Weekend Inspiration Spam Post!

[kitty_fic]

Happy Friday!
The weekend is here and it's time for an
INSPIRATION SPAM POST!



Come and spam us with what inspires you!

Is it a quote, a picture, a song, a story, or something else? Share everything and anything that inspires you and your writing!

Comments

[nimielle.livejournal.com]

I find the strangest things inspiring. It can be a song, a bike ride, anything really. Someone who always pushes my buttons is a band called "Breathe Owl Breathe", especially songs like "Dragon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=B_RFLoO0Q2E)" which is a song about a princess and a dragon being penpals and it kinda just wins at life. Or "The Last Dance (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM89FxABXrA)", which is about a girl who likes to rollerskate while listening to books on tape. <3

As for pictures. It usually works the other way around. I want to write something and then go in search of pictures that might fit the bill and get me in the mood. (you don't want to know how and why I totally triggered my own claustrophobia by looking at pictures of caves and cave divers, not on!)

Images I in general find to be inspiring are these:


Meeresmuschel by Britta Gotha


View of a Harbour by Caspar David Friedrich


Der Wandered über dem Nebelmeer by Caspar David Friedrich

I usually get inspired by melodies more than anything though.

This is a really great idea, I cannot wait to see what everyone else posts! :)

[nimielle.livejournal.com]

Adding a fuckload of lyrics by Mumford & Sons, Patrick Wolf, Dan Mangan and Laura Marling to the mix :D and Gotye of course, my homeboy! :D

[kitty_fic]

Lately, while I write, I've been listening to everything by Two Steps from Hell. They are a company that produces music for movie trailers but they've also released albums that have hit the top ten charts for classical albums.

I need music because hubby is usually playing video games in the room with me so I need something other than the sound of things exploding, but lyrics can be distracting. I found these very inspiring instrumental songs that really help the words flow! It's the kind of music that makes you feel like you can do anything!

Here's one of my favorites:

[kitty_fic]

Great pictures! Oh I love that first one! It makes me think of Shell Cottage :)

[winterstorrm.livejournal.com]

Nooooo way! I just posted an art post with that painting on then it's here as well! (Der Wandered über dem Nebelmeer by Caspar David Friedrich.)
It's fate.

It's the best painting in the world EVER.

[winterstorrm.livejournal.com]

Mumford and Son's have to H/D shippers on the side.
I've never seen so many angsty lyrics that just fit so well on one album!

[winterstorrm.livejournal.com]

Lyrics by The Smiths, Morrissey, (as RIke said) Mumford and Sons, New Model Army, Levellers, Seth Lakeman - classical music like Nimrod by Elgar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhnMd1Jl7SA

Pre-Raphaelite art, fashion shoots with pretty boys, the views where I live:
(http://pics.livejournal.com/winterstorrm/pic/0004sa6k/)

[nimielle.livejournal.com]

Since this is all about posting pictures, I'm going to post a few more about possible future fics :D





There's more, but I'm tiiiiiiiired and I might just poke my head in again tomorrow! :)

[nimielle.livejournal.com]

Classical music is such a big trigger for ideas for me Bach - Cello Suite No.1 i-Prelude (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6yuR8efotI) kick-started and entire fic plot! O.O

And the view is fecking fantastic! O.O

Also, I cannot listen to your song, because GEMA hates Germany! :(

[nimielle.livejournal.com]

OMG YES! *lol* soooooooo much! You have to be blind to see that! :D

And OMG! Have you listend to the new song yet? The Enemy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5vAsewkWwQ). dökafjghaslghaklghaflgkÄghA:;NADFBHVAHAGHK!!!! The new album and the tour need to be here like RIGHT THE FUCK NAO!!!!!

[kitty_fic]

This also inspires me ^_^

[nimielle.livejournal.com]

I love about it (it's a postcard I found in a shop and was all "GRABBY HANDS") that you can see the entire universe inside the shell. I love the sea around it, the small red house, the birds that fly up over it and the small person waving at the observer. I can look at it and lose myself in it.

My most recent inspiring pictures have all been travel or adventure related. Show me a compass and I'll have a geek-out or one of those maps of the world:



Always depends on the fic with me.

[winterstorrm.livejournal.com]

OMG I'm so behind on these things!!

This is AMAZING. Loves them like burning.

Thanks bb.

[nimielle.livejournal.com]

I was all "did she see my comment and remember that she loved that painting?" XD Braintwins!! <3 <3 <3 I had that post open when I got this comment notification! XD

AND YES IT SO IS!!!

[nimielle.livejournal.com]

That sounds super wonderful!

I find some lyrics actually inspire me and others are distracting. Like when Dan Mangan sings "don't count the feathers, just count the wings" then I have to pause for a moment, but the melody is so lovely that it helps with the writing. I find Loreena McKennitt to be brilliant when you try to capture a certain mood or try to concentrate.

♥

Cannot open your link, because the Gema is being an evil beast again! :(

[winterstorrm.livejournal.com]

Um, yeah, that's pretty inspiring!

[nimielle.livejournal.com]

I found it by accident! They wrote it for the "Wuthering Heights film" trailer with shorter studio version (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30XKzxnTYK8).

Also totally behind, I only facebook stalk them! XD

[winterstorrm.livejournal.com]

Also finds pron pretty inspiring but all the good links went with my mega upload!
If anyone has any...

[winterstorrm.livejournal.com]

We are brain twins alright! It's fate.
I was even thinking of you when I posted mine because I was looking for the German title and I thought 'I bet Rike would know' - hehehe.

[winterstorrm.livejournal.com]

I need to see that version of Wuthering Heights as it sort of came and went before I realised.
Also favourite book, well, that and Jane Eyre.

Is it available in iTunes..?

[nimielle.livejournal.com]

I honestly don't know. I missed that too, but it looks brilliant!

I loved Jane Eyre so much, how awesome are Toby Stephens and Ruth Wilson? God, just talking about it makes me wat to rewatch/reread!

[kayoko.livejournal.com]

Damn. Now I need to find those albums. I love listening to classical/background music.

[nimielle.livejournal.com]

Yes, I believe that must be true! :D

Ahahaha, I actually did an entire presentation about the artist at school and fell in love with him there. Someone else I love for her style and all the stuff she put into her art is Artemisia Gentileschi.

[nimielle.livejournal.com]

Talking about art made me look up the stuff I have in my folder on the other computer online, so here go two more. OMG NUDITY! :D

[nimielle.livejournal.com]

Is it weird that I find YOU pretty inspiring too? Your fics haunt me for days in the best of ways. Still not over "Remember Remember"!

[kitty_fic]

It is! <33333333

[kitty_fic]

That's a great picture!

[kitty_fic]

Yay! I hope you like them!

And thanks for the vids!

[kitty_fic]

OMG me too! I reccomend this comm: pornspiration

[oldenuf2nb.livejournal.com]

I have two quotes stuck to the side of my computer tower, right where I can see them all of the time.

Number One: "I can believe anything, provided it is incredible." Oscar Wilde

Number Two: "If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity even if I do not have it at the beginning." Mahatma Ghandi

Oh, and my li'l magnet, a gift from my daughter: Alcohol doesn't cause hangovers... waking up does."

[oldenuf2nb.livejournal.com]

Oh, and this:

(http://s300.photobucket.com/albums/nn24/oldenuf2nb/?action=view&current=478044.jpg)

[kitty_fic]

OMG Yes to that! <3

[kitty_fic]

Great quotes! :)

[kitty_fic]

Yes, actually same here, I do have a few songs that I can listen to with lyrics that don't distract and inspire instead.

[potteresque_ire]

That's my Harry/Scorpius story!!!!!!!!

*ducks and grins at you from under the table :D*

*Huggles!!!!!!!!!*

[potteresque_ire]

It's more my state of mind... whether it can turn whatever I look at, no matter how boring / irrelevant it is, into an idea for a story. Whether my brain has extended my antenna or not.

Today was a good antenna day for me. I saw the new blond willow blend in Starbucks (beside the dark Komodo Dragon blend, no less!) and I have been entertaining myself all day with a H/D story!!! :)

[kitty_fic]

Haha that is SO AWESOME about the coffee blends! <3

ETA: Write eeeeet!

[blossomdreams.livejournal.com]

Yes! Yes! To this pic!

The quotes are very good too! :)

[blossomdreams.livejournal.com]

What inspires me is pretty much anything. Music, quotes, movies, video games, and everything in between. I listen to a lot of OST too so there's inspriation in that as well. I get inspiration mostly from my friends and family. While I'm hanging out someone will say something like "I think whipped cream should be on the nipples and no where else" and then one of my friends will look to me and go "You. Write it. For it will be smutty and good." I normally can't pass up things like that XD

Here's a song I like listening to.

From one of my favorite animes Samurai Champloo.

Here's another one if I need to get in an angsty mood:

As for pics hmm this is pretty inspirational



More when I'm not so sleepy XD

[celestlyn.livejournal.com]

I am inspired by beauty in many forms. The ocean is my biggest source of inspiration, but I'm also inspired by water in most any form, the moon, sunsets, flowers, animals in the wild, old churches, windows, and old stone structures like Pyramids, Easter Island, The Great Wall, Stonehenge and Manchu Pichu.

(http://s4.photobucket.com/albums/y110/celestlyn/?action=view&current=1insp.jpg)

(http://s4.photobucket.com/albums/y110/celestlyn/?action=view&current=2insp.jpg)