The tales you can tell...

heyjude said...
"These discarnate entities hang out in the places they favoured when they were alive. Boozers in bars, ... They want a fix."
Add to that writers in front of computers!

Indeed.

When a writer's character 'comes alive', can you be sure they weren't already? Alive in the the sense that they already existed, and simply found someone to tell their story?

I know someone who wrote a story called 'Last train to Marchway'. In that story, a man's personality is lost during a train journey, only to be taken over by someone else.

In real life, a man in New York woke on a train, with total amnesia. This only reached the news after the story was written.

A coincidence. Probably.

In both cases, the man's name was 'Doug'. A common enough name for a coincidence? Is it?

So you writers, watch out. There are things with stories to tell, but with no hands to type. They're looking for a way to speak.

They're looking for you.