Yay, Jilli!

Go, Jilli! I'm glad you got it sent off.

I've got to decide between the old pitch and the new pitch though.

Argh. I will give this a shot today, if you still want me to. I've been so scattered being sick and working on the second book.

Sure, that would be awesome, thanks!

I've read most of your story, Sox. Hopefully I can finish it tonight and get some comments your way soon.

Guys, I need a little feedback/thoughts.

Another new germ of an idea just hit me.

Just the character, mind you-- I have no concept of plot or ANYTHING, but get this: What if you had a character who was part of a small group of humans with the ability to "project?" Maybe it's a genetic mutation that mines some previously untapped aspect of the human brain and its abilities or something-- the one thing I know for sure is they have this ability.

It's like the ultimate "What if?" The projectionists are given information and are able to project the most probable outcome as a physical occurrence. The projectionist is literally part of the scenario, primarily as a passive observer, but depending on the nature of the projection, could potentially suffer physical harm. And even if they themselves don't suffer direct physical harm, the more physically taxing a projection-- such as if it's a war scenario and other participants are dying, the projectionist suffers physical aftereffects.

Imagine what an asset an individual like that would be for the military. Or conversely, what someone who's looking to make a handsome profit (say like a Donald Trump type) could do with an individual like that, essentially whoring them out to create dream scenarios to the highest bidder.

Think of sort of like a combination holodeck/reverse Inception. Instead of going into someone's mind to mine their dreams, they're physically creating a physical manifestation of a dream or scenario.

Whaddaya think? Again, this is so far out of my usual comfort zone, I don't even know if there's already something out there like this.

The projectionists are given information and are able to project the most probable outcome as a physical occurrence.

I'm not getting how this works, exactly.

1) You don't have a character. You described a superpower. You have said nothing about the person with the superpower

2)The projector can send other people into the projection or just go him/her self? Cause if the latter, I'm trying to see the value. I think I'm confused about what the power is.

Hell if I know, y'all. The closest analogy I can come up with is a human holodeck.

And you're right, TB-- I don't have a specific character yet. Like I said, it's one of those, "Huh, what if?" things that literally just occurred to me.

I'm a little confused too. Do you mean the projection person can take an existing scenario and manipulate the probability of events, making one probability outcome play out in reality?

Do you mean the projection person can take an existing scenario and manipulate the probability of events, making one probability outcome play out in reality?

Something like this, yeah.

I think where I'm stuck is this:

Maybe it's a genetic mutation that mines some previously untapped aspect of the human brain and its abilities or something

If so, that doesn't translate to "holodeck" to me. I could see feeding a psychic certain data points and then waiting for them to envision the future outcome, but projecting it seems like it should require hardware.