Inspiration
Mar. 12th, 2006 02:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
This may be of interest. They interview a number of writers as well as other creative types:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1728929,00.html
My own inspiration almost always comes in the form of an initial image. For the next novel proposal, it was an image of a woman in a sort of camel-train (only without camels) crossing a freezing desert. From this, I've worked outward until I now have some idea of what happens in the rest of the story.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1728929,00.html
My own inspiration almost always comes in the form of an initial image. For the next novel proposal, it was an image of a woman in a sort of camel-train (only without camels) crossing a freezing desert. From this, I've worked outward until I now have some idea of what happens in the rest of the story.
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Date: 2006-03-12 06:54 am (UTC)Well said. Likewise. Sometimes a visual image, sometimes embedded in a turn of phrase, but an image.
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Date: 2006-03-12 08:23 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-03-12 12:20 pm (UTC)I could go through the actual sketchbooks, but with +100 of them at 100 pages each... having the digital storehouse is much easier.
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Date: 2006-03-12 02:15 pm (UTC)