A Little Bit of Inspiration

The other day, I mentioned that I was a bit strapped, creatively speaking. I have been having something of a tough time with The Novel and well… writing anything at all, really. Persistent depression and the after-effects of my medications notwithstanding, it turns out that what I was really needed was a little bit of inspiration.

Here are three places that I happened to find inspiration this weekend.

Litopia’s Flash Club

I recently joined Litopia, an awesome community of writers who have turned out to be very supportive and patient with a n00b such as myself. Litopia has this awesome section called the Flash Club. Each week, a prompt is given and anyone who would like to participate is encouraged to share a piece of flash fiction up to 500 words. I ended up sharing a piece for the 2016 April Week 3 Flash Prompt. I had an amazing amount of fun writing it.

Michael Coorlim’s Random Story Title Generator

I got wind of this awesome tool via Chuck Wendig’s 1000-word Flash Fiction Challenge at www.terribleminds.com. The awesome titles that Chuck provided for this challenge were all courtesy of Michael Coorlim’s Random Story Title Generator. I decided to check it out and I’ve been having a lot of fun with it.

While my particular piece written for this challenge did not meet the 1000-word requirement, I have posted the entry on my blog. The title I chose to work with was The Body Will Not Be Dimensional. Incidentally, I had so much fun working on this that I’ve been toying with the idea of expanding it into a full-length short story. We’ll see.

Pinterest

I keep an “Inspiration” board on Pinterest. I’ve somehow managed to get to a point where I have pinned over 1300 images to this board. Each of these images moved or affected me in some visceral way, which means that at any given moment, I simply have to look at this board and at least one of these images will give me an idea or two for a story.

Feel free to follow this board, and if you haven’t already, I heartily recommend creating one of your own. It is both fun and useful.

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