Query
 

Guys and gals, I know that we are all in poetry and music or both. But more often than not, in order for us to creat something worthy of note, we need inspirstions.
My question is, what inspires you more and makes the creative juices flowing?
During sad times and experiences or during happy ones?
I for myself observed that some of my more powerful work of poetry, were produced during sad times or moments. Just curious on yours.

thanks

I am also more inspired by sad times, spitzaer...probably because during happy ones I'm actually doing something fun! ;) During sad times, such as thinking about happy times I miss, I usually just want to go off by myself somewhere quiet and think, curled up in a chair near a window. With paper. And a pencil.

I'm most inspired by love...not necessarily of people, but of life. And since I love living so much (the fact that all of us living beings on earth are alive), my feeling of love is inherently affected by sadness, too, because anytime I love something or someone, I know I will lose that experience or those individuals, and they will lose themselves eventually also. So, love for me always has sadness woven through it.

I am also very inspired by anger. Anger is actually a big motivator for a lot of what I write. I feel anger about harm coming to someone I love or care about. So, once again, the root feeling motivating my writing, even my angry writing, is love.

A little different, but I write rhymes for songs. For me, its usually at random times a rhyme will just pop into my head. A really clever one-liner or a great metaphorical bar will just hit me out of nowhere and ill try to jot it down.

When I sit down and really write a song, it's usually when I'm at an extreme in moods. AKA either really depressive or feeling really confident and happy. Then once I hear a beat that puts off that same vibe, everything just clicks. I make up hypothetical situations in my head and kind of play off of them. Or when writing about relationships or women I take past relationships and alter them a little bit. Almost pretend certain things happened to really put me in the mood for a song writing.

I can write about anything about any time. I carry a composition book around with me to write ant tune or lyrics that I will randomly think of that sound good. Then after a few days or so I will end up looking at all of the random pieces and put them together to create a complete work. Im naturally creative and dont really channel my flow regularly it just happens. The trick is to record it somehow to remember later on when I want to recall my creativeness.

I usually sit down to my keys when I am stressed as a way for me to relieve a whole bunch of tension but that is also when my creativeness takes over. The stress comes out in creative bits in pieces that I have to somehow put together agan. It sounds complicated and it is but it works. I could never just sit down and write or compose. It had to just come to me.

I dont have one particular feeling where I am inspired to sit and compose/write. Im too impatient for that.

My mind is a labyrinth. I let it do what it needs to. Im just along for the ride.

Typically, I have to be in a certain mood to really get around to writing lyrics. It can't just be a completely planned out act. I can't just sit down at the same time everyday and write, and I don't really enjoy it being routine in the slightest.

With that said, I tend to write when something affects me in some way. It could be a trivial or mundane thing, but generally, it all starts with an image. I see something, I'm thinking about it, and it can be converted into lyrics in some way, shape, or form. Sometimes not even lyrics - sometimes it becomes a poem, a short story, a play...but my writing stems most strongly from a given image and the emotion it evokes in me.

There have been more rare occasions in which a couplet or a phrase gets in my head and keeps coming to the forefront of my mind. I tend to write those down, and work around it. A lot of times, it'll combine with an image which had a particular effect on me.