For some reason I am inspired by nature..mostly weather-thunderstorms, lightning, rain, etc. Last night there was a big thunderstorm and all of the sudden I just HAD to write a story..and it talked about the rain and a storm defeating a young girl who laid dying in her car. It's actually quite cool. It's comin to the writers club soon..after I fix it up a bit. But all my other stories include nature in some way..one about the falling snowflakes twisting in the moonlight..another only talking about taking midnight walks through streams and such. I've also found that it's almost impossible for me to write in a closed up stuffy room. I either have to be outside experiencing it first hand or at least have a window open!

So what inspires you to write??

Sorry if this is already a thread...I searched, but topics like this are so hard to search for, ya know.

"Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead."
-Anon.

A lot of times music inspires me to write....especially when I'm sitting in the car listening to my headphones and looking out the window. Other times....my muse just comes to me, it's pretty random haha. But I'm different, I guess I always shut myself up somewhere when I write....I hardly ever write outside or in the open or anything like that. So that's me!



Love,
Stargirl

I will only write when I feel I want to, my inspiration can came from anywhere at anytime. It is often possible for me to write something every other night because I do have quite a busy muse, however that for me is not as important as really wanting to write.

I love english, I love words, but as a matter of principle I don't ever want any work of mine on Quoteland that is forced, that needs, instead of wants to be written and does not come from my own desire.

best wishes,
Hope {Grant}

I found your picture today
I swear I'll change my ways
I just called to say I want you to come back home
I just called to say, I love you come back home (Sheryl Crow and Kid Rock)

Stella Splendens
December 22, 1985 - March 27, 2003
RIP

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Sometimes, I am so exhausted by 'inspiration'. It's everywhere...I carry this notebook around (covered in snowboarding stickers to hide how ugly it really is) wherever I go, that way when inspiration strikes, I write. Some things move on quickly, though, and I let them get stale in the notebook because all desire to write about them is gone.

I couldn't peg one thing as completely inspiring, like you have Yella. Wish I could! Then maybe my muse would give me a break sometimes. ::aggg::

belesprit

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I get mostly inspired by nature and the sky. Ah, the twilight sky. I adore twilight. And snow, plus rainy says sometimes can do it. I could sit there for hours watching it rain....and sit there and get soaked. I don't carry a notebook around. (lol Belesprit) but i do randomly pull out a notebook from school on the bus or something, or if i get inspired and i dont have one, i'll demand a pen and i'll write it on my arms/hands/legs....and then write it out on paper when i finally get some..I think I've reached the pinnacle of weirdness here.


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Dancing Motion, sleek and smooth Christens dewdrops on my head Kissing the heavens Making them wish to sigh--"Silk"

Imbued, I'm the same as you. If I get something in my head and have no paper, by the end of the day my whole body is covered in ink!hah . Well I get my inspiration from boredom. I swear, I cannot look outside at the beautiful scenery and words start flowing, I cant be in a relaxed situation with no one around to bother me, I cant be sitting in my own little space with mood music playing, I have to be bored. Usually, I start to get things in my head during a very important test review class for biology, or at the dinner table, or listening to my math teacher ramble on about triginomotry! It's mad I tell you, mad!



--Some days all you gotta do every mornin' is stand up and say "Satan, don't you be gettin' in my business today!"--

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I couldn't peg one thing as completely inspiring, like you have Yella. Wish I could! Then maybe my muse would give me a break sometimes.

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No, actually it's better to have tons of things that inspire you. I wish I did. Then I could write in different styles better..maybe about different things even. I would also write more often because here in WI the weather isn't all that exciting, lol. I wish other things inspired me more..I'm not saying they don't at all. Sometimes I'll get a different inspiration, but that doesn't happen very often.

"Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead."
-Anon.

Currently, I'm inspired by nature and colours...and also A*****v. He's been on my mind lately...

Inspiration usually strikes me during exams... I have one day after...and I wrote a poem today...

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"You can't expect a flower garden,
If you can't handle the occasional weed." - Fair_Gwenofair

Many things inspire me. A book, another good poem, my past, my sisters, my brother, music.

Yes. all of that.

always ~
duDette (kari)
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I found your picture today
I swear I'll change my ways
I just called to say I want you to come back home
I just called to say, I love you come back home (Sheryl Crow and Kid Rock)

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Stella Splendens
December 22, 1985-March 27, 2003
RIP

really cool music inspires me to write, and when I walk home from track I play out long stories in my head, being alone walking always gives me good ideas ( I wonder what would happen if I.... )

Near enough nothing. I find it difficult to write, when putting pen to paper, my mind just goes blank as a white sheet of paper.

Are you looking for me? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours. You will not find me in stupas, not in indian shrine rooms, nor in synagogues, nor in cathedrals: not in masses, nor kirtans, not in legs winding around your own neck, nor in eating nothing but vegetables. When you really look for me, you will see me instantly- you will Find me in the tiniest house of time.
Kabir says: Student, tell me, what is God?
He is the breath inside the breath.

i can easily be inspired to write by people and their backgrounds and whatever relationship i have with them. from brief meetings with strangers to long conversations with old friends....they all inspire me. i like to develop characters as much as possible when i write, so naturally it is people that interest me.
nature inspires me a lot too....but usually for poetry, not stories.

I trust people. I just don't trust the devil inside them. - The Italian Job

Generally strong pain-related emotions, something that makes me hurt-a death, rough times at school, trouble with parents, seeing others suffer (this one especially). Surprisingly you don't see a lot of that really reflected in my writing. For two reasons. First of all, I personally can't stand reading someone's work that is all about some petty grievance that will pass (ie broke up with girlfriend/boyfriend), and would rather not subject others to it as well. For pain that I do feel isn't some pathetic teenage trauma, like...well more recently the death of a family member, I still almost subconsciously remind myself of what good is left, and what I have to live for, and inspiration and concepts naturally come from that. A lot of my prose (most of which I don't share..but maybe would like to) is all about finding unlikely beauty, and I guess that's just what has kept me up, no matter how shitty any situation is, I really do find a lot of hope in it. And beauty in tears. As for situations that inspire me? Settings? Anything that makes me ask questions. Something to make me think. Sure, sunsets are beautiful, but that isn't something I feel compelled to write about, but instead, maybe, how many other people, all around me and before me, have seen the same sunset-what are their stories? Also, traditionally "ugly" scenes inspire me. I love to challenge myself to see beauty in each one, and it really makes it fascinating to write about.

Bunnies. Bunnies are my inspiration.

Though seriously, probably just a huge nebulous web of things...
Frustration or beauty are magnets for pen and paper...
And a quirky mood can spark rhyming capers...

I don't know about others, but loneliness seems to make me write as much as anything else... When I'm feeling romantic or passionate about the world and I have no outlet it crystalises into dry ink...

Yeah, I guess I couldn't say any one thing...

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When I'm feeling romantic or passionate about the world and I have no outlet it crystalises into dry ink...

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i gotta say fuzzies....that sounds kinda profound!

I trust people. I just don't trust the devil inside them. - The Italian Job

Who was it who said, "Inspiration comes after writing begins"? Many things make me feel "inspired", but my best and most insightful work comes after I've already been writing for a couple days straight.

Like this poem. I spent a week writing it, and I think it's among the very best things I've ever done:



I'm so proud

and so appreciative

" and then he withdrew, paused, and mechanically smiled,
unaware that at that moment I thought

-- one day i will kill you for that smile --



I guess I'll post that in the poetry forum.

-Toad.

inspiration? Mostly, just words.

When I do anything, I see and hear in word in my head. And anything can 'catch fire' in my ears. Whether it's someone else's words, or if it's a song, or a line from a song, or a part of someone else's conversation, or the feelings, or a passing glance, or anything really. although I usually catch it better when it's short- and if it's longer, then I have to read it by myself (usually). But I think that's because I don't hear myself as well repeating what they're reading in my head... and plus I don't have the attention span half the time.

Inspiration is everywhere. Anywhere. It's annoying, and pleasing at the same time.

Maybe it's not words, maybe it's just life.= )

-Harv
Stella Splendens
December 22, 1985-March 27, 2003

I feel inspired early in the morning when the all the people have gone to bed, and i listen to the sounds of nature. I get scared and inspired.
DEPRESSION inspires me.
Bad books, movies, and songs; because i begin to think how I could have done it so much better.
HAPPINESS inspires me, but I am too bust trying to spread it that i never find time to write.
Sometimes I wake up with words in my head and I have to write them down, and it just grows from there.

Inspiration is everywhere.. Earlier usually I would have spur-of-the-moment inspirations and I would write on impulse. Nature and “inspiration” used to be my inspirations, most of my works would be optimistic and fresh (that might be the positive aspect) and ‘unplanned’ and ill-structured -or unstructured - (that might be the negative aspect)(some of my earlier works posted at QL embarrass me !).. now, I think a bit before I write.. when I am inspired by some incident from my life, or some feeling of mine, I find myself holding back instead of writing something about it as I am not sure how much I would want to share on paper, or save in my computer, or post it in QL and another site.. if the theme’s more impersonal though, I try to write something on it.. [I do like autobiographical works as well, but I haven’t tried writing many myself..]

In short, I think inspiration is everywhere and nature, my feelings, others’ gestures, suffering, another good book, or the mere challenge of trying to write something, can inspire me.. and I do think anyone can write on anything and make it interesting or ruin it..

By the way, it’s been fun reading your responses, guys!

Good luck with your writings!

"Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea !"

~by Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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I don't know about others, but loneliness seems to make me write as much as anything else... When I'm feeling romantic or passionate about the world and I have no outlet it crystalises into dry ink...

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Yeah - being lonely sucks especially when you hear that dumb love song on the radio. It makes you do two things. One - write about being lonely. Two - write about being with someone. Either or it makes you write. Which is good - oui?

Music is a big factor for me. I use to write a lot of love poems and the main inspiration was Mariah Carey. Her beautiful voice makes every word stand out. Also - Evanesence. (Sp?) Their music is crazy. I always feel like writing something after hearing one of their songs.

So mainly music inspires me. Along with the occasional feeling of loneliness.



¤Deep in the valley, carved on the rock, three little words, Forget Me Not.¤