Comments on: Where do you get your ideas from? https://glendalarke.com/2008/04/where-do-you-get-your-ideas-from-3/ Sat, 13 Mar 2021 10:34:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Anonymous https://glendalarke.com/2008/04/where-do-you-get-your-ideas-from-3/#comment-22573 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:03:00 +0000 #comment-22573 Again, Glenda, I would agree with you. When I am taking a walk, whether it be through the woods or across a beach, I may see something – a rock, as you suggested, or a fallen tree, or anything natural, and I may see a shape or feature in it, and let my imagination wander (like the stone ewok) and wonder why is he/she/it/they like that, what are they doing? . And, just like that, and idea or – if I’m lucky – a whole story will begin to form in the back of my mind…

]]> By: Glenda Larke https://glendalarke.com/2008/04/where-do-you-get-your-ideas-from-3/#comment-22572 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:18:00 +0000 #comment-22572 The writers here are the ones who who look beyond the interesting shape to the story…

I see a dwarf/ewok type character with a sack, beachcombing. His hooded cloak indicates that he has a reason to keep his face hidden. The squarish shapes in the bag suggest that what he is obtaining is man made – is he a wrecker, perhaps?

And my mind is off and running.

Thanks, Elliott. We all begin somewhere. Come to think of it, I spent more years beginning than I have published! I think I am the poster child for a writer who refused to give up and got there in the end.

]]> By: Anonymous https://glendalarke.com/2008/04/where-do-you-get-your-ideas-from-3/#comment-22571 Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:53:00 +0000 #comment-22571 I strongly agree, Glenda! I am, well, very much a beginner writer compared to you (love the Mirage Makers btw, totally unique ideas!), but I am always getting ideas – just the other day I saw a flock of beautiful birds fly overhead whilst I was taking a walk through the forest and, just like that, I had three different ideas (one for a character, one for a world and one for a plot twist). The harder part is putting it all together to make a cohesive world and a cohesive plot!

]]> By: Anonymous https://glendalarke.com/2008/04/where-do-you-get-your-ideas-from-3/#comment-22570 Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:58:00 +0000 #comment-22570 It’s actually a local wombat standing on its hind legs in order to lick the salt deposits off the rock.*g*

]]> By: Helen V. https://glendalarke.com/2008/04/where-do-you-get-your-ideas-from-3/#comment-22569 Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:56:00 +0000 #comment-22569 Oh yes! That is really cool. There’s a whole civilisation in those last two photos.

]]> By: Jason https://glendalarke.com/2008/04/where-do-you-get-your-ideas-from-3/#comment-22568 Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:14:00 +0000 #comment-22568 I also see a robed/hooded figure hugging a smaller figure, similarly clothed. I initially thought of a mother shielding her child, perhaps as disaster overcame them, catching them out of time. It reminds me of the casts taken of people caught at Pompei.

Perhaps I can shuck off my overly-literal programmer mindset after all… 🙂

]]> By: DamienW https://glendalarke.com/2008/04/where-do-you-get-your-ideas-from-3/#comment-22567 Sun, 27 Apr 2008 02:34:00 +0000 #comment-22567 It’s like a stone person hugging a small stone person.

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