Musings, and suchlike...

[alexpgp]

This week's LJ Idol theme is "smile," which is about as broad as "uphill, both ways, barefoot" was narrow. This state of affairs has its good points and its bad points.

On the plus side, it means you can write about nearly anything, as long as a smile appears (or is mentioned) somewhere in the story. Looking at my entries from last year, for example, I note that a large chunk of them include the word "smile," and one entry might even be said to have pivoted around a smile.

What is good is also bad, for if you can write about nearly anything, I find it's more difficult to focus on something specific. Aside from going through old posts, I've started a list of "smile" ideas, and while it's getting pretty long ("Mona Lisa, anyone?"), no one idea has yet turned around to slap me upside the head.

But hey, it's only Tuesday.

* * *Talking about getting slapped upside the head, I better start focusing on work, as it's starting to pour in.

Cheers...

Comments

[spydielives.livejournal.com]

I was going to leave a pithy remark with all sorts of other suggestions, but decided that was rude.

I will just wait to see what you come up with on your own (and hope that you read about my snail eventually).

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

I did read about your snail, which may have been a mistake, of sorts, because it got me to thinking in about eighteen gazillion directions at once, whereupon I started on something that I thought might work as a unique "angle," but which I was pretty sure I couldn't finish in time, and then, upon sober reflection, I realized probably would not work very well in LJ Idol, either.

Which didn't faze me, because the idea was so... exciting!

In the end, though, I went out and bought an ancient manual "Skyriter" portable typewriter manufactured in England for Smith-Corona. I also deep-sixed the idea I was playing with, but only for now.

Does that make any sense at all?

Cheers...