Inspiring stuff
Oct. 11th, 2009 10:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nonionayOne of the things I'm making myself do is write at least one story seed a day. I'll find a prompt somewhere and write a few paragraphs that I can expand later.
One of my main sources of inspiration lately is The Big Picture, from boston.com.
Today I used a set of pictures from Typhoon Ketsana (Ondoy). Usually I try to start an actual story, but this set was so full of possibilities that I just jotted down the imagery. There's a lot of emotion in each picture, so I focused on what details in the picture caused those emotions. Some of them are touched with absurdity, like a man and his daughter paddling an inner tube with spades for oars. And of course, directional signs. Is there anything more absurd than a "No U-Turns" sign on a road that's completely impassible? Then when you mix that dab of the absurd with the tragedy around it, you get a powerful one-two punch.
You should definitely check out the set I used yesterday, a performance by a French street theatre company involving two giant marionettes wandering the streets looking for each other. Seriously check it out. The marionettes are unbelievably expressive, considering that each one has about twenty people literally hanging off them.
One of my main sources of inspiration lately is The Big Picture, from boston.com.
Today I used a set of pictures from Typhoon Ketsana (Ondoy). Usually I try to start an actual story, but this set was so full of possibilities that I just jotted down the imagery. There's a lot of emotion in each picture, so I focused on what details in the picture caused those emotions. Some of them are touched with absurdity, like a man and his daughter paddling an inner tube with spades for oars. And of course, directional signs. Is there anything more absurd than a "No U-Turns" sign on a road that's completely impassible? Then when you mix that dab of the absurd with the tragedy around it, you get a powerful one-two punch.
You should definitely check out the set I used yesterday, a performance by a French street theatre company involving two giant marionettes wandering the streets looking for each other. Seriously check it out. The marionettes are unbelievably expressive, considering that each one has about twenty people literally hanging off them.
