Things That Inspire You

Mel Brooks.
Monty Python.

Stuff like that.

At the moment, classical music.

Journey, Coldplay, and The Killers as of late.

Also, this picture:



So pretty!

Scandinavian interior designers, omg. It's all so sleek looking.
And playlists from 8-tracks.

Movie soundtracks, especially LotR and HP xD
Whenever I get stuck with how a scene should be mood wise in my fanfics, I go listen to the movie soundtracks. It helps a lot.

This picture.

Slow, french music.

big band music.
sinatra always will.
also, my puppy has been lately.
finally, overanalyzing things. my god

Pictures, and sometime when my little cousins laugh and smile.
Yeah, It's cheesy, But, Capturing the moment when a little kid feels like
they have the world in their hand is exquisite, It's a heart swelling moment that
gives every writer happiness to express that in words. When I describe something
I use larger words, that helps me when I write stories.

Icamane-CutFootloose:

My dreams inspire me xD
And my friend Max insists he's my muse...

Mine do too. :)

That's where I get most, if not all, of my ideas.

Oh and classical music helps a lot, too.

Random, I know, but that Sesame Street video was really funny

Inspiration strikes me sometimes when I'm really into a movie and studying how a character actually is or a scene. Sometimes that inspires me to write a spin off for it.

My everyday life and friends in general inspire me. Sometimes it's just the random funny things and the overall happy feeling I get when we're just hanging out. Other times, I get inspired by old poems and songs that I wrote as well as others and I pick up their emotions.

Music, if they have really meaningful lyrics, inspire me. Like 'May Angels Lead You In' by Jimmy Eat world. :') fantastic song. It inspired me for one part of my story when the one character never has a chance to tell the other how they actually feel and the last time she sees him is in a down pour. One scene, and I had like twenty chapters leading up to it. I was very excited.

I just went to the Met today (Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC) and oh my goodness I've never felt more inspired and compelled to write a story in my life.

There was this entire section that was like a recreation of an English mansion back in the 1600s, with a wooden bed covered entirely in blue silk damask. It was a four poster bed and it was like twelve feet tall...OMG. The dining rooms were so beautiful and the wood and marble were carved to every detail, and there was a false staircase that curved up around your head and an enormous grandfather clock...I seriously can't describe it all. I'm still in shock. I want to use all of it in my NaNo story.

I want to live in that exhibit.

Watching movies always inspires me to go and create. Forget about names, plots, backstories, even logic some of the time...and just write. And sometimes, through the mass of words I end up writing based on that movie, it can evolve into a story. I do it all the time, but I don't post everything I write, so it's hardly ever seen.

Songs inspire me a lot too, that's probably the main one. A Nickelback song called Just To Get High was the main inspiration for my story Pyromania. Listen to the song, then read the story, and you'll see the connection. A Pantera song inspired my first story on here, one line from it actually. But that's a whole different story altogether when that happens.

Quotes. Random snippets of thing, and you have no idea where they come from, but they become your story's focus.

no one knows.
one day, i will be a twig.

Lower caps and everything. I don't know why, but I just really like it.

Other peoples' stories. You know, the -worthy ones.

Books with amazing short quotes or phrases. "...its sordid sinners and splendid sins...." Sordid Sinners is definitely going to be the title of something, I just don't know what yet.

When I get hurt in my actual life. It's why I have a pen name. So no one from school will find my writing and use my soul against me. I guess getting hurt only brings me back up.

Random things. I save half of my ideas as notes on my phone because they come to me while I'm doing the most mundane things.
And Bon Iver.

The Sabres not losing, but that's not happening anytime soon

Music usually inspires me to write. Mostly classical, game/movie soundtracks, and Say Anything. Max is a lyrical genius, it just--fuck. <3

I'm making a habit of carrying around this cute pocketbook, and jotting things down. Like when someone says something that would be good dialogue, a plot that punches me in the face in the middle of class, or a friend is telling a story. I feel kind of weird using my friends' experiences as material, but yeah . . . Whatever it takes.

A lot of books, lately. Particularly Poppy Z Brite's works and Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.

And songs, sometimes. But it's more that the inspiration comes from books or something else and the music helps... fuel it, I guess. I can't read while I write, so I'll listen to music that fits whatever it might be that I'm writing about that's inspired by the book or whatever. [/terrible wording]