Friday Fragments

Wow, it's already Friday. It appears the timey-wimey-rollercoaster that comes after spring break has set in. (Timey-Wimey-Rollercoaster: Time appears to accelerate and weeks pass before you realize it.)

1) Don't know how I missed this last week, but they cast Katniss in The Hunger Games adaption. I was kind of rooting for this unknown actress on YouTube, but if they say she's good, then I'll trust their decision. Now I guess they're focusing on Peeta.

2) I became Facebook-popular this week with this music video I've been working on to Owl City's "If My Heart Was A House". Two weeks with Paintbrush and Windows Movie Maker. And it's not finished yet.


3) If you're like me, you might occasionally wonder what kinds of delightful stories JK Rowling is cooking up these days. College Humor has an answer.

4) A conversation from Wednesday:
Nurse: So what's your major?
Me: Creative Writing.
Nurse: Oh my gosh, WHY? What can you do with that?
Me: *Stunned laughter*
True story. Have to give her credit for being honest.

Well, have a great weekend, everybody!

The Hundred Theme Challenge!

When I was a wee thing, only 16 years old (this is a joke), I stumbled across something called the Hundred Theme Challenge. Thought it looked cool. Never saved the prompts. Lost track of the website forever.

AND THEN I FOUND IT. HERE. Two years ago. I've tried to make a story of the hundred themes twice now. Both attempts failed miserably.

The rules are to write a story or create some kind of art with each of these themes. If you want to try it, well, go for it. And here are the themes I'm using.

1. Beginnings
2. Middles
3. Ends
4. Insides
5. Outsides
6. Hours
7. Days
8. Weeks
9. Months
10. Years
11. Red
12. Orange
13. Yellow
14. Green
15. Blue
16. Purple
17. Brown
18. Black
19. White
20. Colourless
21. Friends
22. Enemies
23. Lovers
24. Family
25. Strangers
26. Teammates
27. Parents
28. Children
29. Birth
30. Death
31. Sunrise
32. Sunset
33. Too Much
34. Not Enough
35. Sixth Sense
36. Smell
37. Sound
38. Touch
39. Taste
40. Sight
41. Shapes
42. Triangle
43. Square
44. Circle
45. Moon
46. Star
47. Heart
48. Diamond
49. Club
50. Spade
51. Water
52. Fire
53. Earth
54. Air
55. Spirit
56. Breakfast
57. Lunch
58. Dinner
59. Food
60. Drink
61. Winter
62. Spring
63. Summer
64. Fall
65. Passing
66. Rain
67. Snow
68. Lightning
69. Thunder
70. Storm
71. Broken
72. Fixed
73. Light
74. Dark
75. Shade
76. Who?
77. What?
78. Where?
79. When?
80. Why?
81. How?
82. If
83. And
84. He
85. She
86. Choices
87. Life
88. School
89. Work
90. Home
91. Birthday
92. Christmas
93. Thanksgiving
94. Independence
95. New Year
96. Writer's Choice
97. Writer's Choice
98. Writer's Choice
99. Writer's Choice
100. Writer's Choice

Isn't it glorious?

Plotting for NaNoWriMo. Yes, already.

I don't mess around when it comes to plotting for NaNo. It's pretty much how I spend a good portion of the year.

March- May: Figuring out ideas and characters.
June- July: Deciding on an idea and working on fleshing out characters.
July-October: Plotting the entire story, beginning to end.
November: Obvious...

So these are the ideas I have for NaNo this year. So far. :D

• Step in Time to My Heart (WT, albeit one that makes me laugh): Exactly what it sounds like. It's a love story about band geeks. Yay band geeks!
• Sim Saves the Galaxy: A rewrite of NaNo '08, The Wonderful World of Imminent Doom. It's a story about this interplanetary war in a made-up galaxy called Tsu-Min. It's kind of worth the rewrite for this one line: "It's time to save the planet!"
• Key to Hadley's Soul (WT): It like an AU version of our world where people are born with these things called "soul keys" that change in appearance as the person grows. Then one of the MCs, Hadley, loses his key and he starts to forget who he is. (I like this one.)
• Level Up: A superhero story! It's about a college kid named Molly who has super strength and invisibility. Then she meets her arch nemesis who has no name yet, but he has a vast array of mind-related powers. (I like this one, too.)
• Battlefield Suburbia (WT): It's about an angel/demon war. In the suburbs. (And this one, as well.)
• Forever Saturday: Based on a lyric in an Eleventyseven song. "Every single day was a Saturday." Then I just thought, OH MAN! What if time just STOPPED and every day WAS a Saturday?! That would be crazy.

But yeah.

So, anyone weird like me and start planning for November insanely early?