
Jim Henson with the Muppets
A while back, I mentioned I was going to restructure a lot of my ideas with merging, deleting, and altering stuff. I also hinted that this is in response to a new idea that spun my mental gears around. At first, it seemed like a fun and simple idea. Now, I’m not too sure and I’m also scared that it crosses a line in terms of egotism.
The premise is a struggling fiction author has been getting rejected left and right while working crappy jobs. Something happens to cause his characters to escape from his mind and into the real world. Not sure if a head injury or he goes insane. The first one feels cliche while the second might hinder him from being the hero. Unless he gets saner as he wrangles up his characters, both heroes and villains. The idea of a curse also came to mind, but that puts magic in the real world prior to his characters escaping.
I even played with the idea that I make another book where he combats an author whose trying to take over the world with their characters or invade other fictional worlds. So, it would be one adventure in the real world and another in a fictional world. Maybe the invasion of the author’s world is what triggers the escape. Though, I might be going too far with the idea if I move beyond trying to gather characters in the real world. An alternative could be one of the characters attempts world domination and comes close.
As you can see, I don’t have anything more than the basic idea. I’m also lost on the following question:
Do I create new fictional characters or break that 4th wall entirely by using the Windemere characters for this?
I will admit that part of me likes the idea of Luke Callindor or Fizzle on Earth. The idea of a character attempting world domination actually stems from an interest in turning a certain sorceress evil. This isn’t even counting characters from the other series that are going to be coming up. Again, it all depends on if this is a good idea and/or I blatantly claim it’s me.