Where do your ideas come from?
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- msstroda
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Where do your ideas come from?
My poems are from feelings and events happening in my life.
I also get ideas from others, how they act or things they say.
- DuchessAngel37
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I tend to get ideas from life in general. Right now I've got a plotline involving someone stealing from their job, and when I worked in retail security, obviously I saw this stuff all the time. You'll always be able to tell when I'm happy with my life or relationships or when I'm pissed off when you read my stuff. You can feel it. If it's a really good arguement, I'm pissed at someone. If it's only so-so, I'm not. I've been trying to write scenes ahead of time, this way if I'm angry I can write a bunch of fight scenes, but I don't plan that far ahead in my stories, so I don't accomplish much.
So I'm looking at your icon here... and I remember you having said in another post that you are published... so I can go find your books in stores? Bailey's Pond sounds interesting as hell. Sucked me in with just the title.
Edited to add: Okay, I got over my lazy self and clicked your link there. And I'm sure I've got some money to spare.
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But my best ideas (and execution) usually come from when I'm just walking down the street (to work, or back, etc.) and a single line of dialogue will come to me and I write it down (back of receipt, wherever). When I can get to a computer, I will begin writing with that line urging me forward, until eventually it works its way into the story (non-forcefully). And it can be beautiful, too, at times.
Duchess, your dream description was absolutely hilarious! I've woken up confused as all heck trying to remember what I just dreamed, and the faces rotate thru so many different...uhm...faces. A celebrity is now my brother; female, male; monster, Halle Berry--jsut all over the place!
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I get my ideas from dreams as well. Usually it is just one tiny little thing that sparks a bigger idea, and then the darn idea won't go away.
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Interestingly, the word "almost" in this post says more about you than the rest.ALynnPowers wrote:Reviving a thread from almost 8 years ago!
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Hey, it was still a couple whole weeks away from being 8 years!PashaRu wrote:Interestingly, the word "almost" in this post says more about you than the rest.ALynnPowers wrote:Reviving a thread from almost 8 years ago!
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Mmmhmmm exactly.ALynnPowers wrote:Hey, it was still a couple whole weeks away from being 8 years!
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Probably you.
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1) Boats That Sail Across The Skies - World War 2 Story, Time: present with flashbacks to 1940's, Some violence in one chapter. Settings: Japan, Pacific Islands, and U.S.A.
2) The Dreamer - Story about a senior citizen woman, present day
3) The Wisdom Of Herr Hoffman - Sixteen year old girl attempting to become a violin maker, 18th century Germany
4) Werewolf - Horror story, England - late 19th century, graphically violent.
5) Acceptance - A day in the life of a university professor, Present day
6) iL Sindaco -World War 2, Italy, lighthearted, no violence
7) Room 312 - Hospitalized criminal, Present day
8) An Unexpected Christmas Present - Involves Christmas party at veterans nursing facility - 2014
9) Causality - A story based upon the concept of 'determinism': how seemingly inconsequential causes can result in major effects. Settings: Korea - U.S.A. present day
10) The Secret Recipe - Rural American folk tale (comedy) - 1904 (Recently completed. Will offer this story as my first contribution to the new Short Story Forum when created by Scott)
So as you can see the ideas are taken from widely ranging subject matter and periods of history. Some premises are taken from personal life experience and others are based upon stories or legends I've learned from other sources.
All of my short stories contain twists - some presented more dramatically than others.
― Steven Wright
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I dreamt a totally original short story once. I had never run across the concept, there was nothing to add. Woke up, thought, "That was good! Gotta write that down." Immediately went back to sleep. Couldn't remember one detail about it when I woke up. Nothing. Arguably the most frustrating experience in my life, and I've never really remembered dreams since.
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One of the coolest things I remember hearing was that Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of Mario and Zelda (along with lots of other games) came up with the idea of Pikmin watching ants in a garden! Even really big, famous people can find inspiration in the smallest of things, things anyone can experience for free!