I agree with you, though, about how reading can sometimes inspire you. I too enjoy researching authors and the book after impressing myself with a novel, so you aren't alone. :)

Random Shy Girl

Snort. I'm just inspired by beautiful, lovely things I guess. :D

Writing styles also influence me and I can get the urge to write a story because I want to convey a certain feeling.

Like watching people drive by in cars, or someone reading in a library. Or even in Fictionpress, where names have no faces and if they do, it's a lie. Science class also inspires me, even though I'm failing it. I can just sort of think of certain characters when the teacher is describing cell membranes or Oort clouds or Indigneous rocks.

Bad books inspire me just as much as good ones. It makes me think about the reasoning behind every action, "WHY on Earth did (author's name here) think that (character's name here) would react like that?!". You know, that sort of thing. Good reviews also inspire me.

Perhaps it's something like that.

Oh,I'd like to say that I've posted some stories,would you like to check out for..please leave some reviews when you're done.

Some times, I just have no idea what I will be writting when I sit down at my computer. I just let my hands move across the keyboard and write. I let my thoughts flow out and turn themselves into a (hopefully good) piece of writting.

It works, most of the time.

I'll go check out your stuff now.

The reason I stick with it is because I like being able to think up fun plots and just say "Wow that would look really cool if I wrote that out!" Though I've just technically 'started' with original works, I already know from experience with original roleplays and such that if given the chance, I fall in love with my characters to the point where I have to stick through with them to the end.

I love being able to write about something that really interests me and innovates me to write about.

Usually it'll come from dreams I've had that have been interesting enough for me to want to elaborate on.

Just this year I've starting sharing my stuff to my friends, parents and teachers. I mean, I've been on fictionpress forever, but in real life no one knew I wrote. I think the 12 year old self that I was, was too scared to know what my friends would say about my writings.

*laughs* I remember the first poem I ever showed to a friend. I think it was "Little Sister" - She started freaking out and thought I had some problems. She didn't leave me alone about commiting suicide for ages....I think, two years later, I finally convinced her I'm NOT going to do that. Oh well.

I try to write on my dreams, but I think I only have one thing up here that's on a dream. I never can remember mine, which annoys me quite a bit.

Random sayings also...or just some incident that I experience or come across. Greek Mythology is also pretty big on me somehow. Drugs inspire me, it sounds bad but it's true...Music as well. That's all I can think of at the moment.

Or even in Fictionpress, where names have no faces and if they do, it's a lie

That's so damn true more than half of the time. Also do not fall for anyone who gives you their whole life story and COINCIDENTALLY it is "bad as hell". I always laugh when this particular person tells me things because I know they're full of **. So I prove them wrong on a few things they say in order to get a more elborate and even funnier lie.

I don't remember them a lot, either.

But as soon as I do; write down on the computer/paper they go.

So, maybe in some cases, yeah, that's really true. But in some cases there are really people who just write to get away from their life.

But, I know what you mean. I hate those people who are like "my life sucks" and think they're the only ones in the world who have problems. ** them I say.

Yeah I know, but still. I'm a little hesitant when I'm talking to someone. I don't mention much about myself and if they start giving details about themselves I'd stray away from the topic because I don't want to know people's names or anything.

I hate those people who are like "my life sucks" and think they're the only ones in the world who have problems.

Yeah it's annoying...

You know what's even WORSE?

When those same people decide to write about it.

(unfortunately, over half the population of mySpace and Livejournal consist of these people, and the other half is all accounts that people forgot about so they don't use them anymore)

Ah, yes, I agree. Like, I don't mind talking to people on here, but when people ask me my name I give out a fake name (Rowan) and that's what people call me on here. It's not like I would go and tell the world what me real name is or what my age is and where I live and so on. Those people who do that are probably all stalkers in disgues. =D

I beg to differ. I don't really have a problem with it.

Was that an attack on my stuff....???

I just give out my tag when people ask for my name. Which is Rab so they call me that. I'll say my age because it's not much of an issue to me. When they ask where I live I'll give out the state or just say chicago even though I don't live in chicago...

Those people who do that are probably all stalkers in disgues

Or just little kids messing around on the internet who need friends desperately. Damn kids.

Hm. True. I usually just tell people that I'm a teen. Which, in most cases, is good enough for them.

I HATE those "my life sucks" stories, I always try to write about interesting people who don't sit and mope about the world and everything in it. Like my character Nelly from "I'm Nelly and I Hate You" is SUPPOSED to be satirical if I ever get around to updating it, I'll try and fix it. I'm dangerously overdue for updates (eeks)

Ahh I hate those too! They're everywhere though. I like making my characters seem as real as they possibly can. Makes the story more interesting. That's a cool title.

I usually spend hours devoping a character and then a story line comes to me involving said character and I go from there.

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AngelicScars

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However, most of my plots and some of my characters come from my dreams. Not goals in life, but actual sleeping dreams. Most of the time I remember them and I just think to myself, "Damn, that was bizarre... I should write a bok about it!" I have half a novel that not up here that came about that way, and also my character Justin from "When Life Gives You Lemons" came that way. It's a little weird, because I feel like the stories aren't actually mine becasue they came to me in a dream. They come prepackaged and ready made.

Just yesterday, I spent about twenty minutes trying to think of non-cliched ways to describe rain. I didn't even have any parts in my stories where I needed to. I've had stories about things that've happened to me, random thoughts that crossed my mind, things people tell me... In my opinion, everything is a story, it's just waiting for someone who recognizes it as one.

Or my internal writer is missing an off button.

Inspiration, as in will or strength to write, finds words, stick with teh story is something an input-output thing. I need to watch or read or hear things that fill up the inspiration meter, and then as I write, I use it up. Most of our thoughts, dreams, beliefs, everything, is input-output, with a little filter in our head saying what we like and what we don't, called choice.

That type of inspiration usually comes, for me, from movies, TV, as I don't read as much as I write. Music is a great source of inspiration too, a way of shutting out the present world and focus on the fictious one.

Then there's the type of inspiration that comes with ideas. For me, that's usually thematic things, or locations. I can see something, like, a tree, and just see stories happen in or around it. See many enough trees, and they end up combined into some kind of forest/cave. See a building with a large elevator? What happens in there, what can happen, what do I see happen with it?

Places are usually the source of the story for me. My latest fics are very much loctaion-based, each chapter deriving its name from the place it's set in.

But when it comes to what ties a story together, what keeps me writing it, it's the characters themselves. Once you've written enough about the characters, you want to find some closure for them, or for you. You want to finish their story. That rarely happens, for me at least, unless I've gotten to know the characters and their story.

Anyone can help me out on this?I'm currently trying to read over my story,so I could continue,but any better solutions?

Boy meets Girl:

Boy gets Dog

Dog runs off

Girl finds Dog

Boy looks for Dog

Boy finds Girl with Dog

End

This is the very basic plot outline. As mentioned in a previous post, I derive much of the story from locations, so I'd add:

Boy living in forest town gets Dog

Dog runs off into generic forest

Girl finds Dog by steady stream

Boy looks for Dog in creepy forest

Boy finds Girl with Dog by little waterfall

Depending on what drives your writing, you could instead of locations use dialogue (Boy mumbling for himself, Boy yelling, Boy cursing, Boy praying... eventually Boy talks to Girl), minor events (trips on shoelaces, finds pawprints, hears Girl talking to Dog), moods (Boy **, Boy, scared, Boy exhausted), weather (sunny, rainy, windy, misty), time of day (morning, day, evening, night), environment (underbrush, snow, mudpools), wording pace, or anything else. Just, find that thing that you see the story in.

Adapt these to your story and see what happens. Unless you write mechanically, don't plan too much.

I find myself people-watching a lot, too. You can really get a lot of different ideas just by watching how people act and react to certain things.

Thunderstorms and rain always get me in a creative mood, too. I don't know why.

I find myself people-watching a lot, too. You can really get a lot of different ideas just by watching how people act and react to certain things.

Thunderstorms and rain always get me in a creative mood, too. I don't know why.

Sorry!

Some people say that they get plots slowly over a period of time. For me, it's almost always a BANG experience. I'm sitting around and then suddenly the plot comes out of nowhere, smacks me in the head, and implants itself in my brain.

Do you ever misread or mishear something and get an idea from it? I do.

For example, a little while ago my friend texted me and said, "I have a brother!" I immediately thought that she had found out that she had a sibling that had been raised by a different family, and they were just now reunited. It turns out that really her parents had just sponsored a child in Peru, but my mistake ended up forming part of a plot in one of my stories.

Also, I will sometimes have a certain portion of a plot worked out and have no idea where I'm going with it, and then one day I will just all of a sudden get this idea that fits into the first part of the plot perfectly.

Usually I'm just listening to music. I sit and listen to the music and lyrics and the mood of the overall thing. Usually writing just comes to me whenever I'm listening to music.

Hmmm... i got inspiration for my book from taking a social psychology class and learning about schizophrenia. then a week later in church, the priest didn't even say anything that triggered this, but i turned to my mom and was like "I just got the BEST idea for a book!!!!" and, of course, she said, "I don't want to hear about it." haha

I just normally think of a really interesting plot. then i think of the people I want to create. I make a list of EVERYTHING about them: hair color, eye color, height, childhood experiences, weird habits, behavior, the way they sit in a chair, dimples or no dimples, what they like to wear, whether they prefer a city or the country, etc... it goes on and on. then i fit them into the plotline and change the plot a little to match their personalities. then, if there's going to be a huge twist in the story, i decide what chapter that's going to be in. then i just start writing at chapter 1!!!

1) music - when i'm writing and listening to it, it's like i can hear the song and the story at the same time.

2) a good book - one that really touches me!

3) nature - i simply love nature, everytime i go outside it's like these random thoughts just let themselves in. it's practically like meditating, because my mind just opens up to everything.

4) conversation - i'll be talking to someone about something, and the topic is just screaming at me to write on it.

5) media - if i watch something on the news, or an ad and it touches me, i'll go look it up on the internet. like the topic of animal experimentation--that just horrified me! i need to get working on that essay...

6) colors - ever closed your eyes and seen a few color spots mixed in with the black? that inspires me. :P

7) earth - as in dirt, sand, mud. i love to go and sit down in it and run it through my fingers. (ppl think i'm crazy for wanting to sit on the ground all the time, i'll refuse an perfectly empty seat if it means i get to sit on the dirty floor) and since i'm down in New Mexico it's normally warm sand. that just calms me down and thoughts start coming in.

hmmm...that's all i got for now, i may add more later.

- From the Earthen Ground -

8) school - yeah, that's right, school. can't beleive that place gives me anything, but it DOES give me inspiration. anywho's, we discuss a lot of interesting things in school. sometimes math work inspires me, i swear, looking at algabraic equations makes me inspired! weird...

9) my pets - my sweet doggie, Roxie. my lovely cats, Frisky, Ketra, and Silky. they are so human-like, i consider them my sisters and brother. they are always doing the weirdest things, and it gives me inspiration for things humans will do.

10) art - when i went to the art gallery a few weeks ago i got a whole load of inspiration. and i normally get a lot from DeviantArt.

11) people - often times i like to just watch ppl, they're so strange sometimes.

- From the Earthen Ground -

- Bobbie

I would love to be able to publish a book one day. That would be amazing.

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