it's not about the money, money, money

I'm going to do it. I'm going to watch Prometheus.

I've heard it's a terrible film, but I thought it looked awesome from the trailers and I found out via tumblr that Idris Elba is in it. Well, just this weekend I said to mum that I'd watch anything with him in, and it is true.

Also it will kind of be research for my story, because I think it covers similar ground to what I'm writing. I need to figure out some books that cover similar ground, too, and all I can think of right now is Starship Troopers (I don't even know if I'm right about that. Hopefully a quick (ha ha) noodle around TVT will help me figure that out).

I am writing the worst kind of crap, at the moment, but not looking at it again and just continuing on. I wrote the worst two lines in the history of my forever (OK PROBABLY NOT because I haven't read anything I wrote as a teenager in long time and that stuff will be awful, no doubt). But they're pretty bad, regardless. But I am kind of proud that I identified them as such. Also the one character is an awful stereotype, to me, but hopefully that will disappear as a) I write her some more and b) when I come to type all this up. Because oh yeah, while there is research in my Scrivener file, there is no actual story as yet.

Also I rolled for character traits, and some of them have awful ones, considering their jobs/roles in the story. But do you know what? I actually think that's going to be fun. I am actually looking forward to it.

And I have a character who has the name she has just so that I can make a bad pun on it, and hope it's understood without needing to explain it because it really is lame. Really. I am lamer than you can imagine. The same character has Fuchs for a surname and I am fighting myself to not have the other characters say, "What does the fox say?" every time they ask for her opinion (hasn't happened yet; don't know that it will, because I don't really know that meme, but by god do I want to do it. I am the worst kind of writer). (I don't really care, though. I'm not out to change the world with my story. I just want to write a story that satisfies this itch I have right now).

Oh. Yeah. And I set myself a deadline. I want this finished by Dec. 31 this year. I've never set myself a writing deadline before so this is kind of weird and scary.