This is what I'll do next time I'm strapped for ideas.

[timepiececlock]

In her recent post, apocalypsos wrote this:

I just like knowing what ideas I've got on hand even if I'm not going to use them, you know? I feel like I want to do like I did with Heroine Addiction, where I kinda just sat down and made a short list of stuff I either like to read about or write. So, "bisexuals" + "superheroes" + "wee little cafe" = FUNSIES. I'm just going to end up throwing, like, "disasters" and "wizards" and "gay romance" and "mpreg" and "reality TV" and "cooking" and "travel" and "surprise pregnancy stories" and anything else I can come up with at a wall and seeing what sticks.

I thought, 'Hey, that's a great idea!' For my original fiction and for fanfic. So I tried it:

HERE HAVE SOME FUN. There's two, possibly three things that appear twice on the list. Notice them?

Also, there appear to be some interesting groupings that I'm afraid to say reveal certain things about my psyche. For example, one column goes: secrets, amoral killers, redemption, vampires, demons, politicians. Did I ever tell y'all I was a poli sci major?


After that, I typed them all up, printed them out, cut them into little fortune-cookie sized strips and have them sitting in a plastic CD stack lid that's turned upside down to be my desk's interpretation of a grab-bag.

Comments

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Am I officially retired from prompt-giving?

No, I need you when I'm not at home to look at my list. =)

And, btw, I don't know how you can take "prompts?" and respond with questions like "what kind?" :P If I knew the answer to what kind, I wouldn't be asking you. Any kind will work! The next two words that pop into your head, or the thing you see on the street, or whatever's right in front of your eyes at the moment, or what you're eating or feeling.

[irrel.livejournal.com]

HEHEHE

But I tell you 'cookies and sand' that does nothing for you! XD I was asking 'what kind' as in... a word? a song? a scenario?

I got it now, though! I'll be prepared next time ò_ó!

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Cookies and sand was the perfect response! Often it's not what you say, but what your words remind me of, the second-thoughts, that's what does. =D Which wouldn't come about if you didn't say the words you said, first.

I was asking 'what kind' as in... a word? a song? a scenario?

Ahhhhh. Noted for the future! I will answer next time.