Sometimes I have dreams that I think contain the seeds of good stories, and I often can’t remember them in the morning.
This morning, though, my dreaming mind presented me with a thriller in which Canada attempted to destroy American rye production by introducing a black fungus that would wipe out the crop. They had ordered the assassination of a Congressional committee member who was blocking the importation of Canadian rye – and with his death, the clock began to tick.
“No,” I said to myself when I woke up from the dream. “No one wants to read a thriller about Canadian agriculture.”
The dream persisted. An hour later, I woke up again. “Seriously,” I said. “No. There’s just nothing sexy about a black rye fungus.”
It tried a third time, too, with a vivid depiction of the cover of a scholarly journal warning of The Misuse of Black Rye Mold in International Agriculture.
I wonder if I can get Michael Bay to direct?
“No one wants to read a thriller about Canadian agriculture.”
Surely this is something Michael Crichton would put out as a bestseller?
Maybe it was actually the PURPLE Rye ergot fungus and Canada is trying to DOSE us.
DO IT! Canadian Whiskey zombies!
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Throw in a larger conspiracy theory (the President is a fan of rye…?) and you’re in bestseller territory.
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Oh no, you are wrong. Few things are sexier than black rye fungus, especially when it involves a giant Canadian conspiracy. I see a huge opening! Probably beat Avatar and Alice in Wonderland together!!! That’s why I love you.
Traci
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The center of America is New York, right? (Ask any New Yorker.) What do they eat? Cornbeef on Rye! Wiping out Rye will cause massive starvation. America will be brought to its knees. This could work!
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That is the greatest persistent dream in the history of dreams. (My recurring dreams usually involve getting mauled by wild animals.)
But I’m totally seeing this as an Alfonso Cuaron project rather than Michael Bay. Besides, I’m hoping Bay will want to direct a live-action 3D remake of Watership Down.
I begin to believe that this could work… Drunk, tripping Canadian zombies – slavering right-wing politicians – slobbering left-wing politicians – displaced person camps full of empty-eyed, starving New Yorkers…
And Ian, I once had a rabbit called Blackavar. Maybe we really WERE separated at birth!
Blackavar! Wow.
I just re-read Watership Down for the first time in 20 years. I’d forgotten what a wonderful book that is. But it totally didn’t make me cry on the bus. Not at all. I just had something in my eye.
I still think Bay would be a perfect match.