i need INSPIRATION!!

thanks for the replies everyone! they ALL really helped... I HAVE MY IDEA NOW and i want to write this story using the voices of two different people (a bit like wuthering heights)... are there any tips on how to do this effectively? ta x

dont ask me im ful out of ideas!!!

Try talking to your cat.

I tryed that one. Haven't seen the cat since.

Mark Bolan, Princess Di and James Dean meet in purgatory?

ooooo not quite... !! x

You know, I usually find that I write the piece first and then fumble for a title for ages. Have a think about what put that title in your head, what emotions or images were you thinking about? My immediate imagery on reading it is of two young children sharing a bike down a hill, feet off the pedals and the one on the back terrified. Or it could be a piece about emotion and love, in which case I'm getting images of an alligator infested swamp, a battered old shack, a man swatting mosquitoes away from a hurricane lamp with a doodled-on TV guide. Sit down and write what comes into your head - ninety per cent of it will be junk, but somewhere in it you may get lucky and find a rhythmn and something you want to hear more about. That's where to find stories, those corners where you get a glimpse of something and think 'I want to know how they got there, what he wants, what's going to happen to her' Hope that helps.

yes that does help actually! ta! xx

isn't that a line from a simon and garfunkel song?

59th Street Bridge Song?

Okay here goes. The inspiration and the ideas for the best writing that you'll ever do will come from moments in your day to day existence. Keep your story antennae on full alert all the time. Beneath the surface of your consciousness and the humdrum of your daily life, let the desire for the gist of a story remain lurking at all times. Ideas for stories can crop up anytime of the day, while travelling, conversing with someone or even the stories of the lives of your friends or people you meet narrated by them as means of gossip. The idea for a great story lies everywhere but it's just that your conscious mind does not notice it. But then suddenly all of a sudden, bam! Your mind is assaulted by the brilliant seed of an idea in the middle of a film, or while watching the antics of a man that you have observed in a public park. OKAY NOW HERE'S THE MOST IMPORTANT TOOL IN IN THE ARSENAL OF A WRITER, WHICH CAN NEVER BE STRESSED ENOUGH! WRITE THAT DAMN THOUGHT DOWN IMMEDIATELY. If you don't, you will forget it and with that erasure, future generations will be deprived of a timeless story. Scrible that idea down on paper. No pen and paper no problemo, the cell phone will save the day. The thought that just struck you as a phenomenal idea for a story should be jotted down in as many characters as an sms message would allow. No more than that. What you're trying to do here is to store that feeling which just struck you as unique and put it in cold storage. Now type it on your cell phone and store it in the message archive. It's as easy as that. Keep building up on that ideas archive. A week, a month or even a year later when you actually sit down in front of your computer to start fleshing out your story, you'll be surprised at how easily the same feeling and emotions which that particular thought invoked within you even ten years back will arise again. When you read the gist of the idea which you had so thoughtfully stored will now seem like a ripe fruit ready to be plucked and savoured as the seed of an n exceptional tale . In fact there will come a time when inspiration would not be the main problem, but which idea among your storehouse of 200 odd ideas should you begin to work on ASAP would be the biggest hurdle to cross! Cheers jda ...and please don't lose the phone before you've had a chance to save those brilliant ideas onto a word processor!

turn your mind on look at the world in a diffenet point of view mabye go to your local beauty spotlook at every thing with a twist your imagonation will go wild and youmight get a few good ideas ok miss jda

I get really annoyed with myself over catching hold of my ideas. Often, when I first go to bed, all sorts of banter starts up in my head, sometimes it seems to be telling a story, and sometimes I come up with a cracker of an opening line. But I can't be bothered to get out of bed and find paper. Moral - always have notebook and pen at bedside. (Comes in handy for ideas from dreams too.)

i think it's called, "feeling groovy (59th street bridge song) Slow down, you move too fast, you've got to make the morning last Just kickin' down the cobble-stones, lookin' for fun and feelin' groovy Feeling groovy Hello lamp-post, what's cha knowing, I've come to watch your flowers growin' Ain't cha got no rhymes for me, do-it-do-do, feelin' groovy Feeling groovy I've got no deeds to do, no promises to keep I'm dappled and drowsy and ready to sleep Let the morning time drop all its petals on me Life I love you, all is groovy

Oh, love that song... ends with 'na-na-na, Na Na Na Na, na na-na'