A writer finds inspiration in different places. What comes to mind when I mention The Doors? The music of your parents? Sex? Drugs? Psychedelia? The Old Soldier thinks The Doors are still a hot band. A lot of young people into retro think so, too.
For many writers music is an inspiration for writing short stories and for living life. Not only must a writer or a blogger write in such a way as to allow a reader to “see” the story but also to “hear” the story. A story must not only be a visual experience but also an audio experience. Dialogue is part of the audio experience of reading a short story. But a story can also have a soundtrack just like a movie. The soundtrack for Orgasm is Light My Fire by The Doors. And it fits.
Try Keeping A Small Notebook In Your Pocket
July 15, 2009 — pittsburghflashfictiongazetteSome writers keep an e-journal or a paper journal. The journal is full of tidbits and ideas. This doesn’t work for me. What does work for me is a little notebook that fits in the back pocket of my jeans. And I always carry around two ink pens.
Then I go about life and forget the notebook. But when something happens and the idea for a short story pops up the notebook comes out. Usually, I try to come up with a title that captures the idea so that I have a direction to work in. Or if I’m lucky, the writing down of several titles about a “single” flash fiction idea will cause me to start writing until the first draft of a story is completed.
This method of keeping a little notebook in a pocket and something to write with may work for you.
Many of the stories in the sidebar on the right under “Great American Flash Fiction Stories To Read” were created this way.