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Hey, guys! The other day I came up with the weirdest idea for a novel.
What if the book was told from a tree’s POV?Very weird, I know. It’s unique though. I always think about what the trees are seeing (or what they WOULD see). I just don’t know how to make it work. Would the tree be watching a single person? If so, how could I make it interesting? A tree stays in one place, so the person would have to also.
Or maybe I could switch between different trees to follow the person…?
I honestly can’t figure it out.INFJ ~ 4w5
aldarley.wordpress.com@epicaddie2 that could be very cool, though I’m not nearly clever enough to figure out how one would pull that off powerfully. 😛
It did remind me of this though— I, Sherwood. Perhaps you can get some inspiration from that. 😉
I don’t think this idea would work for a full length book, however, if you wanted to make it into a short story or a poem, that would be cool. @epicaddie2
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Maybe if I switched between the tree’s POV and the main character’s?
I was also thinking that if I switched between several different trees of different kinds, that each different tree would have a different personality that kind of matched with its (man, how do I explain this?) tree species. So maybe like a maple would be really nice, while a spruce is kind of like… I dunno. Like it has a pointy personality..?
I honestly don’t know how do explain it. I have it in my head, but I just can’t put it into words.
INFJ ~ 4w5
aldarley.wordpress.com@that_writer_girl_99 A poem would be really cool, but I’m not very good at poetry.
I guess you’re right that it wouldn’t work as a novel, but a short story could work. I just need to figure out HOW to get it to work.INFJ ~ 4w5
aldarley.wordpress.comWell, here’s a thought. Some trees are more than 100 years old. That means they’ve “seen” a lot of stuff–a lot of historical events, a lot of people, a lot of change. Anyone (or anything) who’s seen stuff like that deserves to have their story told.
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@that_writer_girl_99 Exactly! I just feel like trees could tell so many stories! Their stories need to be told by someone, and I want that someone to be me. I just need to figure out how to tell the story.
What if a tree tells the story of some historical event, like maybe a war or something?INFJ ~ 4w5
aldarley.wordpress.comGood idea. @epicaddie2
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@that_writer_girl_99 Thanks! Now I want to start this, but I am working on something else right now…
Pretty much every writer ever.INFJ ~ 4w5
aldarley.wordpress.comI could see a vengeance plot being really cool with a tree, but that’s kinda morbid.
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No comment. @daeus
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@epicaddie2, I agree that it probably wouldn’t work for a novel, but a short story told from the pov of a tree would be fascinating. Like Elizabeth said, there are some really awesome and old trees in the world. Maybe a historical short story about a famous tree that lived through a historical event? You could Google the Hiroshima Bonsai tree, because it’s really cool and I’d love to hear its story through its own pov (if you don’t write that, I might have to!). Good luck with it anyway!
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@daeus A vengeance plot would be cool…
Kinda like how the ents attacked Isengard.INFJ ~ 4w5
aldarley.wordpress.com@seekjustice There could be a lot of cool stories told by old trees. I just googled the Hiroshima Bonsai tree, and it looks like it could make a great story! Maybe that’s what I’ll do.
INFJ ~ 4w5
aldarley.wordpress.com@epicaddie2, yeah I once read a children’s picture book about the bonsai but never a story narrated by the tree itself. I think it would be pretty cool.
The Ents are my brother’s favourite part of the Lord of the Rings!INFP Queen of the Kingdom commander of an army of origami cranes and a sabre from Babylon.
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