Wenn im Kühlschrank das Licht ausgeht …

Inspiration

Where does inspiration come from? Under which circumstances does it strike?

I guess if I knew the answer to that question, I could sell it for a lot of money. But I don’t. I’m totally clueless.

Take tonight, for instance. My third week as a full-time secretary is coming to an end, and it has been busy for most of this time. I’m tired, I’m hardly able to type when I come home, and worst of all, I feel like my creativity is stifled by my very uncreative day job. And just when I thought I wouldn’t be able to produce anything anymore before the weekend, I was suddenly struck by the idea for a short piece. I grabbed a pen and my random-thoughts-notebook and wrote for 20 minutes in long hand. The text was just flowing down on the paper. almost as if I didn’t have anything to do with it.

So under the most umpromising circumstances, I’ve been inspired to write a text I did not know was in me. This is one of these moments when I love being a writer.

Beginning for August 31, 2006

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

Du hattest schon bessere Ideen

You’ve had better ideas

Beginning for August 30, 2006

All stories are love stories.

Eureka Street, Robert McLiam Wilson

Mit Zelt und Schlafsack

Planning NaNoWriMo (3)

I am pretty sure about the story I will be writing. Already. It’s still over two months.

More on the subject soon to come, when I don’t have to spend all my week in the office anymore.

QotD: Best. Villain. Ever.

Who’s your favorite movie villain? 

Whoa, though one. An attempt at compiling my Top 5 – very preliminary:
Darth Vader
Scar in The Lion King

The Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (the only reason to rewatch that film)

Agent Smith

Hans Gruber (well, Alan Rickman knows how to play a villain, doesn’t he?)

Teuflisch

diabolic

Himmlisch

Heavenly