About Three Things I Was Absolutely Positive

First, my kids are watching Twilight near 11 at night when I just want them to go to bed. I wasn't even aware I owned Twilight anymore.

These kids won't listen to me at all. They're so moody at night. But I'm just a nanny so I don't do too much other than look at them in disappointment before going back to writing.

Second, I found a ridiculous amount of story ideas when I came across my old iphone this afternoon. And when I say a ridiculous amount of ideas, I mean there are about 100 ideas on there in my notepad app. Some are only one word ideas like "Zombies" or "Time". I also have names written down like "Peter Pan" and "Sidney Crosby".

Others are so long that I am wondering when I had the type to type it all out on my teeny tiny iphone 4 with a smashed screen. I found a carefully planned out idea surrounding a soul mate idea that incorporated Asian and Greek mythology.

Then we have about half of them as Harry Potter ideas. Like, in depth, crazy ideas where many things don't make sense. And now I am falling in love with them all over again. So I am sitting here telling myself "No, Raychel, don't even start." It's not working.

Maybe I will just write them all and cry because I am taking up too much in the writing department.

Does anyone else have this problem?
Do you just have a billion story ideas that you want to write and so you make a list?
How overwhelming is that list?
Mine is pretty overwhelming.

And Third, dream casting a marauder's era story is harder than one would think. It's almost universal that Aaron Taylor Johnson is James Potter and Ben Barnes is Sirius Black. Then we have Andrew Garfield as Remus Lupin, but I never really felt that to be honest. And don't even get me started on Peter Pettigrew. I bounce around with face claims for him more than a kid in a bouncy castle. I mean, people seem to like Jamie Bell as Peter but I love Jamie Bell too much to see him as Peter. So, there is my issue with that.

But it is always so much fun putting faces to characters.
Does anyone else have fun with that?
Does anyone else sit for hours seeing who would work well for certain characters? Or am I just super lame?
Does anyone cry over Regulus Black for no reason? Or, once again, am I just super lame?

I'm just re-reading Harry Potter for the 100000th time and I tend to get overly emotional. Harry Potter came into my life when I was 7 and now I'm in my twenties. It's been such a big part of my life. It's really crazy how long it has been.

And I am now laughing at myself because I just talked about Harry Potter in a blog quoting Twilight.