I made a note last night to start documenting all the creative things that go through my head in the course of a day - I have a lot of WIPs that I either don't have the time or stamina to finish. (12 hour work days do that to you =P)
But I managed to surprise myself today! Although I don't have anything concrete to show for it, I have mentally worked on several things. The first one being the idea that set off this post, which in turn was inspired by
snippets from the comic Yume and Ever. It's a really beautifully drawn comic with a unique narrating style. Not to mention male eye candy, which is rarely done well, and key characters of colour. Woo hoo! I really want to read the series, if I can get it.
More importantly, it reminded me that I really wanted to write a comic book. I'm not good enough at drawing, and the last time I wrote a comic book was in a school project with some extremely talented artists, something I'm short on now. But that shouldn't stop me from writing it out, as if it were a play.
The original story currently in my head that seems to lend itself better to this form is a superhero story that I've been thinking of on and off. The general form would be a romance set in a superhero comic, but identity instead of romance would be the key theme. Namely, if it's the superhero identity that is supposed to be attached, what does that mean for the person behind the mask? I've got some detailed scenes in my head, all the way down to panelling, which makes me wish that brains could be wired to a printer so that I can get it out immediately instead of having to write it out instead.
Unfortunately the other things I've been doing aren't very condusive to writing a comic book. I did up the playlist for my Star Trek fic, and it consists mostly of break-up songs, which makes sense considering my plot... I was planning on getting myself into the appropriate mood for the fic through the playlist, but now some individual songs are bugging me. Perhaps I'll just weed the wrong type of songs out.
Then I read this very beautiful poem called
COSMOLOGY: A USER'S MANUAL. It put me in the mood for poetry as well, and I'm glad that I have
poetry on my reading list to solve urges like that!
On top of that I'm reading Wuthering Heights. I actually bought the book a few years back, but I didn't start reading it because I wanted to reread Pride and Prejudice first. My first impression is that everyone in the book is crazy, even the narrator, which makes for a very interesting framing of the story. But I am already sorry for Heathcliff, because it appears to me that the circumstances of the story conspire to make him a villain.
So now I just have to pick one thing to focus on tomorrow. I wonder what it would be?