[Fatentity]

Bored & curious and thought I'd make a thread about this:

Where do you get your inspiration for your stories/ideas/characters/theme/etc from?

Mine can pretty much come from anywhere, it's usually more-or-less something I "see" rather than read/hear.

I'd say top 3 places...

1. While riding in the car *When someone else is driving* or sitting on campus at college spacing out...usually a random idea, a certain interaction between people, or specific way the weather and sunlight/time of the day/season is, will give me an idea.

2. Dreams/Day Dreaming.

3. A picture, usually a anime themed wallpaper.

I'd also say: TV/Movies/Anime, but I suppose those sources are pretty common.

I usually immediately jot it down on a txt document on my PC, otherwise I'll forget within an hour.

Also, what was your most inspirational moment for writing/an idea? (Or a favorite particular one). I'm too tired to remember mine, though I do have one, so I'll edit this tmr and post it. It either came from a dream or a book, or a combo of both, I think.

[samohtdarklight]

Id say mainly number 2, my heads up in the clouds a good period of the time.

MY most inspirational moments are usually when I wake up from a vivid dream as my dream usually come out as full stories.

[Baka Baka]

Originally Posted by Fatentity

1. While riding in the car *When someone else is driving* or sitting on campus at college spacing out...usually a random idea, a certain interaction between people, or specific way the weather and sunlight/time of the day/season is, will give me an idea.

2. Dreams/Day Dreaming.


I usually immediately jot it down on a txt document on my PC, otherwise I'll forget within an hour.

I have the same inspiration popping into mi. :3

Just that I need to add music instead of picture. Pictures will make mi space off, but music does too... Never mind...

And I need to keep thinking about it because I can forget stuffs in under 5 minutes and my bus ride is 45 minutes. =x

[GhostOfNobody]

i'd say it comes randomly and you don't know when its gonna appear im a lyricist and a guitarist and on most days when practicing nothing really happens and then on that one day out the blue i actually get something,

it also hits me when im lying in bed before sleep whilst listening to music that i think of good lyrics so i have to get up and write them down before they of my mind (really annoying) but since i got my ipod touch its been easier i can just write on the notes app whilst listening to music, no need for pen or paper or to get up

[Fatentity]

Originally Posted by Baka Baka

And I need to keep thinking about it because I can forget stuffs in under 5 minutes and my bus ride is 45 minutes. =x

Originally Posted by GhostOfNobody

it also hits me when im lying in bed before sleep whilst listening to music that i think of good lyrics so i have to get up and write them down before they of my mind (really annoying) but since i got my ipod touch its been easier i can just write on the notes app whilst listening to music, no need for pen or paper or to get up

Lol, I have the exact same problem, for when I get my ideas in the car...I have to repeadtly think about it till I get home otherwise I forget. Or instead of in bed, when in a nice hot relaxing shower, soon as the showers over I have to go straight to my PC and write it down, otherwise it'll be forgotten in no time.

That sounds handy Ghost!

[Risuzu]

My main inspiration are the D&D campaigns with my brothers and friends for characters. Actual plot is from daydreaming while at work.

[Baka Baka]

Originally Posted by Fatentity

Lol, I have the exact same problem, for when I get my ideas in the car...I have to repeatedly think about it till I get home otherwise I forget. Or instead of in bed, when in a nice hot relaxing shower, soon as the showers over I have to go straight to my PC and write it down, otherwise it'll be forgotten in no time.

Well, that's the problem with having a very lousy memory. But we have good imagination don't we? xD

[master_tonberry]

daydreams?

[Risuzu]

^Assuming you're asking what that is, daydreaming is when you kind of daze off and you imagine something happening. I'm sure wikipedia could give you a better definition.

[Fatentity]

Originally Posted by Risuzu

^Assuming you're asking what that is, daydreaming is when you kind of daze off and you imagine something happening. I'm sure wikipedia could give you a better definition.

Exactly. For instance Master_tonberry, your sitting in math class, boredom overcomes you, you stare out the window unto the beautiful spring day as the cherry blossoms fall, and you begin to imagine all sorts of things, like being a knight and slaying dragons, or being an esper, so it's kind of like "dreaming" but during the "day" (generally your still awake) so being refereed to as "Daydreaming", my favorite subject in school .

Originally Posted by Baka Baka

Well, that's the problem with having a very lousy memory. But we have good imagination don't we? xD

That we do! lol. Now only if there was a machine that could take your imagination/thoughts/daydreams, while your thinking them, and record them onto the computer in high quality video images xD. Making movies would become so much easier...