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Thursday, January 28, 2010
What Inspires Us?
My muse is entertained by the damnedest things. And I feel certain most of the writers who frequent my blog will agree theirs does also. It never ceases to amaze me the tiniest encounter can produce Technicolor inspiration. Music and song, photographs, movies, news articles, the glass of milk I spilled all over the table...and the list goes on. Even praise from a beta reader can send a muse in a different, more colorful direction.
As a writer of erotica, my muse looks at the world through kink-tinted glasses much of the time. Caressing a pashmina scarf never fails to put a twinkle in my eye. Ah, the endless possibilities my characters could have with one. Shopping for leather boots always reminds me of my heroine in "Michael's Training." Watching a man with long hair shake out his ponytail after a hard day at work (no pun intended) produces volumes of text.
But not everything I write is wham-bam-and-spank-you-with-my-hairbrush. My repertoire also includes romance, horror sci-fi, poetry, and the ever-professional technical documentation and communications. Yes, even technical documentation requires inspiration so as not to have it spill out like dry sand from a cracked hourglass.
A whole story can exist, frozen in time, within one single image or painting.
A very dear friend of mine and I always enjoyed the twisted humor of whenever I needed to "off" a character, nothing influenced my muse more than listening to Celtic Woman's version of Carrickfergus while driving in the car. Odd, but it worked every time—and still does. Twisted, yes and worth its weight in literary gold.
And why all the excitement on inspiration? The first chapter of Vignette is done...and I am very pleased with its outcome. All of the snarling and swearing was worth it. It has been a monumental undertaking to get the manuscript restarted but it is finally under way.
I hope to have a finished product for submission by the end of the year.
What inspires you?
As a writer of erotica, my muse looks at the world through kink-tinted glasses much of the time. Caressing a pashmina scarf never fails to put a twinkle in my eye. Ah, the endless possibilities my characters could have with one. Shopping for leather boots always reminds me of my heroine in "Michael's Training." Watching a man with long hair shake out his ponytail after a hard day at work (no pun intended) produces volumes of text.
But not everything I write is wham-bam-and-spank-you-with-my-hairbrush. My repertoire also includes romance, horror sci-fi, poetry, and the ever-professional technical documentation and communications. Yes, even technical documentation requires inspiration so as not to have it spill out like dry sand from a cracked hourglass.
A whole story can exist, frozen in time, within one single image or painting.
A very dear friend of mine and I always enjoyed the twisted humor of whenever I needed to "off" a character, nothing influenced my muse more than listening to Celtic Woman's version of Carrickfergus while driving in the car. Odd, but it worked every time—and still does. Twisted, yes and worth its weight in literary gold.
And why all the excitement on inspiration? The first chapter of Vignette is done...and I am very pleased with its outcome. All of the snarling and swearing was worth it. It has been a monumental undertaking to get the manuscript restarted but it is finally under way.
I hope to have a finished product for submission by the end of the year.
What inspires you?
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