What Inspires You???

_lew14 · Post by **_lew14** » 23 May 2013, 15:05

I am inspired by a lot, but as I look over my past writings, especially in my English composition courses, what most inspires me are things that make me angry. For example, I wrote a paper about my father's abscence in my childhood, and even though at the time that I was writing the essay I was not angry, I could pull out the strong emotions from my childhood and put them into my writing to add more of a personal connection.

Kimpaluch · Post by **Kimpaluch** » 26 May 2013, 21:13

Sometimes the craziest things inspire me. When it comes to life, everything inspires me. Flowers, trees, flora of all kinds...life in all its non-vicious stages...the air I breathe.

When it comes to writing, though, it is more specific. And sometimes odd. I read a post in another thread about putting together a playlist for characters, and I know exactly where that information will help me. I hear a part of a conversation or a whispered goodnight prayer and it teaches me something about my characters, or me, and I have to put it down. Children, with their insight and their fresh perspective always inspire my writing. I never know where it will come from next.

Kim

CheekyAless · Post by **CheekyAless** » 28 May 2013, 13:58

Music, nature,reading a book.

littlebirdyg · Post by **littlebirdyg** » 03 Jun 2013, 20:23

I'm usually inspired by the world around me. Just about everything inspires me from social media to people I interact with on a daily basis.

AmandaT · Post by **AmandaT** » 22 Jun 2013, 11:46

I find whenever I read a good book or watch a good film I am inspired. If something is really good, I start going over scenes in my head, changing them and incorporating other things I have read with them.

pri012345 · Post by **pri012345** » 25 Jun 2013, 07:27

Nature of course ..for me

and God

AliceRose · Post by **AliceRose** » 25 Jun 2013, 13:06

I'm inspired by events that I see happening around me, and things that happen in my own life as well. I'm really interested in people and how they react to things that happen in their lives, and I love writing about what I see.

Wibblywobblygw · Post by **Wibblywobblygw** » 04 Jul 2013, 22:33

Visiting the NaNoWriMo forums and surfing through it, especially some of the Adoptables. Never fails to get me fired up and excited to write!

ArmandoP · Post by **ArmandoP** » 17 Jul 2013, 14:35

I'm very easily inspired to write. The passion of writing is enough to write! Love and relationships goad my romantic side for creativity. Movies inspire plots and new developments in characterization and settings. Novelists and classical literature are the best forms of inspiration I've found however. There's a lot to be found ingreat literature. Writing styles, voice, tone, character development, plot development, synesthesia, emotional energy of the prose, the literal words themselves. Some good books and movies to read and see for all these things:

Novels: Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian and No Country for Old Men, Francis Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and This Side of Paradise, Brett Easton Ellis's American Psycho, Mikhail Bulgakov's Master and Margarita, Dan Brown's Angels and Demons (read it for it's plot development only) and Salinger's Catcher in the Rye.

Films: Coen Bros. No Country for Old Men, Tarantino's Django Unchained, Nolan's Memento, Russell's Silver Lining's Playbook, Mendes' American Beauty, Darabont's Shawshank Redemption, Scorcese's The Departed, Spielburg's The Terminal.

apple5 · Post by **apple5** » 23 Jul 2013, 01:09

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guys325 · Post by **guys325** » 28 Jul 2013, 07:01

A cold shower for me because ıt helps you thınk really fast because you have to get out before you catch a cold

DianBruny · Post by **DianBruny** » 29 Jul 2013, 05:22

A story of successful person.

david980john · Post by **david980john** » 07 Aug 2013, 12:01

The point of impact book

M Strand · Post by **M Strand** » 10 Aug 2013, 23:53

Anything and everything inspires me.

If you mean in a book writing sense--then I'd have to say I listen to music, look at coverart, create coverart, look at other book titles published or unpublished currently, I find photographs of nature and try to picture them in my head to create scenes...

Loveabull · Post by **Loveabull** » 11 Aug 2013, 20:27

Finding the ridiculous in the everyday...cathartic, you know when you get a term paper or personal story written and you just sit back completely drained?