Inspiration

[PatriotsRule]

When you have to do something-- it could be anything from sports, to a performance, to writing, to painting-- what you usually do something to get yourself inspired (like for art or compositions) and pumped up (sports, performance) for it. It could be a song, or just something you do.

Me, I've written stories based on pretty much anything, from other works to something someone says that strikes me. For a performance, it's just me and the cast jumping around to a fast song. Music gets me pumped like nothing else, and reading other stories (mostly Shakespeare) inspires me for my own writing.

How about you guys?

 

[VolleyballQt07]

When you have to do something-- it could be anything from sports, to a performance, to writing, to painting-- what you usually do something to get yourself inspired (like for art or compositions) and pumped up (sports, performance) for it. It could be a song, or just something you do.

Me, I've written stories based on pretty much anything, from other works to something someone says that strikes me. For a performance, it's just me and the cast jumping around to a fast song. Music gets me pumped like nothing else, and reading other stories (mostly Shakespeare) inspires me for my own writing.

How about you guys?

im sorry, i really dont understand what you mean by this! could ya specify it a little more?

 

[HSMndLKfan92]

Music or the minimal life experiances I've had.

 

[BabyPiglet]

Before a volley game my whole team talks about why they started volleyball and how great it would be to win. We also talk about who we'd like to impress that night.

 

[Mara]

Music does sometimes, but when I get really inspired by a song, the inspiration is usually wasted.
Movies and books are the most inspiring to me, I think. Actually, after a good movie or sometimes after finishing a great book, I go into 'inspiration overload', where I get REALLY REALLY frustrated and angry at myself 'cause there's so many things I want to draw/write, and I can't do any of it.

 

[GirlWithSpunk]

Hmm, everytime I listen to some kind of song it brings back memories to things that have happened that have been great or bad in my life. It reminds me when in a movie a character has a flashback and the song fits with the flahsback they're having; that's the same thing for me...

 

[PatriotsRule]

im sorry, i really dont understand what you mean by this! could ya specify it a little more?

's ok! It might have been a little wordy . . .

Anyway, I'll be cliche here: a team might listen to "We Will Rock You" before a game to get pumped up. An artist might be inspired by a song or a painting, whatever. My question is what does that for you?

And Mara, that happens to me ALL THE TIME.

 

[Babyjustrun]

So clichéed.
Music. Everything on my playlist.

 

[Mur13]

I use nerves as inspiration. Like anything lacrosse related..I get so nervous and anxious. I use that as fuel and power and the first time I lay someone out, etc...I'm ready to go.

 

[Princess Ash]

Well, I tend to use life experiences when I need inspiration for writing a story. I take what happened, or a person, or a look someone gave, and then transform it into what I WISHED happened or might happen, etc.

Subtle observations often give me inspiration.

As far as getting pumped up...the cliché of everyone else: MUSIC! :band:

 

[SplshMtnLvr28]

I don't usually. But when I do, it usually comes from music.

 

[DollfieDreams]

im a writer so anything can be inspiring.

old stories. folklore. mythology. i could dream up things for hours with that stuff.

words. i am a word geek and i love learning new ones. someone may simply say something and im already thinking.

objects. like an origami crane, a bell, a snowflake, a seashell, a camera, anything.

the way someones hair falls, the smell of something, the sound something makes against something else.

 

[CrazyChik]

when i show-jump or do any other riding competition i imagine boys watching me. fit ones but it did work for me and iva

anything else i sit there feeling sick or worried

 

[HSMndLKfan92]

when i show-jump or do any other riding competition i imagine boys watching me. fit ones but it did work for me and iva

I do that whenever I practice the piano! My parents are the only other people who can hear me.


Either that or whenever I'm being bold; and trying something new.

 

[VolleyballQt07]

music i guess. like high beat stuff. something with lots of energy to it.

 

[meeshheartsdisney217]

it's really weird. i dont need anything to inspire me.


i'm just kind of inspired to always do my best, because if i don't, i pretty much get super mad at myself.

so i guess i inspire myself?