{"id":455,"date":"2013-09-13T06:41:09","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T11:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeezjosie.com\/blog\/?p=455"},"modified":"2013-09-06T03:41:58","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T08:41:58","slug":"inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jeezjosie.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/inspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Everyone asks their favorite writer &#8211; where do you get your inspiration?<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; As a writer, my answer is always something along the line of this: life.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Lame, I know, right? But it is true. Everything I see, I do, I experience, I hear. It can make me think of existing ideas in new ways or give me entirely new, spontaneous ideas.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Inspiration, baby, it is <b>EVERYWHERE<\/b>.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Of course, there are more specific things that I&#8217;ve found to inspire me lately and I sort of just wanted to babble about it because&#8230; why not?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>WikiPedia<\/strong><\/li>\n<p> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Yeah, its not great for <i>real<\/i> research, but Wikis are great places to find inspiring information, stories, myths, lore, anecdotes. Looking up one random thing can lead me on a (admittedly, procrastination-y) path of discovery. I love it. Endless possibilities. And when you find the one &#8216;fact&#8217; you needed, suddenly a world opens up and *boom* a new idea is sparked.<\/p>\n<li><strong>Tumblr<\/strong><\/li>\n<p> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Okay, okay. It is another time-sink. But it is also (at least, the few blogs I follow) chock full of amazing artists posting incredible artwork and I. Love. Art. Nothing gets my juices working quicker than doing a writing prompt by just pulling up a random picture and asking myself: what happens next, or what happened five minutes ago?<\/p>\n<li><strong>Pinterest<\/strong><\/li>\n<p> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Well, this is a different kind of inspiration. But between projects and crafts and articles about better health, better child-rearing, better writing techniques, better mousetraps (hah!) &#8211; there is never a dearth of things to learn about and think about and&#8230;well, dream about eating. Tee-hee. Not to mention, more art. So much more art. <3\n\t\n\n<li><strong>My Library<\/strong><\/li>\n<p> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Recently, Mark &#038; I returned to WA and retrieved our belongings. Key amongst the goodies? Our books. Now, I&#8217;ve given up a LOT of my paperbacks over the years, but the ones that I love the most have stayed with me. Re-reading them, or even just shelving them and reading the blurbs and seeing the covers again, makes me feel those same (or different!) things and then I cannot help myself. I get new ideas! Its like, magic, right? And no matter how many times I have read some things &#8211; I learn something new, see some new detail, every time.<\/p>\n<li><strong>Gaming<\/strong><\/li>\n<p> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Between my amazing, creative friends and the stories we make-up and live-out together every Saturday and the books themselves, there is no end of inspiration to be found in gaming materials. So far, I&#8217;ve plotted out half a modern-day-romantic comedy, copied down ideas for two fantasy novels, developed a dozen characters who may or may not show up in a story one day, and written some 30,000 words between two different plotlines that will probably never go anywhere&#8230; but they could! Possibilities! Whee!<\/p>\n<li><strong>NetFlix<\/strong><\/li>\n<p> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Also, Hulu, Amazon Streaming, Cable TV, and so forth. No, I&#8217;m not plagarising anything&#8230; but watching how stories are constructed (well or poorly), how arcs play out (or spiral into weirdness and never complete), how characters develop (or don&#8217;t) makes me (hypothetically) a better writer. Seriously. The mistakes and victories of professional writers can really be a great tool for improving skills AND for growing some good ol&#8217; inspiration.\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; You know what I wonder? Where <i>you<\/i> find inspiration? I don&#8217;t care if you are reading this on September 13th, 2013, or September 13th 2113, leave a comment and tell me what you find inspiring, what sources of beauty or intrigue make you think?<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; And if it really is 2113, let me know how the food is in the future. Hey, a fat girl gotta know if they still have cheesecake or if its all just teensy pills (ala Archie 3000).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jeezjosie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/signature.jpg\" alt=\"Signed, Josie\" width=\"92\" height=\"139\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13\" \/><br \/>\n<i>Note: Image is &#8220;The Sun in my Hands&#8221; by Khattaway from SXC.hu<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Everyone asks their favorite writer &#8211; where do you get your inspiration? &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; As a writer, my answer is always something along the line of this: life. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Lame, I know, right? But it is true. Everything I see, I do, I experience, I hear. 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