Shyox's ideas - Vers. 2

[Shyox]

It's been really hard for me to write these days... I never know if it's any good. This is a new selection of ideas, a more real fiction. Stuff that might happen in everyday life. Some I converted into satires when I did more thinking about them. I wrote these down last night after coming down off a high, so some aren't very clear to me. Also, to those who are wondering, I don't necessarily think getting stoned makes you anymore creative, and I'm also going to stop smoking, so there that is.

1. Dealing with mediocrity - After watching American Beauty yesterday, I got to thinking about life, and how some people are just coasting along in this constant void of work - bar - home. How do these people live? I don't know if I ever could...

2. Escape from my own lack of motivation and talent - The more I write, the more I realize I've never had as much talent as I thought I did. I also have an extreme desire to do nothing. This would probably be a more figurative piece about myself and my own mind. So this isn't really one of the "real" ideas I was talking about.

3. Finding something in nothing - "One man's trash is another man's treasure" A classic and cliche idea, but recently I've realized that there aren't really any new ideas these days, it's all about presentation. I realized that to succeed I need to become a better author, in order to wield the ideas well enough in my head.

4. Escaping cycles and the impossible - This sort of goes together with the mediocrity idea. How do you escape a life like that? How do you escape a situation when faced with a catch-22?

5. The idea that I have to care - I'm a worrying type of person. I worry and care about a lot of things...  And sometimes I wonder what would happen if I just didn't anymore... Kind of like Office Space.

6. Lonliness - The idea of a trapped life - After reading I am Legend, I thought about what life would be like without anyone else, and those people in life who don't have much social interaction with anyone, those who are too socially inept to know what to do about it.

7. How much things have changed... And yet how they haven't - It seems to me that through the ages, not much about the human psyche and thinking has changed very much. Racism still exists, and all sorts of other prejudices as well. The Greeks were perfectly alright with homosexuality, but today it's a sin... I just wonder about how little things have actually changed, and for the better or worse.

8. the idea of changing things instead of just waiting - This is probably more of an idea for a novel than a short story, about people changing things instead of just waiting for them to change.

9. If you love something enough, you'll sink to anything - Another cliche, but I think it's good for me to practice with cliche, because it's harder to make interesting, as it all depends on your skill at writing.

10. How little people really care - So much these days is based on how things appear to be, rather  than how they actually are. Some friendships are total fabrications, and some relationships are completely empty. A study of some people I know, and some of the things that I do.

11. What to do when you desire something you can't have - Maybe it's a woman, who you'll never get the chance to talk to, because of her social standing and yours. How you just can't seem to imagine any way to make it happen... An extremely cliche subject in movies and other places.

12. A love for a trade/craft/skill you have no talent or ability for - Have you ever wanted to be a rockstar, only to find you are totally inept with music? Have you ever wanted to be an artist, only to find out you can't even draw a decent stickman?

13. Hating a life you've landed in because of your own fear - A story about regret, and the toll it can take on someone, even if their choice was the only one they could have made at the time.

14. What to do? Stir the shitty pot of uncertain life, or continue to live the life you have, trying to be happy with what's already going on. - This goes on with the mediocrity bit, I guess.

15. How people can be happy with just going to the movies, instead pf staying up 'til six lying on your backs and watching the stars, talking. - This is a rather personal problem I have with my own friends.

[IronSoldier820]

*IronSoldier820 still can't vote.

/wrists

[Shyox]

*IronSoldier820 still can't vote.

/wrists

.. Why?

*Asks Azural*

Also, you can verbally vote, and I can add it in.

[IronSoldier820]

'Cause I'm a Diplomat and we're not allowed the privilege to vote.

And for the sake of adding something, I'd say go with number 2. The very idea of the problem being ones own inability sounds like a good path to explore.

[Lanna]

I'll read Shy's post later.... but um, *pokes Shy* can you remove your signature?