Where do you get your ideas?

[Colby]

Showers and in bed are the only two times I have for uninterrupted thinking. So I do a lot of that there.

[Elliott]

So I wasn't sure where to put this, but I figured it fit in this topic as well as any topic.

A couple weeks ago I read Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. Right after I finished reading the book, I wrote my Seventeen Magazine contest entry. A couple days ago I put the contest entry into one of those generator things that tells you what author you write like and it said I write like Ray Bradbury which excited me.

I told my mommy about that and she asked if I had just read anything by him and I was like DUDE. O___o

So yeah. I think what you read influences what you write quite a bit. It'd be interesting to do a study on it if I had the time/resources. xD

[Brigid ✩, No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.]

That is quite true. I know my favorite books have really inspired what I've written. :)

[Jo]

Hey! People, I've thought up a story on two teen criminal siblings (Yv and Mikael) that get sent to boot camp in Siberia, where Yv meets Seraphine, which turns Yv Twihard, then a serial killer stalks the camp...and then Yv, who is under the notion that he is a vampire.

Any comments?

[Elliott]

That sounds... interesting. It's not the type of story I'd usually read and it sounds like it might get a bit confusing, but if you think it sounds like something you'd like to write, go for it!

[Jo]

I also had an idea for a 4D terror attraction based on a nightmare, but...nevermind.

[Elliott]

What was your nightmare about?

[Jo]

...That's why I said nevermind.

[Elliott]

..?

[B.R]

Dreams mostly. Real life. The news. Songs. Pretty much everywhere.

[Elliott]

Don't forget about the voices. ;)

[Sarah]

I get my ideas from movies and my friends/family. That is why I am going to watch a movie every day.

[Poet in the Dark]

Just looking at people, things, and situations and allowing my mind to wander. My moods have a lot to do with my ideas, too.

[Jo]

What ideas? xD