100 Themes Challenge
Bone_Dry's attempt...
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So, a little bit of my own author's ramble thing which I do at the beginning of all my stories, though this is much more relevant as it this is a total of one hundred pieces—which will all lay most of my personal preference as far as style goes bare, not to mention my "original" ideas.
I switch tenses and writing style fairly often, sometimes even mid-piece for the latter. This collection contains my first attempt at writing present tense, and my tackling of the vignette form. I did a lot of experimentation, sometimes as dry runs, sometimes just to stretch my own process and comfort zone. And sometimes, of course, they are squarely within my comfort zone—which is why Brennan tends to be my narrator for the majority (though not all) of the Themes.
In essence, this is a hodge podge, and contains some of my best and some of my weakest writing moments. A lot of these were written to see a specific character in a new light, or an old light that's been tweaked a little. I explore the past histories of a few characters (mainly Cam and Brennan), I add on to scenes in older episodes, I do missing scenes, I make up scenes that have no ties whatsoever to any episodes. My time zone is before "Pain in the Heart" for almost all of them (only breaking for the sake of Angela and Hodgins' relationship), and, for the most part, I stick within the boundaries of the first two seasons or at a time before the story even began.
At any rate, my plan is to post one Theme per day for one hundred days, so updates will be stiffly regular and continuous for, jeez, a great deal over two months. I hope you all will take the time to read, to stand my style, and to leave me a review on your way out.
Remember, reviewing is the most important part of this process, as reader feed-back can help me shape my edits and my writing in later fics, so, even if you may not have something to highlight or anything to say, please take a few seconds to tell me you're reading, so that I know it's worth my effort and fanfic's space to be posting continuously for this long.
And now that I'm done talking, here's the list for all 100 Themes. The first post will be right after this one. I will not go in order, and sometimes I will string a few of the Themes together to form a coherent story, whether it be two Themes together, or five, or just a simple one-shot.
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100 Themes:
1. Introduction 2. Love 3. Light 4. Dark
5. Seeking Solace 6. Break Away 7. Heaven 8. Innocence
9. Drive 10. Breathe Again 11. Memory 12. Insanity
13. Misfortune 14. Smile 15. Silence 16. Questioning
17. Blood 18. Rainbow 19. Gray 20. Fortitude
21. Vacation 22. Mother Nature 23. Cat 24. No Time
25. Trouble Lurking 26. Tears 27. Foreign 28. Sorrow
29. Happiness 30. Under the Rain 31. Flowers 32. Night
33. Expectations 34. Stars 35. Hold My Hand 36. Precious Treasure
37. Eyes 38. Abandoned 39. Dreams 40. Rated
41. Teamwork 42. Standing Still 43. Dying 44. Two Roads
45. Illusion 46. Family 47. Creation 48. Childhood
49. Stripes 50. Breaking the Rules 51. Sport 52. Deep in Thought
53. Keeping a Secret 54. Tower 55. Waiting 56. Danger Ahead
57. Sacrifice 58. Kick in the Head 59. No Way Out 60. Rejection
61. Fairy Tale 62. Magic 63. Do Not Disturb 64. Multitasking
65. Horror 66. Traps 67. Playing the Melody 68. Hero
69. Annoyance 70. 67% 71. Obsession 72. Mischief Managed
73. I Can't 74. Are You Challenging Me? 75. Mirror
76. Broken Pieces 77. Test 78. Drink 79. Starvation
80. Words 81. Pen and Paper 82. Can You Hear Me? 83. Heal
84. Out Cold 85. Spiral 86. Seeing Red 87. Food
88. Pain 89. Through the Fire 90. Triangle 91. Drowning
92. All That I Have 93. Give Up 94. Last Hope 95. Advertisement
96. In the Storm 97. Safety First 98. Puzzle 99. Solitude
100. Relaxation
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