Inspirations

Hey everyone, Kablam here. I wanted to take a moment and explain some of my inspirations to you and how inspirations come to me. To give a little back story, my mind is constantly moving and making scenarios or coming up with random ideas in my head. Some of these ideas can be just random moments of grandeur (i.e. taking on hordes of bad guys, racing motorcycles, brutally beating someone, women, etc…), to other art projects that I would like to take on but don’t have the resources (or skills) to make (these ideas include music videos, animations, story boards, etc…).

In addition, when I find things that I enjoy like a TV show, a movie, or a book, my mind wants to put me in that world and ask the question, “how would I survive in this world? How would I react to this situation?”. It can make for very interesting material to fantasize about on a boring night. But most of the time, I’ve held onto these wacky and crazy ideas to myself and just let them die out and fade into nothingness as I was a little scared of how people would react if I ever told them and would simply end with both parties laughing the idea off as something that would never happen anyways.

Now for the inspiration that got me to write ‘The Games We are Forced to Play’, it didn’t come to me in giant spark of imagination with the whole story laid out from start to finish. It started off small like all things do when my mind asked the age old question, “what would I do in this situation?”.

After watching both of the movies (and gaging from the cheesiness of both of them), my mind started asking the question. It started off small and as more and more ideas came to me, the bigger the story got; to the point of what I have written so far and what I still have to write. This thing sat in my mind for about two months as I dreamt about the next step in the story.

Now back then, I was extremely against writing fanfictions and I was just going to let this story fade into nothingness again; but something stopped me and I told myself I should probably just write down the ideas so I don’t forget. I had no intentions of ever writing it out into cohesiveness but it was becoming such a large idea in my head I kind of didn’t want to forget it. After rereading my favorite and first fanfiction again (‘Past Sins’ was amazing by the way) for the (I think) third time, I thought, “you know what, what if I did write out this story into actual sentences? This guy seems to be doing alright and isn’t getting too much hate for sharing his story, so why can I?”.

‘Past Sins’ and its author were the driving force to inspire me to write my story and share it with everyone here on the site. And I will admit that I was a little nervous when I finally posted up the first four or five chapters. But surprise, surprise, people started liking it and were eager to see more from me. So now I am at the point where if people didn’t like it anymore and started hating it and all the goofy and tongue-in-cheek humor I try to put in it, I probably wouldn’t care anymore because I enjoy writing it.

I hope at some point, I can inspire someone through my writing. If it’s to pick a pencil or key board and start writing their own stories, go for it. Don’t be afraid to try something. Heck, it doesn’t even have to be something new as long as you try to make it your own. Try putting your own twist on an old idea or try building off of someone else’s idea (so long as you give them credit). A lot of the ideas I have in my head that I want to make a reality are based off of others works and I want to put my own spin on it; alcohol being one of them. That one is going to be fun times!

So if you are just starting out with writing, don’t be discouraged with a few dislikes or not having your story planned out from start to finish. Inspirations comes in small sparks, not in giant bursts. Just wait for it and it will come.

That should be enough life lessons today. Hope you all enjoyed it! I’ll see about doing others at another time when I am inspired myself! Have a good day everyone and I will see you all in the next chapter!