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- Thread starter klitch
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Go to the library. Get lost in the fiction section of the library. Pick a book at random and start reading. How did the writer develop their story? What was the setting? Who were the characters? What was the theme? If you had to follow the life of one of the characters in a different direction, who would it be? Not inspired? Go to another book. Watch an old movie.
Despite the spate of comic book/graphic novel inspired movies, they (comic books & graphic novels) are great visual stories. Watch old movies. Often I'll jot notes on my laptop or a notepad for later. Go to a mall and just hang out and listen. Watch people and imagine their stories.
My own feeling is that when you enter that phase, inspiration exists but must attached to an external experience. Searching for an internal experience, while possible, may take longer. Writing in a disciplined way, the writer uses their senses and opportunities arise from the outside world. Sometimes only as clips for later development. It's amazing the kind of weird facts you learn just through serendipity on the Internet or in the library.
Despite the spate of comic book/graphic novel inspired movies, they (comic books & graphic novels) are great visual stories. Watch old movies. Often I'll jot notes on my laptop or a notepad for later. Go to a mall and just hang out and listen. Watch people and imagine their stories.
My own feeling is that when you enter that phase, inspiration exists but must attached to an external experience. Searching for an internal experience, while possible, may take longer. Writing in a disciplined way, the writer uses their senses and opportunities arise from the outside world. Sometimes only as clips for later development. It's amazing the kind of weird facts you learn just through serendipity on the Internet or in the library.
OMG.
No.
I generate viable ideas for features about one every three weeks.
It's kinda annoying, actually.
I'm never going to get a tenth of these put down to paper.
Pull up google news, or whatever your fave news site is, think "what are the stories behind the stories".
Take them off into fantasy, scifi, supernatural bends if hum-drum documentary of "what REALLY happened" is too white bread for you.
Lettuce see... what happened... today... http://news.google.com/nwshp?hl=en&tab=wn
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20073771-504083.html
I break into your house while you're away to work and do all my criminal research while collecting DNA samples to leave behind my killing of your niece (cause Emma Watson's getting kinda long in the tooth, y'know?)
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap...DFs62Q?docId=19659d902e7343ada8281a89ded1d08e
News comes in and cheers go all around because everyones ready to get the f#ck outta Dodge-istan! Except for Gunny that has just learned he knocked-up the local imam's favorite daughter.
http://scoop.today.com/_news/2011/06/23/6927742-man-jumps-barricade-knocks-justin-bieber-to-ground
Stalking and idol worship are elevated to a whole new level when...
http://www.theheart.org/article/1244111.do
PhD researcher finds link between obesity and global warming but the unwinding conspiracy to stop him from releasing his results puts his family's life at risk.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/artic...LN9BGR0UQVI901-6732KOBG2TL63TKBLF317PIDQO.DTL
Despite a company culture of ingrained safety to the point of self sacrifice, an contaminated employee's refusal to accept responsibility places the community at mortal risk, if not the world. Flesh eating bacteria looks like a joke compared to what he's carrying around.
See?
Just... go ape sh!t.
Get your conspiracy theorist paranoia on, dude!
No.
I generate viable ideas for features about one every three weeks.
It's kinda annoying, actually.
I'm never going to get a tenth of these put down to paper.
Pull up google news, or whatever your fave news site is, think "what are the stories behind the stories".
Take them off into fantasy, scifi, supernatural bends if hum-drum documentary of "what REALLY happened" is too white bread for you.
Lettuce see... what happened... today... http://news.google.com/nwshp?hl=en&tab=wn
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20073771-504083.html
I break into your house while you're away to work and do all my criminal research while collecting DNA samples to leave behind my killing of your niece (cause Emma Watson's getting kinda long in the tooth, y'know?)
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap...DFs62Q?docId=19659d902e7343ada8281a89ded1d08e
News comes in and cheers go all around because everyones ready to get the f#ck outta Dodge-istan! Except for Gunny that has just learned he knocked-up the local imam's favorite daughter.
http://scoop.today.com/_news/2011/06/23/6927742-man-jumps-barricade-knocks-justin-bieber-to-ground
Stalking and idol worship are elevated to a whole new level when...
http://www.theheart.org/article/1244111.do
PhD researcher finds link between obesity and global warming but the unwinding conspiracy to stop him from releasing his results puts his family's life at risk.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/artic...LN9BGR0UQVI901-6732KOBG2TL63TKBLF317PIDQO.DTL
Despite a company culture of ingrained safety to the point of self sacrifice, an contaminated employee's refusal to accept responsibility places the community at mortal risk, if not the world. Flesh eating bacteria looks like a joke compared to what he's carrying around.
See?
Just... go ape sh!t.
Get your conspiracy theorist paranoia on, dude!
Yeah, absorb as much information as you can. One day, a few of these little pieces of information will suddenly click together and you'll have your next story.
To start, perhaps take yourself over to Wikipedia, go to the page for something you like. Then, click one of the links, anything, best to go with something that you don't know much about, and read that page. Then click another link. And another. I've lost hours doing this and I've learned a lot.
Is it just me, or do other people do this too? Now I come to think of it, it seems a little odd...
Not sure how far down the line you are, but there is, of course, all the other work that needs to be done in order to get your film made.
To start, perhaps take yourself over to Wikipedia, go to the page for something you like. Then, click one of the links, anything, best to go with something that you don't know much about, and read that page. Then click another link. And another. I've lost hours doing this and I've learned a lot.
Is it just me, or do other people do this too? Now I come to think of it, it seems a little odd...
Not sure how far down the line you are, but there is, of course, all the other work that needs to be done in order to get your film made.
These days, I'm more anxious to finish a current project so I can start the next. I have more ideas than time.
The more you write (or create in any fashion) the more likely this situation occurs. Coming up with new ideas takes practice, but it eventually becomes second nature.
The more you write (or create in any fashion) the more likely this situation occurs. Coming up with new ideas takes practice, but it eventually becomes second nature.
Nah, I'm right there with (or just ahead of) you.
I'm a unabashed online researching super freak.
I'll go hunting down all sorts of funky avenues to find out as much background intel to create the illusion of realism in my BS stories as I can.
That's the way you do it,
Money for nothin'
and the chicks for free!
I know I don't. I'm thrilled it's over and excited to be moving on to the next one.
I'm almost always hit by the 'actually that's a pile of shit' crisis when I finish working on something.
I just battle through it and, if enough people tell me it's ok, then I can convince myself that it's a masterpiece...
I just battle through it and, if enough people tell me it's ok, then I can convince myself that it's a masterpiece...