Draken Korin's Blog

My FCL (#2) February 2, 2010

My top five ideas for research are fencing, zombies, piratology, composers of the Baroque era, and world religions.  Truthfully though, only the first three really interest me enough to pursue.

Where fencing is concerned, my question would be how swordplay has evolved through the ages to become what it is today.  In that sense it’s not really about fencing but that’s what spawned the idea.  This topic is important to me in that I have recently found myself to be a warrior.  Moreover, a sword fighter.  I can bring a potentially new view to the perception of fencing by the general public I believe.  I think that the best and most enjoyable way to write about this would be the novella.

Zombies have always interested me.  Recently a friend of mine told me that a zombie apocalypse could happen.  That makes me want to research and find out everything about them that I can.  My question being whether or not zombies can exist and what can happen if they can exist.  This topic just screams novella too but a regular paper could also do.

Pirates of the Caribbean was a wonderful movie.  That got me wondering what being a real pirate was like.  Over the summer I also dressed as a pirate for the camp I worked at.  It all makes me want to know: What was a pirate?  Or for that matter, what modern pirates are and how that has changed over the ages.  Again this would make a good novella or a research paper.  I have to make up my mind.