MAKE IT HAPPEN UNIVERSE STORIES
Presently, the Make it happen universe stories project has no funds. So if you would like to contribute later when payments can be guaranteed, that’s absolutely OK and, please, feel free to contact me with your plans and wishes so I can keep you in the loop.
An invitation
Pick a critical issue and illustrate in a story how your characters would deal with it.
OR
Create a planet and tell the story of how the people of that planet dealt with the critical issue of your choice.
The most intriguing stories will be published on this website,
OR,
if enough material comes together, the stories will be published as e-book in one or more story collections.
Send your story to: contact@views-from-around-the-universe.net
Interestingly it is the stories that guide our daily actions which are responsible for making ourselves, our fellow humans and our planet sick.
The good news is: Stories are inventions. They are made up. And we have the mental power to make up stories that serve us, that heal us and our planet.
Everything begins with a thought. A thought might turn into an idea. An idea might be the first seed for a story. A story can inspire and open windows and doors. A story can shape our lives and our world. We can change the stories that damage us and our planet, and we can create those stories that shape a world worthy of a species who has the capacity to think, who has the ability to use their imagination, who is capable of creating instead of destroying, who has everything it takes to empower instead of throttling.
Many stories tell of how humans fail, how they betray each other, how they let each other down, how terrible we are. To quote from The end of all wars, planet one, The roots of war:
‘Maybe that’s who we are: a vicious, self-important, small-minded species of destructors with a superiority complex, derailed by self-harming greed — a species where no individual can help being devastatingly cleverer than everyone else.’
Several of us shook their heads in protest, and all of us began to talk at once until one of us said loudly: ‘We obviously have the potential to be terrible, and maybe that is our curse, but we also have the potential to address whatever it is that makes us fight, exploit or develop a superiority complex.’
© Charlie Alice Raya, The end of all wars, planet one, the roots of war, 2024
It is time, we had stories of how we end wars, first one, then two, then all of them. It is time that we had stories of how we wake up and finally decide not to keep exhausting ourselves and destroying the basis of our lives. It is time that we had stories where we reclaim the narrative and shape a world we are proud of and happy to live in.
For inspiration, you can take a look at the 40 plus planet ideas published on this website >
I hereby invite you to pick a topic and illustrate in a story how you would deal with it. Or to create a planet and tell the story of how the people of that planet dealt with the topic of your choice.
The stories that fill our minds have a great influence on our actions. Let’s fill our minds with ideas of how we can do better.
The most intriguing stories will be published on this website,
OR,
if enough material comes together the stories might be published in one or more story collections as e-books.
The copyright remains with the author and payments will be possible once this project has a budget and/or ripples publishing* is set up.
Send your story to: contact@views-from-around-the-universe.net
Charlie Alice Raya, September 2024
*ripples publishing is so far the idea for a publisher who specialises in stories or story collections with a variety of authors.
You can find some organisational information about ripples publishing on its new website.