Races

From the Race Generator at Seventh Sanctum

• This is a hedgehog-like race that evolved in a rainforest Mentally, the race has bizarre wisdom and strange memory. Physically, this race posesses poor endurance. The race is known for their greed and thoughtfulness.
• This is a tiger-like race. The race has bat-like eyes, a fox-like mouth, and orange furred skin. The race also possesses telepathy. Mentally, the race has powerful learning ability and frail adaptability.
• This race evolved in a desert. The race has slitted eyes, porcupine-like ears, a wide nose, and azure skin. The race also possesses gills. Mentally, the race has incredible learning ability and powerful intuition.
• This race evolved in a savannah. The race has reflective eyes, a flat nose, a beaked mouth, and furred skin. The race also possesses a prehensile tail. Mentally, the race has poor artistry. The race is known for their adaptability and their tribal government.

Characters

• Susan (Sue) Baxter nee O'Neill. The corporate wife. Early forties. Tall, slender, blonde, blue eyed. Very particular about her clothing, hair, makeup, etc. Always elegant and concerned about appearances. Lives through her husband's career and her children's accomplishments. Conservative in all matters. Resistant to change. Somewhat judgemental of those who don't conform to her world view. Still she finds herself strangely intrigued by eccentric personalities.Ironically, her childhood was the opposite of her current life. Her parents were artists who traveled the world, never staying anywhere for long. This lack of stability had a negative affect on her and, in her early adulthood, she was driven to create that stability with an intense loyalty to friends and also by marrying her first boyfriend. Fortunately (?), her choice was exactly the type of man who would provide her "ideal" life.Married life went smoothly for Sue until her children reached their teenage years and begin to rebel against her restrictions.

One Sentance Starters

• Your child is yours until you invite the goverment into your life to determine who she actually belongs to.
• She was my favorite cousin and my best friend, but that didn't stop her from screwing my fiance then marrying him.
• The pedestrian looked concerned, as he bounced off the bonnet of my car.
• I was nearly sent to the hospital because I could not convince the school nurse that my head had always been this shape.
• After deliberating for hours on how to finish with her epileptic boyfriend, she phoned him only to discover he'd had a fit and lost his memory.

Situations

• You're stuck in your house because of a snow day and as you're watching TV, the newscaster has just announced that the possibly largest storm of the century will be passing through your area. What do you do?
• You're suddenly transported back to the Colliseum in the Roman empire at it's golden peak. Other than, Why the hell did I have to come back here, what's running through your head?
• Your dog has had puppies. What will you name them and why?

3 Questions

• If you could change your name to anything, what would it be?
• If you were a weather form, what would you be and why?
• Who is the best cook in your family and what is their best dish?

Creating a Journal

If you haven't already started a journal, there is no better time than now. Artists of all kinds use them, and that includes writers as well.

Some people work their way through journals monthly, others take years. You can fill it up with whatever you like: personal thoughts, ideas, prompts, pictures, poems, inspirational quotes, names, characters, anything.

I prefer journals with rings, simply because they're easier to work with. Keep your journal with you at all times, if possible. You never know when some random piece of inspiration will pass your way.

What I'm Reading...

Hawksong by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Danica Shardae is an avian shapeshifter. She is a princess of her people who, like the birds they become, is reserved and disciplined, yet full of passion. Her people have been at war with the serpiente, a people who shapeshift into serpent forms, for so many years that no one remembers how it all started. The hatred and bloodshed have taken a heavy toll on both sides, and Danica and Zane Cobriana, a prince among the serpiente, are determined to stop it, at any cost. He is the last of his line as is Danica and so he proposes that the avian and serpiente royalty meet at a neutral place and seek mediation to end the war. The mediator proposal-that Danica and Zane marry-is so crazy and repugnant a plan that both parties leave immediately. The young people, however, consider it in spite of the apparent lunacy, for it would mean an end to the fighting. But can they pull it off?