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What inspired you to start writing? Why did you write that one piece? Just talk about your new pieces and why you decided to write them, an' what made you start writing. Pretty much.
I started to seriously write three years ago. There was no true reason, but I suppose was bored with real life, so I began writing fantasy. I'd always been a writer, ever since I wrote short stories on Word when I was three. I've always liked it. I never even considered writing anything other than fantasy until I started to have sci fi dreams and I would copy them onto paper.
My best piece, written for some people on another forum, was inspired by my wanting to do something nice for them. They were really kind and interesting. It's kind of a role play forum, but we're in character the whole time. I've integrated everything that I know about them into the story to make it more interesting. I love to read it, even, and I usually hate everything I write. (0.o Haven't added more to it in months though...)
And my latest story, Thinkers is the title so far, is inspired off of my personal experiences as I try to be as open-minded as is possible, being raised in a racist family. It records all the thoughts that I have about pretty much anything and everything, with a plot that's not-so-made-up, seeing as how the character's doing everything that I do. That's all on it today, seeing as how I'm just going to rewrite it about a billion times.
So, everyone else. =)

I never had the fanfiction fade that almost everybody seems to have. I decided at the age of thirteen that I would need to channel my creativity through some artistic medium in order to feed myself when adulthood took its hold. I have always been good with words so writing was natural. It's taken two years of working in the same world to get any good at it, but I've found it to be the only art form I'm genuinely good with. I've considered other outlets int eh future, and I may try them once I get to the point with writing that it can sustain me well enough to take a break.

Little inspire me to write. I simply do. I know that I have to do it sometime in order to get better at it, and I enjoy doing it. What inspires me is what i write about. My world is more complex than even I can fathom without writing it all down. Which is why I seem so loopy at times. I find inspiration in everything from a quite Forrest, to a crowded city. They are all beautiful, and all have a place, a story, and a feeling.

Inspiration comes from many things. It can come from current events, being in the rain too long, watching children play, hard times, or just seeing birds flit across the path on a sunny day. We all have our ways of finding insiration, and that is why all of our works are so diverse. We take the things we experience, and incorporate them into our work, knowingly, or instinctively.
For me, I've always liked to read(I read A LOT!!), and because of that, I didn't have many friends as a young kid. This influences the way I write characters that have certain emotions because I know what the character has been through, I find that writing about other characters that have been through other things is difficult because I am not familiar with how that character might react.

I find that I can't write a particular scene very well unless I have the right type of music to go with it. If I can't find the music, I just keep searching until a particular song or score goes with it before I can slide into the atmosphere.

Yeah, I know what you mean. It's just that music ALWAYS gives me the incentive to write. Certain types of music and songs bring specific images to mind.

Same for me.

It doesn't always have to be the SAME song, but if it isn't going to be the same song then it needs to have the same atmosphere to it.