What inspired you to write?

[Matt Devitt]

What book, or books, inspired you to write?
For me, it was LOTR and Eragon.

 

[pmmg]

Actually, I was not inspired by any book to write. I was inspired by my friends and things I saw in the culture and world around me. Course, I was so slow that all that stuff has changed since I started, but... that how it happened.

 

[A. E. Lowan]

For me, genetics had a lot to do with it. I come from a long line of Irish writers on my mom's side so I can dazzle with literary gymnastics, and from my dad I got charm and a whole lot of bullshit. Which is which? Well, one of my mantras is 'if you can't dazzle them with dexterity, then baffle them..." I've been telling stories since I was about five and my mom would type them as I spun them. Never really stopped.

 

[Mad Swede]

Nothing inspired me to write. I write because I have to, it's a deeply personal thing. What I write about is based on things I've seen and done, but that has nothing to do with inspiration. Maybe your question is a little limited?

 

[A. E. Lowan]

Nothing inspired me to write. I write because I have to, it's a deeply personal thing. What I write about is based on things I've seen and done, but that has nothing to do with inspiration. Maybe your question is a little limited?

I think maybe it's closer to 'driven' than 'inspired?' I know that holds true for me, most of the time.

 

[Mad Swede]

I think maybe it's closer to 'driven' than 'inspired?' I know that holds true for me, most of the time.

Yes, I think I'd use the word "driven" to describe that sense of compulsion I now have. I'm not sure I could have expressed it that way when I started to write, but I'm that much older and more experienced now.

 

[Insolent Lad]

The Song of Hiawatha, almost as soon as I could read. It gave me a lifelong love for both poetic language and myth.

 

[skip.knox]

Like others here, I write because there is no option not to write. I've been doing it all my life, though for most of it I was pretty much thrashing about among cobwebs and shadows.

That said, I do distinctly remember being awestruck by Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles. Sure, the stories themselves, but no more so than reading Wells or Asimov or Clarke. But with that particular book it was the prose itself that caught me. No, I did not then sit down and write stories. That was more a long transition from writing down ideas, concepts, and fragments, to writing actual stories. There was no distinct moment in there, though there were a couple of milestones. But I've always looked to that book as an example of how not just the story but the actual prose can strike a bell with a reader.

 

[Gurkhal]

My creativity. There are so many stories that haven't been told and it seems that I'm the only one who knows them and thus can tell them.

 

[minta]

For me, it was Narnia and the hobbit. Those early adventures made storytelling feel magical.

 

[CupofJoe]

As a child, I had a few issues.
A therapist asked me to write down what was going on in my head.
50 years on and I'm still doing it.
Though not with a therapist now

 

[Karlin]

I was not inspired by a particular book. I read many books, was always a reader. One day, during a bout of unemployment, I said to my wife "hey I wonder what would happen if..." She said "write it." so I did.

 

[Super Fantasy]

Not sure.
Probably after a while of not being sure what I wanted to do I started to write then draw/electronic music creation.

 

[xena]

What book, or books, inspired you to write?
For me, it was LOTR and Eragon.

LOTR is the best one. I think it is almost everyone fav.

 

[xena]

I was not inspired by a particular book. I read many books, was always a reader. One day, during a bout of unemployment, I said to my wife "hey I wonder what would happen if..." She said "write it." so I did.

She is really supportive.

 

[xena]

For me, it was Narnia and the hobbit. Those early adventures made storytelling feel magical.

Yes, Narnia !! That is good one.