Trevalon Moonleirion
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Thanks for all of the ideas to get my creative juices flowing! I'll give this thread one final *BUMP* before I let it fall into message-board obvlivion.
Trouble getting in the mood...
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dema
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Humm, all great Ideas.
I like to take a big big big sketch pad, and white note all over the place. Nothing solid but just notes. Watching TV and connecting different comercials and shows also help, then just replace Marta Stewart with Goblin, and Picard with Ogre.
But I think finding the right time to write is important. I'm the 11pm dude. I also like to play guitar or drums, or keyboard to get the mood going. When my punching bag was up I'd beat it to hell. The gym helps too. Walking at night, a favorite of mine (my GF thinks I frequent prostitues but I really really am thinking about DnD.) What else? a cup of coffee, or a beer with ice. I like to leave the last drop and keep it near buy. then I just snift the beer and imagine myself in a tavern.
I did the cigar thing, but the computer began to stick. I also used o use mindmapping with he big o sketch pad. I also read various things (most current is a golf book - i hate golf- but the descriptions of the courses are kinda neat)
Candles during the winter, and incense during the summer (if the AC is not on.) Ohh, i think better in the cold, you might not. When the balls are wet, my brain is not working well.
Looking at landscape pics (or making your own using Bryce) is neat. There is also terragen for that. I like to stare at pics and imaging armies, and cities, then wonder why, what, who?
But sitting down with a pad near by is a good idea, I tried a tape recorder but that didn't work well (maybe cause i had a big one and didn't really carry it around with me.)
Songs songs songs, yeah these are great. I love music, i play and write it. Your list of songs will vary.
Ohh going to the toy store is neat too. Looking at all the figures you get going. Lego used to be my favorite, I would be able to build any toy i wanted.
that's about it for now.
-dem
I like to take a big big big sketch pad, and white note all over the place. Nothing solid but just notes. Watching TV and connecting different comercials and shows also help, then just replace Marta Stewart with Goblin, and Picard with Ogre.
But I think finding the right time to write is important. I'm the 11pm dude. I also like to play guitar or drums, or keyboard to get the mood going. When my punching bag was up I'd beat it to hell. The gym helps too. Walking at night, a favorite of mine (my GF thinks I frequent prostitues but I really really am thinking about DnD.) What else? a cup of coffee, or a beer with ice. I like to leave the last drop and keep it near buy. then I just snift the beer and imagine myself in a tavern.
I did the cigar thing, but the computer began to stick. I also used o use mindmapping with he big o sketch pad. I also read various things (most current is a golf book - i hate golf- but the descriptions of the courses are kinda neat)
Candles during the winter, and incense during the summer (if the AC is not on.) Ohh, i think better in the cold, you might not. When the balls are wet, my brain is not working well.
Looking at landscape pics (or making your own using Bryce) is neat. There is also terragen for that. I like to stare at pics and imaging armies, and cities, then wonder why, what, who?
But sitting down with a pad near by is a good idea, I tried a tape recorder but that didn't work well (maybe cause i had a big one and didn't really carry it around with me.)
Songs songs songs, yeah these are great. I love music, i play and write it. Your list of songs will vary.
Ohh going to the toy store is neat too. Looking at all the figures you get going. Lego used to be my favorite, I would be able to build any toy i wanted.
that's about it for now.
-dem
Panic
"The question to my fellow ENWorlders--What do you use, if anything, to get yourself in the mood for creating exciting, provocative, and relatively-balanced gaming material? Music? Movies? Games? Books?"
What gets me in the mood . . .
Great screaming fear of an upcoming deadline.
But I don't know how that might help you.
"The question to my fellow ENWorlders--What do you use, if anything, to get yourself in the mood for creating exciting, provocative, and relatively-balanced gaming material? Music? Movies? Games? Books?"
What gets me in the mood . . .
Great screaming fear of an upcoming deadline.
But I don't know how that might help you.
Ulrick
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I think its already been mentioned but...
Don't wait to be motivated, just start working on it.
If you wait to be motivated you'll always find reasons to do something else. Sort of like with exercising and getting in shape, "I'll start tomorrow."
I've never seen a tomorrow or a someday. But I can see a now.
Nike's slogan says it best, "Just Do It."
Ulrick
Don't wait to be motivated, just start working on it.
If you wait to be motivated you'll always find reasons to do something else. Sort of like with exercising and getting in shape, "I'll start tomorrow."
I've never seen a tomorrow or a someday. But I can see a now.
Nike's slogan says it best, "Just Do It."
Ulrick
The question to my fellow ENWorlders--What do you use, if anything, to get yourself in the mood for creating exciting, provocative, and relatively-balanced gaming material? Music? Movies? Games? Books?"
Music definatly? I tend to listen to Celtic, Sea songs, or Soundtracks to the movies Legend, Braveheart, Rob Roy, Lord of the Rings, Some egyptian samplers that I've got, Bluegrass, Wynton Marsallias, and other Jazzy groups, Rachmaninov.
Watching movies sometimes helps.
Like Lady Hawk, LoTR, Legend, Braveheart, 13th Warrior, Excalibur, Monty Python Search for the Holy Grail. Dragonheart, Flight of Dragons, Fire and Ice, The Last Unicorn, 9 months (um oops that was for a diferent list)
Only playing D20 D&D, oh and when I an working on big baddie villians I play Risk, got to love world domination.
I read tons of fantasy a week (something like six books) as an example though its embarrassing to admit it I read the entire series of RJ Wheel of Time in one week ( thats one thru nine) And a lot of non fiction stuff like Castles in Fantasy, A Sea of Words, and National Geographic. Travel Magazines. And I surf the net for odd things to refresh my creativity
I have to say a good ambiance, and a nice cup of joe tend to go along ways. Also if you have a Barnes&Nobles in your town sitting there reading selections out of the Eastern Religion, New Age, World History, and Mythology sections is a real stimulant.
Constantly writing doodle ideas on little cards then filling them away to be read later. Jotting down names for things like today I came up with Siunardach-Kar and it sprung a well of ideas about some obscure empire on my homebrew world. Just as the name Nyambe brought to life images of a Jungle Island frought with the backwash of ancient evil sorcery. Another Idea that I have toiled with all today during work was this great well or ley line node centered on a city that is under attack being opened and causing a living killer mist to consume the armies turning them into these mist wraiths ( all of this in the history of the world) and how in modern times the mist is a perpetual non living mist in which the wraiths still roam protecting their physical remains, and last posessions, as well as continuing to play out that last battle.
Its a wierd Idea but it is a new place for my characters to adventure, as a higher level group. ( also the potential for introducing a wraithen arch villian that could hender my group in the future.)
Anyway there I go rambling but you see doodle with words and see what comes out of it
Music definatly? I tend to listen to Celtic, Sea songs, or Soundtracks to the movies Legend, Braveheart, Rob Roy, Lord of the Rings, Some egyptian samplers that I've got, Bluegrass, Wynton Marsallias, and other Jazzy groups, Rachmaninov.
Watching movies sometimes helps.
Like Lady Hawk, LoTR, Legend, Braveheart, 13th Warrior, Excalibur, Monty Python Search for the Holy Grail. Dragonheart, Flight of Dragons, Fire and Ice, The Last Unicorn, 9 months (um oops that was for a diferent list)
Only playing D20 D&D, oh and when I an working on big baddie villians I play Risk, got to love world domination.
I read tons of fantasy a week (something like six books) as an example though its embarrassing to admit it I read the entire series of RJ Wheel of Time in one week ( thats one thru nine) And a lot of non fiction stuff like Castles in Fantasy, A Sea of Words, and National Geographic. Travel Magazines. And I surf the net for odd things to refresh my creativity
I have to say a good ambiance, and a nice cup of joe tend to go along ways. Also if you have a Barnes&Nobles in your town sitting there reading selections out of the Eastern Religion, New Age, World History, and Mythology sections is a real stimulant.
Constantly writing doodle ideas on little cards then filling them away to be read later. Jotting down names for things like today I came up with Siunardach-Kar and it sprung a well of ideas about some obscure empire on my homebrew world. Just as the name Nyambe brought to life images of a Jungle Island frought with the backwash of ancient evil sorcery. Another Idea that I have toiled with all today during work was this great well or ley line node centered on a city that is under attack being opened and causing a living killer mist to consume the armies turning them into these mist wraiths ( all of this in the history of the world) and how in modern times the mist is a perpetual non living mist in which the wraiths still roam protecting their physical remains, and last posessions, as well as continuing to play out that last battle.
Its a wierd Idea but it is a new place for my characters to adventure, as a higher level group. ( also the potential for introducing a wraithen arch villian that could hender my group in the future.)
Anyway there I go rambling but you see doodle with words and see what comes out of it
Its strange, but I do most of my game preparation when I'm at work or immediatly after when i get home. I work 6pm-3am tech support for a major restaurant corp. (think of a rolling stones song) so I keep a note pad nearby and just jot down ideas as they come to me, sometimes I jot down some pretty weird things when i'm not paying attention, then go back when I'm on lunch and sort through the morass. I come up with far more usable material than I every expected, frankly... I suspect the reason I do alot of writing after work is the same as the late night walks... no distractions...
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