{"id":83,"date":"2004-06-18T00:30:05","date_gmt":"2004-06-17T14:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=83"},"modified":"2005-09-06T00:30:26","modified_gmt":"2005-09-05T14:30:26","slug":"finding-ones-muse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=83","title":{"rendered":"Finding one&#8217;s muse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you ever run out of inspiration for things to write? I do, but I&#8217;ve found there are a myriad ways to regain it when all seems lost. Often, all it requires is a quirky take on everyday things. For instance, my partner and I once drove the lass behind the counter at our local video hire place to distraction &#8211; because quite by chance we noticed that you could make stories from juxtaposing the titles of movies &#8211; we spent perhaps an hour one particularly quiet evening rearranging all the new releases into sentences! I don&#8217;t think they ever quite got over us \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n<p>Lord of the rings&#8217; matrix: Gone in 60 seconds &#8211; the Italian job&#8230; a river runs through it!<\/p>\n<p>Then you could consider what happens if you take information signs literally&#8230; Have you ever gone into a public toilet and read the driers while drying your hands? Consider the breakdance possibilities of the instruction &#8220;cup hands and roll close to the outlet&#8221; Or the truly frightening possibilities of: &#8220;Dryer stops when hands are removed&#8230;&#8221; It sounds like a really painful way to stop a drier. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fire hose&#8221; &#8211; another scary thought, however you look at it. I mean, whatever did poor Hose do to get fired? or &#8216;So THAT&#8217;s how fires get started!&#8217; Read latin? That Exit is really out of it!<\/p>\n<p>Of course there are the wonderful visual stimuli &#8211; Have you ever tried to describe what it takes to open a door? Now think film &#8211; as you reach for the door, give it some significance and zoom in&#8230; what are the fingers doing as they linger gently on the handle&#8230; and what happens to the veins on the back of the hand. How does the handle sound as it turns&#8230; does it squeak a little? or does it whisper the promise of what is on the other side&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>One of the best sites for creative stimuli I&#8217;ve seen recently is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailywriting.net\/\">Soulfood cafe<\/a> (pointed out by my partner <a href=\"http:\/\/inaminuteago.typepad.com\/sharonb\/\">Sharon<\/a>) &#8211; a feast for the senses! and some great snippets of writing too!<\/p>\n<p>Cheers<br \/>Jerry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you ever run out of inspiration for things to write? I do, but I&#8217;ve found there are a myriad ways to regain it when all seems lost. Often, all it requires is a quirky take on everyday things. For instance, my partner and I once drove the lass behind the counter at our local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}