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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.
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.
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Date: 2009-06-20 01:24 am (UTC)The reason I've not yet written anything beyond 20,000 words is that I always want to jump to that moment as soon as possible within the story. =)
I've got millions of ideas and things I want to make bumbling about in my brain, but only so much time to even begin to address them all; I may very well have to start keeping a list like this too.
I tried to look at this not as a list of ideas, exactly, because nothing here is original. More like a list of components...things I already know I enjoy. Maybe ideas will come out of them.
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Date: 2009-06-20 01:53 am (UTC)I know that feeling. X3