No Work is Ever a Solo Venture

By G. P. Avants

Here is something fun I wanted to share with you. Since we know how a blog, God Among Geeks and podcast, Neekology 101, I watch movies and TV shows a little bit differently. I wanted to share how I get first impressions and ideas for posts. Maybe for those of you thinking about starting an online blog or podcast, this might help you get some ideas.

So, let’s look at the recent Star Wars movie, Solo as an example. First I get early so we have decent seats, not feel rushed, and hit the trailers. That’s important. Then I turn my phone to silence and my brightness down low. Being an visual and auditory learner I make a note page on my phone ahead of time. I am also a verbal processor which means talking about the movie as I am going can disturb my neighbors. So, instead of verbalizing what I see I take notes. Sort of like a stream of consciousness these are my thoughts as I watched the film.

For you who love poetry we can call it real-time pros:

The dice

For luck.

Kira

Our own ship?

Join Empire.

Solo

Made up last name

Hide with enemy.

Han

Saw his future

See inside of the Empire.

The beast

Han

Speaks Wookie?

You need a nickname.

Sometimes you put your faith in the wrong people.

What’s the difference between a tribe snd family.

The famous Han Solo blaster.

Coaxium

Mynock roast

Prove your piloting skills

Live with a price on your head

Draden Voss.

Chewie

No bowcaster

Slave girl

Pikes?

Fastest ship!

The Kessel Run

Savarine

Lando-cheated

“Anything Haan.”

“It’s Han.”

Clint Howard

No business!

Robot free rights!

She is hippy!

Yes, my organic overlord.

The Millennium Falcon!

Wet bar

I din’t lock it up.

I din’t expect it.

But I will agree

Love the ship

YT 1300

Han,

“Dad built these.”

Lando

Ladies man

Buckle up, baby.

Tobias Beckett

A lesson to be learned

With Chewie and chess.

Kira & Han Kiss

To many capes

Lando has costumes for all ocassions

Can you trust no one?

Bespin?

L3 & Qura

Girl talk?

Shes like Lando

Well negotiated.

Free the droids

Freedom for all!

More wookies?!

L3 tells fellow droids:

Follow me compatriots

Rebellion!

She started it!

L3 killed.

Her brain in the Falcon

Find your calling

(Chewie can fly!)

Her brain has a new body.

All her navigations,

12 parsects,

Everyone serves someone.

Han

I am an outlaw

Quira

You are one of the good guys

Emphys Nest

Down trodden

Just a girl

The people resisted!

The rest of the galaxy is uniting

Blood that brings life to something new.

Allies against the Empire

Running prefered to dying

Find me on Tatooine

Infuss Nest

Sith weapons

You always make me smile

Darth Maul??!!!

Mentors?

The goodbye hug.

Whew! Sorry that was the raw thoughts as a play-by-play. But the ideas gave enough notes to create five pieces. The beauty of catching ideas as they come streaming out of the movie experience is I have ideas to build stories right away. I hated to limit ideas for blogs, but I am not the only blogger on our site. So three stories came from these notes:

God Among Geeks blog:

“Do You Speak Wookie?” https://godamonggeeks316.com/2018/07/09/3921/

“My Organic Overlord.” (Sadly the piece I totally lost)

“It all Started When You Shook the Nest.”

https://godamonggeeks316.com/2018/07/10/it-all-started-when-we-stirred-the-nest/

Neekology 101 Podcast

Episode23: Solo Prediction

https://godamonggeeks316.com/2018/05/28/episode-24-han-solo-prediction/

Episode 27:Solo Review

bhttps://godamonggeeks316.com/2018/06/28/episode-28-han-solo-movie-review/

I will confess that my favorite out of those three was about L3’s act of rebellion called, “My Organic Overlord.” However, after it was done it got erased from a glitch in my notes. I have to chalk that loss up to experience and I was limited in time to recreate it.

So better process:

Take notes on phone
Save stories on Google Drive
And use email to send to Word Press.

On another note, save your notes.

Just like the American Indians used every part of the buffalo, use everything and waste nothing. That is how this piece came together. Thanks to some of my fellow bloggers who share the “How to”

Entries. Maybe we can inspire you to make your mark online in the special unique way that’s all your own.