WingColors

Life. Seriously.

I'm with Scrivs. Seriously.

Interesting. I typed in Life.com and found the image of a Japanese monk jumping into a fire. Uncanny augurs weren't exactly what I was looking for but I'll take what I can get at this stage.

Andrew your reply was good a good laugh this morning man.

Really though just go through the day and everything you encounter ask yourself could you write about it or maybe to a spin-off from it. Sitting around thinking about stuff to write about has never been effective for me, but just going with the flow of life always works as long as I am aware enough to pay attention to it.

Once you are conscious enough to know that you want to write about stuff, the ideas are easier to come across.

My first suggestion: Out. Go out.

If you've been writing for any length of time, you've probably used up all of the inspiration you can get at home--or have stopped seeing those things in fresh and interesting ways because you live with them every day. Go out, take a walk, look at some things, talk to some people.

Go up to someone over the age of sixty and ask them "What do you think about (Paris Hilton/reality TV/the wars in the Middle East/the passing of Mike Douglas)?" Go into a restaurant run by people from a different background than yours, and eat something you've never eaten before. Go into an antique/junk shop and pick up something--really, just about anything--and ask the owner "What can you tell me about this? Who owned this before? What's it for? How did it get here? Is it rare or is it common? How much did it cost when it was new?"

I love the internet and television and such, but most of what's there is someone else's inspiration and creativity pre-filtered and pre-digested and formed into little bite sized pieces all ready for your consumption. There's very little raw material there, and plenty in the real world.

Go out.

Same here, out there.

Funnily enough, I just posted a short story that I wrote years ago on a flight coming back from Pittsburgh to the UK... http://www.azcazandco.com/?p=167

I started a series of short stories which I planned to have as a collection of 7 called 7 days in a week. The idea was that they would be bizzare little tales to amuse. I wrote The day the monkey melted, The day the ladybird broke it's leg & The day the wart ran away. I took my inspiration from the likes of the Goons, Monty Python & Spike Milligan.

Other than that I go to the super market and buy them lol...

Life. I have enough complaining to do about life to fill my blog with one article for the next 4 years.

I'm not going to say life like everyone else.

I get my ideas from thinking. Seriously. Usually it's something I want to tell my sister, tell my friend, or tell in general.

I think of so many things to write about, that I have a problem writing anything at all. I mean, which one should come first?

Usually it's the last thing I thought up, and I forget the earlier stuff. But, if you check out my blog, most of my posts are based off of some thought or emotion I had, which leads into my life.

I thought about this almost two years ago. Where do I get my ideas, my inspiration, and the little bits of news and information I like to share with others? Since I tend to get information from a wide mixture of sources, I started collecting all the resources I found. Many I kept going back to, but the original list started growing until I thought it might be fun to share my sources with others.

I started to put these all in a list to post and found that I'd collected tons of invaluable resources and put them in 100s of Resources for Finding Content for Your Blog.

From the feedback, it's helped many people get past writer's block and the lackluster content blues. And when I start lacking for creative motivation, I head to that article myself and start going down the list. ;-)

What do you like?

Write about that. If you're passionate about it, and you're a good writer, it will be good.

Subject doesn't matter if it's written with passion.

I thought this comment on Lorelle's post was funny: "Wow, this is a great resource to online bloggers ..."

Yeah, I guess those offline bloggers have really become a thing of the past these days...

Oh, and I guess it's life for me as well, mostly. Although picking up on a juicy story would be fine as well. I'd have to think about this some more.

life, no I'm not serious.