Comments on: Pick a Super Power!

By: Evlora/Shannon

Evlora/Shannon — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 03:40:33 +0000

I thought about that. But I’m just going to assume that my ageing has stopped along with everyone else’s. Maybe, instead of stopping time, it’s more like it’s going really, really slowly. I dunno. But I don’t want to get old earlier. That would suck.

By: Anthony Lee Collins

Anthony Lee Collins — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 00:14:21 +0000

Probably a coincidence. My father, if he was still alive, would be 99 years old. I get the impression you’re somewhat younger than that.

He was cool in some ways. I learned my writing slogan from him: “There is only one writing rule: write well.”

Evlora/Shannon’s idea sounds like two different Twilight Zone episodes, the one about the guy who could stop time and the one about the guy who thought he had infinite time to read. Neither one ended well.

By: Brian D. Buckley

Brian D. Buckley — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 21:44:07 +0000

Hm…but if time is going normally for you while it’s stopped for everyone else…then won’t you age a lot faster and die a lot sooner? :-O

By: Brian D. Buckley

Brian D. Buckley — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 21:43:16 +0000

Your dad sounds cool. And frighteningly like me. Coincidence??

By: Evlora/Shannon

Evlora/Shannon — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 14:55:32 +0000

I like your idea, but it takes the fun away from actually reading. I would be tempted to cheat all the time. I think I’d prefer the ability to stop time. Then I have all the time I want to read a book, while everyone else is frozen around me. I’d probably spend most of my time that way.

Plus there’s all the other things I could do with it. It would be kind of like teleportation- I can go anywhere I want, (if I don’t mind walking), “instantaneously”. Like immortality, in that I can stay like that as long as I want. And I would be first in the races- just stop time every few seconds to take and extra step or two.

Although, now that I think about it, I think there’s one thing I’d like more than the ability to stop time…

“Tree powers, activate!”

By: Anthony Lee Collins

Anthony Lee Collins — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 12:06:16 +0000

That’s the super power my father would have chosen. I still remember him getting me my first library card (I was three or four years old), and taking me back into the stacks at our local library. (And, yes, I really do not want the Internet in my head– I sometimes don’t even want it on my computer )

I have a few characters with super powers. Probably my favorite is a lawyer who gradually realizes that she has the ability to convince anybody of anything. Not forever, but long enough to get the verdict she wants. The problem is that, once she realizes that her victories aren’t a matter of the merits of the cases, she is very conflicted about how she’s screwing up the justice system, and eventually she retires. She continues to use her ability, even to alter her appearance, but not in court. Mostly.

I also have a character who is a masked hero, but she has no powers.

Remember-Where-We-Parked Girl? Wasn’t she in the Legion of Substitute Heroes? (Actually, that’s a power my father would have wanted also — I remember walking up one block and down the next with him some mornings as he tried to remember where the car was)