Feeling left behind on popular culture

[Ghost]

I seem to have forgotten this topic.

I will make a proper response later.

[Ghost]

Hello guys,

It took a little while for me to respond on this topic.

To be hones I don't really know how to write back, I have partly explained some of the things that really bug me.
When I wanted to start this post I almost made it a repeat of the original post with which I opened this topic, I wonder if this form of repetitiveness is the result of the lack of inspiration.

As I mentioned in another topic I am really stuck on the moment in coming up with ideas or thoughts of my own.
I used that Fallout idea for example but I also have some Metroid text writing that I want to do for someone else but where I am also stuck with.
Its not that the subject doesn't interest me anymore but I don't know really how to add to it.

Fallout with its weird 50's style Post Nuclear America.
Metroid with its inspirations in anime, science fiction, Alien/Aliens.

When I wrote other texts for a Metroid related site I took a lot of inspiration from science fiction movies and books I have seen or read, but I don't want all my ideas to be blatant copies of what great minds have come up before me, and which are still copied every day by other people because they seem to lack the motivation of coming up with ideas of their own.

* sigh * I am probably ranting again, damn you depression.

[toomanymikes]

sounds like writers block to me dude!

[Harrison]

Only way to overcome writers block is to not try. Go and do something else. Or maybe visit lots of places or go to the library and look through loads of non-fiction books for ideas.

[Submeg]

Hmm, on writing, I may have scored a spot in a magazine doing music reviews! Dont know the details yet but will find out more!

[Sharingan]

Wow, that's great Sub. Get us free copies, wouldya?

I can sort of imagine how hard it is to overcome writer's block. I mean, inspiration isn't something that just flows and keeps flowing. Ghost, have you actually sought help from fellow writers through online forums and such? I'm sure writer's block is something every writer has had to deal with at one point or another, so sharing experiences with others might help you in finding solutions.

[Ghost]

Hello Sharingan,

A couple of days ago I have been busy again with writing something for that friend's website again, not really much original material as it can probably be found in dozens of other science fiction franchises but at least I have written something again.

Unfortunate still no ideas for those self chosen assignments that are stuck on my computer, just no inspiration.

Well I have been talking with a few people about the writer's block, I got a few suggestions of sites I should try out, I haven't yet really discussed it with other writers.
The one person I know who also has an interest in this is almost never online.

[Harrison]

It can be exactly the same when designing something. You either instantly get some images of ideas in your head that you can explore and work on, or you have nothing and have a blank. That is hard as you then have to start searching for anything related to the subject you are designing for to try and get some ideas. The worst for me is designing icons. It is very hard to come up with something in icon form to represent something, especially when that something might not be a physical object but an action or subject.

[Sharingan]

There's a lot of things you can try to regain inspiration, and it's not always just the straightforward things.

Listening to music. Watching a few movies. Browsing through some art books. Reading a book. Taking a stroll through the city. Driving your car out there and watching some scenery.

As I've mentioned before, planting yourself in front of your computer or behind your desk with the intention to create something new barely ever works.