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WHAT MADE YOU WANT TO PICK UP THE PEN OR SIT AT YOU KEYBOARD
AND WRITE THIS WEEK?

All the Back to Hogwarts challenges! All I've been writing this year has come from prompts/challenges. They have also gotten me write more than I have for years.

WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE THING YOUR CREATED?
By the Book (http://stephaniejo84.livejournal.com/10813.html) I had so much fun writing this!

Edit: it didn't occur to me until afterwards that 'created' wasn't just writing, so I think my favourite thing was really my (http://stephaniejo84.livejournal.com/12502.html) five (http://stephaniejo84.livejournal.com/12225.html) posts (http://stephaniejo84.livejournal.com/11941.html) on (http://stephaniejo84.livejournal.com/11676.html) plotting (http://stephaniejo84.livejournal.com/11392.html).

I took the time to fix my spreadsheets while I figured out a way to explain it. So now, I don't have to type things twice. Once I enter the information on the 'glance at' part of my spread sheet it automatically fills in where it needs to be on my scene by scene part of my spreadsheet.

WHERE DID THAT IDEA COME FROM?

I decided to have Harry read my new favourite book At Swim, Two Boys and it just grew from there.

Edited 2013-09-10 22:43 (UTC)

To try to get myself really working, I've told myself I need to get 1000 words out a story a day (working on about three stories a day since anything more than that is too much pressure). It doesn't matter if it's the worst thing ever, if it's not in chronological order, whatever it is. I have to do 1000 words. It's working remarkably.

"What is the best way to write? Each of us has to discover her own way by writing. Writing teaches writing. No one can tell you your own secret." - Gail Sher

A lot of my inspiration comes from the community feeling in the chats at

hd_writers whether it's the normal chat or SRS BZNS.

I created a lot of my favourite things this week. I'd say one of them was def. my coffee shop post I did for

merlin_writers -- thank

kitty_fic for that one.

Also loved created my b'day gift for

kitty_fic the idea came from that... a polyester short wearing draco w/ nothing but a tie knocking on your door, here for a private show... it came from the fact that that's what kitty would want and that's what we shall give her.

This past week, I was most inspired by a challenging request/prompt list for my owlpost recipient coupled with a severe lack of sleep.

So I obviously think I can do no wrong and my ideas are *brilliant* (the two people who agree leave me wondering if I should do *all* my plotting on a couple hrs sleep a night.)

I'm writing for a fest a the moment and my inspiration well was all dried up when I had an odd dream that gave me a really good idea. I jolted awake at five in the morning and scrambled for a pen and paper, haha.

My favourite bit of writing this week was probably the drabble I wrote for

kitty_fic's birthday; I had a lot of fun coming up with that one! I also rather liked some of the icons I made for the

hd_writers Welcome To Hogwarts fest, as it was my first time making them and I got so over-excited I made too many.

This has been a good week as far as inspiration goes.

WHAT MADE YOU WANT TO PICK UP THE PEN OR SIT AT YOU KEYBOARD AND WRITE THIS WEEK?

Watching Amadeus on Netflix, especially this scene. I love the idea of a dying Mozart writing his own requiem, (even if the film is historically skewed)

As I wrote, I listened to these two songs Perfection (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfbplGPggXg) from the movie Black Swan and Confutatis Maledictis (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwMzoMW2U6s).

WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE THING YOUR CREATED?

I haven't written this out, but have created an outline. It's a short fic about Teddy Lupin questioning his own existence/identity. He's inherited his Metamorphmagus abilities from his mother and that precedes him everywhere so that when a person first meets him, they always ask him to change his appearance. He's never really minded before because he always thought that it was cool, but now he wonders if people know what he actually looks like in his "unchanged" form. Even if I don't write the fic, it was a fun and interesting thing to plot.

WHERE DID THAT IDEA COME FROM?

One of my psychology lectures on prosopagnosia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia) or face blindness.

Edited 2013-09-11 02:53 (UTC)

WHAT MADE YOU WANT TO PICK UP THE PEN OR SIT AT YOU KEYBOARD AND WRITE THIS WEEK?:

Excellent question. Well I'm taking part in a ton loads of fests so I've been drowning in awesome prompts- definitely my inspiration. Plus, there's WBTH and the friendly competition adds just the right bit of pressure to do it do it do it!

WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE THING YOUR CREATED?

That would be this (http://dracogotgame.livejournal.com/56148.html)

WHERE DID THAT IDEA COME FROM?

Hard to say. I hardly ever write poetry, so it was a new and interesting challenge. I always liked the Sorting Song but the concept never agreed with me. It's a bit like putting people in cliques in high school, I always thought. The opportunity to do something different made me very happy and eager to try this out.

The knowledge that I am going to help my hosue win the cup is what makes me continue on and type. I also need to write for my other sorting house HiH. I need to write because my house needs more points. More points comes from more writing. Must write more.

I'm not too sure yet. I just wrote a little drabble about the Hogwarts Express and I like it. I have a few scenarios in my mind at the moment, so my favorite still hasn't been written yet. Let's just have a lovely thought of the prefect's bathroom....

Hogwarts Express came from the prompt. I'm thinking smutty, although this one is quite tame. It is my start to working on writing the smut that I just promised Jae. She needs smut. I have other friends that need it too. I have to write smut. Start easy with making out on the train...move into the whip cream and chocolate being poured over Draco's pale body as Harry begins to lick his way from Draco's toes slowly up his leg....

(I think I may need to copy and paste that last lil bit. I need to find a prompt with that one...

cyn/slytherin

To be honest... The House cup challenge at

hd_writers is the only thing that's really keeping me writing ;) I've been sitting on my fest fics for some time now; I had inspiration for one of my

hd_owlpost fics, so I'll probably go back and write that once the challenge is over. It's been incredibly fun :) I created my first ever fic for Harry Potter thanks to this.

My favourites so far have been The Sorting Hat song (http://slashedsilver.livejournal.com/12312.html) and the little birthday drabble (http://slashedsilver.livejournal.com/12752.html) that I wrote for

kitty_fic's birthday :) And I was really just inspired by that multicoloured plate of cupcakes I'd just posted to her LJ a couple of hours before the challenge came out! ♥

WHAT MADE YOU WANT TO PICK UP THE PEN OR SIT AT YOU KEYBOARD
AND WRITE THIS WEEK?

Nothing more or less than the joy of writing. The only serious writing I have done in my life is fanfiction. I've only been doing this for a year, but I absolutely love it.

WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE THING THAT YOU CREATED?

This week? It would have to be this (http://slowroad.livejournal.com/23848.html).

WHERE DID THAT IDEA COME FROM?

I thought about the prompt, I let it marinate in my head and then I started writing. That is how inspiration works with me. I start writing and the ideas just flow.

WHAT MADE YOU WANT TO PICK UP THE PEN OR SIT AT YOU KEYBOARD AND WRITE THIS WEEK?

~~The whip from my beta~~ WBTH of course! My fellow Gryffs are brilliant like that.

WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE THING YOUR CREATED?
Drabble for 8th on the train look and drabble for QQQ. I don't even know I can write!

WHERE DID THAT IDEA COME FROM?
I always playing with ideas in my head during shower. Also, searching for reference always helps.

I had some awesome inspiration come from

stephaniejo84 in CHATZY! She helped me solve a problem I was having. Once that was sorted out I was really inspired! \o/

WHAT MADE YOU WANT TO PICK UP THE PEN OR SIT AT YOU KEYBOARD
AND WRITE THIS WEEK? I went to a seminar about state formation in the middle ages. And that really made me want to write Merlin fic. *is a total nerd*
Unfortunately, I haven't had the time to actually write it... Yet.
WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE THING YOUR CREATED? My erised fic! I can't give you details, of course because it is super secret ;-) but I have a really good feeling about it, and that's great, because I have been very worried about it for a while.

WHERE DID THAT IDEA COME FROM? I don't really know. I was just going to sleep and it popped into my brain. And I had to scribble it down quickly in the dark. I always get my best ideas when I'm half asleep.

What made me want to write this week?
All the prompts from the WBTH Challenge! They really have inspired me!

What was my fave thing this week?
Probably Story Time (http://meglw0228.livejournal.com/56885.html). It was so much fun doing that, and so different to what I usually write.

Where did the idea come from?
Two of the assignments, one tell an H/D story from someone else's POV and two include Ron, Hermione, Pansy, or Blaise in a story... When I read those, I thought they'd be perfect to do together and I told the story from Hermione's POV. And when I thought of someone else telling someone's story all I kept picturing was the horror stories you tell around a campfire...so I used that premise and ran with it.

I am a 'pressure-whore'. I just need a bit of pressure to really get things done and Hoggwarts has done a remarkable job so far :)

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"Schreiben ist immer eine Arbeit an der Sprache." - Verena Stefan
This is German and roughly translated it means: 'Writing always is language-work.'
And i need to get better at English. I'm searching for words all the time.

Inspire Me - 9/10/13

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