They All Come True

[Zeb_Carter]

Imagine if you will, that you are an author of explicit erotica and for years you have been writing about the same characters over and over again. The names and descriptions of those characters are the same in each story yet the stories are unrelated to each other. Then one day you see one of your main characters walking down the street toward you. You gasp as a man comes up behind her and grabs her hand. She doesn't recoil, she giggles and follows him into the hotel they are in front of.

It was just last night that you had written that exact scene. Right down to the giggle. You slip into the hotel and watch as the couple register. Then you see him, her husband. He walks up behind her and grabs her free hand. she looks at him and smiles. She says 'Thank you.' to him as they get on an elevator.

You are stunned by what just happened. Suddenly you are sitting in front of your computer having just finished writing the scene you watched.

Shaking your head you wonder if they all come true.

This one just popped into my head and as i thought about it, it reminded me of Heinlein's Number of the Beast and Sail Beyond the Sunset and several others.

If anyone take this up ... have fun.

 

[sirhugs]

I'm sure I've seen that movie too.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Rod Serling may have gotten there first with the episode "A World of His Own" in 1960. Keenan Wynn is the writer (with a typewriter of course) who can conjure up characters who visit him at his house. One of them is his conception of an ideal woman. I won't give away the ending, but I will say say his wife finds out about it and she isn't happy.

It's about the only episode where Serling himself appears in the plot.

 

[AlinaX]

One of my favourite stories, The World Rewritten, was based on a very similar suggestion here in this forum.

 

[Carnevil9]

......It's about the only episode where Serling himself appears in the plot.

I remember that ending. Thanks for the chuckle!

 

[gunhilltrain]

I remember that ending. Thanks for the chuckle!

SPOILER ALERT! I'm giving away the ending.

I thought Serling was going to eliminate Wynn; after all, Serling created him. Instead it's the other way around.

 

[sirhugs]

Then there is The Ghost Writer, starring Pierce Brosnan.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

And you know, I have never seen any of those movies or episodes.

My recollection is of the final story in the series that Heinlein wrote that started with the Number of the Beast and wound up with almost every character he had ever created at an interdimensional convention. And he postulated that every author's story became real in the infinite multiverse.

 

[LupusDei]

And you know, I have never seen any of those movies or episodes.

I would consider it all, the reality mixing, quite a trope of meta narration, author bothered by their character(s) apparently come to life or witnessing events unfold as described, or uncover evidence of past events matching the description made without awareness perfectly, or even a writer writing themselves out of existence, lost in endless maze of imagery worlds.

Or in different but somewhat related ways, there was a little book, a random read while in bookstore, called Libriomancer that proposed type of magic user that pulls items out of books, the more popular and believable the book the easier to do so (and with less damage to the book). Sure, cheating libriomancers would purpose write and publish books with things desired. But do that too blatantly and you may be in unexpected trouble.