Comments on: Inspiration and SuperGeekess http://www.emotionalmarkup.com/2008/02/05/inspiration-and-not-writing/ Feel the code Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:40:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: ramon http://www.emotionalmarkup.com/2008/02/05/inspiration-and-not-writing/#comment-12 ramon Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:13:42 +0000 http://www.emotionalmarkup.com/2008/02/05/inspiration-and-not-writing/#comment-12 nice technique, ben. if only i hadn't done so many things that helped me to forget! Then again, I could say.. I forget my daily walks to the beach, I forget my brown leather sandles... nice technique, ben. if only i hadn’t done so many things that helped me to forget!

Then again, I could say.. I forget my daily walks to the beach, I forget my brown leather sandles…

]]> By: Ben Buchanan http://www.emotionalmarkup.com/2008/02/05/inspiration-and-not-writing/#comment-11 Ben Buchanan Thu, 07 Feb 2008 03:11:43 +0000 http://www.emotionalmarkup.com/2008/02/05/inspiration-and-not-writing/#comment-11 I heard an interesting inspiration method one time, it was actually intended for poetry but I think it works for any kind of writing. Think about something you remember, especially if you have strong memories/feelings about it. Then write down things about it that you remember, starting each line with "I remember...". Then at the end erase all the "I remembers". So... I remember sitting at the farm watching the rain I remember my life in boxes and a long highway ahead I remember feeling excitement and terror I remember many hours of the engine's hum I remember reaching the outskirts of Sydney in darkness I remember when we moved our lives Then you change it to... sitting at the farm watching the rain my life in boxes and a long highway ahead feeling excitement and terror many hours of the engine's hum reaching the outskirts of Sydney in darkness when we moved our lives [a few lines really need to be adjusted after removing the "I remember", but you get the idea] ...and writing it has stirred up a lot of memories. If I wasn't at work I could probably go and write a whole blog post now ;) I heard an interesting inspiration method one time, it was actually intended for poetry but I think it works for any kind of writing.

Think about something you remember, especially if you have strong memories/feelings about it. Then write down things about it that you remember, starting each line with “I remember…”. Then at the end erase all the “I remembers”.

So…

I remember sitting at the farm watching the rain
I remember my life in boxes and a long highway ahead
I remember feeling excitement and terror
I remember many hours of the engine’s hum
I remember reaching the outskirts of Sydney in darkness
I remember when we moved our lives

Then you change it to…

sitting at the farm watching the rain
my life in boxes and a long highway ahead
feeling excitement and terror
many hours of the engine’s hum
reaching the outskirts of Sydney in darkness
when we moved our lives

[a few lines really need to be adjusted after removing the "I remember", but you get the idea]

…and writing it has stirred up a lot of memories. If I wasn’t at work I could probably go and write a whole blog post now ;)

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