(( What Inspires YOU? ))
14 March 08 - 16:32
First of all, thanks everyone for congratulating me on my poem - it really means a lot. :)
But now to my blog entry for today... What Inspires YOU?
Inspiration plays such a big aspect in all creative fields: stories, poems, photos, artwork, choreography, or even blog posts! For instance, while vacationing in Hawaii, I was inspired by the absolutely gorgeous ocean, which inspired me to write the poem "The Tide".
I think for most people we usually are either inspired by our environment or our emotions. Our environment includes nature, people, places, things - basically our surroundings. Our senses come into play in our surroundings too, such as smell. Especially bakeries. I LOVE the smell of baked bread in the oven... (long sniff) ahhh... heavenly.
Caption Above: A Beautiful Place
So I suppose bread would count as my inspiration... ;) Maybe I should write a poem about bread baking! (everyone looks at Pema strangely...) Hey, if JK Rowling could write about an aunt blowing up and floating towards the sky and Lauren Myracle could write a book entirely of chat messages, then why can't I write a poem about bread baking? :D
But many people are also greatly inspired by their emotions too. Such as sad, happy, mad, angry... anything at all that one feels. Although I suppose a lot of our emotions are triggered by our environments, right? And the other way around. Like although "The Tide" was about the environment, I only wrote about it because I love the ocean, which is an emotion. Still, I think one can classify it seperately into two categories. What do you guys think?
Caption Above: An actual crater on Mars - it's called "The Happy Face Crater"
My poems are inspired by both my environment and emotions - "The Dancer" was based off of the emotions one feels when one is dancing, and the "The Tide" was influenced by the ocean.
But hey - enough about me. What inspires YOU?
You know that I’ve been in a slump.
BUT, back when I wasn’t I would be inspired by…
Okay, let’s say someone instults me, and I freeze. I go home, and it’s my next short story (But, with me saying something clever, of course.)
Or, someone doing something really sweet. You know, like helping me pick up a book I dropped.
Nothing ispires me with poetry, since I can’t write a dang poem to save me life!
CM
C. Moore () - 14 03 08 - 20:32
Well, I guess Nature or a place I think is really cool inspires me, but mostly Nature. And sometimes a song inspires me too. Not to exactly write a story though..maybe poems, although I never really write anything (not everyone is as good as you Pema ;P) lol. I like to draw too, except I’m not so good at it.
Akara - 16 03 08 - 11:50
I love to write to as well and I find inspiration from things that can either be really common or strange. I’ve noticed that I find more inspiration in the beauty of emotion rather than in the enviroment around me. But whatever inspires me at that moment, I shall right about it indeed :P.
Yara () - 16 03 08 - 13:39
hmmm…ok wat inspires me
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ok i cant think so im gonna make this corny
u inspire me, pema!!
ur 12 years old and ur already getting ur stuff published!
i can barely even spell, and on my last writing assignment for english i got like a 40%
mehwish () - 18 03 08 - 16:43
