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#1
EscherEnigma
Jun 18, 2010 17:13:58 Ever have one of those days where inspiration strikes in a really bizarre and twisted fashion?

Yeah. I do occasionally. My muse over the last few days decided to invent a world that's something between Dune, Trigun and Dark Sun, in which a maybe-evil-maybe-nice empire has genetically modified humans as natural-born berserkers1, and ****ed up sexual politics as means to controlling armies. And then they invade a city with a powerful psychic population which is somewhere between a religious cult and a noble class.

The leading characters in the story are a psychic of the invaded city, a handful of the berserker/soldiers that invaded, a few random nobles on both sides, and a whole host of sympathetic villains (the rebels/resisters. I mean, they're trying to kick the invaders out of their city, so it's kinda hard to really paint them black... on the other hand they're trying to kill the "heroes" who, aside from being soldiers and invaders, actually seem like good sorts of folk. Who just happen to be entirely obedient to some folk who aren't, but it's not their fault because (and etc.))

And my muse keeps shoving out really whacked-out stuff 'bout these berserkers... stuff that, if I actually included in a story would probably make it rated R just because it's unnecessary sexual detail, and yet it also winds up being plot important, but it's just like "why am I imagining these things?! Why am I inventing a race of emotionally-abused humans with the bodies of Greek gods that go into uncontrollable heat2 once a month?!"

Oh, and sooner or later there's psychic ninjas.

... yeah... at least this time my muse is just going for whacky perverted sci-fi/fantasy and not contemporary introspective into how complicated and weird normal lives are.

Anyway. Just thought I'd share this weird bit of inspiration my muse has provided. I tell ya, my muse? Is weird. It's like my muse will just walk off for a while, leave me without inspiration to draw or write, and then come back with all sorts of weirdness and complicated stories and out-there characters and I just have no idea where it comes from.
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1As a random note, I keep trying to spell berserker with a 'z' and I'm not sure why.
2Men and women both. And outside of the once-a-month deal, they have zero sex drive. I tell you, my muse is far kinkier then I am.
#2
Robin_Hoodlum
Jun 18, 2010 18:41:14 Sounds like a story for Heavy Metal!
Are you gonna draw it... like a comic or somethin'?

Sounds cool!
#3
EscherEnigma
Jun 18, 2010 19:03:51
Are you gonna draw it... like a comic or somethin'?

Ha! Probably not. It's like... fourth on the list of creative projects I want to work on? Yeah, fourth. There's the heroic fantasy epic, the superhero drama and the high school coming-of-age story. So it's fourth at the moment.

... and looking at that list, at least I can say that my muse likes to keep mixing up the setting of the stories it gives me.
#4
pigknight
Jun 18, 2010 19:19:38 $5 says if I came up with that someone would have gotten all up on me being a perv or somesuch.
#5
Robin_Hoodlum
Jun 18, 2010 19:38:56
$5 says if I came up with that someone would have gotten all up on me being a perv or somesuch.

Depends on whose company you are in and where the comment is made...

IMO of course. Doesn't mean I'm right and you're wrong.
#6
bfishy
Jun 18, 2010 19:54:30 oh inspiration always strikes me in a bizarre and twisted fashion...my mind is always wandering down tenebrous and labyrinthine corridors populated by fuzzy kittens and S&M monsters.

what i have trouble with is the TIME in which inspiration strikes. it is most innoportune and often i don't have time to capture it all as it begins to hemorrhage out of my head while i'm in the car or at dinner with the family...it is most embarrassing.
#7
EscherEnigma
Jun 18, 2010 20:25:18
$5 says if I came up with that someone would have gotten all up on me being a perv or somesuch.

Eh. When you call yourself a perv first1, it kinda takes the punch out of anyone else calling you a perv later on, ya know?

@bfishy
I don't really have that problem... my ideas tend to cook and simmer for a while. While I occasionally visualize scenes that I wish I could take notes on right away, for the most part I get inspiration for over-arching themes and world details, and then have to fight tooth-and-nail for the resolution needed to actually write or draw something. My muse is a very "big idea"-type person, which makes it rather annoying when I'm trying to draw the damn trees.
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1Okay, so I technically said that it was my muse that was giving me perverted ideas and was kinkier then me, but as that's just me personifying that inexplicable source of inspiration, it's safe to say that if I call my muse perverted, I'm really calling myself perverted.
#8
williamhm75
Jun 18, 2010 20:46:34
$5 says if I came up with that someone would have gotten all up on me being a perv or somesuch.

Eh. When you call yourself a perv first1, it kinda takes the punch out of anyone else calling you a perv later on, ya know?

@bfishy
I don't really have that problem... my ideas tend to cook and simmer for a while. While I occasionally visualize scenes that I wish I could take notes on right away, for the most part I get inspiration for over-arching themes and world details, and then have to fight tooth-and-nail for the resolution needed to actually write or draw something. My muse is a very "big idea"-type person, which makes it rather annoying when I'm trying to draw the damn trees.
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1Okay, so I technically said that it was my muse that was giving me perverted ideas and was kinkier then me, but as that's just me personifying that inexplicable source of inspiration, it's safe to say that if I call my muse perverted, I'm really calling myself perverted.

LOL I know what you mean I describe my muse as a perverted hyper active fairy girl with ADHD. One minute it will be working full force then it just stops all together. One minute I'll be writing a nice interesting battle scene then Ill be thinking about sweaty bodies which gets me thinking about sex which gets me totally distracted. I need a less distractable muse.
#9
bfishy
Jun 18, 2010 23:12:26 hehehe, i get that too. the EPIC idea and also the "holy crap i have this idea...oooh and this idea...and this! this! this!...." as i've aged i've learned to temper it a bit i think. it really is just a time issue. so many things in my brain, so very very very little time to get them all out. hard to get past the rough phase into something more solid. only time to lay down broad strokes and hardly a moment to lay in the details. i joke with my wife that i'll get it all done when i retire lol
#10
zombie_babies
Jun 21, 2010 10:19:46 Yeah, I'm in the 'big idea, no motivation' camp. It sucks.
#11
boraxe
Jun 21, 2010 11:00:38
Ever have one of those days where inspiration strikes in a really bizarre and twisted fashion?

Yes. Every day.
#12
death_isthe_begining
Jun 24, 2010 13:41:34 The "big idea" is exactly what I have a problem with. I can create an entire nation but that is as big as I can take it. The rest of the world is gray mist that refuses to take shape.

Oh and can I play in this campaign world of yours (I don't care if it does turn out R rated)?

Note: As far as I'm concerned Soulknifes are physic ninjas already.
#13
MechaPilot
Jun 24, 2010 14:17:58 My muse is usually, oddly enough, musically powered. It's not always the lyrics to the song either (though sometimes it is), sometimes it's just the emotion that goes along with the song that triggers something.

Perhaps the most annoying thing about my muse is that she often works nights. The last two times I was struck with inspiration for the story I'm writing I have been laying in bed trying to sleep. I learned a long time ago however to keep a pencil and notebook at my bedside just in case.

As for muses being kinky or sexual, mine isn't exactly chaste either, but I won't go into detail on that.
#14
EscherEnigma
Jun 24, 2010 14:27:28
Oh and can I play in this campaign world of yours (I don't care if it does turn out R rated)?

If you like the ideas go for it, but I've already got so many creative projects on my plate I'm not sure when or if I'll get around to putting anything down in a word processor. I mean yeah, I have a few quick sketches1 already but sketching is just something I do.
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1I have a sketch of a female human psychic dressed similarly to Indiana Jones (sans whip and hat) and a few different concepts for the berzerker uniforms. Still trying to decide whether to go symmetrical or not, and just how fabulous their jack boots2 will be...
2This is me we're talking about. Awesome (to me) footwear is practically mandatory.

#15
Robin_Hoodlum
Jun 24, 2010 17:32:55 My muse is dead.
Killed by reality.
#16
death_isthe_begining
Jun 24, 2010 17:58:57
My muse is dead.
Killed by reality.

Well in that case you must pimp reality into being your muse, I did that long ago. The easiest way to do so is to add something unrealistic to the real world and imagine peoples reactions (or make up some outrageous reaction and peoples justification for acting that way).
#17
williamhm75
Jun 28, 2010 16:44:06
My muse is usually, oddly enough, musically powered. It's not always the lyrics to the song either (though sometimes it is), sometimes it's just the emotion that goes along with the song that triggers something.

Perhaps the most annoying thing about my muse is that she often works nights. The last two times I was struck with inspiration for the story I'm writing I have been laying in bed trying to sleep. I learned a long time ago however to keep a pencil and notebook at my bedside just in case.

As for muses being kinky or sexual, mine isn't exactly chaste either, but I won't go into detail on that.

Oddly enough the kinkier my thoughts are the more my muse is working. Most of the time she's off in 15 different directions but if I start thinking of X rated fiction stuff she's all there. I also write better when I'm dressed in femme. I guess my female persona is more creative than my male.
#18
MechaPilot
Jun 28, 2010 17:01:15
My muse is usually, oddly enough, musically powered. It's not always the lyrics to the song either (though sometimes it is), sometimes it's just the emotion that goes along with the song that triggers something.

Perhaps the most annoying thing about my muse is that she often works nights. The last two times I was struck with inspiration for the story I'm writing I have been laying in bed trying to sleep. I learned a long time ago however to keep a pencil and notebook at my bedside just in case.

As for muses being kinky or sexual, mine isn't exactly chaste either, but I won't go into detail on that.

Oddly enough the kinkier my thoughts are the more my muse is working. Most of the time she's off in 15 different directions but if I start thinking of X rated fiction stuff she's all there. I also write better when I'm dressed in femme. I guess my female persona is more creative than my male.

Either that or your muse lives in Mr Happy and the excited throbbing is so noisy it makes her want to go outside.
#19
EscherEnigma
Jun 28, 2010 17:02:48
I also write better when I'm dressed in femme. I guess my female persona is more creative than my male.

As I'll be in drag for a few days this next week, I might sit down and see if that works for me as well.

#20
pigknight
Jun 28, 2010 17:14:54 Speaking of, pics?
#21
EscherEnigma
Jun 28, 2010 17:24:13 And as I've said multiple times, there will be pics after.
#22
Cpt_Micha
Jun 28, 2010 18:45:33 honestly, EE I'm with ya. With the effort I've -vested into my STO character storyline- I could have started and probably finished a star trek novel by now.

And yet I'm perfectly content just writing out the log entries and crap instead of being productive with the inspiration.

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#1 EscherEnigma Jun 18, 2010 17:13:58	Ever have one of those days where inspiration strikes in a really bizarre and twisted fashion? Yeah. I do occasionally. My muse over the last few days decided to invent a world that's something between Dune, Trigun and Dark Sun, in which a maybe-evil-maybe-nice empire has genetically modified humans as natural-born berserkers1, and ***ed up sexual politics as means to controlling armies. And then they invade a city with a powerful psychic population which is somewhere between a religious cult and a noble class. The leading characters in the story are a psychic of the invaded city, a handful of the berserker/soldiers that invaded, a few random nobles on both sides, and a whole host of sympathetic villains (the rebels/resisters. I mean, they're trying to kick the invaders out of their city, so it's kinda hard to really paint them black... on the other hand they're trying to kill the "heroes" who, aside from being soldiers and invaders, actually seem like good sorts of folk. Who just happen to be entirely obedient to some folk who aren't,* but it's not their fault because (and etc.)) And my muse keeps shoving out really whacked-out stuff 'bout these berserkers... stuff that, if I actually included in a story would probably make it rated R just because it's unnecessary sexual detail, and yet it also winds up being plot important, but it's just like "why am I imagining these things?! Why am I inventing a race of emotionally-abused humans with the bodies of Greek gods that go into uncontrollable heat2 once a month?!" Oh, and sooner or later there's psychic ninjas. ... yeah... at least this time my muse is just going for whacky perverted sci-fi/fantasy and not contemporary introspective into how complicated and weird normal lives are. Anyway. Just thought I'd share this weird bit of inspiration my muse has provided. I tell ya, my muse? Is weird. It's like my muse will just walk off for a while, leave me without inspiration to draw or write, and then come back with all sorts of weirdness and complicated stories and out-there characters and I just have no idea where it comes from. ________ 1As a random note, I keep trying to spell berserker with a 'z' and I'm not sure why. 2Men and women both. And outside of the once-a-month deal, they have zero sex drive. I tell you, my muse is far kinkier then I am.
#2 Robin_Hoodlum Jun 18, 2010 18:41:14	Sounds like a story for Heavy Metal! Are you gonna draw it... like a comic or somethin'? Sounds cool!
#3 EscherEnigma Jun 18, 2010 19:03:51	Are you gonna draw it... like a comic or somethin'? Ha! Probably not. It's like... fourth on the list of creative projects I want to work on? Yeah, fourth. There's the heroic fantasy epic, the superhero drama and the high school coming-of-age story. So it's fourth at the moment. ... and looking at that list, at least I can say that my muse likes to keep mixing up the setting of the stories it gives me.
#4 pigknight Jun 18, 2010 19:19:38	$5 says if I came up with that someone would have gotten all up on me being a perv or somesuch.
#5 Robin_Hoodlum Jun 18, 2010 19:38:56	$5 says if I came up with that someone would have gotten all up on me being a perv or somesuch. Depends on whose company you are in and where the comment is made... IMO of course. Doesn't mean I'm right and you're wrong.
#6 bfishy Jun 18, 2010 19:54:30	oh inspiration always strikes me in a bizarre and twisted fashion...my mind is always wandering down tenebrous and labyrinthine corridors populated by fuzzy kittens and S&M monsters. what i have trouble with is the TIME in which inspiration strikes. it is most innoportune and often i don't have time to capture it all as it begins to hemorrhage out of my head while i'm in the car or at dinner with the family...it is most embarrassing.
#7 EscherEnigma Jun 18, 2010 20:25:18	$5 says if I came up with that someone would have gotten all up on me being a perv or somesuch. Eh. When you call yourself a perv first1, it kinda takes the punch out of anyone else calling you a perv later on, ya know? @bfishy I don't really have that problem... my ideas tend to cook and simmer for a while. While I occasionally visualize scenes that I wish I could take notes on right away, for the most part I get inspiration for over-arching themes and world details, and then have to fight tooth-and-nail for the resolution needed to actually write or draw something. My muse is a very "big idea"-type person, which makes it rather annoying when I'm trying to draw the damn trees. ________ 1Okay, so I technically said that it was my muse that was giving me perverted ideas and was kinkier then me, but as that's just me personifying that inexplicable source of inspiration, it's safe to say that if I call my muse perverted, I'm really calling myself perverted.
#8 williamhm75 Jun 18, 2010 20:46:34	$5 says if I came up with that someone would have gotten all up on me being a perv or somesuch. Eh. When you call yourself a perv first1, it kinda takes the punch out of anyone else calling you a perv later on, ya know? @bfishy I don't really have that problem... my ideas tend to cook and simmer for a while. While I occasionally visualize scenes that I wish I could take notes on right away, for the most part I get inspiration for over-arching themes and world details, and then have to fight tooth-and-nail for the resolution needed to actually write or draw something. My muse is a very "big idea"-type person, which makes it rather annoying when I'm trying to draw the damn trees. ________ 1Okay, so I technically said that it was my muse that was giving me perverted ideas and was kinkier then me, but as that's just me personifying that inexplicable source of inspiration, it's safe to say that if I call my muse perverted, I'm really calling myself perverted. LOL I know what you mean I describe my muse as a perverted hyper active fairy girl with ADHD. One minute it will be working full force then it just stops all together. One minute I'll be writing a nice interesting battle scene then Ill be thinking about sweaty bodies which gets me thinking about sex which gets me totally distracted. I need a less distractable muse.
#9 bfishy Jun 18, 2010 23:12:26	hehehe, i get that too. the EPIC idea and also the "holy crap i have this idea...oooh and this idea...and this! this! this!...." as i've aged i've learned to temper it a bit i think. it really is just a time issue. so many things in my brain, so very very very little time to get them all out. hard to get past the rough phase into something more solid. only time to lay down broad strokes and hardly a moment to lay in the details. i joke with my wife that i'll get it all done when i retire lol
#10 zombie_babies Jun 21, 2010 10:19:46	Yeah, I'm in the 'big idea, no motivation' camp. It sucks.
#11 boraxe Jun 21, 2010 11:00:38	Ever have one of those days where inspiration strikes in a really bizarre and twisted fashion? Yes. Every day.
#12 death_isthe_begining Jun 24, 2010 13:41:34	The "big idea" is exactly what I have a problem with. I can create an entire nation but that is as big as I can take it. The rest of the world is gray mist that refuses to take shape. Oh and can I play in this campaign world of yours (I don't care if it does turn out R rated)? Note: As far as I'm concerned Soulknifes are physic ninjas already.
#13 MechaPilot Jun 24, 2010 14:17:58	My muse is usually, oddly enough, musically powered. It's not always the lyrics to the song either (though sometimes it is), sometimes it's just the emotion that goes along with the song that triggers something. Perhaps the most annoying thing about my muse is that she often works nights. The last two times I was struck with inspiration for the story I'm writing I have been laying in bed trying to sleep. I learned a long time ago however to keep a pencil and notebook at my bedside just in case. As for muses being kinky or sexual, mine isn't exactly chaste either, but I won't go into detail on that.
#14 EscherEnigma Jun 24, 2010 14:27:28	Oh and can I play in this campaign world of yours (I don't care if it does turn out R rated)? If you like the ideas go for it, but I've already got so many creative projects on my plate I'm not sure when or if I'll get around to putting anything down in a word processor. I mean yeah, I have a few quick sketches1 already but sketching is just something I do. ________ 1I have a sketch of a female human psychic dressed similarly to Indiana Jones (sans whip and hat) and a few different concepts for the berzerker uniforms. Still trying to decide whether to go symmetrical or not, and just how fabulous their jack boots2 will be... 2This is me we're talking about. Awesome (to me) footwear is practically mandatory.
#15 Robin_Hoodlum Jun 24, 2010 17:32:55	My muse is dead. Killed by reality.
#16 death_isthe_begining Jun 24, 2010 17:58:57	My muse is dead. Killed by reality. Well in that case you must pimp reality into being your muse, I did that long ago. The easiest way to do so is to add something unrealistic to the real world and imagine peoples reactions (or make up some outrageous reaction and peoples justification for acting that way).
#17 williamhm75 Jun 28, 2010 16:44:06	My muse is usually, oddly enough, musically powered. It's not always the lyrics to the song either (though sometimes it is), sometimes it's just the emotion that goes along with the song that triggers something. Perhaps the most annoying thing about my muse is that she often works nights. The last two times I was struck with inspiration for the story I'm writing I have been laying in bed trying to sleep. I learned a long time ago however to keep a pencil and notebook at my bedside just in case. As for muses being kinky or sexual, mine isn't exactly chaste either, but I won't go into detail on that. Oddly enough the kinkier my thoughts are the more my muse is working. Most of the time she's off in 15 different directions but if I start thinking of X rated fiction stuff she's all there. I also write better when I'm dressed in femme. I guess my female persona is more creative than my male.
#18 MechaPilot Jun 28, 2010 17:01:15	My muse is usually, oddly enough, musically powered. It's not always the lyrics to the song either (though sometimes it is), sometimes it's just the emotion that goes along with the song that triggers something. Perhaps the most annoying thing about my muse is that she often works nights. The last two times I was struck with inspiration for the story I'm writing I have been laying in bed trying to sleep. I learned a long time ago however to keep a pencil and notebook at my bedside just in case. As for muses being kinky or sexual, mine isn't exactly chaste either, but I won't go into detail on that. Oddly enough the kinkier my thoughts are the more my muse is working. Most of the time she's off in 15 different directions but if I start thinking of X rated fiction stuff she's all there. I also write better when I'm dressed in femme. I guess my female persona is more creative than my male. Either that or your muse lives in Mr Happy and the excited throbbing is so noisy it makes her want to go outside.
#19 EscherEnigma Jun 28, 2010 17:02:48	I also write better when I'm dressed in femme. I guess my female persona is more creative than my male. As I'll be in drag for a few days this next week, I might sit down and see if that works for me as well.
#20 pigknight Jun 28, 2010 17:14:54	Speaking of, pics?
#21 EscherEnigma Jun 28, 2010 17:24:13	And as I've said multiple times, there will be pics after.
#22 Cpt_Micha Jun 28, 2010 18:45:33	honestly, EE I'm with ya. With the effort I've -vested into my STO character storyline- I could have started and probably finished a star trek novel by now. And yet I'm perfectly content just writing out the log entries and crap instead of being productive with the inspiration.