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About This Author
My name is Joy, and I love to write. Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground. Kiya's gift. I love it!
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#861992 added October 6, 2015 at 7:34pm
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Finding Inspiration
Prompt: Which things inspire and aid your fictional work? Do you use arts or music other than the writing craft itself in order to come up with storylines, symbols, characters, etc. for your fiction?

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I don’t have a problem finding inspiration as it is everywhere. Anywhere I look--inside a room, looking out of the window, in nature, on the street, while traveling, waiting in a line, etc.--there is an inspiration. I can even close my eyes and find it inside my head. The first idea or inspiration is a cinch.

Where I hesitate is what happens after the first inspiration. To come up with characters and events, I check the prompts, brainstorm and free-flow, and make lists. Character building is not a problem. Plotting is a bit difficult, though.

The visual arts do help but not music because, with music, and especially the kind of music I listen to, I find myself getting lost in it and I cannot think. To me, music is a mind-cleanser and something a bit emotional to fall into. It doesn’t give me ideas for fiction or any other writing; nor does it inspire me for anything else.

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