You people who can actually inspire yourselves! How exactly do you do that?
I think the inspiration comes from wanting something. From wondering 'what if?' I enjoy challenge fics because they help me grow and are, well, challenging. But I've never come up short with my own ideas either. Perhaps it's because my imagination is almost wired to have it's own challenges handed out.
As for inspiring myself, reading good meta about relationships in the 'verse I'm writing and also watching videos or listening to music - those always do the trick for me. Often times I'll be driving to work and I'll start imagining scenes in my head, Buffy says this to Willow, Spike does this, and so on. I just let my imagination run with the characters. A lot of the scenes in my longer work are from just imagining, most of the time when I'm in my car actually. I think somehow my car has become my thinktank, heh.
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Date: 2009-06-30 09:35 pm (UTC)I think the inspiration comes from wanting something. From wondering 'what if?' I enjoy challenge fics because they help me grow and are, well, challenging. But I've never come up short with my own ideas either. Perhaps it's because my imagination is almost wired to have it's own challenges handed out.
As for inspiring myself, reading good meta about relationships in the 'verse I'm writing and also watching videos or listening to music - those always do the trick for me. Often times I'll be driving to work and I'll start imagining scenes in my head, Buffy says this to Willow, Spike does this, and so on. I just let my imagination run with the characters. A lot of the scenes in my longer work are from just imagining, most of the time when I'm in my car actually. I think somehow my car has become my thinktank, heh.