OMG!! A story from nowhere!

TruckinTWrites · Nov 23, 2011

i was walking my dog tonight with my 6 y.o. little girl (who is visiting me for Thanksgiving, thank you very much!) tonight and we got to the dead end on our road. There are woods at the end and she turned to me and said "we can just stop right here...Im not going in those woods!" I asked her why and she just looked at me like I had 4 heads. I laughed and turned around and we came home, but i couldn't get that scene out of my head. I sat down and plotted a story (doesn't involve my little girl) and honestly Im scared just plotting it. I could NOT get that scene out of my head and the plot just flowed as i started writing it down. spent about 2 hours just plotting.

I have never had a story just pop out of nowhere like that. Ive always had to really struggle to come up with ideas for stories and they always seemed like I was pushing with them. This one didn't feel that way.

This ever happen to you? Do you get ideas from out of the blue? Im going to start on this thing tonight!

mccardey · Nov 23, 2011

TruckinTWrites said:
i was walking my dog tonight with my 6 y.o. little girl (who is visiting me for Thanksgiving, thank you very much!) tonight and we got to the dead end on our road. There are woods at the end and she turned to me and said "we can just stop right here...Im not going in those woods!" I asked her why and she just looked at me like I had 4 heads. I laughed and turned around and we came home, but i couldn't get that scene out of my head. I sat down and plotted a story (doesn't involve my little girl) and honestly Im scared just plotting it. I could NOT get that scene out of my head and the plot just flowed as i started writing it down. spent about 2 hours just plotting.

I have never had a story just pop out of nowhere like that. Ive always had to really struggle to come up with ideas for stories and they always seemed like I was pushing with them. This one didn't feel that way.

This ever happen to you? Do you get ideas from out of the blue? Im going to start on this thing tonight!

Go! Write!! You lucky thing...

No, I've never had that happen. But I have read here that it does.

Good luck!

SummerSurf57 · Nov 23, 2011

Go, write! That is an amazing idea!

MJNL · Nov 23, 2011

Sounds like you're very lucky: you've learned how to make yourself write long before you had an inspirational moment. A lot of people get flashes like this and think they have to wait for it to happen in order to be able to write a story. Clearly that's not true, story telling is a skill that can be exercised all the time. You don't need to be directly "inspired" to accomplish other goals in life, so it's strange that so many people think you have to be for writing.

But it is awesome when inspiration strikes.

FabricatedParadise · Nov 23, 2011

That's fantastic!

I have this happen occassionally and I always find I'm more passionate about the story when it just flows like that.

Go write and enjoy!

TruckinTWrites · Nov 23, 2011

Just put down the first 500 words. Ive got the plot the way I want it, which I'm sure will change as I go. Im excited about this.

mccardey · Nov 23, 2011

TruckinTWrites said:
Just put down the first 500 words. Ive got the plot the way I want it, which I'm sure will change as I go. Im excited about this.

I hope you'll share it, once it's all finished and shiny-bright

Tepelus · Nov 24, 2011

10trackers · Nov 24, 2011

I'm one of the lucky ones. It happens to me a lot

Go you. Awesome that you've got it all plotted out and even started writing on it. Cherish it and LET US READ! :hooray:

areteus · Nov 24, 2011

It has happened to me a few times. I have loads of ideas that I have yet to manage to develop beyong a vague idea because I haven't the time. Many of them came from things I see when walking about.

KyraDune · Nov 24, 2011

Oh, yeah, happens to me all the time. Congrats to you and good luck with the story.

French Maiden · Nov 24, 2011

THats exciting.
My WIP came to me while i was istting in a chair watching my son getting a blood transfusion. It was a regular thing for him, and had never had inspiration strike any of the times before. But this one particular time we were in a room with seals painted on the walls, and it just all came flooding to me, luckily i had my laptop with me so i could get it all donw while it was fresh in my head.

Good luck with your piece. and have a good time with ur daughter

inspiredbymusic · Nov 24, 2011

That's exciting! Good luck with this project!

Zelenka · Nov 24, 2011

Sounds a good project. Go for it!

I've had it happen quite a lot, but the best one I think was sitting at Buchanan Street bus station in Glasgow, watching the buses go by as I waited for mine, and reading all the strange place names from the west coast (Like West Crindledyke and Nitshill and Ballater) and I started thinking about how little people know about the origin of a lot of place names, how most of it is guess work based on etymology and similarities to words rather than an exact translation (look at London and 'Thames'), and ended up writing a short story by hand in my notebook while I waited for the bus, about people finding a guidebook from the future where they'd been guessing at things like 'New York' and from the text it was obvious civilisation had ended not long after the story's setting. I love that feeling when the story just comes out of nowhere and flows right to the end. Doesn't happen all the time, unfortunately.

Archerbird · Nov 24, 2011

This happens to me a lot. Back when I used to draw and paint all day I would get images, and now that I write I get backstories, or dialoges/monologues, plot ideas etc I can build on. It usually shows itself as a film, but sometimes it's just a thought. It varies.

dangerousbill · Nov 24, 2011

TruckinTWrites said:
This ever happen to you? Do you get ideas from out of the blue? Im going to start on this thing tonight!

My first novel came to me fully formed while hiking near Sedona. I sat on a rock and the whole tale was 'downloaded' into my brain from somewhere. I rushed back to my hotel and wrote it all down.

Layla Nahar · Nov 24, 2011

w00t!!!

BRDurkin · Nov 24, 2011

It happens to me every now and then, and when it does, I run with it. Always take advantage of it! Good luck with it.

Hiroko · Nov 24, 2011

Some of my best ideas come out of nowhere. That is to say, I never sit down and try to come up with a story--usually ideas just pop in.

CACTUSWENDY · Nov 24, 2011

When the muse slaps you in the face like this....be all the man/woman you can be and get it down on paper. The rest of us will just sit here and drool.

BotByte · Nov 24, 2011

I recently had a dream I had to write down.

It's completely out of my thought range: About human harvesting to supply a plush "secluded" human existence with parts and materials.

I've never had quick revelations, more like slow devouring thoughts that collected together and formed a complete idea.

SRHowen · Nov 24, 2011

One novel came from meeting a doctor at a Pow Wow, who was also a traditionalist, poof instant story. Another came to me at a street fair in Germany when walking by the wagons of a real Gypsy camp. Another when I was at a second hand store, they had a bunch of swords for sale and there was one with a hilt like a twisted bird/gargoyle thing--epic fantasy time with that one.

I think every story I have written came from inspiration.

Nualláin · Nov 24, 2011

I don't think I've ever received any sort of inspiration from something that happened in my daily life. Virtually every idea I've ever had, be it for a poem, a story, a play or a novel, came to me while I had a pen in my hand working on something else. I'll be scribbling away at a scene, then suddenly -- bang! I have to flip the page over and start scrawling notes for a new concept before I forget the idea.

I suppose that side of my brain works not through images, but by ordering words. So when I'm churning away at one thing, another just pops out.

It's a great feeling, though, wherever it comes from. One of the best ones we ever get, that rush of excitement when your brain starts saying "Write this down! Write this down now!!!"

strawberryblondie · Nov 24, 2011

This happens to me all the time. It's very rare that I go searching for ideas. Have fun writing!

jaksen · Nov 25, 2011

Many of my ideas start the same way, with a phrase someone has said, or an idea that pops into my head as I'm driving along a quiet road.

And you've done the right thing - write it down! Don't lose it. Live the idea by thinking about it when you're doing something other than writing, too. (Unless you're constantly with others who'll stare at you whenever you're daydreaming.) Work out details when you're say...doing the dishes, walking the dog, doing the laundry, stuff like that. If you see a conversation or dialogue pop up, let it take you wherever it wants to go.

But also, relax with it. Don't try to force it. Let the story lead you - not the other way around.

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