Some thoughts about inspiration

never really been able to find true inspiration but once in a while I'll see something and go, "hey I can make a thing with that"

 

Same. I usually improvise but I tend to draw inspiration from people around me and use them as characters .
I do get discouraged rather easily when I have an awesome idea and to find out someone already thought of it lolz.

 

when I play guitar some times I just muck around with a few chords and sometimes
they turn into something, other times I'll do the same thing and nothing happens.
creative is so strange some times...

 

I don't actively find inspiration, it kind of just hits me like a truck, and the most random things can inspire me. I once wrote a short story based on a scene from Sherlock Holmes. I once wrote the follow-up to that short story from a song I was listening to while waiting in the lunchline back in college. I can draw ideas from anywhere, but I don't actively look for inspiration.

 

Edison was right when he said something like "Inventing is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration." Sometimes an idea just hits you and you run with it. However, about 99% of the time, you have to work for it, carving a concept out of rough medium and tweaking it until you like the final result.

There is an element of being able to draw story ideas out of anywhere though. The longer I've been into creative writing, the better I'm getting at it.

 

I read lots of non-fiction books and build ideas from the ground up. I think imagination is just something you need to keep using!

Brainstorming session = playing video games and listening to music. I get my best ideas when I'm content and not really trying. Hell, I don't know what most of my video games sound like.

Plus I ensure that my environment reinforces cool beliefs. That's just a fancy way of saying I think interior design influences the way we think ¯\_(ツ)_/¯