Where do you find your material for creative writing? I write lyrics for songs. I sometimes actually go to a website that is totally against my beliefs, and post questions. Then when I get interesting responses, I use that to create the concept. Any other unusual ideas?
i write poetry. i start workin on songs, but never finish them. what i usually do is think about how i'm feeling and look at lyrics or words written in a poem that i relate to then somehow come up with words for the poem. i'm gonna start workin on a book about my experiences with bi-polar disorder. i've dealt with it my whole life. i came up with the idea for that book after thinking about a book written by a state-raised convict about the prison system, so i think it'll be a good idea for people to read about bi-polar from someone that has it.
A tree at the bottom of the garden Songs inspire me a lot. One novel I'm working on just came to me at random listening to one particular song. I could totally imagine the situation surronding it, the kind of woman who would convey that message and such. Mostly it's not that direct, just the emotion of the song can spark ideas and get me in tune to write a scene. Pictures can do that too. Cliche as it, real life can be inspiring. In an indirect way, just remembering a particular event then working something similar into a story. Also from what other people have written, especially if they are similar to something I'm working on. I tend to internalise them then play out alternative scenarios or whatever. I get most of my ideas in the middle of the night, just before bed my subconcious seems to attack me.
Excellent idea. I would like to read it when you're finished. That's you with the guitar? Are ya any good? I think musicians tend to have more creative flow than average anyhow. And they say that very creatively talented people are more prone to being bi-polar. I think it's because they are just more sensitive in general. And music, art, writing, is all about emotion. Another thing I do when trying to write lyrics is imagine having antennae that pick up bits and pieces of "song-flow" from out of the "cosmose", and then I come along later and fill in the gaps. I really feel like some of the material I've written already existed before I "discovered" it and put it together... It was just waiting for the right person to come along.
yea, that's me. i've been playin for three years. i'm self-taught. i like my style of playin, but there's a lot more musicians better than me.
Hard for me to say, if there is only one place where my inspiration comes from, but most of the time its feelings, Its like an addicition i need to get my fix, I have written on many different topics, and mostly its just ideas that pop into my head, i find that if i try too hard i can't create anything at all. But some song lyrics from phish song called Waves that i thought you might like are: How is it I never see The waves that bring me her words to me for though unseen they drift around they catch my breath and knock me down I feel them quickly swirling by As they withdraw with my reply And slip into the dark of night As I attemt to stay upright Instead I'm stranded on my knees As words depart upon the breeze That quickly drifts away from here And possibly won't reach her ear If we could see the many waves that flow through clouds and sunken caves She'd sense at least the words that sought her on the winds of the underwater
I just tend to write what's in my head at the time. Therefore, the stuff that I come up with usually depends on my mood.
They come form everywhere.It also depends on what Im wirting.If its a fanstsy story some ideas come form other books,video games,geek culture.If its a far-out story the ideas would come form religon,my own dreams,hippie culture,music.If its a realalistic sotry then it most comes form my own life and point of veiw and emo culture.Most ideas though come out of a mix of it all and thin air.
I get alot of inspiration from music, the moods and expressions, the human drama, the feelings and emotions coming from each song sort of drive my mind to express its own self... From there? Well, I also get inspiration from reading books. Whether it be an idea or a concept or even just the desire to write something as well. I try to take any thing that pops into my head and fly with it.
Since 2 or 3 years ago I take inspiration especially from little daily things, people I see on bus, strees, bars and so...then I create stories about them, with a sort of rythmate poetry in Perec' style (not so good like him!). I see a sort of movie in my head, and I bring him on paper. Last times my metric style is like this: "Ci sono troppe persone, l'aria è calda, il condizionatore non funziona. Non vede chi è vicino a lui in quel momento. Occhi socchiusi ovunque. Puzza di alcool. Un giornale per terra, forse due. Menti sporgenti. Ci sono dei sedili, ma non si capisce di quale colore siano. Sporcizia. Un piccolo cosmo. Lava, pioggia. Ed infine corre fuori da quel cosmo, si lava le mani sotto la pioggia. Lava. Pioggia. Non smettere mai di cadere. Inginocchiati, stringi gli occhi, ferisci le tue mani per capire. Le tue scarpe sono bagnate. ("Cosa pensavi che fosse?") E' bello il tuo maglione. Hai un nuovo profumo addosso? Fa tanto male quella mano? Ora l'atmosfera è di nuovo calda, ma molto diversa. Da piccolo temevi che quel pavimento ti avrebbe riempito i piedi di schegge. Da quei tempi non sei cambiato poi tanto, vero? Hai sempre terrore del dolore, poggi una mano sulla fronte come una diva e ti ritiri nelle tue stanze, in jeans e pantofole. Almeno ora le mani mentre stringono il bicchiere sono riscaldate. Mani bianchissime, nocche sporgenti. Adoravano i tuoi polsi, vero? Ricordi sempre quel nome?" Sorry if is in Italian, but as you can see I'm not good in English. Hope you've understand anyway what I mean This kind of style is born when I was not at school on some mornings on the sea, suffering for an endend relationship So, music and sea was inspiring me above all, and now music is a good inspiration everytime and everywhere
Why, the inspiration-tree or course. And also drugs. jk, jk.. well, sort of I tend to be inspired by all sorts of things. As long as my mind is open and ready to create, anything from a nice day, to a pretty smile or a big ol' bong rip, might get me thinkin-thinkin. Also, eat lots of bran. Ganja_Goo
most all of my writings, if you can call them that, come from conversations with people...the conversation sparks many things....the writing and further questions...and nearly all that i write is in a questioning manner. not good at that this is this and that is that writing
and gypzy..forget the i wanna live in a tree...i wanna look at him everyday..how beautifully contemplative he is
I get my ideas from a blue gnome that lives in a shed down the road. I pay him twenty pennies (they have to be pennies) and he gives me ideas. (straight answer: my ideas typically only come to me when Im in a positive or need-to-be cathartic mood. Thus I would say, its an emotional drive that somehow spews out this mix of things that ive experienced in my life, frappe'd by the blender of my subconscious. When I need a catharsis, the ideas are related to the thing I need to vent. Other stuff seems to come from some weird well I dont really fully understand. Random things pop into my head, and I string them into some semblance of sense.) That darn gnome is knocking - I guess he wants his pennies now.
i usually say three out-of-the-hat words and try to connect them to eachother. i then come up with a plot for the story.
In my case I fall into a trance like state and when I come around I have a complete novel finished in my mind. From there it is just a matter of getting it down on paper. I dont know who or what brings me my ideas in this way but I am sure gratefull that they do. Pith
when i write first i usually have to get into the mood, and do so by listening to insipiring artists, watching interesting topics on tv, or just sit and dream and think. my favorite method of writing is when i turn on some jazz, or any other chillin flowin music w/out words, and i get into a complete different state of mind. i try to feel the music. i call it getting high w/out the bud. then ill lie on my bed and vision a different world. the only thing at this point going through my head is the music and visions. (its like watching fantasia).. then every few min ill think of a line, and ill write that line down..then by the end of the selected tape my poem is finished (but the funnest way is to inhale something magical )
