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Please, do go on....
Nov. 21st, 2008 08:30 amAKA, yet another note on process....
I'm thinking about inspiration today.
At least in writing terms, I'm never in short supply here. This is the easiest part for me. Ideas just float by and get sucked into my brain when I inhale.
They aren't plot bunnies, though. They are, perhaps, character bunnies, situation bunnies, setting bunnies, vignette bunnies, but not necessarily plot bunnies
So, some examples, ( Read more... )
The point being that for me, at least, the inspiration seems to come from anywhere. Whatever the brain takes in can be refigured eventually, sometimes in ways that I would not have expected (such as the fully-formed plot bunny that erupted from Trauma and Recovery, more than a year after I read it, and worked its way into the dragon line-up).
Anyhow, I suspect that most writers get their inspirations from a lot of different places. What's the weirdest inspiration/plot link that you have?
I'm thinking about inspiration today.
At least in writing terms, I'm never in short supply here. This is the easiest part for me. Ideas just float by and get sucked into my brain when I inhale.
They aren't plot bunnies, though. They are, perhaps, character bunnies, situation bunnies, setting bunnies, vignette bunnies, but not necessarily plot bunnies
So, some examples, ( Read more... )
The point being that for me, at least, the inspiration seems to come from anywhere. Whatever the brain takes in can be refigured eventually, sometimes in ways that I would not have expected (such as the fully-formed plot bunny that erupted from Trauma and Recovery, more than a year after I read it, and worked its way into the dragon line-up).
Anyhow, I suspect that most writers get their inspirations from a lot of different places. What's the weirdest inspiration/plot link that you have?
