This is a
post meant to just put down how my thoughts went about with creating my first
story. I think many people are curious of how people come up with the stories
that they write (I know I’m one person who is amazed at how different each
persons’ story has been from the others in this class). So I thought for this
week…erm… two week’s blog post, I’d at least write down how I came upon this
idea I had.
Virtual
reality. While there is virtual reality technology that has started coming out
for the past decade, it’s still a growing and potential technology that can
really change the world from entertainment purposes to medical purposes. In the
media, it has been coming up in a lot of films like The Matrix and Gamer.
Even overseas, there are media texts that have gone into the virtual reality
almost genre of entertainment. Anime (Japanese animation) has a lot of virtual
reality based series under its genre including series such as Sword Art Online and the .Hack series.
As a video game enthusiast, I enjoy
the stories that you can interact with in RPGs (role playing games) such as The Legend of Zelda series (more
recently for story) and the Tales of
series. The idea of being able to place yourself into the video game is really
exciting. Current technology only has the added peripheral view into gaming,
making you feel like you’re interacting with the world or seeing it around you.
However, take away the remote and place your consciousness into the world so
that it’s your body that is moving through the game has always been a
fascinating idea to me.
Now, this is a very cliché answer
of how I came up with the story, but it is really how I came up with it. I tend
to daze off during everyday life and my mind would wander into dream sequences
that would be completely random and irrelevant to what I am doing at the time.
So, the interesting and hardest part about writing the story is how I imagined
the story. As much as I enjoy watching cartoons and anime…writing a story based
on animated images in your head is very hard. I really tried to put the reader
into the story in order to see what the characters were seeing; however, I may
not have done as well because of the interesting viewpoint I had in imagining
the story up.
So, these are the reasons how I
came up with the idea. The workshop for the story is tomorrow, and I really do
look forward to everyone’s feedback on the story. I believe that this is the
story I’d probably want to rework as my final story. So, until then!
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