A long time ago, the awesome Megan Crew posted about this imaginary world she created with her friend in fifth grade. It involved unicorns and stuff. It made me wonder how many of us do this? How many writers? How many people who are not writers?
When my best friend, Jackie, and I were in seventh and eighth and (a-hem) ninth grades we created two entirely imaginary worlds and very complicated love stories that went with them. We would expand on these on the telephone every night and I’d be all, “And then Bruce looked at you in that way.
And she’d go, “What way?”
And I’d say, “You know that way.”
The Bruce she was talking about was him:
I, strangely enough, had this guy for my major love interest in the Parrallel Zone (PZ for short)
And this guy in Imaginary Land (IL for short)
How embarrassing is that? I mean, seriously, I liked a guy with striped pants. He was a Doctor Who.
Actually, Jackie and I were so embarrassed by our secret addiction to IL and PZ (We added to the story EVERY single day.) that we swore we would never EVER tell anyone we did this.
Yep. I told. She did too though, really!
Did you do this? Do you do it now? Is this a writer thing or a people thing, do you think?
Did yours involve going through metal detectors at Logan Airport at the EXACT same time as Bruce Springsteen and Paul Young and therefore being zapped into a parallel universe where they totally loved you and thought you were hot?
Not that ours did or anything. 🙂
