Inspiration? - Comments

Sometimes looking through Pinterest helps me! I used to make boards for each of my stories and I felt that it was super effective when writing scenes or trying to figure out to where lead the scene. Doing this helped me figure out the overall theme and aesthetic of the story! Another thing that helps me is sitting down and forcing myself to make an intensive outline so this actually motivated me to write chapters without feeling too overwhelmed

@ PhenoBarbiDoll
Agreed. We write for ourselves but feedback encourages you to keep going.

Yes!!!!! And then I want to tell people to listen to the song while they read the scene to fully get the impact. Lol. ... I think that's part of why we're all struggling with inspiration, the lack of activity. When no one reads, comments, or interacts at all, it's just hard.

@ PhenoBarbiDoll
Scenes will pop into my head too when I listen to music. I imagine what would be going on while the song plays in the background like a tv show. I went to check out what contests they have going on and there don't seem to be many. I guess there aren't as many people being active on this site like they used to.

My plots always change mid-story. Lol. It's terrible. My inspiration usually comes from music. I'll be listening to a song and a scene will form in my head. The downside of this is that sometimes I can't connect the scene to anything else and I have to trash it or save it for a later date. BUT writing even a short scene randomly can, of course, help the flow.

I was stuck for a long time. Well, more like caught up in life. I'm just getting my mojo back. One of the things that has kept me on task is doing cowrites with two of my friends. And, like Ghoul Scouts suggested, I know a lot of people who say entering contests helps.

Yep!

@ TheDevilsHalo;
Oh man, the struggles of being a writer lol. You know you wanna write but have no idea where to start.

That's understandable! My stories are the same... I don't know where any of them are going

@ TheDevilsHalo;
I like the picture idea as well! As for my current story, it's more of a fuzzy generalization because it keeps changing. I originally started the idea as a teenager but as you get older your writing matures with you as you experience life and I wanted the story to mature as well.

@ Ghoul Scouts
You know, I think a writing contest would help. It forces you to create something in a short time frame and that's probably exactly what I need. Thanks!

Have you tried setting yourself daily writing tasks? Like, finding a picture on google and describing it, no matter what the picture is... describe it and add as much detail as possible!

There's also questions that you can ask yourself about your current story: What's the end goal? What's two main things that you want the final chapters to include? Do you have an ending planned out?

Having details already set can spir your inspiration and motivate you to want to write it.

I was right there with you for the longest time. I thought my writers block was permanent. One day...it just suddenly came back? But looking at prompts on pinterest, and entering writing contests definitely helped me too.