Inspiration

[Stockholmblondie]

Just curious about how different writers find inspiration. Music? Real life experiences? Movies? Or a mix of everything? I often get inspired by other peoples writing, that is probably why I enjoy co-writing so much.

 

[Desiremakesmeweak]

I live in a satellite orbiting the Earth, one of the occupants of which happens to be Gianni Versace... (Just thought I'd like to tell you that, not that you will believe it I know).

 

[lovecraft68]

Most of it seems to come from my own twisted thoughts.

I have written a few Milf stories based on porn clips I've seen. I take the basic premise of it and create characters around it and decide who they got where they were during the scene.

 

[DreamCloud]

Most of my inspiration comes from private manual labor. Ear buds and mowing the lawn - damn the winter - seems to bring out the best ideas.

Music is important for setting mood. Tender sex requires a soft female voice. Confrontation needs heavy metal where the thoughts are strong and born at a fast rate. Sadness is best devised within the grips of a slow dripping symphony.

 

[Serafina1210]

People, most of the time. In my April Fools' Day entry, "Amy" was a girl I spotted on a bus. Plain, untended look, kind of dumpy--she reminded me of a younger self. Pretty mouth, though! What if ... and the story just about wrote itself, with an ending inspired by one of Chaucer's Fabliaux.

Young people I've known, a barista, a lawyer who handled a closing for us ...

 

[Carnevil9]

The best drama is based around some sort of conflict. And real life is chock full of conflict! Every little difficulty in day-to-day life, the more trivial the better, is a possible source of inspiration.

 

[Stockholmblondie]

Thx

Seems like we all have different inspirations, always interesting to hear how others work. I also find lots of inspiration in the weather, and my surroundings.

 

[sr71plt]

For me the inspiration can pop up from almost anywhere. The Muse in my mind latches onto something and if/when it develops the nub of a story from that, it delivers it to me.

 

[HandsInTheDark]

For my highest rated stories, a character or setting will just occur to me, usually triggered by some random conversation or even someone I pass in the street. I'll write a few lines of monologue from a character, or just her reactions to finding herself in whatever predicament I decide to start her in; and then suddenly she'll be a fully formed personality, and I never have to think about Who She Is again. I can imagine the voice of most all of my characters and can imagining them talking, right down to accents and pauses and dramatic emphasis. I often have no idea what they look like and don't like having to come up with descriptions. In 'Lilies' the character was a de facto cliche and had to be blue eyed and blonde simply by fiat, which was convenient because it saved me ten minutes of fussing.

Settings, though, will usually come to me as clear mental images and imagined background sounds; if I was a better artist I could draw every room and scene in Captured Princess and Becoming Marie. Alana in Captured Princess lives in a very beautiful setting, most of which I didn't get to describe because it seemed mundane to her; the weather was often cloudy in Toymaker. I have no idea why, it's just what I kept picturing. Sometimes when I'm at work I'll space out, and find myself imagining a room I've never seen before in life, essentially a brief visual hallucination. Writing for me is a more controlled form of the same thing.

I generally have no idea how these stories will turn out. Plenty of times I'll have written a line of dialog and just stared at the screen, wondering what prompted that; and then suddenly something about her history or her setting is obvious.

Stories I plan out from beginning to end generally rate lower.

My rule of thumb is, if you put a set of flawed, realistic characters into an unusual setting, stories write themselves nearly as fast as you can type.

 

[Stockholmblondie]

Thanks for the input. I do get what you mean, I feel the same way about not planning the story in detail. I like to go where the story takes me, and I am often not sure which way it will go.

 

[Hypoxia]

Inspiration is easy. Perspiration is hard. Stacks of ideas fill my notebooks. Few survive to completion. Such is the hazardous life of inspirations. Poof.
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[HeyAll]

A little bit of everything.

Sometimes music, such as song lyrics.

Things I see on tv.

People I've seen in real life.

One time I've been inspired by a new story. the 'bondage professor' was inspired by a news story where a college professor was reported by a student for soliciting oral sex in exchange for an A. The professor had said he had done it with other female students. I thought it was a hot idea for a story, and the idea kept on evolving until 'the bondage professor' was made.

 

[49greg]

I leave my body at night and cruise the aether reading other minds to find stories to tell. I often tell them just as the memories I scan report them, other times I embellish and/or mix and match characters and situations. I call the process Distantly Realizing Experiences And Memory.

 

[MythMaker]

Most of the stuff I've written are just my fantasies that I've conjured up one way or another over my life with some sort of narrative behind them. I'm a pretty big fan of mythology from around the world and wanted to include bizarre non-humans who could also be considered pretty attractive at the same time.

 

[Hypoxia]

Many of my tales are what-ifs, explorations of alternate possibilities. What if that person had stayed in my life -- a sibling who died young, a vanished cousin, friends who moved away, lovers I spurned? What if I had done something else at some point, made another choice, taken another path? What if this or that event had or had not happened?

Others are fantasy projections and extrapolations of the lives and characters of myself and those around me. What if that bi preacher across the street had responded? What if those guys-n-gals were open to group fun? What if certain cousins were a little wilder? What if some relative (Aunt H) really DID get off on sex with brain-damaged partners?

And some just emerge from my primeval mental slime as full-blown stories or kernels, maybe with known endings. BRIDE OF KONG happened because, well. nobody had EVER done a Bride of Kong story, according to extensive googling. I visualized the opening scenes of a screenplay, let it ferment for about a decade, and mostly wrote it in a couple days. (The end was hard.) I knew the endings of BIG BANANA and I CAN'T HEAR YOU and merely had to write stories to get there -- took a couple hours each. Some stories just eat their way out of my head onto the keyboard. Cheeky buggers.

 

[RejectReality]

The latest one I built a notes file for was inspired by seeing someone at work on a pallet jack stop too quickly in the aisle and get bumped from behind by a forklift.

The story has exactly nothing to do with that, but it put the title in my head and the rest of the story emerged from that.

So, pretty much anything can be the spark.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I rarely have fantasies as I've been blessed with incredible fortune. My whole life I happen upon people fucking or about to. And sometimes I've been the object of desire. I add these vignettes to my wares.

Donald Westlake wrote porn before hard crime noir but the noir is seasoned with porny vignettes, and I know he got it from his interactions with women. Because its how women are. Like....

Go visit a friend and his wife is running around in a bikini and a tee shirt. And before you know it she's outta the tee shirt and loitering where you can see her a lot. Or he goes to pee and she sits across from you fingering herself. Or her blouse is missing a button and after she goes to the kitchen to get you some tea the button below the missing button is now unfastened.

 

[Carnal_Flower]

I wouldnt call it inspiration but I definately find ideas and characters in certain places--crime shows, tabloids in particular. The Daily Mail is a gold mine. My latest was directly inspired by an episode of Forensic Files, minus the murder. Crime is a great source for erotica.

 

[Aleiand]

My own particular kinks drove me to it.

I was reading and searching for stories that would push all of my buttons. Some would do a better job than others but nobody was hitting them all so I decided to write my own. The result was amazing and I can clearly remember the exact storyline but I was so shocked that I was capable of writing such sinful disgustingly explicit sexual excrement that I assigned it to electronic oblivion.

It actually took me about four other cycles like this before a story survived long enough to be posted somewhere.

 

[Swilly]

I find that I first need to get into a writing mindset, in a way. When I have that going on, my mind seems much more receptive to ideas creeping into it from every day activities.

For instance, this story: http://www.literotica.com/s/her-smile-did-me-in

The start of the story really happened, and the way the woman stopped and smiled at me really happened. My mind, open and in a creative mindset, took that simple everyday thing and turned it into the story that followed.

 

[soflabbwlvr]

I would have to say, all of the above. I have been inspired by events from my own past, people I know, strangers I see out in public, interactions with readers, and posts on the forum. I have concepts based on songs I have heard, titles of books and movies. Sometimes while watching porn I'll create a back story that explains how the people I'm watching got together. I never run out of ideas. I wish I had the time to write them all.

 

[masterandmargarita]

Nothing beats real life inspiration. It's starting to become a routine to turn our vacations into Lit stories. For less personal stories with big character ensembles, inspiration comes from choice movie and TV references. Oh, and porn! Lots of porn.

 

[Serafina1210]

Nothing beats real life inspiration. It's starting to become a routine to turn our vacations into Lit stories. For less personal stories with big character ansambles, inspiration comes from choice movie and TV references. Oh, and porn! Lots of porn.

Porn is great for helping to figure out what to do with the arms and legs during intercourse and solving other such practical problems. Similarly, I've gotten a lot of mileage out of the picture threads in the BDSM forum.

 

[PTWaters1]

When I'm in the right mood, memories of people I've known will kick up images in my head that sometimes morph into scenarios worth writing. Most of the time though, the characters I've created so far almost take on a life of their own and their stories will play out in my minds eye. Then its just a matter of putting the movie that's playing in my head down in words. Almost like writing a script AFTER the movie's been shot

 

[masterandmargarita]

Porn is great for helping to figure out what to do with the arms and legs during intercourse and solving other such practical problems. Similarly, I've gotten a lot of mileage out of the picture threads in the BDSM forum.

That reminds me of the time I watched porn only to note how many spurts a guy could be capable of; this was some serious research. I mainly went with Peter North clips and the answer was 8 or 9. Body movement, however, is my least favorite part of writing a scene. Damn characters have to lay down, climb up, bend over, thrust forward, arrange themselves into x position...I'm cursed by my preference towards group sex. Too many bodies to move around!