Muses

I've recently found out that coffee helps.

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I've recently found out that coffee helps.

I don't drink coffee when I write, but I drink a lot of soda.
:tehe: Keeps me awake, honestly. I fall asleep a lot when writing.

I can't write when it's quiet.
I either have music playing or the TV on. I hate silence when writing.

My muse is probably music.

I can generate a story idea out of almost any song.

Not saying it will be any good. But yeah. When I listen to music my head opens up a little and starts thinking.

Sometimes I can come up with really good ideas from a single line or phrase in a song or something somone I know said.

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Objects and visual things. Color is a really big one, too. I was on a painting kick a few years ago. Maybe it comes from that.

My characters end up being my muses. That's why my stories are usually written in first person because it seems like they're telling me what's going on and I just write it down. My friends get creeped out a lot because I'll get surprised about a character and what they did. :XD

But also songs, movies and pictures also help give me the idea but it's usually a character.

music

My muse is gum. Sweet Mint Obrit, mostly. :yah I have to be chewing it to focus, otherwise I grind my teeth and then my jaw aches.

Piano music or other soft music without lyrics does it for me. I turn on a long playlist with music like that and I'm usually able to write again even if I had a writer's block.

Napping helps with untangling complicated sentence structures and plot holes.

Cold nights. I find it harder to write during the day, during summer especially.

And candles. I write by hand by candlelight, and I'm not sure why, but everything comes out better like that.

I came up with a song (it's not fully posted here, but there's a section of it in one of my other poems) just when I heard 2 girls at school talking about how they didn't want to have to play hockey and how they hoped it would rain. I just walked by, and one said, "it's already raining". And BAM! Inspiration!

Alot of the time, just everyday things inspire me. Just snippets of conversation, things I see written on desks or on toilet cubicles. Things that you just don't really notice until you think about it proplerly.

I used to be inspired by things I saw in movies or read in books. Nowadays I try to keep more of an open mind about the things that inspire me. Lately, whenever I have trouble writing, I'll do a random search on DeviantART to try and find a picture that might help inspire me to write. It's usually such a big help, too.

But mostly a lot of my inspiration comes from real life. Not just my own life, but also my family, friends and other people around me. Whenever I'm in the car or going for a walk, I like to just stare out the window at the houses going past and try to imagine what kind of people live and what their lives are like. I do that when I'm out shopping as well. I'll watch people when I'm having lunch or waiting in a queue at a store, for example, just looking around at all the people and come up with different scenarios in my head of the kinds of lives they have.

It's pretty interesting and it helps me develop all different kinds of relationships for my characters.

I find inspiration in small things.
Like a line from a song or a book, or maybe something someone said. Sometimes even a certain note from certain songs makes me write like crazy. Or just hearing someone's voice.

Smoking is a muse.

Music, reading and sometimes watching a little TV. 0_o

Bunnie, music, and sunflower seeds.

Music, pictures, and my best friend.
Once mybestie gets rolling I get rolling, we're just that intune.

I'll be listening to my iPod in the car and then I'll come up with a loose idea of a story. It actually just happened to me today. It's kind of crazy, actually.

Most of the time my muse is my hometown. Even though I hate it most of the time I draw inspiration from environments and characters from my own neighbors and scenery.

I don't have a specific person or object that influences my story writing or how I come up with ideas, but whenever I find a new artist (musically), I tend to take inspiration from their lyrics or persona or even their music videos. Currently, my muse is Lana Del Ray

Maddi is my muse