I keep drawing inspiration from people every day. All of a sudden, something strikes me so hard and dramatically, and then a dream comes - I sit down, cut it off and make a script out of it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm somebody who gets a lot of inspiration from dreams.
Every so often, I'll get an idea from a dream, but most of the time, ideas come to me while I'm toiling away at the keyboard just like every other writer.
You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I'm writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of scares me away.
I dream a lot, in colour and in sound and scent. Quite a few of my stories have come from dreams.
I dream crazy vivid dreams. Like, entire movies. And sometimes I write songs about them.
I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.
What to do when inspiration doesn't come; be careful not to spook, get the wind up, force things into position. You must wait around until the idea comes.
That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.
The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.
I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.