Inspiration in random places? Yes, please!
Before I hand the floor completely over to Morty and Terrence, I want to share something nifty about writing inspiration, and how random the places a writer can draw from to obtain an idea.
I'm sure you've all heard about Scattergories, right? You know that huge die that it comes with, with all the letters etched into its many sides? I found one this morning while out walking Emily. Not sure it's from the Scattergories game, but it's got letters etched into it, and a few spaces that have the word “wild” etched in. I brought it home and scrubbed it up with some soap and hot water. It's now going to be used for names or something. Not sure what all I'm going to use it for, yet, but I'm sure it'll come to me. I've got it sitting with my Rory's Story Cubes dice, all four sets. Three sets I purchased on Amazon, the one in the drawstring bag I purchased at my husband's job in their toy section. He's the one that brought it to my attention that they carried them.
I discovered Rory's Story Cubes last year, when I as looking for inspiration. The sets are pretty inexpensive, individually, I think I paid something like $25 for the whole set on Amazon, and the ones in the drawstring bag, I think I paid $8 for those at the store.