A few days ago, Ruth from Silver Screenings held The Silver Screenings Awards over on their website.
This is an award that they hand out to various bloggers they like, from time to time.
I Won a Pop Culture Award
Winnie-the-Doom
Years ago, I was enjoying my regular stroll though my local shopping-mall, when I suddenly saw it.
A Winnie-the-Pooh kiddie ride!
Time Travel Stories
I love time travel in fiction.
That is one of the main reasons why I love Doctor Who.
I love how this storytelling device can put ideologies from vastly different cultures, separated by decades or centuries, up against each other. By doing this, we can compare them, and find strengths and weaknesses in both. It can also just lead to funny jokes, or cool imagery, like a medieval knight riding on a velociraptor and wielding a laser sword.
Writing Inspiration #5 – Other Writers
Writing Inspiration #4 was about taking inspiration from video essays, often about analyses of certain works or writers.
That sort of skipped over the more obvious advice, to simply take inspiration directly from those same works and writers.
I won’t go in too much detail as this can’t be news to too many people, but I felt it deserved an entry.
Certain writers have helped many by spreading words of wisdom, by what will help the most with inspiration is simply to consume a lot of the type of media you wish to create.
Be it sci-fi or articles, reading a lot of the subject is sure to get your imagination going!
This is the last one of these in a while. I’ll be sure to post some “footnote blog posts” in time, with more specific examples to each categories.
Here’s #1, just to loop it all.
Writing Inspiration #4 – Video Essays
When I am stuck while writing, I watch video essays.
Not to blindly follow the storytelling-advice they provide, but to shake something out from my brain that was already there, just a bit out of reach.
And not only
video essays on writing. Also on moviemaking, game creation, making speeches,
Writing Inspiration #3 – Nature
In my last post I told you about how the Hamilton-song “Non Stop” shames me into writing. This time I want to write about the beauty and horror you can find in nature, when taking a hike.
Walking in nature is great for your creativity!
Even the glacier-hike I mentioned here before set my mind ablaze with ideas about the troll-kingdoms “probably” living under those mountains.
The nature part is the most important.
Nature can seem random
Writing Inspiration #2 – Music
Like with visual art, there are many ways which music can inspire you when you write.
It can set you in the correct mood or mindset. Or maybe the lyrics of a song can set your mind on an idea.
But for me the song below brings a particularly inspiring feeling to my heart. Shame!
If I need to shame myself into putting down a video-game to actually get some writing done, I listen to the song ‘Non Stop’ from ‘Hamilton: The Musical’.
If Hamilton did all that,
there is no excuse for me
Writing Inspiration #1 – Art
This week (and some of next) I want to make a short blog-series about the various things that inspire me when I write.
Since I’ve already gone into great detail about how the art of Theodor Kittelsen have inspired me, I figured this was a good place to start.
Visual stimuli are great to get the creative juices flowing!