Sorry I haven't been around much, I've been positively swamped with homework as of late. I spent the entire day on Friday reading and researching and reporting, it was torture, but I got my assignment in with 2 minutes to spare. Saturday & Sunday I was out of town, away from my computer.
Last night and today? Writing and being inspired. That's part of it, this writer thing, being inspired. It's a huge part, about 50/50. You cannot write without inspiration first, it just won't work, at least not well. How do you find inspiration? You just keep your eyes open, it's all around you. My first suggestion is to read, similar to what you want to write. Books are a writer's greatest tool. Find out what makes another book great, why you love it, then use that to your advantage. And watch movies, listen to music, look at art. Whatever worked for them, can work for you.
Find things that inspire you: things you see, things you hear, things you feel. For me my tumblr dashboard is a huge inspiration, some of the time, at least. Yesterday when I was lacking inspiration and direction for The Conqueror, I turned to tumblr. I had 79 pages of backlog from one day's worth of being gone (kind of insane, a new record!) and as I went through, looking at everything, I "liked" the posts that inspired me and decided to write a story about them. Find a way to connect these very different pictures and quotes and ideas, so that's what I'm doing. 79 pages of backlog later and I have a love story about an introverted photographer and a fun-loving indie rock boy and the summer they spent together, meeting up in a forest. It's this girl with this guy, a little bit of this, and a whole lot of these, in a place I once visited that mystified me. That's the thing about inspiration: it can only take you so far, the rest lies inside of you. Do something with it.
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