fantasy writing
Inspirations For Fantasy Writings
For any sort of writing whether its speeches, articles, books, fantasy ebooks, role playing sessions, storylines for computer games or films anything at all essentially, it helps to create an active and detailed environment that is portrayed in your works. But this in itself can be a stumbling block for many writers as where do we draw our inspiration from not only for the content of what we are writing about but also for the smaller details, the characters, items and even settings? I have found a great variety of sources to be very useful in helping to stimulate my mind and passion for what I was writing about.
To get the easy one out of the way first up; other books and movies, and I’m sure that this is no big surprise to anyone, can provide you with a mountain of inspiration for characters, plot developments, atmosphere or settings. The key here as always is make it your own so it’s easiest to work with the emotions that what you are watching or reading gives you. Thus when I am watching a film, what I really concentrate on is the feelings that it gives me and then replicate those feelings in my own works rather than plagiarising what I am seeing.
Next up is holidays and travel and if you are fortunate enough to utilise this option then make sure that you have plenty of HD space for both a still and video camera as this is an opportunity that you should never pass up to get inspired. My classic example of this is when I was traveling through Scotland, apart from the pubs and castles which are obvious sources of intrigue for me the countryside itself got me enthused as what I saw in the lowlands mirrored how I saw in my head the WolfSpire Mountains to be while the Highlands sung out to me as the BlackSpear Ranges from my world. In conjunction to having an experience of visiting real world areas that matched what I saw in my head it actually gave me the opportunity to see how that environment actually worked as I would never had envisioned that every few metres there is water flowing down the mountain faces, or the types of vegetation that grows in the areas. In short travel gives you a unique opportunity to expand your knowledge of settings, people, cultures and places that you cannot achieve through any other method and it allows you to understand the finer details that make each environment unique. Although I rate this highly for some very good reasons it is also the most expensive option and obviously not that accessible for us all but if you do find yourself with the opportunity I advise you relish the moment and expand your imagination.