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art process, sketch table

Sketch table
Below is a copy of the prompt table used for fanfic100, a fan fiction challenge that I came across while searching for something else for the day job. It's a table of 100 concepts to be used as inspration for writing fan fiction, one piece of writing per concept (or prompt).

I'm not a fan fic writing type of gal and hence will not be using it as such. Instead, I will be adopting it as a sketch idea generator for this journal. Therefore, said sketches will feature the characters found within Dicebox, but not within the timeframe of the story of Dicebox i.e. the situations will be from before or after the timeline of Dicebox the story. This does mean some younger and older versions of Molly, Griffen, et. al. which should be fun. As for scenes after Dicebox, I really don't see spoilers coming into play, but will warn accordingly.

001.	Beginnings.	002.	Middles.	003.	Ends.	004.	Insides.	005.	Outsides.
006.	Hours.	007.	Days.	008.	Weeks.	009.	Months.	010.	Years.
011.	Red.	012.	Orange.	013.	Yellow.	014.	Green.	015.	Blue.
016.	Purple.	017.	Brown.	018.	Black.	019.	White.	020.	Colourless.
021.	Friends.	022.	Enemies.	023.	Lovers.	024.	Family.	025.	Strangers.
026.	Teammates.	027.	Parents.	028.	Children.	029.	Birth.	030.	Death.
031.	Sunrise.	032.	Sunset.	033.	Too Much.	034.	Not Enough.	035.	Sixth Sense.
036.	Smell.	037.	Sound.	038.	Touch.	039.	Taste.	040.	Sight.
041.	Shapes.	042.	Triangle.	043.	Square.	044.	Circle.	045.	Moon.
046.	Star.	047.	Heart.	048.	Diamond.	049.	Club.	050.	Spade.
051.	Water.	052.	Fire.	053.	Earth.	054.	Air.	055.	Spirit.
056.	Breakfast.	057.	Lunch.	058.	Dinner.	059.	Food.	060.	Drink.
061.	Winter.	062.	Spring.	063.	Summer.	064.	Fall.	065.	Passing.
066.	Rain.	067.	Snow.	068.	Lightening.	069.	Thunder.	070.	Storm.
071.	Broken.	072.	Fixed.	073.	Light.	074.	Dark.	075.	Shade.
076.	Who?	077.	What?	078.	Where?	079.	When?	080.	Why?
081.	How?	082.	If.	083.	And.	084.	He.	085.	She.
086.	Choices.	087.	Life.	088.	School.	089.	Work.	090.	Home.
091.	Birthday.	092.	Solstice.	093.	Harvest.	094.	Independence.	095.	New Year.
096.	Push.	097.	Pull.	098.	Hold.	099.	Drop.	100.	Pick-up.

96 to 100 are Writers Choice, which I quickly entered another grouping of 5. Actually, not all of the pre-exising sets make sense to me, and I did debate changing a few. But decided that defeated the purpose of an outside pre-determination. I did replace Thanksgiving with Harvest and Christmas with Solstice but then left well enough alone.

The idea is to do one a week--not a plan or goal as I don't want any more commitments. And the intent is to truly do sketches, no more than two hours a pop, maybe three if it's a complicated idea. I just want an incentive to do exploratory sketches for Dicebox, to work out certain problems and play with ideas that won't necessaily come out in the story. Actually, the first sketchbook I had in pursuit of Dicebox was about half full of drawings based on random words I'd solicit from friends.

And, because this journal is a tool for me, here is a table of randomly generated numbers to help me pick one when feeling indecisive:

96, 22, 16, 98, 97, 51, 93, 26, 23, 59, 27, 35, 77, 52, 04, 34, 85, 68, 20, 40
19, 39, 70, 53, 14, 31, 61, 03, 74, 49, 66, 60, 11, 28, 63, 30, 57, 75, 25, 100
09, 07, 56, 12, 55, 37, 32, 33, 21, 38, 47, 58, 99, 83, 72, 24, 05, 78, 79, 76
82, 88, 13, 41, 92, 64, 45, 69, 43, 01, 18, 81, 86, 17, 44, 87, 80, 48, 50, 42
84, 90, 54, 29, 08, 65, 91, 06, 02, 67, 15, 94, 89, 95, 73, 62, 71, 10, 36, 46

Naturally I feel free to skip around if some prompt catches my fancy a certain week.