A plea for help...

[glasssubway]

Okay, guys, here's the thing. I've got to get some original work done or I'm...in trouble. With several people who keep me on task. The problem is, I've only got so many ideas lined up that I can fall back on (to be precise...two.) So I've decided to break open my notebook of random quotes and scraps of lines that I've just been collecting and post

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[dame_batsie]

I guess I'm confused. Did you want people to come up with stories for each of the quotes? :S

[glasssubway]

Actually, just any hint of anything that any of them made you even remotely think of would be helpful. So no, not really stories, but if they sparked the idea of a character or a setting, that would really be helpful (because I'm in really really really really really big trouble...)

Using Tousen to bug you. <3

[grenville]

"he is bitter like life is"
"the man urged by dreams to have a club of shadow on some trip"
"Wasted but Wanted"
all seem to combine to me. Makes me think Don Quixote for some reason.
I'm seeing a person pursuing something that's long gone-by, something anachronistic and impossible, because of dissatisfaction with the way things are now. The cynical idealist, so to speak. And there's another character, younger but wiser, who cares about him, maybe a sidekick, tries to nudge him towards something more fruitful and less wasteful of his talent. But Character is so caught up in his quest that he can't get out, really, and I don't know how it ends. It could be tragic.

IT WORKED

[glasssubway]

Is it bad that when you said "younger and wiser sidekick" I thought automatically of Tesla? :)

It would be tragic. Have you ever known me to write anything happy? LOL But I like the idea. I KNEW YOU WOULD HAVE SOMETHING

[grenville]

-"calculate the heat of reaction of love, w/ heat of combustion of passion, heat of formation of lust, etc"
SYAZEL.

-greeting card: "Sorry for the AIDS!"
HAHA! Just like to point out that I said this in Psych one day. <3

-drowning in the sky/drowning in grass
"Lying on your back looking up at the sky in a field, either drowning in grass or about to fall into the sky."
Ahhhh. I'll will try harder tomorrow. Brain is fried from too much internet.

[glasssubway]

I know you said that in Psych, that's where I got it from XD

Actually...that pretty much coincides with the image I always got from that sort of phrase. But I have no idea what to do about that...oh well.

[cleartempest]

Isn't feral children like Romulus and Remus or something like that? How is it related to psych? >< Okay, but if it IS about children who grew up away from other humans, it sounds interesting but, be careful about the characters...because they could get Mary Sue-ish very easily. (at least in my opinion

[glasssubway]

It came up in our psych class when we were talking about language acquisition. Children who grew up in the wild were unable to learn language or fully demonstrate what we might call "human behavior", which proved that there was a critical window in childhood for language development. So now when I watch Tarzan, all I can think is..."THAT'S NOT POSSIBLE

[cleartempest]

Oooooh, I see.

You know, the "They're just words; they don't control us. Not anymore." line reminded me of Dane Cook too, you know, like how after he says one of his messed up words like 'electroshadowcamelmorphous,' or something like that, he'll go 'words don't control us, they're just words.' And everyone cheers and I'm watching the youtube clip going, '...cheers are default, ne?' But he's funny, usually. XDD

That line reminded me of Space Dementia. XDD

IT WAS NEIL GAIMAN, I felt bad and looked it up.

Ehh? YOu got in troble? But it's NEXT YEAR, your english teacher seems really anal. But she's cool if she encourages you keep writing. ZOMG, it's so cool that you are gonna continue writing in college! (I'm assuming...)

[glasssubway]

HAHA! I know exactly what you're talking about with Dane Cook. Have you ever seen the one about Roman Catholics where he talks about the "croutons o'Christ" and Reese's Pieces? It used to be on Youtube but I think they took it down. Anyway, FOR SOME REASON I FIND THAT ONE HYSTERICALLY FUNNY!

LOL yeah, I went and found the book that line came from on my sister's shelf as soon as you said that...

Yeah, I got in trouble. Because my teacher is pregnant (and thus, psychotic. But shhhhh, I didn't say that) she has random mood swings and I guess she found a really old draft of something I wrote and decided to confront me. But yessssssssssss I plan to continue in college (while studying in something that will actually make me money ;) and then hopefully one day I'll be able to publish something, BECAUSE EVER SINCE THE 4TH GRADE I WANTED TO BE A WRITER! *strikes heroic pose*

[dame_batsie]

sunglasses that prevent you from seeing all the bad things in life--do they work? is it all in your head? what would life be like? and what does the desire to ignore the evil in the world say about humanity? This may be a stretch, but it sort of reminds me of this music video by Kenna: http://youtube.com/watch?v=owS1coeoWEc

It's a sad yet beautiful story with a powerful message.

there's a whole world that we miss because we don't have the imagination to see it Sounds like it could be some fantasy/science fiction tale where children can only experience this world and when the grow up, they can no longer do as they used to (LOL...Peter Pan-ish?)

hearing trains at night--the people in them, where are they going? Supernatural ghost story that is meant to have the main character take a journey, but ends up as being a personal journey?

confluence LOL...I think of laboratory-grown cells.

They're just words; they don't control us. Not anymore Futuristic setting where

[glasssubway]

NO, it was helpful! I like the idea with the train--I always find trains interesting, for some reason, even though I've never been on one. There are a lot of them near my house.

THANK YOU!