Writing Inspiration

[Sui Generis]

I'm not sure if this goes here or in the Lounge. I'm guessing since it mainly has to do with Literature and Poetry then it would go here, but I may be wrong.

Who inspired you to write? How has this person affected your writing style?

This person could be a famouse writer, or it could be your next door neighbor.

I've always wondered what made people write, and what made them write the way they did.

[Corey]

No one made me start writing. I write because it's an easy way to get out my emotions. I find it to be calming and soothing.

[Sui Generis]

Yeah that is how I am for the most part. I have always loved literature and have written for almost as long as I can remember. But there are a few people that have influenced my writing styles.

Edgar Allen Poe: I loved his writing, and I still do. I think he was a BRILLIANT author and I've read tons of his work. I normally use a style like his when I'm writing stories of a more morbid manor.

Shakespear: I love Shakespear. Poe and Shakespear are my two favorite author/play write/ whatever of all time. They both have a unique style that set them apart. I've read his books, and tried to use a technique that he uses alot.

So basically when I write stories I try to twist the two together.

Its not like I write "Oh thou evil hath burned a hole in my heart." but I use his writing technique. Do you get what I'm saying?

Anyways my poems, those are completely me. However I love Robert Frost.

[TheShinje]

Crazy White Boy inspired my parody songs, The Bible inspired my Otaku Prophecies ^_^

as for writing outside OB, I never really write much outside OB, and it is all self inspired.

[Mitch]

[color=red] Inspiration for me comes as it comes, goes as it goes. One day I'll sit down and write away something just simply genious, aided by inspiration. Another, I'll sit down, and nothing will come, just the dull swish-swash of my pencil, or possibly the dull tack-tack if I were typing. Somedays I just can't write. Others I can.

So inspiration is really hard to define into something more specific for me. I have my inspirations, but really, they all come as they go, and I let them go into a piece forever, or at least until it becomes forged into something different.

So I can't tell you where my inspiration comes from exactly, but I'll try to give you some examples. Lots of inspirations come to me as I listen to some songs. The words in the songs I place in my mind, and it eventually will grow into something new, an inspiration. I might read something from a book, so an interesing quote that I like (Like Sara's lie one), and it'll just stick with me and scream to be written as a poem.

Then there's the people in my life and even some I've met here on Otakuboards. Such as you Lalaith, Shy, Sara, Crazy White Boy--basically anyone here. I take their problems and I try to equate it with my feelings of the way it seems to me. Sometimes inspiration just comes out of nowhere, and [i]whack[/i], I've got something.

Anything that bothers me, anything that I feel strongly about, those usually inspire me to some level. Raw emotions: Love, hate, apathy...all of it, that inspires.

So it is really impossible to peg one thing, but I do get inspiration. At least I can say that.[/color]