(please :nice: )

 

okay guys/ladies, if you would be able to help me on this, i would appreciate it aloooooooooooooooooottttt :kiss:

 

i need to write a kick ass creative writing piece for my hsc (state-wide exams) and i'm lacking severely with inspiration. and when i say i am lacking inspiration, i mean my brain is fried like a fried chicken, nothing is coming in at alll :cry:

 

i have to write about something to do with the 'imaginative journey' --> something like engaging in memories, and self reflection, blah blah blah, and growing as a result of it, or something stupid like that.

 

if anyone has ANY random ideas at all, i would REALLY, really, reallllllllly appreciate it.

 

anything at all would help, really, it would!

 

i don't care if you think it's stupid and crap, any ideas, words, sentences, etc would be muchlllllyy appreciated! :nice: :kiss:

 

-bonita.

I wish I could help but I didn't really understand the topic... Self reflection... Hmm.. Maybe you could write about music, how it hepls you to understand yourself and how it saves you in depressive situations etc?...Hmm, just the first what came to my mnid.

Well I have afew ideas, but anything I do will always have a bit of a sci-fi fantasy vibe to it.

 

You could do something about how subjective memories are, like if a person was to be able to enter their memories and be flabberghasted at how different what they see is from what they thought they remembered.

 

Or they could be mortified at how silly they were at any given time only to go back and make the same mistake again while reliving the memory. Many writing teachers love it when you take on a topic, so the "we never change do we" (shameless quote, I know) approach can be an interesting one if the topic is about learning from memory and the past.

 

You could do something about how skewed self reflection can be because the one person in the universe that we never trully have any perspective on is ourself. For instance if you wrote about someone who had a particularly deluded self-image, and then showed what they were really like by switching between the viewpoints of their family and friends.

 

Or maybe two people go back to the orginal events at some point in their life and end up arguing about where the funiture was supposed to be and who was wearing what dress at what time, only to finally admit that they can't deal with the real issues of the past, and want to go back to the present where they belong and deal with whatever crap happened rather than dealing with it and avoiding it.

 

There's more where that came from... hope they make a little sense. I've always thought of creative writing as putting skin and colour on skeletons of ideas, so even if you do use any of my ideas it will probably be vastly different than anything I said.

 

Good ideas can never come from a void, you use tiny pieces of things that are already there and combine them in different ways. For instance, if you were to go with a story about two people arguing about memory, you could say that it has to involve a blender. No reason, just to make you try. Plots seem to work better when they're built around something, even if its taken out at the end. Or maybe that's just me.

 

Good luck, anyway! ;)

Well I have afew ideas, but anything I do will always have a bit of a sci-fi fantasy vibe to it.

 

You could do something about how subjective memories are, like if a person was to be able to enter their memories and be flabberghasted at how different what they see is from what they thought they remembered.

 

Or they could be mortified at how silly they were at any given time only to go back and make the same mistake again while reliving the memory. Many writing teachers love it when you take on a topic, so the "we never change do we" (shameless quote, I know) approach can be an interesting one if the topic is about learning from memory and the past.

 

You could do something about how skewed self reflection can be because the one person in the universe that we never trully have any perspective on is ourself. For instance if you wrote about someone who had a particularly deluded self-image, and then showed what they were really like by switching between the viewpoints of their family and friends.

 

Or maybe two people go back to the orginal events at some point in their life and end up arguing about where the funiture was supposed to be and who was wearing what dress at what time, only to finally admit that they can't deal with the real issues of the past, and want to go back to the present where they belong and deal with whatever crap happened rather than dealing with it and avoiding it.

 

There's more where that came from... hope they make a little sense. I've always thought of creative writing as putting skin and colour on skeletons of ideas, so even if you do use any of my ideas it will probably be vastly different than anything I said.

 

Good ideas can never come from a void, you use tiny pieces of things that are already there and combine them in different ways. For instance, if you were to go with a story about two people arguing about memory, you could say that it has to involve a blender. No reason, just to make you try. Plots seem to work better when they're built around something, even if its taken out at the end. Or maybe that's just me.

 

Good luck, anyway! ;)

 

I like all the idea you gave.

I don't know that i've understand the topic, but i think that your ideas match with the topic.and I'm looking for ideas, and maybe i've got sth.

did u read a thread about chris and nelly furtado.it's named chris is so humbled

 

read it and i guess you would find a piece of answer for your hsc but it's quite the same idea as Erin'second idea.

I'll tell you if i find other ideas...

oh you guys are so lovely.

thanks lera, erin and lncoln :nice:

 

erin, your ideas are fantastic, merci :nice:

you're right, i need a skeleton of ideas first, that's why i'm trying to see what i can get from everywhere, even little stupid things can give me inspiration, who knows, so when it all combines, hopefully i will have a kick ass creative writing piece.

thanks guys :kiss:

you had training wheels on your bike......when you got them off you decided to tackle this hugeass hill known as 'murder hill' and its where all the big kids rode down. so your journey is overcoming the fear of the steep hill of which you do in the end!! :P:P

Bonita, you're very welcome :) Just yell if you want more.

 

Lincoln, I was thinking more about the possibilities of using a pompus prick for that idea, but you could do some really interesting things with the greatest ___ in the world who couldn't accept it too... In a darker vein, that idea works really well when you think about situations where someone wants to run away or commit suicide or something, without realising how much they mean to everyone around them.

 

Oi... I haven't done any creative writing of my own in awhile... I think its starting to sound like I should again...

ok. I think I've understand.I surely need some explanations...

You mean someone who will suicide, and suddenly he remembers how much everyone around like him?

^Sure... that kind of turned into thinking out loud again... but yeah, that's kind of what I meant.

Bonita- did you ever decide on anything? Sorry I'm curious.

 

I just got reminded of this because I want to take a creative writing course next year, and we have to turn in writing samples before we can sign up. I love writing stories, but I haven't actually finished anything in years- *gulp*

 

So now I'm the one who has to start from scratch! :lol:

 

I'm Probably going to do somthing about a closet that eats people... but I'll see...

Y'know I need something to do tonight, I wanna write something on this. Like a short story or summat.

 

Whats the question exactly?

Which question- mine (I don't have one, just have to do something random) or Bonita's?

The original topic, so, Bonitas

i have to write about something to do with the 'imaginative journey' --> something like engaging in memories, and self reflection, blah blah blah, and growing as a result of it, or something stupid like that.

 

I'm not sure I ever understood the topic myself, but sometimes I find that more inspiring than if I did... it leaves room for interpretation.

 

Now if you just want to write something random, I could give you a topic...

Yeah! Sure.

How about homesickness- for something that never existed.

Hmmm, interesting.

 

I'm actually a bit scared to start writing, I used to have a talent for creative writing but its been so long, I dont know how I'd feel if I discovered I cant do it anymore.

 

I dont know what to do.

Is it 2 different subjects or are they 1?

Hmmm, interesting.

 

I'm actually a bit scared to start writing, I used to have a talent for creative writing but its been so long, I dont know how I'd feel if I discovered I cant do it anymore.

 

I dont know what to do.

 

It's a little like riding a bicycle... you may be a bit wooden and wobbly when you start out, but it all comes back fast. The only time I ever had trouble was when I started university, I was writing papers all the time and it sapped all my creativity to the point that I got nasty writer's block- but I'd never had that before in my life. But coming out of it, I just randomly stumbled across one of the best ideas I've ever had. I hope to turn that one into a short film if I ever get it down on paper.

 

What I do is I get afew ideas, no matter how mundane, and when I have a couple that might work together in an interesting way, i let them bounce around in my head until I have a rough plot worked out, and then I write a short outline- just a couple of points to use as a roadmap.

 

Then comes characters- I start with things like age, gender, building up a personality, trying to pick traits that add new dimention to the theme or the plot's events. I sort of let those people take up a piece of space in my head for awile until they are actually people with personalities, not just caracatures. I actually don't like that part much... it makes me feel a bit schtizo, especially when some of the villians are rather unpleasant...

 

At that point, I just sit down and start writing as though I was telling the story out loud. I need to because that's the only way to get the people out of my head, and because I want to find out what's going to happen as much as the person who might read it someday. It's just like reading, except that I can make choices. (And it takes longer)

 

Original ideas can come from the strangest places... songs, phrases, unusual contexts for everyday objects in the room with you, like a chair or something... Alot of the time with me, it's just trying to find a way to express a feeling, to give that feeling a reason, because it makes no sense on it's own.

 

The people eating closet idea came from my thinking about how darkness is the absense of light, but when something is black it absorbs light, so what if there was darkness that ate light the way black pigment does? Where would it hide? In a closet. From there came the idea of little kids with a monster in closet, and what if the darkness was the monster?