I know I wrote that! (Or did I?)

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Running a bit of a story through my mind. I'm 99% certain I wrote it. All of the scenes, the words, the dialog, the situations, are too familiar. But I can't find it. Not submitted. And not on my PC apparently since, no search of key words turns it up.

Did I?

Or didn't I?

Maybe I just laid it all out in my head, but never put to a file?

 

[TheWritingGroup]

You accidentally published in the universe where Nelson Mandela died in prison.

-Annie

 

[sinfantasy]

Consider it a 'pre-cognitive' draft. You knew you were going to write it so well that you already have. Now you just need to do the menial work of pulling it out of your ethereal realm of imagination in reality.

All the best

 

[onehitwanda]

Running a bit of a story through my mind. I'm 99% certain I wrote it. All of the scenes, the words, the dialog, the situations, are too familiar. But I can't find it. Not submitted. And not on my PC apparently since, no search of key words turns it up.

Did I?

Or didn't I?

Maybe I just laid it all out in my head, but never put to a file?

Time and memory extend forwards and backwards. We're just really, really rubbish at remembering what's coming.

Deja Vu is when the veil parts, just for an instant. That's why it's so unsettling.

(enjoy your dreams tonight. Muhahahaha)

 

[StillStunned]

Perhaps you wrote it, but the story became reality somewhere so your words disappeared...

 

[Comshaw]

Running a bit of a story through my mind. I'm 99% certain I wrote it. All of the scenes, the words, the dialog, the situations, are too familiar. But I can't find it. Not submitted. And not on my PC apparently since, no search of key words turns it up.

Did I?

Or didn't I?

Maybe I just laid it all out in my head, but never put to a file?

Did you write it? Of course you did. It appears it just hasn't made it from the etheral to solid, from thought to print. Time for it to come forward and be.

Comshaw

 

[Bamagan]

Running a bit of a story through my mind. I'm 99% certain I wrote it. All of the scenes, the words, the dialog, the situations, are too familiar. But I can't find it. Not submitted. And not on my PC apparently since, no search of key words turns it up.

Did I?

Or didn't I?

Maybe I just laid it all out in my head, but never put to a file?

Assuming that no mundane issues like a failed or corrupted save happened, I am forced to conclude that you have multiple personalities, and you're remembering something your other self wrote and published under a different pseudonym.

 

[AG31]

It's just a joke, but I had the same experience, here.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Running a bit of a story through my mind. I'm 99% certain I wrote it. All of the scenes, the words, the dialog, the situations, are too familiar. But I can't find it. Not submitted. And not on my PC apparently since, no search of key words turns it up.

Did I?

Or didn't I?

Maybe I just laid it all out in my head, but never put to a file?

I have a story or two for which I did write the texts but I can't find the files. They probably go back to my use of an Apple computer years ago. Apple was weird, because it allowed you to convert their word processing files into MS Word files. Then I could transfer the files with a zip drive (remember those?) or a thumb drive I think to a Windows-based computer. God help us if Microsoft would allow you to go in the other direction.

Anyway, I haven't turned this Apple on in about five years. Maybe I should do that (assuming it still works) and find out what's on there. By the way, there are Apple fanatics who will buy computers that old (2003), running or not.

 

[MadeleineSinha]

Did it get published along with the Berenstein Bears?

 

[Cagivagurl]

Or did you read it somewhere??? See it in a movie, a TV programme????
Sometimes, in my sleep I conger up stories, thinking they're totally original only to find when I wake.
They were influenced by something else...
It's impossible not to be influenced by things happening around us...
Conversations we hear, or overhear part of. Our minds filling in the blanks...
For story tellers, those sparks are everywhere...

Cagivagurl

 

[Zootonius]

Check under Under Funk & Wagnall's Front Porch
(for those old enough to remember the Johnny Carson skit)

 

[Kelliezgirl]

The manuscript is in the basement of the Alamo.

 

[AllenWoody]

The manuscript is in the basement of the Alamo.

[all in room laugh]

There's no basement at the Alamo!!!

 

[RejectReality]

I recently had a breakthrough in a transition for a story I've been working on forever. I jumped back in to make notes on the document and realized that I hadn't written the previous transition breakthrough I had. Everything between that note I left on the document and the current eureka moment was all just in my head. So now I've got a double eureka note with an entire scene to fill in between them. LOL

 

[Lumiere_Amie]

That happened to me recently. I was positive that I had written a story but it wasn't in either my drafts or published folder. Luckily I run backups every 6 months or so. I hooked up my external drive and voilà! Now I need to finish it!

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Well, I wrote it now and it'll be up on the 6th.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

I really didn't have any particular image in mind at the time, but I think I just found Mom.

https://external-content.duckduckgo...f7b7cf6a57b7636f45ddfe114f27c0d861&ipo=images

 

[Lumiere_Amie]

I really didn't have any particular image in mind at the time, but I think I just found Mom.

Hot mommy!
I find it easier to write characters if I have a clear picture in my mind. A lot of times I will have an actual picture that I've found online, or I will model a character after someone I know.

 

[Audiflex]

Running a bit of a story through my mind. I'm 99% certain I wrote it. All of the scenes, the words, the dialog, the situations, are too familiar. But I can't find it. Not submitted. And not on my PC apparently since, no search of key words turns it up.

Did I?

Or didn't I?

Maybe I just laid it all out in my head, but never put to a file?

Oh no, that’s the worst feeling! It’s like your brain tricked you into thinking you already wrote it. Happens to me all the time, I’ll have a whole story mapped out in my head, convinced I’ve already typed it up, only to realize… nope, it’s still just floating around in there. Maybe it’s time to sit down and finally put it into words before it slips away again! Either way, good luck hunting it down or rewriting it!

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Another Dud.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

@Rob_Royale

I had to break it up and couldn't add it to the series for some reason until just now. Part two tomorrow.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Part one didn't do so good.

Part two started out 5 with 5 votes before I nodded off. When I checked again it was 4.6X with twenty some votes. Currently at 4.63 with 32 views on 2400 views.

I wish I had seen it at 10 votes. Pretty sure it wouldn't have been 5, but it's fun to think it might have been.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

15 hours, 100 votes, 4.55, so I imagine it will settle in around that area.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

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Teetering on the 4.5 parapet.