DPP: Feed the Muse

[angelicalangie.livejournal.com]

Hi I am angelicalangie , also known as Angel and this week I am driving the DPP bus. Please strap yourselves in and enjoy the on board entertainment!

Our theme for the week is “Feed the Muse” a lot of us write, vid, create art and even just daydream about the possibilities of life on the Battlestar Galactica. But what inspires us to create, what “feeds” our collective muses, what gives us the impetus to pursue an idea from its inception?

That is what I aim, with a little help from you guys, to explore and hopefully have a place to return to in the future. On my twitter feed I have seen a few writers - from various fandoms express the same problem of writers block - and so my general idea is to have a place to go to, a repository of inspiration, so-to-speak, to generate ideas and break the writers block.

Today we are going to explore;

Fiction.

This doesn't just have to be limited to the Battlestar Fandom, this can be; books, poetry, fics, anything written. Essentially, anything that is fictional. 

Comments

[reginaspina.livejournal.com]

I have to say that I have a very visual imagination - I always see scenes in my head as movies and then I write by describing them in words. Unfortunately, I often feel like I'm not living up to my own imagination (as weird as that sounds) and that the written description doesn't do justice to the thing I'm seeing in my head at all, which is why I procrastinate so much about writing.

When I write original fiction, I have to "cast" it so I can see the visuals I need to write which is also weird.

As for inspiration, it could be just a word or a phrase I've read, or again, a visual from something or someone. It could just be that I can't find the thing I want to read at that particular moment, so I'm compelled to write it myself (though I prefer it when I can be lazy and read what other people have written!)