The Fictionarium

So, there’s a lot of awesome in the air lately, and one of the awesome things going on in Cincinnati is Play Me, I’m Yours.

It makes me wish I knew anything on a piano. So I have been watching some total dork’s “How to Play Piano” on youtube, and it’s actually pretty fun, partially because this dude is so totally a dweeb who is in no danger of getting laid EVER. I shouldn’t make fun, not just because it’s mean, but because he could be a serial killer. You really never know about people.

My coworker and I checked out the piano in Sharonville near our work, and it is so cute. Silly me forgot to take a photo and will have to do it that tomorrow. A couple of girls were skulking about, and one of them sat down and played Regina Spektor’s “Us.” It was incredibly awesome and unexpected. Then I tapped the keys a few times once they were gone, but my co-worker and I had to get back to work, so that was that.

Anyway, today on lunch break I wrote a song about a squid while we were having lunch at Alreddy Coffee. It was started as a joke but then I just kept writing it until it was finished. It’s rhyming couplets, and I think it’s pretty funny. It’s called “The Ballad of Squid Vicious,” and it’s most likely going to be this week’s skip week filler for Scurvytown, because I have had a stress filled icky sort of week, which I shall blame on the weather instead of my inability to cope with bullshit this week and churn it into something creative. Well, heck, this silly little song did just that, if I think about it. (but like, it’s all hot outside and thinking is hard!)

Hoping to pick up Scurvytown again next week, and trying not to freak out about grad school starting in just over a week, and the fact that I somehow managed to lock myself out of my school user account earlier this evening. D’oh! and *eep*

And with that, sleep now, editing my silly little song tomorrow!

I went with some friends to the Goetta fest in Newport, KY this afternoon. (And Mom, if you’re reading this, tell Papa I saw a Goetta vending machine, and that I would have snapped a photo for him, but there was a line in front of it so I couldn’t get a clear shot.)

It was pretty hot outside and the friends I was with wanted to go see Inception at the AMC on the Levee since it was *right there*. I was totally down with that because even though I saw it last weekend, I was completely excited to see it again because I loved it so much the first go-round. The only problem was, they wanted to see it on IMAX and we had 2 hours to kill til then. Because my friends are awesome, they decided to go to the Newport Aquarium to kill some time until the movie. I had never been before, and I thoroughly enjoyed myself.

As we walked around, I made a few jokes about some of the decor, and about the awesome water tunnels you get to walk through, where the fish, etc are basically swimming right overhead. I was like, “Sweet, when I become an evil super-villain, I am totally installing one of these in my underground lair.” Ditto for the awesome black-lit glowing squid on the wall, I decided that will be painted on the wall of my underground palace of evil.

This is all jokingly of course, til my mind started spinning out some future story arcs for Scurvytown. And oh boy, do I have some fun in store for the citizens of the town. Because I may be the Mayor of Scurvytown, but I love my readers!

More and more, as I think about it, if I decide to do NaNoWriMo this year, I am probably going to set it in Scurvytown, and try to hack out as many episodes as I can in the entire month. I doubt I can manage 30 episodes in a month, but as each one is roughly the equivalent of a day’s worth of writing to stay on task during NaNo, it certainly would be quite the feat.

Anyway, as per usual, going someplace new and having new experiences once again ignited a literary fire under my ass. Now, I have enough fuel to get me through the rest of the summer, and that’s a very good thing… for me, not such a pleasant thing for the residents of Scurvytown, considering the big shake-up that happened in this week’s episode, it’s going to be a lot of fun seeing where the future takes them.

And now, to finish editing that episode and post it so folks can finally read it!

Now that I have an idea to focus on for this week’s episode, I find my next hurdle: keeping that focus and building something constructive and fun to read out of it.

Right now, I am painfully stuck. I stare at the screen, the words written so far, and I cannot seem to focus my thoughts on them. For the next few months, I can blame that one on the half-tab of speed I have been prescribed daily for a medical issue I am finally dealing with the right way. So tough to focus on anything when the speed is working its magic. Wow.

Last night, I did a quick and dirty outline to help me climb out of this little writing rut. I wonder if I go about these things in the right way? Today’s push to the finish line will be this: if I can finish a rough outline by 3pm, I get to go hang out with my friends: poolside, a margarita, and then Rock Band!

Hope to have fun on the other side of the next hour and a half!