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 Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 12:25 am
I'm someone who gets inspired by just about anything - a movie, a TV series, a book, a song, whatever. In my experience, it has only led to a lot of half-finished stories or half-thought-out plots.
Have any of you ever had this same kind of thing? What did you think of it? Was it troublesome or helpful? Do you enjoy the ongoing income of inspiration and ideas or do you loathe the inability to focus on a single plot?
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 2:03 am
I half believe in inspiration. I tend to ditch the idea in frustration when nothing comes to me, or revel in it when I find an idea. I'm usually inspired by media, and what's going on in the world at the moment and it gives me enough momentum to finish. As they are short stories, I usually finish them smile
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DesertRoseFallen Vice Captain
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Psychotic Maniacal Sanity Crew
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Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 2:30 pm
Music is something that really affects my writing. I'm not sure I'd call it inspiration, but I certainly get a lot of my "sparks" (i.e. the first scene that comes to mind, and around which a novel forms) from listening to new songs. The same also goes for movies, books, and walking around outside though. XD It's a mixed bag, and it always comes when I'm least expecting it - and, of course, never when I need it. emotion_donotwant
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Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 1:02 am
I can come up with a lot of ideas for stories very quickly, but they mature very slowly. I can't even remember where I first came up with the "seed idea" for The Black Circus. I vaguely remember that it was at a motel and I'd stayed up late to watch this anime thing that they had on cable. And for some reason I started generating a plot about a girl who wanted to be part of a circus where she would end up risking her life. And then I didn't think about it for years.
My notebooks are full of quick info dumps for stories I come up with, some from bits of conversation I come up with, some from riffing off other works, some from songs, some from images that just seem to come from nowhere. In some ways, The Black Circus is my first really mature story idea, but it isn't the only one I'd put in that category. It's really a matter of discipline sticking to one story and not switching every other week. But that's the only way full stories get written.
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Distinct Conversationalist
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DesertRoseFallen Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 5:12 am
It's always nice having a hand notebook about to jot down those thoughts that could easily make another good story.
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Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 3:29 pm
I get inspiration almost out of nowhere it seems because ideas seem to populate my brain like bunnies. Most of them likely won't turn into anything but I scribble down everything I can about it. I have three journals that I have managed to fill with confusing ideas, characters, plots, and sentences. One of my ideas in there turned into my Nanowrimo story and it was based off of a story I tried writing when I was 12. (Obviously not very good and I got through just six pages and I had lost the word document years ago) I was reading an article about fear and suddenly my old idea poped into my head and I took it and ran with it. Glad a I did. : )
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