WORK IN PROGRESS
I find inspiration in the weirdest things. If you've ever seen the movie, American Beauty, you'll remember Ricky Fitts' favorite homemade video is the one where a plastic bag is floating in the air. He describes it like this:
"It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowing and there's this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it. And this bag was, like, dancing with me. Like a little kid begging me to play with it. For fifteen minutes. And that's the day I knew there was this entire life behind things, and... this incredibly benevolent force, that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever. Video's a poor excuse, I know. But it helps me remember... and I need to remember... Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in."
This is how I feel alot of the time. Like if I look closely enough, or think hard enough, I can find something from which to draw upon and spark an idea. Apart from these random instances of surging creativity, I have long list of influences which have shaped my own writing and thought process.
So...
Favorite Bands/ Musicians:
Coldplay, Snow Patrol, John Mayer, Florence + The Machine, The Bravery...
Favorite Novels/ Books:
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater, Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, The Hunger Games by Suzanna Collins, Twilight by Stephenie Meyer, Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, Graceling by Kristin Cashore, The Lovely Bones by Alice Hoffman, The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillipa Gregory
Favorite Writers/ Poets:
Sylvia Plath, T.S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Maggie Stiefvater, J.K. Rowling
MORE COMING SOON
