30 Day Challenge: Day 23 - A Website

This is perfect timing, because I've recently discovered a website I planned to share with my lovely readers.  For once, it actually relates to writing!

See, like all other writers, I go through writers' block.  A lot.  And just forcing myself to write anyway doesn't work much for me.  Also, like several writers (although not a majority), I have time to write most days - I just don't write.  Maybe I'm bored with my story right now, or I'm stuck, or I'm just plain not in a writing mood.

I've found a website that has remedied both of these problems, without a regulated program and nothing I have to pay or register for.  It's www.creativewritingprompts.com, and I love it.

CreativeWritingPrompts is simple.  You just scroll over one of the 346 purple numbers, and a prompt appears.  (Just so you know, clicking the number won't make the prompt stay when you move your mouse away.  I tried.)  Some of the prompts are for stories, some for poems, some for articles or blog posts - and some just for crazy fun.  :)  I've started going through them in order.  Every time I feel like writing, I open the website and look at whatever prompt is next.  Then I follow it, and save the file on my computer in a CWP folder.  I save them by day numbers and a note as to what the prompt was; I put the date at the bottom of each document.  Sometimes I spend an entire weekend on one prompt; other times I use two or three prompts in one day.

Now, there are a bunch of ads for books and kits you can buy - but they all look like great stuff I might actually buy sometime, especially if they're endorsed by CWP (which most are).  Also, they're all for writing-related things, so it's not like those GoogleAds you get that track your search engine terms and try to give you related ads.  (Those things aren't supposed to annoy you, but they do me.)

There's also a list of sister websites, although I've only had time to check out one of these.  They are all writer- or reader-related as far as I know.

So there you have it.  My favorite writers' block cure and newest Internet obsession, in one package.

30 Day Challenge - Day 22: First Ten Shuffled Songs

Put your playlist on Shuffle and list the first ten songs that play...

"My Father's Father" by The Civil Wars ~ actually, i recently added some of their songs to 'try them out'.  so far i kinda like them, although all their songs are sad or sad-sounding.

"When the Sand Runs Out" by Rascall Flatts ~ great song. very inspirational.

"What Hurts the Most" by Boyce Avenue ~ (cover of rascall flatts song) another great song, although it's very sad and i generally listen to the original when i'm already sad and feel the need to cry.  the original of this song made me cry the first twenty times at least.  i love this cover artist, too, so i have all their songs that i already have the original of.

"This and That is Life" by David Choi ~ another new artist i've found.  like a lot of his more acoustic and 'happy about life' songs, and a few of his love songs.  this one would probably fall under the 'happy about life' category.

"Skyscraper" by Demi Lovato ~ this is the only song by her i've actually heard, but i like how it's about rising above those who try to hurt you.

"Birds of a Feather" by The Civil Wars ~ love this one!  it's pretty much a sarcastic love song: the boy and the girl practically despise each other, but they can't live without each other.  nothing and nobody could ever break them up because they're so close - but they're also so close that they are both keenly aware of the other's every fault.  it's the kind of song i'd listen to if i were married whenever i got kick-him-out-of-the-house mad, because that's pretty much how the speakers feel, yet they still realize how much they love and need each other.

"Forever and Ever" by He Is We ~ *sigh* another beautiful love song.  i have several of those.  this one's about a girl who is totally in love with a guy.  they were together for a while, then she left him.  now she's realizing she just can't live without him, and she's 'giving you my forever and ever.'  it makes me think of weddings.  weddings always make me happy.  :)

"If You Told Me To" by Hunter Hayes ~ about a boy who wants to love a girl, and is telling her how he wants to be everything for her, but only if she tells him to.  a guy telling a girl all the amazing ways he'd love her, and then asking her permission to love her like that?  soooo perfect <3

"Something More" by Sugarland ~ honestly, i didn't pay much attention to the point of this song when i added it.  i just like how it says 'there's gotta be something more' than your average working american's life - because i want *my* life to be more and mean more than the average working american life.  i want to be more thankful and helpful and just make the world a better place.  this song reminds me of that kind of thinking and makes me happier and inspired to keep trying to find that meaningful life.  (although, now that i've actually looked up the lyrics, it seems the song's more about having fun than helping others.  but the chorus could go both ways, and that's the part i like.)

"Only Hope" by Mandy Moore ~ what girl has ever heard of this movie and *not* loved this song?  love the movie, love the book, love the music - well, some of it - love the *love story*.  a walk to remember: [spoiler alert!!] bad boy meets pastor's daughter, is stuck working with her for punishment, falls in love, starts to shape up.  turns out she has cancer, she pushes him away not wanting to hate God for tearing them apart, but he sticks by her through everything.  he even marries her (! <3) and they enjoy an amazing summer, 'full of more love than most people know in a lifetime,' before she passes.  then the bad boy we started with goes on to medical school and lives an incredible life because of the angelic girl who shared her inspirational love with the least likely person.

30 Day Challenge - Day 21: A Movie No One Would Suspect You Love

Oh my.  This one's pretty easy.  Only those who hang out with me a lot know this, but I love Disney movies.  I'm not talking the cartoons, although I love my Tangled and Beauty and the Beast.  Not the more grown-up movies, either, although many of those are amazing.  (Alice In Wonderland, Pirates of the Carribbean, etc.  NoIAmNotAJohnnyDeppCrushGirlEw.)  I'm talking those cheesy flicks with at least one song-and-dance routine each and boyishly cute leading guys.  Yup, Disney CHANNEL movies tailor-made for preteen girls, mostly.

My first favorite Disney-Channel-flick is StarStruck, and lots of people know that.  But very few people know my second favorite is Prom.  See, I'm the kind of person whom one would expect to bash prom with a logical speech.  And I've actually done that more than once.  I won't start now, because then I'll never finish this post.

But as logical as prom-hate is to me, I love that movie.  Maybe I'll love it forever.  Probably I'll grow out of it.  Until then, I will continue to get frustrated by Brandon; feel for Lucas; scream at Lloyd that I'll go with him; grin like a maniac at Rolo's girlfriend 'issue'; pity Mei and Justin for falling prey to the number one relationship parasite (lack of communication); cheer for Jordan; and most importantly, adore Nova+Jesse.

Yup.  I'm corny.