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Jackadelia

PostPosted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 7:53 am


Have you ever had that moment? When you're minding your own business and suddenly an idea strikes you? I'm not talking a little idea like your character's next move, but like a full on plot line, setting, theme, names, the works. I know I've had it happen several times and it's really intense. I want to know about yours. (If you've had one that is)

If you haven't had one of these then how about telling me when you're most inspired. I know I get a looot of my ideas when I'm just in the car listening to music or going on a trip. Music seems to be my trigger though. How about you? Do you have some type of trigger to your creativity and ideas?
PostPosted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 8:34 am


Yep. Particularly my later ideas have all come to me when I've been out walking or trying to sleep. biggrin

I think it's mostly when I'm not thinking about it that I get ideas. razz

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PostPosted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 4:06 pm


Oh, hell yes. I love when this happens. It usually happens with stories I'm already working on, but I tend to come up with sequences of events on the fly anyway, so when I come up with something big, it automatically gets put into something. I should really start carrying notebooks around with me more often, but I have a pretty good memory, and my laptop usually works just fine.
PostPosted: Sat Aug 07, 2010 8:43 am


This happened to me with the current novel I'm writing. I was watching the music video for "Right Here in My Arms" by HIM and all of a sudden inspiration knocked me in the head. I thought that it would be a fan fiction but when I wrote out a synopsis it turned out that I could make an entire book out of it.

I adored the way the ideas just spilled out on the page. I wish it happened more often though. confused

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 09, 2010 10:23 am


I usually get my big ideas at night, more so just before I fall asleep. I also write song lyrics so it bugs me when, you're about to fall asleep and you get an idea for a song, because when it comes to lyrics I have to write them down right away, otherwise they are lost. Whereas with stories I tend to, once the idea has arisen in my mind, dream further on with the plot whilst I sleep, so I always remember in the morning.
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