Where does it all come from?

[SilverSergyon13]

Just thought we needed a thread about writing and the things we write about. Couldn't exactly decide where to put this so I figured when in doubt stick it in discussions...because it's bound to start some sort of discussion...or upheavel...or chaos...or discussion.

So, where do you all get your ideas for the stories that we so love to write? I know ESPS is a site filled with people who like to write.

I've been having a hard time thinking of a certain something to put in a "so called" story of mine. Not sure if I'll disclose the details...yet.

Anyway I was having a hard time thinking of this certain thing for the story and then experienced some every day normal happenings (well as normal as my happenings can be) and ideas just started popping into my head. It's funny how everday things and people can just inspire an entire story.

I guess my ideas come from some inner recess of myself...or my feelings. Sometimes I don't realize until later what they mean, sometimes I don't ever realize what they mean, sometimes I intentionally write a story to match my feelings. Sometimes I just write a story reflecting happenings in the world.

Sometimes I just have this idea, that comes out of no where. It makes perfect sense, all of it and then I write it down. The words just pour onto the paper and when I go back through my stuff a few days later I don't even remember writing the story/poem.

Sometimes dreams inspire my stories and sometimes tories inspire my stories. While reading this book the other day I had this amazing revolution about planets. I have no idea where it came from but I wrote it down. It would make an amazing story if I ever decide to write about it.

Sometimes, as happens in creative writing class, I have to force a story out. That's always the hardest thing to do.

[Cy Skywalker]

silversergyon13 said:

Sometimes I just have this idea, that comes out of no where. It makes perfect sense, all of it and then I write it down. The words just pour onto the paper and when I go back through my stuff a few days later I don't even remember writing the story/poem.

I have found many places to get material. Some of it comes from events that are happening to me or things that I have felt, but usually that comes in after I make an event, like 'in this situation i put so-and-so-character in he's probably feeling like I did when'. If you look at TAS, which is my big fic right now whether it's Star Wars a lot, there's alot of my different tecniques in it.

That, what you described where your stuff doesn't really feel like it's out of your imagination, that's what I call the Plot. It's like...your writing( Writing with a capital is the term) but it's not coming from you, it's coming from the...material of story. You're not making these events up, they're out there and you're recording them, adding to them words. That's what I think makes a real writer. When writers say their characters will sortof go off without them, make them follow the characters, that's the Plot.

When you don't have Plot, that's annoying. When it feels like it's not real; I get that with creative writing stuff and some 'commision' fics and the occasional story that I give up on cause I just can't find it. I could see the beginning of Yingyn Riders really well, but now I don't like how it is, i don't like the characterization, and I've lost the Plot, as the Newsboys say. maybe if I think and figure out who the people are more, i'll see it again.

More on this later...