Some call me a dreamer. Some call me crazy. But what can I say? I have an active imagination. And in my world, I'm amazing. You see...whenever I get caught in a difficult situation, my mind offers me ideas...And it must be said that in the area of offering possibilities, my mind has a wide zoom lens.

You could say it's impractical or maybe foolish, but I think it's perfectly fine not to rule out a series of perfectly good possibilities. I cannot imagine how boring it must be for those people who's minds cross off all the good ideas!

Good ideas--like alien abductions, super powers, and sudden showdowns. You can't cross all of those off; they're just too awesome.

There is one problem though. I often spend such a long time watching the exciting ideas play across my mind's internal player, that I don't actually get to make a decision. And gee, I don't know if I could decide! They're all so exciting...

So anyway, I showed up late to work one day and my boss cornered me. He normally ignores my lateness, but this time he cornered me into a tight situation. And you know what I do when I get caught in a tight situation? My mind goes wild and jumps into action! It comes up with brilliant ideas!

"Michael," warns my boss. "Just answer me this once! Can I trust you to start showing up on time? And don't give me any of those ranting stories."

And what do I do? We-he-ell...just wait and see!

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Michael has a wild imagination and when caught in a tight situation, he imagines himself doing many amazing things, before he actually decides upon a rather sheepish decision. He just cannot stand up to is wondrous imagination. However, he can keep dreaming. And his ideas are ridiculous and crazy. Here's how it works. My first chapter starts us off. It gives three branches. Two of his imagined possibilities, and one branch of what he actually does. The branch of what he actually does will lead to the next tight situation where he imagines a few more possibilities (two branches to imagined ideas, and one to what he actually does). If you're writing one of the imagined versions, you can branch to more versions of the same scene by ending with...'okay, maybe I didn't do that...but I did this!' And you can also branch back to the actual thread of events. Give it a try! :)

updated Jan 8 '09 by olius_brightwell