- Told girl from perspective of female main character
Her dreams have been the same for as long as she can remember; they take place in a medieval type setting
There is a major figure in them, probably a knight or a prince or something, who looks like a famous actor (presumably because she saw him on TV when she was younger and it just stuck)
See gets a chance to see him at some point (not personally interact, but from a distance), he sees her and reacts weirdly
- What she doesn't know is he has also been having the same alternate-life type dream and recognized her from them
s**t happens, idek
Plot Bunnies
- There are other people world-hopping
- Some of them know what's going on?
Some of them are being killed?
They find one of them only to see him/her killed in the dream world and then turn up dead on the news IRL
They figure out that there were others like them but haven't actually met any?
- Why are people being killed?
One of them gets trapped out of the dream world? **
** Possibly as part of a cliff hanger if a multi-book series
There is another character that is present in the dream world, a psudo-main character (possible love triangle option because teen lit whoo), who turns out to be from the real world too
- who turns out to actually be from the dream world only
Problems
- No. ********. Plot.
Time dilation
- How is the relationship between the world treated? Do they magically play out entire days in the dream world regardless of how long they sleep? To they just sort of "step in" in the middle of things?
It's "hazy" and hard to focus on exactly when they're coming and going. It feels like they remember waking up in the world and doing full days stuff but it's hard to focus on any details?
Are the dream!people and real!people actually separate people who just sort of take each other over? Do them dream!people go on actually totally normal and when the real!person goes to sleep they "wake up" in the other body, doing what ever it happens to be doing, and remember everything that got them to that point as if they had lived it?
Am I maybe focusing too much on this before we deal with the issue of no plot? This issue's resolution will probably stem from that one anyway.
I always make these characters I like and then try to build a story out from them, but it never really works very well (see Cloak for example), so I would really like to go STORY FIRST, CHARACTERS LATER on this one <__< . I think this idea has some potential as a sort of City of Bones / Ruby Red type young adult adventure / romance / drama series, but I think we should should hash some details out and see where it takes us, rather than force ourselves into a multi-story framework right off the bat.
