Good! Is it up in your inspiration room?
Just put a sticky note in the front cover of what you'd like done with it. Morbidly enough, I've thought of what to do with things like all my BSB stuff after I'm gone, and I think the logical thing would be to say "All this BSB stuff brought me so much joy over the years, so if you think having it will bring you joy, keep it. If you don't think it will, get rid of it." Solve the problem, you know?
What's the most random note you ever wrote about and/or for a story?
Yep! LOL You just inspired me to go upstairs and get it to look through it, and now I am simultaneously cracking up and cringing.
Here are some of my favorite finds:
- the page where I jotted an idea for an April Fool's prank for my site, and then underneath it, I randomly wrote and underlined the word "infection." I guess that was me trying to get back on topic with Broken notes LOL.
- "Nick & Claire adopt kid w/ cancer; watch it die. (girl)"
Sadistic! That must have been an idea for future Nick & Claire. I did eventually have them watch a kid with cancer die, and they also adopted a kid, but it wasn't the same kid - and neither were girls.
- "Cannibalism? Plane crash, Donner party deal?"
LOL That was not for Broken, but was apparently a story idea I had once and never pursued.
- "Call Grandma about tutoring!"
Apparently this was also my memo pad in 2003 LOL.
Then it goes into BMS planning, and I have a page with this idea:
"J[amie] & C[laire] go running together or play soccer or something? Nick gets jealous, determined to learn to run again. He does teach himself, but he overdoes it & gets an ulcer, which takes him out of commission for weeks - possible bad infection, faces risk of losing more of leg?"
And then I crossed out the last part and wrote "BAD!" and below that, "Cellulitis." That actually did end up in the story.
- "Testing out my cool new pen... it's the sparkly turquoise one... #1 at Target!"
My favorite page:
- "12/21/04 3:42 a.m. Best idea ever!!! (from a dream too!) Paris killed in freak amusement park accident. Intoxicated? Didn't keep her safety belt on? Tried to flash ride operator? Scrambler at small town carnival - filming Simple Life 4 (or 5?)"
I totally included that in BMS too LMAO.
My first reference to the ill-fated third story I mentioned the other day:
- "Lung transplant... mwahaha"
And then I crossed that out and wrote "BAD!" again LOL.
Then there's a page that I first looked at with horror because it looks like I was trying to draw swastikas, but I realized it was actually my early attempts at designing a FANS logo for 00Carter, which was based on a swastika.
So there's some insight into my mind circa 2003-2006.