plot inspiration, what inspires your stories? |
  Oct 3 2008, 04:09 AM
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Professional Diagon Alley Window Shopper  Posts: 74 Joined: 12:16am May 30, 2008 Location: lounging in the hogwarts grounds  |
hi everyone!
i am starting this thread for two reasons. 1. i want to see ways to think outside the box 2. i need inspiration myself! post your ideas here! -------------------- 'I am a Wizard, Not a baboon brandishing a stick! ' |
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Oct 17 2008, 09:24 AM
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Mending the Chair at Ollivander's Posts: 2,729 Joined: 6:31pm April 2, 2005 Location: Exploring the Hogwarts library :) |
Usually a plot just comes to me while I'm walking around outside. The other day I had to read a book for history and I got a really good idea (or so I thought at the time), but when it came time to write it, I decided that I couldn't write it, at least now now. I also tend to get ideas while I'm daydreaming before bed.
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Oct 17 2008, 09:46 AM
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Daily Prophet Photographer Posts: 861 Joined: 10:04am June 8, 2005 Location: Yes, it's a stuffed Homer in towel. You can stop staring now. |
Music. Lots of music. I tend to imagine my stories as if they were movies, but with little lines- only the soundtrack. Fast-paced music for action scenes, orchestra music for epic scenes, and so on. You should try thinking about what songs a scene makes you think about, or viceversa. It always works for me.
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Oct 17 2008, 03:11 PM
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Fudge-Maker at Florean Fortescue's Posts: 2,223 Joined: 9:13pm February 18, 2005 Location: Snubbing the mortals  |
Music can definitely be good once you've already got an idea. Some music with lyrics is okay for me, but I generally prefer instrumental music like from soundtracks. Because they you're feeling the emotion behind it. But lyrics sometimes get me thinking of the words of the song rather than what I need to write to down. Sometimes I connect to a song so much that it becomes like a theme for the story.
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Oct 17 2008, 04:09 PM
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Hiding in the Iron Maiden at Borgin and Burkes Posts: 321 Joined: 8:01am August 4, 2007 Location: Prince Edward Island, Canada |
The basic grist for my stories always comes from my imagination. Once I start to (for me it's always a slow process) expand on the tale though, music is my main inspiration; lyrics especially.
I prefer to write listening to music. Each chapter of my story is titled to keep me focused on the main theme of that particular chapter. I also have a certain song to go with each chapter, as well. It helps me to keep the emotion that I need to convey on paper fresh. |
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Oct 17 2008, 04:16 PM
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Daily Prophet Photographer Posts: 861 Joined: 10:04am June 8, 2005 Location: Yes, it's a stuffed Homer in towel. You can stop staring now. |
Uh, a small warning: if you use music, be ready for a writing berserker mode. I once got so worked up into a battle scene, with such a great music playing on my KaiPod, I ended up with seventy-three word pages of a single chapter.
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Oct 23 2008, 02:58 AM
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Just Through the Brick Wall Posts: 10 Joined: 2:07am October 19, 2008 |
I get over-inspired which makes for crazy writing. I agree that music is inspiring and I usually listen to my iPod while I'm writing. Forests, Nature and Celtic mythology feature a lot in the book I just wrote. And art, photography, names, words! Told ya I get a little crazy!
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Oct 23 2008, 04:03 PM
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Hiding in the Iron Maiden at Borgin and Burkes Posts: 321 Joined: 8:01am August 4, 2007 Location: Prince Edward Island, Canada |
Not crazy. You just like to listen to sounds and music which get your brain cells active.
I like Celtic music as well, though I have never listened to nature music unless you count the noises I listen to while sitting out on my deck. If you like Celtic music, have a listen to Ar Eirinn Ni Neosfainn Ce Hi by Maria McCool on You Tube. It will send shivers down your spine. |
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Jan 3 2009, 10:50 PM
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Selling Illegal Items at Borgin and Burkes Posts: 2,806 Joined: 7:59am June 6, 2006 |
QUOTE(Aphrodites Lady @ Oct 17 2008, 08:11 PM)  Sometimes I connect to a song so much that it becomes like a theme for the story. That happens to me alot. I think I must be subliminally influenced by the lyrics  because I find that the music I'm listening to, even just a small section of it, will work often it's way into my stories. It doesn't have a huge impact on the plot, but it regularly happens that the lyrics of the song will help shape the emotions of the character in a scene and give them greater depth and reality.--------------------  |
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Feb 17 2009, 07:57 PM
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Just Through the Brick Wall Posts: 14 Joined: 7:27pm February 17, 2009 |
I get inspired by dreams and by strange random thoughts that pop into my head. I've had some great stories built upon a single small idea.
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