Inspo for Writing Things

Do any of you know about that one painting with Aphrodite being born out of lava with a black swan by her side or did i completely hallucinate that? Been searching for a while but i can’t find it for shit.

I tried googling that description but no luck either, anyone might know what painting this might be (or if it does exist? cause it sounds sick lol)

It took a bit of googling magic, but I think I’ve found it.

This is “Kindled” by Laura K. Cannon, which is part of her portfolio that can be found here: http://navate.com/2wk6im1sartc92iwza7il07bxq2mk5

Is this what you were looking for? @sakyubaso

I’m in love.

@orriculum

Tranquility by Blackbirdmotel

“Do Not Draw The Corner Sun”

For some reason i got inspired by something that somebody said me when I was child; Do not draw the sun in the corner.

I tried to capture that basic concept of how kids draw - grass near the bottom, birds in the sky and sun in the corner - and make it more stylish. : D

me, crouched down in front of my tomato plants, examining a pattern of insect bites on their lower leaves: i’m going to fucking kill whoever did this. i’m going to kill them for you. don’t worry, babies. I’m going to murder every single son of a bitch who ever got a mouthful of you. they’ll die screaming

my neighbor, who i did not realize was also outside, standing behind the fence: oh! okay. you’re talking to the plants. okay.

Dragon Bones by artist Stefan Koidl.

Art Nouveau Doors

(Photos uncredited as I collected them on my hard-drive a long time ago!)

My phone’s camera accidently started doing a vertical panorama. Decided to give it a go and got this really cool pic!

Dang

“Do you love the color of fire?”

Sometimes I forget everything is made from bits of stuff that the stars are made of, and this makes me feel warm inside.

Eruption of the Volcano Vesuvius Johan Christian Clausen Dahl, 1821

Raindrops falling on an A’a flow, Kilauea

Bats illuminated by lightning

I am the night…

How do people get to own secondhand bookshops. Not the big/newer quirky ones, but the little dusty ones that are piled high with books and always staffed by that same old guy who’s reading behind the desk. How do these businesses even begin, how do they survive, they feel like they were passed down by immortals and staffed by retired druids or something

Rainbow Road

Director and photographer Daniel Mercadante in his free time creates rainbow pathways using light and long exposure. 

Love these!

3/15/18

someone call a Belmont

Okay I know what’s actually going on here but my brain won’t stop yelling “THE MOON IS MELTING”

Best.

Photo.

EVER!!!

“writers always know exactly where they are going with their work!”

r u sure

“no writer does anything by mistake, it’s all very strategic”

r u sure

“they use symbolism in everything. for example, a simple sentence symbolises directness and-”

R U SURE

The best moments in writing is when you discover you did something absolutely genius by complete accident.

A miscellaneous world-building detail from ten chapters earlier accidentally saved a character’s life once

“Omg this line is genius and the best reference!” “Thank you I did that entirely on purpose!!” *sweats*

READER: “(points out symbolism and foreshadowing and depth)”

AUTHOR:

I once literally flipped a coin to decide which character was going to die in a multi-award-nominated novel.

I was once rereading a manuscript before editing it and discovered that in an early chapter I’d put in a line without any forethought that ended up aligning perfectly the plot and is now my favorite line in the entire book even though when I wrote that sentence I hadn’t even come up with that plot point yet.

In my book series, I have done various things on accident and then, looking back, yelled BRILLIANT and went with it. And, often times, my characters just DECIDE things, like one character was in love with another and I was “WHAT?” but went with it because it was actually a VERY good story and made some of the plot stuff that much more interesting. 

If you ever wanted to know my creative process for writing, congratulations, this is it. 

Writing a story like

There’s an author’s note in an Isaac Asimov short story collection - Isaac Asimov, mind you - and I can’t for the life of me remember which it was because my mom has a billion of them, but basically he went to a lecture on his books where the teaccher was lecturing on all the symbolism and themes and such and Asimovewent up to him and was just like “Uhhhh…. I didn’t put any of that in? It just…. no? Not really?” And the lecturer legit looked ISAAC FUCKING ASIMOV straight in the eye and said, “What do you know, sir? You’re just the author.” And Asimov described it as being a fairly profound moment in his career.

This is all completely true.

this is all very very true

The Isaac Asimov story is great because it underscores how meaning is made. No, the author didn’t necessarily intend every single bit of symbolism you found in your attempts to write that academic paper. That doesn’t mean the symbolism isn’t there! Meaning, themes, symbolism – these things happen consciously and unconsciously, purposefully and by accident. Meaning is a group effort and constantly shifting. If you can make the case for the existence of a theme or symbol and you have enough evidence, then it doesn’t matter what the author intended! It’s there anyway.

Mumiah

Angel of rebirth

再生の天使

2/28/18