February 4, 2010

Day VI - Simple Things

It might be one of those days where I don't have much to say and must resort to simplicities.  I'm listening to the soundtrack from The Dark Knight.  I really enjoy how well Zimmer, the composer, not only manipulates his previous themes from Batman Begins into something new but also folds in music from the original movies.  I believe he did the same in the first but more subtly.  My favorite track from the album is "I'm not a hero."  It's long and contains many different motifs.  

It finally stopped snowing here.  It hasn't snowed in at least a day.  Yesterday it was primarily rain but we've had a lot of clear skies finally.  There were even several halos produced on the clouds.  They were so vibrant that the refracted light partially reformed into a second sun if you know what I mean.  It was quite bright.  

I think I've come up with a short story idea.  It's nothing to dramatic or over the top, just a simple story.  In fact, it's more like an excerpt if anything.  I just want to jump right in and get to my climax.  I'm going to use the last week of my 2 week experiment to write the story in parts.  If it doesn't take 7 parts, that's alright.  As a little teaser, my idea takes place on Mars, probably 200 years in the future, give or take.  I have to do a bit of research first to make sure I get a terraforming time frame right.  Or I may just screw it and say humanity created some new technology that allowed terraforming on a much quicker scale.  And like I said, nothing dramatic.  There are no bad guys.  If anything I suppose it's a moral story.  Hope it works.  Starting tomorrow!  

Cheers!

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