Practice

Jut a freewrite-y thing. I'm in the mood to blog but y other blogs aren't really conducive to it atm. I'm too rambly.

Still have ideas rattling around in my noggin. The idea of some kind of spooky story involving an abandoned building is the strongest urge. My favourite thought is that a group of people involved in one of those hokey Most Haunted type shows finally stumble onto he one creepy building that actually is quite violently haunted and their whole night of terror is captured live on telly. Big ratings! :)

Most Haunted does a live show every year and while I dig on that show for the silly entertainment value of having a tv presenter, a 'medium' sensing the past (or just doing a deep Google search prior to airtime) and freaked out 'crew' wigging out over bumps and knocks, I think it would be most amusing to see their litle adventures turn up something real and terrifying. I'd especially love to see Derek Acorah scream like a girl while being chased by some unknown entity.

There's a movie called Shadow Puppets that had an interestingly scary premise. 6 or 7 people wake up to find themselves in their knickers and locked in various cells of an abandoned mental institution and none of them have any memory of who they are or how they got there. Meanwhile, there's some weird entity loose that's trying to kill them. I think the movie could have been awesome had they left out the entity (very bad cgi there anyway. Totally want to laugh at it instead of feeling fear) and dealt with how they came to be there and why. Maybe instead of demonic energy or whatever the entity was supposed to be, they could have just had one of the 'inmates' be crazy and stalking them or something. The institution they filmed in was sufficiently creepy. I liked it a lot.

Anyway, that's something I'm kicking around. Still have the story of the missing peeps from the previous entry here.

I sort of got a brief taste of what it was like to get some ego-stroking feedback recently. Posted a few of my old fanfics on my board. Made perfect strangers cry apparently. I didn't write a lot of fanfic back in the day but what I did write tended to be dark for some reason. Usually killed the main character. But these folks who read my stuff seemed to like it. Sometimes you just need a shot of egoboost to get the creative spark going.

Going to write a TV column for the paper next week too. Think I'll take my time with it and make sure it's good rather than rushed to get it in by deadline. I just want to WRITE. It's like an itch that I can't quite reach and the more blog posts I make about my mundane life the ticklier the itch becomes. It's weird.

Wil Wheaton's a total inspiration to me. Granted he's famous and has contacts blah blah blah, but he's written 3 books now and I believe he self-publishes them. I know of a company that will publish to demand and so if I can keep that in the back of my mind, maybe I won't get distracted by thoughts of 'what's the point? I'll never get it published.'