Young Writers Society

What enspires you to write your stories,poems ect?
Almost anything can enspire me it just depends on the mood I'm in. Cause if I'm in a bad mood I don't pay attention to my surroundings and nothing soaks in like it usally dose. Dose anybody know what I'm talking about?

What inspires me? These days, I'm not really sure. For a while it was just teenage angst, then it was a girl that I was really good friends, but I wanted it to be more. Nowadays... I don't know. But, I know that I only feel like writing after a long run or when all my other senses are numb; I do my best writing when I'm freezing.

It depends on what I'm currently working on. My poems (which are few and far between and rarely any good) usually come from a need to sort some things (emotions, ideas, etc.) out.

My stories, on the other hand, come from just about everywhere. My current story, THE BEARER, came about when I read CAPTAIN BLOOD by Rafeal Sabatini and became temporarily obsessed with pirates and boats and the ocean. The obession faded, the story stuck around.

Reading really gets me in the mood for writing. I like books from everywhere, Sci Fi, Fantasy, and History. With these ingredients in place, they begin to combine, producing ideas. The brain, immersed in this solution, quickly begin sucking them in. Unless the process is regularly stimulated, the inspiration fades.

Reading science magazines. Or listening to scientific discoveries on the radio. Or doing calculus homework.

Or! Critiquing. Yes, you know my secret.

Anything and everything

I usually just start writing, almost like a freewrite, and let everything just pour out of me. Then I sift through it, and I usually get some interesting ideas.

I guess each person has their way of becoming inspired by something.

I had a muse for a bit, i say a bit i mean she was the cause of what i felt was my best stuff, i only wrote though after we split up, and i think now i have exhausted her, and maybe worse poisoned my perceptions. Beauty inspires me, little things like the crystals of ice forming on the world at say 3 in the morning when noone in their right mind should be out. Other art inspires me alot, im prone to having my moods altered alot by art and this is really reflected in my writing.
I wish i had another muse

Thinking of Middle-Earth...Yes, Tolkien and his works are a big inspiration for much of what goes down. However, I may write about anything that I'm currently 'in to', currently 19th century naval warfare is on my mind, and I wrote down some ideas concerning the world at war around that time...

Orks, fighting, they way they talk, their technology.
Songs, the beat, the genre. Never metal, almost always ska.
The urge, though that hardly ever comes.

Beauty, love, fear and death especially inspire me. But I love the totally random things that inspire me....so like I said, pretty much anything turns me on, but especially those 4 lol.

I usually write whenever a story pops into my head. I mostly read Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Non-Fiction and Crime novels. I get inspirations from my favourite authors C.S. Lewis and Lewis Caroll.