This has at least made me want to dive back into creative writing which I haven't done for well over a decade. I've always wanted to write fantasy novels even when I was a kid but it's such a daunting task to research so much that you don't know about in order to create a convincing world. It's pretty amazing everyone involved has managed to bring Westeros to life, quality of the last 2 seasons be damned. Only a few more days to go, folks...
... anybody want to bet how many plotlines go unresolved by the end?
My early attempts at writing not exactly novels included the plots for imaginary movies, which were kinda detailed like the summaries you can read on Wikipedia. I remember conjuring up "Alligator" which was a total ripoff of Jurassic Park, of course you had alligators instead of dinosaurs and in the end they made a mess eating all the bad guys
I was also writing, as bullet points of an historical chronicle, the events of an imaginary World War. I remember the leader of Germany was named Kater, and they were the bad guys - 1000 points of originality for me
and I made some absurd choices that even I, years later, couldn't imagine why the hell I did them, such as:
- Denmark was invaded twice, on page three and on page five again (I guess the alternate nazis forgot they invaded Denmark...)
- Norway was an ally of Germany and was suddenly attacked for no damn reason at all
- One capital, either Berlin or Paris, was conquered by having scores and scores of car-bombs exploding, I assume that the kid in me found fascinating and brutal the idea of a car bomb so soldiers evidently snuck in the city by night all unnoticed, placed all the car bombs, and made them explode simultaneously