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A lot of people worldbuild when they daydream and have the bones of a story kicking around in their brain, but have to pay the bills and raise the kids etc so they never flesh it out and write it down. What's your story's premise? Fantasy, sci-fi, alternate history, mystery, western, whatever genre.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Had a dream about a hermit that finds some strange idol while he's out hunting. Begins praying to the thing and kind of inventing his religion and morals as time goes on. Eventually he dies, when he gets to the after life it's like a busy train station. Christians, Jews, Muslims, etc. all go to different afterlife's that are made in the image of their religion. This man's religion was ancient and forgotten. So ancient and and forgotten that he had no "train" to take him to his afterlife.

Not entirely sure where I'd go with that but I really enjoyed the dream and if I knew how to write I would lol. If anyone wants to write it though feel free and just let me read it when it's done

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Homeless dude living in the train station of the afterlife? That sounds pretty cool. Like the train stations in the Matrix.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

There's something good here - if anyone takes this up leave a link or something for us other folks to check out, too.

The first thing that comes to mind when thinking about fleshing this out: who/what made the train station? Given it's a place people stay only for a short amount of time before being whisked off to their afterlife, what does the MC learn staying there for so much longer?