Not-So-Creative Writing

Sorry I've been away for awhile, readers. It was finals week in school. Not that it was brutal or anything, it was just hectic--chock full of unnecessary things to write.

Anyway, I came to notice that most of my classmates dream of either being rich authors on book tours around the world or being nationally recognized reporters. I found this strange. If anything, journalism is the direct opposite of creative writing and the newsmen on TV usually have degrees in broadcast and not in journalism.

Seeing my name on a book has never been my aspiration. I mean, I don't even like reading. But my head became so good at daydreaming, it began to fill itself up with ideas without trying. Here's one that might strike me a movie or a book deal someday. (Wishful thinking, I know.)

The concept was originally a fictitious version of the real-life story of my significant other and her best friend who recently passed away. But as I daydreamed more and more, the plot has gotten way off course. Now it's a cross of characters from Greek and Roman mythologies.

Chapter I: Genesis

The gods were a highly civilized, almost-immortal race that existed from the beginning of time. Their bodies stand hundreds of feet from the ground and they were capable of living for thousands of god-years. In their land, A (the girl) and B (the boy) came across Eros (the mischievous god of love, son of Aphrodite), at a council meeting. In the land of the gods, everyone were siblings and since the birth of Ceto (a sea monster, the mother of Medusa and all gorgons, daughter of gods Gaia and Pontus)*, love was forbidden.

*I plan to write this as a prelude if I ever get around to composing this book.

Chapter II: A Scoundrel Among Us

The Heca, three monsters with a hundred hands and fifty heads who were once assailants of the Titans, escaped from Tartarus (hell). The gods struggled greatly to defeat them. Upon their arrival to A's city, B fought mightily against them. Noticing his sudden might, Athena promoted him to a high position in the military but only to keep an eye on him. A and B's affair was later discovered. They were tried at the gods' court and was found guilty.

Chapter III: The Pit of Immortality and The Origin of All Things Transient

I plan to make this the first climax; one of the most dramatic parts of the story. 

B was sentenced to be thrown into Outer Space, the infinite prison of emptiness. As he was dragged in the streets,  A escaped her guards and ran after B's captors. B was thrown off the cliff of immortality. As he fell, his size was greatly reduced his godly attributes were lost  She arrived at the cliff when B's captors were just leaving. As they restrained her, she reached her hand over the cliff and with all of her might, scattered rocks across the void. This became our galaxy. As B descended to earth, A was unconscious on the cliff, drained of all powers.

Chapter IV: The Dirge of Orion

"Dirge" means funeral song in old english. This chapter is bound to be the longest.

The gods, upon knowing what A did, built a wall enclosing the cliff that stood six thousand feet from the ground. It imprisoned her. Each year, a new layer is added to the width of the wall, pushing her closer to the cliff. She can not jump off because if she was locked in the Pit of Immortality and the gods sent B to Tartarus, they would forever be separated. 

The gods let out from Tartarus Ursa Major, an evil bear of immense age and wisdom who was part star and part god, to destroy Earth. Meanwhile, B saw the birth of civilization on the planet held up by Atlas. He saw how Prometheus stole fire to aid humanity and how he was imprisoned on the Pit, too. He saw how humans created empires and waged war among themselves, all the while, suffering from his separation from A.

The gods smoldered some kind of device on Ursa's eyelid. It contained Medusa's head that would face Ursa and turn him to stone should he do anything against the gods' will. But Ursa created a mirror image of himself--Ursa Minor--to confuse which way Medusa would look. The gods heard of this and sent Orion, the god of hunt and B's father, to kill Ursa Major. In battle, Orion rained thousands of arrows that damaged Ursa heavily. But Ursa came close and his mirror image appeared behind Orion. Medusa looked upon that direction and Orion turned to stone. There was great weeping in the land of the gods that day as Ursa Major was left forever to wander in the Pit of Immortality.

Chapter V: Northern Lights

Thousands of years have passed. A and B were still separated. A, barely clinging on to holes she drilled with her fingers as the wall was already stretched beyond the cliff, cried in hopelessness. Her tears went down the cliff and somehow found their way to Earth. It entered the Earth's atmosphere and became the Northern Lights--spectacles that appear only in the coldest, most isolated  corners of the planet. B saw these and understood that it was A's message that she was about to let go of the wall; that they should just accept their fate. It was also a message that to B that he should love the Earth as he loved her.

And that's it. This is the plot so far. I still can't think of an ending, plus I don't think I can actually write a book. I asked a classmate, Kent, to co-write it with me but it's completion is still far off.