B00ts

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Has any one found any of the following helpful as inspirational tools?

... freewriting
... clustering
... burning orange oil
... people-watching
... yahoo group chats
... the snowflake method
... praying
... reading a dozen books in your chosen genre
... dieting/fasting
... arguing with your spouse

Jan 04, 2006, 05:28PM PST


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Jan 05, 2006, 01:51AM PST

B00ts

They say everyone has a time of day when they are “in the zone” – late at night is good for me too, when we’re on school holidays, otherwise its about 11am… and I’m don’t always have computer time on my schedule at 11am!

Jan 05, 2006, 02:04AM PST | Respond to this

StarGoddess45

I find that freewriting and reading books of your chosen genre helps. I also find that it is helps to just relax and let your mind drift. I’ve gotten some of my best results from just relaxing probably because my mind wanders off when I relax. Of course then I run into the problem of having so many different ideas that they really don’t go with plot but I just store the ideas for later in hopes that they will help me if not in the novel I’m writing then in another one.

Jan 08, 2006, 03:47AM PST | Thread | Respond to this

B00ts

Cool. Thanks. Where do you store your ideas???

Jan 08, 2006, 10:40PM PST | Thread | Respond to this

StarGoddess45

Well I store all my brainstorms in a folder I have specially for brainstorms. It keeps everything very orgainized and it is really easy to look at if I have run out of ideas for the story and the moment. I always seem to come to dead ends but looking at some of my brainstorms helps me to get back on track even if they have nothing to do with my story at the moment because they force me to think what else? What could I change to make it fit? I find it useful hopefully you will too. Good luck with your novel.

Jan 09, 2006, 07:17PM PST | Respond to this

zippity

Orange oil?

What’s this about orange oil?

I often burn a combination of oils called Energy made by a company called Primavera Life (mostly tree smells like juniper), and sometimes grapefruit oil if I’m down or a mix of lavender oil and clove or cassia if I’m houseworking. But orange oil?

And I play particular music (CPE Bach at the moment) when I’m writing, and often eat sugared almonds. And I’ll have a toasty turf fire burning, and a dog at my feet and a cat on the table.

Jan 13, 2006, 05:43AM PST | Thread | Respond to this

B00ts

Ha ha ha – you’ve already “got” it – burning oils for relaxation, or rejuvenation…. geranium/orange happens to be my favourite as a pick-me-up – or the more expensive Neroli (uses the seed and leaf instead of the fruit peel).

Thanks for your input…

Cheers!

Oh, what’s your novel about?

Jan 13, 2006, 01:09PM PST | Respond to this


 

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