"I like to write when I'm feeling spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze."
D.H. Lawrence

Thursday, 21 June 2012

The 30 Day Blog Challenge! Well, I'm not one to let a good bandwagon just roll on by.

I'm not starting yet, and I'm going to cheat massively, but nonetheless the 30 day blog challenge is about to get underway. In honesty, I haven't finished the last challenge I set myself. There are still more than a few out there who didn't get their section of my little series of posts about friends, but nobody seems too distraught about it and I don't think the ones I haven't got to yet are readers so it's cool.

Now, I'm not one for the old 30 day challenge, I couldn't be arsed with that 30 day song challenge that went round facebook a couple of years ago. Instead, I created a facebook note and simply wrote all the answers in there. In honesty, this is more my métier:


But I'll soldier on regardless. Anyway, the slight problem I'm having is tailoring my 30 topics to suit. I've got 26 topics covering a range of subjects and writing styles so far - pilfered from fellow bloggers, various 30 day challenges and a couple of random topic generators. I'm going to spend time thinking of some more but any suggestions or requests are welcome. I'll probably start some time next week, or make it 31 topics and just do one every day of July, I haven't decided yet.

My list of topics (with their current working titles) is, in no particular order:

  • Famous person I've been compared to (Holy Crap! You're Jesus Christ)
  • Childhood pet (Tara)
  • Top five places to live (Location, Location, Lo ... w Price)
  • What band or musician is most important to me? (This album is literally the reason for my existence)
  • Favourite books (Is This Just Fantasy?)
  • Dream Wedding (It's a Nice Day)
  • If I could have any job ... (FBI Operative, Standard)
  • Top Ten Top Tens (Top Ten Top Tens)
  • Cats or Dogs (Getting in Touch with my Feline Side)
  • My Home Town (Home Town Blues)
  • Celebrity crushes (Well, This Will Not be Awkward at all)
  • Lyrics that apply (Sad Songs Say so Much: I hope you've got all day)
  • Belief in "the one" (Holy shit! It's an Anagram of Neo! Mind. Blown.)
  • Inspiration (So, you wrote these questions on the way to the interview then?)
  • Fictional Characters (Life Mimicking Art: Or some equally pretentious bollocks)
  • Places I have lived (Take Me Home)
  • Concerts I've attended (I like that old time Rock and Roll)
  • Writing my own songs (Now, what rhymes with pretentious bullcrap?)
  • My life from someone else's point of view (Writing in the 2nd person)
  • "What if... ?" (What if... ?)
  • Pay or Job satisfaction (They hand you a paycheck every week, and steal a piece of your soul every day)
  • What I would do with three months off (Unemployment is too stressful, I'll take a sabbatical)
  • Brothers and Sisters (Oh, Brother!)
  • A time I want to experience again (Took me all of three seconds to come up with an answer to this)
  • When other people tell me what to do (Don't jump off the cliff, you say? Well...)
  • Going to the movie alone (You know what? I was just running out of ideas)

So, I'll see you soon.

PS. as always, I've sprinkled my work with a light dashing of not-so-pop-culture references. 1,000 points are on offer for correctly identifying all the book/song/movie/TV quotes and references in the titles of these upcoming blogs.

Adios.

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