Of Dreams and Miracles

I've been working on this new story. In fact it's been calling to me, words are just flying out of my head onto the "paper" (rather word program, but...). It's been a while since a story came to me as smoothly and quickly as this one.

It's everything I hate in stories. I don't like writing movie-verse stories, simply because I don't think I can get enough to work with in two hours. I don't write about real people or even fictionalized versions of real people. I also despise orginal characters. Yet this story is all three.

It just called to me. I couldn't resist writing it and the character I created seems so real to me. Creating characters is always hard for me, so that's rather promising.

The story is called "Of Dreams and Miracles" and is a fanfic about the movie Miracle which is about the real 1980 USA hockey team and the "Miracle on Ice". I created a fictional additional daughter for Herb Brooks and thrust her right into the heart of things and a triangle with two of the players on the team.

The story seems to be unfolding in my head, without any help from me. Though some aspects are still a mystery to me, like which guy she's going to end up with. I want her with one guy, but I keep getting the feeling that she should be with the other. Like it's happening almost against my will. How strange is that?

I'm just going to follow my instinct and write it as it comes to me, I assume it'll all resolve itself in the end, though it's turning into an insanely long story. Which is okay. I like the long ones.

Here's a brief glimpse from a as-of-yet-unposted chapter:

//Rizzo smiled at her. "Thank you." He said quietly. "Now I know why O.C likes you so much."
Elizabeth bit her lip. "About that..."
"Don't worry I'm not gonna say anything." Rizzo assured her. "I think the two of you are crazy for sneaking around like that, but it's your business."
"Thank you." She said softly.
Rizzo just nodded and then looked her straight in the eye. "My only question is what about Mac?"
"What about him?" Elizabeth replied, looking down at her hands.
"O.C's not the only one who can't take your eyes off of you." Rizzo pointed out to her. "Liz, it's bad for the team if they start fighting over you."
"I know." She said quietly. "I'm trying to avoid that. There really isn't anything between Robbie and I, not anymore."
"Anymore being the qualifying word." Rizzo pointed out quietly. "I don't know what happened and I don't see the point in asking, since I don't think either one of you will tell me, but I do know that whatever there was between you, it's not completely dead."
"Is something like that ever dead?" She retorted and then sighed. "Look Rizzo, I'll do my best to make sure that this doesn't blow up it anyone's faces, and I mean with both my dad and Robbie."
She wasn't sure it was something she was going to be able to do, but as she said, she'd try her best.//

I liked that scene. In fact, I like the whole story so far. It's really coming together and working for me. I'm very impressed.