Idea triggers / Disparadores de ideas
Most of the time the idea to write, at least in my case, comes unexpectedly, it can be at the most inappropriate hours in fact, like while I sleep or at lunchtime. Sometimes I wish I had enough time to develop them all, but other times I just can't think of anything.
On the other hand comes the detail of choosing an image to illustrate it, which for me is a problem because I do not use images from other sources, I only like to use photographs that I take myself or some drawing or painting that I do, sometimes it is the other way around, I first make the image and then I write.
One of the tools that I use to start writing is what I call "triggers", these can be an image that I have created as I mentioned above, a situation that I observe, or a word or phrase that someone else provides as in the initiatives of @theinkwell and freewrite that promotes @mariannewest and @ latino.romano. From there the idea begins to take shape until I decide whether it is a story or a poem or both.
Sometimes ideas are so many that I end up postponing the writing, writing only the initial ideas to use them when it is clearer, and other times the idea seems to develop by itself, the words are emerging in a fluid way until there is something that stops them, either because I no longer have time to write or because there are several possibilities for the end and I can not find what to decide. Sometimes I end up writing all the possible endings, reducing them to those that are more contrasting.
As an example of this I recently wrote the story: The legend of the young old woman that has four endings:
Other times I do it as a contest and I only write the final that gets the highest number of votes. This could be one way to promote more interaction.
But hey, you might want to share what your idea triggers are.
Greetings to all.
La mayor de las veces la idea para escribir, al menos en mi caso, llega de improviso, puede ser a las horas mas inadecuadas de hecho, como mientras duermo o a la hora de la comida. A veces quisiera tener el tiempo suficiente para desarrollarlas todas pero en otras simplemente no se me ocurre nada.
Por otro lado viene el detalle de escoger una imagen para ilustrarla, lo cual para mi es un problema pues no uso imágenes de otras fuentes, solo me gusta usar fotografías que yo mismo tomo o algún dibujo o pintura que yo mismo haga, en ocasiones es al revés, primero hago la imagen y luego escribo.
Una de las herramientas que uso para iniciar la escritura es la que yo llamo "disparadores", estos pueden ser una imagen que yo halla creado como lo mencioné arriba, una situación que observo, o una palabra o frase que alguien mas proporciona como en las iniciativas de @theinkwell o freewrite que promueven @mariannewest y @latino.romano A partir de ahí empieza la idea a tomar forma hasta que decido que sea una historia o un poema o ambas.
En ocasiones las ideas son tantas que termino aplazando la escritura, escribiendo solo las ideas iniciales para usarlas cuando esté mas despejado, en otras ocasiones la idea parece desarrollarse por si misma, las palabras van surgiendo en forma fluida hasta que hay algo que las detiene, bien sea por que ya no tengo tiempo para escribir o porque halla varias posibilidades para el final y no hallo por cual decidirme. En ocasiones termino escribiendo todos los finales posibles reduciéndoles a los que sean mas contrastantes.
Como ejemplo de esto recientemente escribí la historia: La leyenda de la joven anciana que tiene cuatro finales:
En otras ocasiones lo hago a forma de concurso y solo escribo el final que obtenga el mayor número de votos. Esta podría ser una forma de promover una mayor interacción.
Pero bueno, tal vez también quieras compartir cuales son tus disparadores de ideas.
Saludos a todos.
Triggers! Good word for the thing that might inspire us to write. I like your mention of the daily #prompt @mariannewest supplies via #freewritehouse, along with the initiatives of @theinkwell.
Earlier today, I was thinking of these triggers as the grain of sand that irritates the clam into producing a pearl. Someone has surely written of this before, in relation to writing, but I haven't found anything yet, so maybe I'll be the first to blog about writers as irritated clams. Some of us may in time produce a pearl... gems of wisdom, a pearl of great price, you know what I mean. But will I expand on that thought, or drop it and move to a new "trigger" or prompt, or just get lost in someone else's stories? I could start with the legend of the old young woman and four possible endings to her story. :)
Thanks for this gem, @saulos.
Thank you very much, I do really appreciate your words.
I have always refer the thing or situation that inspire us, as a trigger or as a spark because it produces a light that gives illumination and ideas, since I was a child in fact. Some times I feel that some part of me has already think the whole story, perhaps my subconscious as I dreamed, but
is really great because describes the whole creative process, instead the trigger only starts the process and sometimes goes off. I would love to read your post where you develop that idea.
Greetings @carolkean