Writerly Ways

[cornerofmadness]

I suppose I posted half my writerly ways last night with the music post. Naturally I know have very little in my sinus infected head other than the words 'life sucks.'

So I guess I can expand on that. What inspires me? Music. Obviously. I am not the type who writes easily in silence. My home is almost never silent. If I'm not listening to a tv show while I write I'm listening to music. It's not uncommon for me to come up with mix 'tapes' for my characters. Sometimes it really helps me get into the time period I'm writing.

I also find tons of inspiration in characters, fictional or real. Right now I'm reading Anna Dressed in Blood and if I hadn't already written Killian Kavanaugh in Splinters of Silver and Cold Iron I would be tempted to write him after reading Cas. Edward Elric's brashness and loud mouth were definite inspirations for another character. You get the idea. Also I love the dynamics I see, Scully and Mulder, Howard, Raj, Sheldon & Leonard, these are the things I like to take and see what happens when you put those dynamics in a completely new setting. Sometimes it works well, sometimes it ends up in the 'I'll get back to it later' file folder.

So what inspires you?

This prompt comes from Figment. I thought it was interesting Create a character who has suddenly and unexpectedly attained some sort of power (in the wider perception of the world the level of authority may be small or great, but for this person, the change dramatic). Write about the moment in which your character truly understands the full extent of his or her newfound power for the first time.

And I thought this blog post was very interesting and helpful especially for the authors trying to get more readers to their blog where one assumes they'll be promoting their work. how to increase blog traffic

yearly word count

4151 / 75000 words. 6% done! That's double what I did in the 2 weeks before so yay

FMA Big Bang - over word count, just not done

geek love - progress made. need to get it all into one file

scarred soldier - ditto

Machiavelli Moon - nada

Splinters - ditto

Numb - realized that if I cobble together a couple old prompt bits I have the last chapter half done. So basically once I get a spare moment I should be able to finish this unless I'm missing something in the middle that I totally forgot about.

Comments

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

All sorts of stupid things inspire me, but uslaly the real inspiration comes from the voices inside my head telling me what they want me to do. Or giving me a scene, or even shouting out a line that begs me to write something about it.

I also will do what you did, "If I took so and so and put them in this situation, what might happen?"

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I get that sort of inspiration too though I am very good at taking a prompt and using it to create those voices (which is why Ilike prompt communities so much)

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

That sometimes helps, too!

[sillymagpie.livejournal.com]

Music, poetry, and dreams are all good inspirations for me. I just can't listen to music with English vocals when I'm writing--too distracting. I have some environment CDs, classical and instrumental music, and foreign music at work. I may branch out into operas.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

that works too. Dreams are a big inspiration. I dont' read enough poetry.

I'm fine with english words in song or on tv but i can't do books on tape which I suppose is only reasonable