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Topic: Where do your ideas come from?
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This has been asked before, hasn't it? Anyway, I
asked about what you guys use to actually create
your stories, now I'd like to share some of my
idea sources, and difficulties.
Outside
inspiration will sometimes spawn an idea for me,
but more often then not I come up with ideas
with little to no outside help.
An idea
for me kind of flows like a stream. Some streams
flow fast and last awhile (several chapters)
before they dry up. Some streams flow slow, and
some either dry up before I finish a story, or
they get blocked.
For me when a "stream"
dries up it means that not only am I out of
ideas for a particular story, but also I have no
desire to finish it.
However when a
"stream" is blocked I still have the desire to
finish the story, just no ideas, or no good
ideas.
I have one or two, maybe more,
unfinished stories posted. These stories I will
probably never finish...the streams for them
dried up.
I'm willing to bet every author
here has had writers block in one form or
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For me, inspiration usually comes in the form of
a digestion, so to speak, of my real life
experiences. I also very often get ideas
from religious works. For example, Chateau
Aensland's second movement became a religious
allegory for a fallen angel, largely because I
was studying the Bible and Bahá'í Writings at
the time.
Usually, I will sit on a story
scene for a week or so before I get properly
inspired. When I know I'm ready, I type
and don't stop until the scene is done.
There's no way to define these moments.
They just happen.
When I get writers
block, I interpret it to mean that I shouldn't
be writing. |
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I like to watch movie trailers on mute and see
what the images tell me. Sometimes I find a gem
of a trailer where the images form a string of
events that I link together with my own plot.
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