Where do you get your ideas/inspiration from?

[EvelynEden]

Hi all

I assume that this is a topic that has been done before (I'm just fantastic at attempting to reinvent the wheel, a real pro ), but I thought maybe there are others on here like me, that are fairly new to the forums, and maybe even people who have developed new and unique ways to think up their ideas that they have yet to share.

I want to know if you are inspired by the very stories here on Literotica, maybe a past or present partner, maybe you are lucky enough to dream some saucy rendezvous that eventually make the cut? Maybe a lot of your stories are greatly inspired by your own adventures or your own fantasies? Maybe a bit of both...

Let me know! I'm curious to see what makes us all tick

 

[NoJo]

My first story here, which was panned, started with "This is a true story" - Of course, it wasn't a true story. But it was a sort of "extrapolation" of the true events that triggered an imaginary erotic encounter.

My main inspiration is London, my home, where tastes and minds are broad and diverse, and people mix rather well. Living here is like being a global traveller.

 

[Jada59]

A lot of my stuff is true or at least has true bits in it. I also have a wild imagination.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Hmmm...

I've got a couple of recounts of actual encounters (single stories), a four part autobiographical story, two long story cycles inspired by someone I met one day in the street, several fantasy pieces written about women in my past, three stories written about waitresses in my regular coffee shops, a strange piece inspired by a girl I chatted to while waiting in a post office queue, a story about a mermaid inspired by a young woman on a beach, several collaborations with writers whose characters I really liked, a story about an angel and an astronaut because Chloe arranged a Geek Anthology, a re-telling of the Arthur myth because I've been to many of the Arthurian places in Britain and like the idea of priestesses for the Goddess, one long shaggy dog story that featured many of the places and women I've known at various times in my life, and... that's about the half of it.

It's safe to say I have no lack of inspiration, and I've never once struggled to write something.

 

[SimonDoom]

Very little of what I write is based upon real life. It's all in my head. Many of my stories are inspired by other stories I read.

 

[TxRad]

Pictures. A picture is worth a thousand words. Nope, they can be worth up to 30,000 words or more.

Real Life? What is that?

Ideas are everywhere. Tying them together to make a story is the trick.

 

[oggbashan]

My muses give me about a dozen plot ideas a day, usually as I am going to sleep or beginning to wake up.

If I sit down and think of plot ideas, I can generate a list of about 50 in half an hour.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

A couple from Story Ideas, some from people asking me to write one about _______, a couple from dreams and the rest just drifted into town looking for a place to call home. Not much of an answer, but there it is.

 

[jaF0]

Where do you get your ideas/inspiration from?

The horribly twisted and demented hellscape between my ears that used to be a functioning mind.

But thanks for asking.

 

[Voboy]

Various places. Sometimes real life. Often memories of past events that I then twist so they’re different. Very occasionally other stories. Almost never pictures.

Sometimes the ether. It’s impossible to generalize.

My current story was inspired by me driving through, well, a drive-thru. I looked at the building opposite the drive-thru window and it looked shitty and uninspiring. I started to think about the poor sap working that window every day, staring out through its frame at yon shitty building, and that’s where that story started.

You never know.

 

[Blind_Justice]

I've been an avid role-player/game master for the better part of the past 30 years and many of the characters featured in my earlier stories were taken straight from the gaming table (with my players' approval, of course). The settings my fantasy or sci-fi tales take place in are snippets of our homebrew campaign, with minor alterations to circumvent copyright claims.

As for plot inspiration... that's hard to nail down. "Mud & Magic" was supposed to be a quick and dirty harem story without the tropes. I had watched a lot of anime on Netflix and was throughly exhausted by the flood of "highschool-student with supernatural powers plus x swooning girls around him" plots. "Rembrandt Legacy" was my take on how not to fuck up a space opera after the atrocity "Mass Effect Andromeda" had become and "Ghost in the Machine" was my take on cyberpunk with sex. Instead of complaining on the Internet like many nerds, I simply try and write better versions of what I've seen. Which means I should go for a "Rise of Skywalker" rewrite next, tee hee.

 

[NotWise]

My stories come from all over.

The story I've been working on now started in June when I woke up with the image of a woman in my head. I concocted a story around her image, and she became the antagonist.

The last two published stories came from a personal challenge, and one of those had been in the works for two years.

Before that, I wanted to write a Romance, and took a couple months to work out the idea.

Before that, the story came from a dream and changed as the characters took form.

Before that, I used research I was doing for another story to construct an entry in an author's challenge.

Before that, I wrote two contest entries, one for the fun of it, and one as a combination of personal challenges.

Going back a few more, I wrote one to develop two characters in the background of an earlier story and to express a concept that grew out of research. I wrote that one for the fun of it.

Etc., etc.

 

[vanmyers86]

They come from anywhere and everywhere. I try not to analyze it too much, for fear they will stop coming to me and find a more deserving writer elsewhere.

In the words of humor writer Dave Barry:
"...the truth is that most writers - I firmly believe this - have no fucking idea how, or even why, they write. They just do it. I also believe that many of us, deep inside, fear that at any moment we could suddenly stop being able to write."

 

[Privates1stClass]

EvelynEden wrote: Where do you get your ideas/inspiration from?

Most of my stories (with a few exceptions) came from real life experiences. Of course there are exaggerations and embellishments in those stories. Having an erotic imagination has helped, too.

 

[galaxygoddess]

I have dreams.

No, really. I have vivid, slightly psychotic, highly sexual dreams, and I wake up around 3 am, run down to my computer and write down what I can remember, then I trudge back up stairs and flop in bed and pass out. In the morning I look it over and decide "can I do anything with this?" if I can, in the pile it goes. If I can't (75% can't) in the trash it goes.


I still laugh at the weird dream I had where I was fighting this guy and I stopped and said, "this can't be my dream or we'd be having sex right now", and he looked at me and goes "ew!"

 

[NoJo]

I have dreams.

No, really. I have vivid, slightly psychotic, highly sexual dreams, and I wake up around 3 am, run down to my computer and write down what I can remember, then I trudge back up stairs and flop in bed and pass out. In the morning I look it over and decide "can I do anything with this?" if I can, in the pile it goes. If I can't (75% can't) in the trash it goes.

I have erotic dreams too, and write them down, but they're never translatable into stories, they're more vignettes - my dreams never have any narrative.

 

[KeithD]

From my past and from all that's happening around me. My ideas for stories usually drop in the morning as I'm waking up.

 

[oggbashan]

I have dreams of places that don't exist. In my dreams I have a consistent picture of my home town which bears no resemblance to the reality but I could almost draw a map of it with shopping streets, seaside and parks. I even see what the shops sell.

I have never used that dream town in any of my stories. Perhaps I should.

 

[Crownvic]

Mostly life experiences...with a little fantasy mixed in.....

 

[Zeb_Carter]

From pictures, songs, life, experiences I've had or wished I had, everywhere and nowhere.

 

[EvelynEden]

I have dreams.

No, really. I have vivid, slightly psychotic, highly sexual dreams, and I wake up around 3 am, run down to my computer and write down what I can remember, then I trudge back up stairs and flop in bed and pass out. In the morning I look it over and decide "can I do anything with this?" if I can, in the pile it goes. If I can't (75% can't) in the trash it goes.


I still laugh at the weird dream I had where I was fighting this guy and I stopped and said, "this can't be my dream or we'd be having sex right now", and he looked at me and goes "ew!"

Wow, that' amazing! Lol, the 3 am run down to your computer to write is dedication- I would just roll over and go back to sleep. Oh. My. God. That last bit made me laugh- you have a great imagination haha!

I'm actually in the same boat dream wise. I have some really fucking weird dreams, though none that I ever wrote down- most were too strange. I do though have a couple non-con stories I have written... It's not because it's a subject I enjoy really, it's because of some of my dreams. This isn't an omission I would make if this account was in my real name- but since I was a teenager I was terrified of rape, probably irrationally so- I don't know why, I don't know how- but that fear used to colour my dreams. I used to have these horrific nightmares with those themes and many'a times I awoke sobbing. After I wrote a few of those stories, it kinda weirdly helped me get over it a little. I still have the dreams but I no longer find them so scary, like I have control now. It's all very strange.

Thanks for sharing

 

[UsuallyPresent]

The horribly twisted and demented hellscape between my ears that used to be a functioning mind.

But thanks for asking.

I represent that response!

 

[EvelynEden]

They come from anywhere and everywhere. I try not to analyze it too much, for fear they will stop coming to me and find a more deserving writer elsewhere.

In the words of humor writer Dave Barry:
"...the truth is that most writers - I firmly believe this - have no fucking idea how, or even why, they write. They just do it. I also believe that many of us, deep inside, fear that at any moment we could suddenly stop being able to write."

Omg that quote made me shiver! Very true
Thanks for commenting

 

[UsuallyPresent]

A little more seriously...

I'm inspired a little bit by a lot of things. Music, pictures, scenes outside the window, books, games, dreams, nightmares, stories, etc.

Each has had little bits of ideas, concepts, dreamlets, what-have-you which end up meshing in ways I'd never have predicted to come up with a story or a story setting or a character or ... well, just about anything.

Stories I write therefore aren't truly inspired by a single source, even those I've written with or for others. Instead they come from a dirt-mall (See Kevin Smith's Mall Rats if ya don't know the reference, and you're welcome and I'm sorry) complete with the cast of The People Of Wal-Mart, various reality shows, and real, dead-serious reality.

Sadly, this dirt-mall exists only atwixt and between my ears.

Maybe I should write up a story in that place. . .

 

[jaF0]

I have dreams of places that don't exist. In my dreams I have a consistent picture of my home town which bears no resemblance to the reality but I could almost draw a map of it with shopping streets, seaside and parks. I even see what the shops sell.

I have a similar place in my head that never existed. It was never a hometown though, more like a morph of the current area.

There is also a mall (not related to the above) that I can walk through and picture the stores and merchandise. I swear it's real enough that I must have been there at one time, but I've never been able to place it.