The Writer's Block & Inspiration Thread

[niesana]

Trajedies

The only thing I ever get stuck on is the little things in my story like... How do I make Roger get to the show, should he take the bus or walk? and things like that. I am a perfectionist so it aways takes me forever to figure that kind of stuff out while in my head I will have the story itself completely figured out.

i i'm the same. i'm a real perfectionist. i wrote a book but its realy not finished yet. i've never had a writers block. if i'm tired i stop and pick it back up the next day. i make tabel of where i want to go. end if i'm out of ideas, i look at the tabel. to see where i'm going.
but i can get stuck at the fact if the lead person should slash around with a katana, dual knives or her nails. but that's not a writer's block is it?

[niesana]

iLovePein

Whenever I get writers block (which is quite often), I may not be able to find ideas, but that doesn't mean I would still not like to write. I found this website that gives prompts and it helps flex my writing once in a while so I write something and don't get so stuck (if ya know what I mean) and I stretch my ability.

http://www.creativewritingprompts.com/#

Enjoy ^^ 4laugh wink xp whee xd 3nodding blaugh biggrin

finding inspiration has to come out of yourself. when you have another block. Just look up from your computer/paper and start looking for words. start looking for things that could fit in your story. and while your doing that. you're automaticly get "inspiration" if that word exualy exist. Just read your story. again. feel with your charecters.
how would they react?
Where would they go?
Why would they go there?
Feel with them and write with them

[Mrs_Dally_W]

I get Writer's Block often, and so does my best friend, we have a tendency to do pretty strange things to make it dissappear. We're also both artists, so we have a lot of art supplies and weird ideas. A lot of the time we'll go into my art studio and scream and throw paint around, or soft vegetables. Just do something creative.

[1000_BC]

watching a magical movie can help one could be howls moving castle or playing creative games like scribble nauts or drawn to life

[Prinzzez_Kitten]

What I always do is act out everything. I play all my characters and see how they should be. I imagine their world, attitude, and just little personality traits they may have.
In one story I worte, I was half way through acting it out even before chapter one.

I always wrote on fanfiction.net, and that helped improve my skills. I know cary a notebook around with me, and write and think up new stories. I won't ever let anyone touch it.

I always find my friends, and read aloud what have written. They tell me what they think, and even help me. Sometimes I'll ask if they want a something in my story. One friend even helped me with half my plot just by one little character.

I usually write by listening to a song. One song even molded one of my favorite characters into who she is.

And If I'm blocked, well I just stop writing all together for a little and watch a movie. The movie will usualy inspire me.

[Ophiucha]

Somebody asked me earlier to name the five things that inspired me most to write my current story, Underbreath, and I thought I'd share my little anecdote with the rest of you. Upon consideration, I determined these were my five key sources of inspiration:

1. Penn & Teller, a magician duo in Las Vegas.
2. "Inglourious Basterds," a movie by Quintin Tarantino.
3. The Garden of Earthly Delights, a painting by Hieronymous Bosch.
4. "Pan's Labyrinth," a movie by Guillermo del Toro.
5. "Shoots and Ladders," a song by KoRn.

And Underbreath is a high fantasy story, albeit one with heavy political commentary. The only one of the things above that makes any sense is the Bosch painting - and that is really stretching it. Pan's Labyrinth is fantasy, but not the same subgenre, and there are neither fauns nor fae in my story. Penn & Teller do have a political show - Bullshit! - that I've been known to watch, but my story's politics matching theirs is hit and miss. As for Tarantino and KoRn... I have no idea. But when I watch/hear them, I still get pumped for my story. Weird, no?

[Starfyshi]

Ophiucha

Somebody asked me earlier to name the five things that inspired me most to write my current story, Underbreath, and I thought I'd share my little anecdote with the rest of you. Upon consideration, I determined these were my five key sources of inspiration:

1. Penn & Teller, a magician duo in Las Vegas.
2. "Inglourious Basterds," a movie by Quintin Tarantino.
3. The Garden of Earthly Delights, a painting by Hieronymous Bosch.
4. "Pan's Labyrinth," a movie by Guillermo del Toro.
5. "Shoots and Ladders," a song by KoRn.

And Underbreath is a high fantasy story, albeit one with heavy political commentary. The only one of the things above that makes any sense is the Bosch painting - and that is really stretching it. Pan's Labyrinth is fantasy, but not the same subgenre, and there are neither fauns nor fae in my story. Penn & Teller do have a political show - Bullshit! - that I've been known to watch, but my story's politics matching theirs is hit and miss. As for Tarantino and KoRn... I have no idea. But when I watch/hear them, I still get pumped for my story. Weird, no?

You have to love the way the mind works when it comes to things like inspiration. It's weird, yeah, but you never know what might niggle at your imagination. I'm writing a story at this point, that was loosely inspired by going through James Gurney's artwork & watching the film that went along with his series. However, considering his work largely is a steampunk world, with Dinosaurs, it's strange that it would inspire a Stargate-esque story from me. (Stargate, minus planet hopping, aliens, and really cool weapons).

[AquaticPisces]

I get writers block really often.
And this really helped me.
I use to write in my daily journal when I was a bit younger and I still have them. Maybe, that can help me write my story again.