I generally find inspiration in everything, literally everything. I guess you have to be like that when writing, take a look at an object or person, animal, anything, and take something from it, steal part of it for yourself. Always be thinking, always be contemplating, always taking that little twist on each and every thing you see, witness, hear, and making it your own. I love it, life, converting it, grabbing at all that is placed before me, refining it and giving it definition.
I personally though, for no particular reason, find inspiration in architecture, I love buildings, of any sort. Perhaps it has something to do with my father being an engineer and growing up helping him and my grandad build stuff from a very young age. No idea really. But I love them, how they're constructed, the ins and outs, I always imagine taking a cross-section of of whatever I'm looking at and interpreting its insides.
I inevitably always think about how it would fall down as well, how it could be taken apart, in any way from bare fists to mighty explosions, come full circle as they say. Anyway, it's been a slow night, I've been catching up with things over the last few days, as you may well be able to tell I've been away, Chicago and New York specifically. It's been great, though I didn't actually get much writing done I actually think I figured out how to end the novel, so was I inspired by the might of American capitalism and industry.
Interesting times! I'll be back soon no doubt with more book information and more inspiring novelists. Just a quick post for tonight about a little inspiration. Also got a few other helpful blogging projects that I'd like to action.
2 Comments
1 Helen wrote:
Raa. My cousin has just had her first novel published & has had reviews in The Times etc - I thought you might be interested. Details here:
http://www.shortbooks.co.uk/book.asp?book_id=200
I think for hers, she just had to sit down and force herself to do it. Writing a book is hard work. You need a lot of self-discipline. It's cool that you've got so far through it.
2 Richard Galbraith wrote:
thanks for the link helen, appreciated. Although what your cousin has had published is really my bag it's always interesting to see new avenues of publishing and such. I have to be very regimented with what I do, between balancing a reasonably pressured job, awesome girlfriend, drinking and a social life, this blog, and actually getting the novel done, all i've got time left for is sleeping really. But you know what, I wouldn't have it any other way!