Re: A Decision is One For Those Who Know

[Seafeather]

OCC: Eve, I really like your style of writing. Most people just write to write. But those who are really passionate about writing derive their novels, posts, forums, etc from their feelings or something that inspires them. When I'm writing I always put a little bit of what's going on in my life (or what I need in my life) into my posts or novels. My life happenings always end up in my posts. When Rivershadow and Spottedwing had their "fight" Spottedwing said something about you'll never know what it's like to love someone and have them turn their heads from you at every second of the day. That's actually a part of me, personal, but not as much so that I can't vent into a post. I must seem like a lunatic. Maybe I am...

Water inspires me because it's strong, but gentle. It changes colors with either what's in it, or what's around it. It carves stone, can move buildings, but is gentle enough that we wash our children and ourselves with it.

Woods inspires me because of many reasons. 1) My grandma and grandpa live in Arkansas. I used to go there quite often before they passed away this summer. They used to live in the middle of the woods. It looked beautiful in fall, moist in the summer, and when the ice storms come...it's wonderful. The ice coats everything, turning it into a wonderland of sparkling ice.
2) The woods are my escape. I go there whether in my head or in real life (used to) just to think about things. Life, love, worries, sickness, the future...anything.

Love is also one of my inspirations. So many types, living in harmony with one another. Friendship love, boy/girlfriend love, marriage love...all coexisting. It's wonder-making.

You have to find an inspiration that you appreciate. The inspirations can be dark, light, loving, hated, coveted, all of these human emotions bonded into one. These inspirations will make you an even better writer. For good or for worse, you decide.

[fαllεη •]

Amen, sister! XD.

In all seriousness though, I do agree with what you've said :). I try to write my posts with some feeling behind them, but mostly I find that the characters themselves are more interested in taking over. When it comes to role-playing, they'd rather express themselves and just borrow my experiences --after all, they're only a few months old and they need to start somewhere.
Poetry is really the time I let my thoughts go, and having something visual or a strong idea to go on is really important there. When it comes to role-play posts, I get inspiration for characters from most people, and occasionally follow through with them --though mostly not: I wouldn't want to freak them out by transposing them into a cat XD.

We're quite lucky; although I've always lived in at least suburbia, there's always been a good dose of nature outside. The great thing about our house right now is that you can look right out the window and see the weather, and there's a beautiful stretch of steep woods down behind the house. Right now, it's blowing up a gale and sounds like there's a dragon snoring in our chimney.

I believe that you can derive inspiration from almost anything with an extreme: power, ugliness, beauty or loveliness, it doesn't matter: if you feel something about it, you can write :).

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Thank you, Seafeather, for your amazing inspiration and and making me a new motive for this site. I actually find it hard to understand the quailtiy of 'emotions of your own' behind the hidden words and phrases. It is my mask, I hide from my true self by using these characters to role-play 'myself' on the site.
Thank you.

[Seafeather]

It's also a balance between real life and post life. Once you start to learn how to rephrase things into an unhindered meaning, it's hard to not do that in real life. It takes time to balance.

[- - -evening ||]

thank you very much, sea