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Where do you get inspiration from?

I want to talk about inspiration since I am blocked. I usually read, play or watch horror content to mix them to make something new and add there what I try to express to the topic. Other times I just make poems about topics like suicide until I find any point I wanna canalize in the narrative, but what about you all?


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Reply by 𝓚 𝓜 𝓐 🫀

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okay so brand new here but I think I can help?


I usually find it easy to just cherry pick from dreams, both night and day dreams, and write but that's also become very difficult for me considering I don't dream as often as I used to. I try to day dream the things I want to write and so far, it's worked. Not well considering I drop a few project, but it works if you have that drive.


If not, I'd recommend Tumblr or Pinterest for prompts, especially the corny ones with just two likes of texts because those have me on a LEASH. 


I dunno how much this will help but I hope it does :P


Many Blessings, KMA


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Reply by Tails

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Usually, I just think about stuff that scares me in normal life, but I have OCD and it naturally turns those sorts of anxieties up to 12 so I don't really have to hunt for stuff, it's basically just unavoidable. However, we also tend to write mostly fanfic, so we tend to have more of a baseline to work with. But I find I come up with some of my best horror ideas not from horror media, but from media that's largely not horror with only a few horror elements, or even basically none at all. I find horror is much more horrifying when it's affecting something otherwise pleasant and enjoyable, or something you're used to.


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Reply by Tails

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Usually, I just think about stuff that scares me in normal life, but I have OCD and it naturally turns those sorts of anxieties up to 12 so I don't really have to hunt for stuff, it's basically just unavoidable. However, we also tend to write mostly fanfic, so we tend to have more of a baseline to work with. But I find I come up with some of my best horror ideas not from horror media, but from media that's largely not horror with only a few horror elements, or even basically none at all. I find horror is much more horrifying when it's affecting something otherwise pleasant and enjoyable, or something you're used to.


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