character development of a unique added attribute to a conceptual evolving character. * This character at the end and the beginning are the same character * This character has, through the transploration of time, which is the active exploration and reaping of multiverse concepts of each of infinite versions of ourself, domesticated attributes of individual deviations of oneself. * This kind of sounds like *Everything, Everywhere, All At Once*. * This all works toward defeating this enemy who’d otherwise pinned the character down in the past that we’d thought was actually present which is not intersecting with the future of the developed, ultimate character - bringing us right back to the beginning