Writing From

[Joeanne]

where are you guys finding your inspriation? Are your ideas thought about, instantly there, coming from your dreams, ect.
Put it here (not you ideas, but where it comes from)

[RedPath]

My ideas come from al sorts of random places. But as it keeps pestering me, I try to develop the story and logic and plot before I start writing.

It's always a little different, but it's roughly along those lines.

[Summer]

Quirky or irregular things, child hood fantasies, dreams, the shower, and music. Whenever I need inspiration for a character I'll probably look up some sort of music.

[Joeanne]

Thats interesting , but as weird as i am i have nightmares ever night and i pull my ideas from them.

[Summer]

You have nightmares every night? I'm sorry, I have a nightmare on rare occasions but not every night. *shivers*

I aslo pull of music vids.

[Kriss]

I've never had a nightmare.

[Summer]

!!?? Craziness. I get really bad nightmares sometimes. Like I'll wake up and litterally jerk up into a sitting posistion and start crying. And the worst part is you can never remember what your freaking out about!!!

[[deleted user]]

Some ideas come from dreams, but I don't usually use them. I get most ideas from other people's stories or from thinking about it.

[[deleted user]]

At one point I got really excited because I had a dream from the perspective of my character. He was practically handing me things on a platter and narrating what he was doing. But then when I woke up I realized what he said was total gibberish and would get me locked up in a white rubber room if I wrote it...

[Laura]

Usually I get ideas from music...or other books. Or weird experiences, or TV shows, or simply observing people in life.

[Kriss]

Uh... I get my ideas from anything, really. And I mean anything.

[Jayda]

I'm the same as Kriss.

[Ellen]

Yep, same as Kriss. It's really funny what some little tiny object can be the inspiration for a novel. Lol.
-And this is already a conversation under the Inspiration and Ideas section. Lol :D

[Isaac]

Well, my romance novels come from (this is really cheesy, prepare youselves) all the passionate feelings inside of me that I can't share 'cause no one I actually like has a romantic interest in me... it's all the ugly boys.... *shudders*

[Laura]

*glomps* It's okay...they'll grow out of their ugliness soon enough. ^^ haha

[[deleted user]]

Laura wrote: "Usually I get ideas from music...or other books. Or weird experiences, or TV shows, or simply observing people in life."

Same here.

[Isaac]

Laura wrote: "*glomps* It's okay...they'll grow out of their ugliness soon enough. ^^ haha"

I sure hope so... but none of them are going to be the man of my dreams, because frankly, I can't even write and describe a character that would be the man of my dreams. The peoples I write about in my romances are basically just parts of the man of my dreams.

[Laura]

Emily, Zepikness Savior of the Muffins wrote: "Laura wrote: "*glomps* It's okay...they'll grow out of their ugliness soon enough. ^^ haha"

I sure hope so... but none of them are going to be the man of my dreams, because frankly, I can't even..."

I have no man of my dreams, being the unromantic freak I am.

[Elliott]

I get my ideas from my friends. I basically watch them, and then when they do something funny, it goes into a story. I also get ideas from the randomness of my brain. Like I'll be writing and I write something completely weird and random, look back, read it, and say where in the world did that come from?

[Elliott]

Yeah, it's really weird and fun at the same time. I was working on one of my stories, and my main character, Brooke, was walking through a hall in the hospital, I was trying to be all cool and describey so I described a cute little girl, and boom Brooke's playing Lego's with her and offering to be her new babysitter. It turned out well, but I have no clue where it came from.

[Elliott]

I've found out that the best way to get ideas is to write. Even when you're stuck if you just sit down and start writing ideas will come.

[Isaac]

Laura wrote: "Emily, Zepikness Savior of the Muffins wrote: "Laura wrote: "*glomps* It's okay...they'll grow out of their ugliness soon enough. ^^ haha"

I sure hope so... but none of them are going to be the ma..."

That's sad, I pour out all those feelings into my writing, being the ugly person I am today. Grr, I HATE it when my dad says he'll have to buy guns to chase boys off when I've only been asked out twice in my entire life... which I greatfully refused, as they were more ugly boys.

[Elliott]

But see, you're kind of doing what people do to you. Denying them because they're ugly.

[Isaac]

Thanks, Lav, for that delightful imput.