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Fishing for INSPIRATION?
~~~~~~~~~~~ Your imagination is a pond that you fish your ideas from. Like any fishing pond, what you catch depends on what you’ve stocked your pond with and how much you put in there. If you fish for only the occasional idea, your little ideas have time to breed creatively until they overflow the pond, leaping right out into your hand -- and onto your keyboard. If you fish a lot, you will have to restock -- Frequently.
A Dry Pond = Writer’s Block What’s in YOUR Imagination?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~What do you KNOW?
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What do you love to Do, to Study, to Think About, to Talk About...? Make a list of all the things you know well and all the things you've done -- seriously! Mythology, history, any retail jobs you might have had -- anything you might have seen, done, or studied.
WHO do you KNOW?
Have you ever met...?
• A real Criminal?
• A real Hero?
• A real Romantic?
• A real Stalker?
• A real Witch?
• A real Cop?
• A real Private Investigator?
• A real Soldier?
• A real Stripper?
• A real political figure?
• A real rebellious Teen?
• A real ghost?
• Someone truly in Love?
• A real happily married couple? -- with children?
• Someone who Defied the stereotypes seen on TV?
What have you DONE?
Have you ever Experienced...?
• A real loving relationship?
• An abusive relationship?
• An obsessive infatuation?
• College?
• Camping?
• Driving cross country?
• Being a problem child?
• A corporate job?
• A fast food job?
• A foreign country?
• Military service?
• Using a sword?
• Magic?
What can you ADD to your Imagination?
EVERYTHING!
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The more you add to your pond – the richer and more creative your stock. For the best and most creative results from your imagination, throw in everything that catches your attention, from Saturday morning cartoons to the latest romance, to newspaper articles.
• Adding books and movies – will generate fun and interesting situations.
• Adding research – will add ACCURACY.
• Adding emotional experience – will add DEPTH.
• Adding physical experience – will add REALISM.
Read everything you can get your hands on from non-fiction such as history and mythology to ghost stories, but most importantly, OBSERVE the world around you because THAT goes into your writing too. Do things! See things! Experience things! The wider the range of information and experiences you toss in your imagination, the wider the range of ideas you will come up with.
Give your self little Observation exercises to train yourself to write about them:
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Describe exactly how it feels when your hand is sliding down a banister.
What does a wooden wall feel like as opposed to a stone wall?
Can you describe the carpet under your feet?
Can you describe the sound of your fingers on your keyboard?
What does water taste like?
Can you describe what eating a hamburger is like?
How is wearing a long skirt different from wearing pants?
Can you describe the clouds in the sky?
What does ice taste like?
Observe your friends:
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Can you describe a smile?
How about a frown?
What does Worry look like on someone's face?
How is a Happy smile different from a Sarcastic smile?
Can you describe someone who is nervous?
How about angry?
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Your Memory of all that you've experienced is the most important tool a writer has because ALL of it ends up in their stories. Keep your Memory sharp and well honed by using it as much as you possibly can. This will also keep you from making the fewest MISTAKES.
Think: HOW do you KNOW?
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Do you actually Know -- or are you making it up as you go along? Where is your knowledge actually coming from?
• Books?
• Role Playing Games?
• Movies?
• TV shows?
• The Internet?
• First-hand Experience?
Knowledge is POWER and Experience is even more so! Someone who has never kissed isn't going to be able to write a kissing scene as well as someone who has. Worst of all, someone with experience will know IMMEDIATELY when the writer doesn't know what they're talking about. Once that happens, they're closing your story -- never to look at it again.
Hunting for the WHOPPER
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Every good fisherman knows to throw back the ones that are too small, so they can grow up and be worth catching later. The same goes for Ideas - throw back the small ideas so they can grow up to become Big Ideas.
Never ever Rush an idea! If it’s too small to use – toss it back. If you try to make a meal (a project) out of a half-grown idea, you will only end up with a half-serving of what could have been something much bigger, juicier, and tastier.
The only way to catch Whoppers is to let your ideas swim around in your pond until they grow up to be Whoppers.
YOU CAN’T STEAL AN IDEA!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Stealing TEXT is plagiarism, but stealing Ideas is a physical impossibility. Seeing a cool idea and tossing it into your imagination is good for your imagination. New ideas add color, breadth, flavor, and texture to what’s already there.
But! But! But! – BULLSH!T!
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Every writer is different, with different things swimming around in their imaginations. You can give five writers the exact same idea – and even let them see each others ideas – and they will still come up with something totally different.
Case in point, VAMPIRES: Brahm Stoker, Angela Knight, Christine Feehan, Charlaine Harris, Laurell K. Hamilton, Stephanie Meyers, and Jim Butcher. Need I say more?
In Conclusion...
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Keep your Imagination stocked and you will always have ideas swimming around just waiting to be caught!
Enjoy!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~DISCLAIMER: As with all advice, take what you can use and throw out the rest. As a multi-published author, I have been taught some fairly rigid rules on what is publishable and what is not. If my rather straight-laced (and occasionally snotty,) advice does not suit your creative style, by all means, IGNORE IT.
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Good tips indeed. I've tried to force detail into an idea and it just doesn't work. Much better to come back to it later. On a similar note, you're totally right about ideas breeding. Back before I started writing and just let ideas wither, I didn't get that many. Now that I am, it seems they're all lining up shouting, "Me next!" Must be some crazy kind of natural selection happening in my brain. XD
I'll also second the importance of experience. If it's at all feasible, it's a good idea to attempt whatever thing you're writing about. I know I've gotten some decent details/jokes out of actually trying the thing I'm writing about. Also, it's a great excuse to try new things. (Which all reminds me. I need to pick up some bubble bath tomorrow...)
I'll also second the importance of experience. If it's at all feasible, it's a good idea to attempt whatever thing you're writing about. I know I've gotten some decent details/jokes out of actually trying the thing I'm writing about. Also, it's a great excuse to try new things. (Which all reminds me. I need to pick up some bubble bath tomorrow...)
"Must be some crazy kind of natural selection happening in my brain."
I'm not exactly sure how it works, I only know that it does! LOL!
"Also, it's a great excuse to try new things. (Which all reminds me. I need to pick up some bubble bath tomorrow...)"
Um... If you're thinking of doing sex in the bath, Soap is NOT a good lubricant, but Hair Conditioner is -- though you have to reapply Frequently.
I'm not exactly sure how it works, I only know that it does! LOL!
"Also, it's a great excuse to try new things. (Which all reminds me. I need to pick up some bubble bath tomorrow...)"
Um... If you're thinking of doing sex in the bath, Soap is NOT a good lubricant, but Hair Conditioner is -- though you have to reapply Frequently.
Yeah, I know soap is no good, but I hadn't heard about conditioner. I was really considering just hand-waving the lubrication issue, even though I know it can be a concern when doing bath-sex. Someone requested a story featuring bubble bath, so I'm just doing something short and fun, and for those I sometimes relax my realism standards slightly.
(Or were you assuming I was going to be trying bath sex myself? Alas, I am single at the moment so I can't do a full and proper test. X3 )
(Or were you assuming I was going to be trying bath sex myself? Alas, I am single at the moment so I can't do a full and proper test. X3 )
Reals ghosts aren't so bad, as long as you take certain precautions.
-- I've been dealing with ghosts since childhood. I grew up in New England -- New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts, some of the most haunted states in the whole US of A.
I lived only two hours from Sleepy Hollow, Long Island, and two and a half from Salem, Massachusetts in a town that had a graveyard on every corner -- Not an exaggeration! We had Indian ghosts, Revolutionary War ghosts, Hessian ghosts, Dutch ghosts, British ghosts, French ghosts, devils, witches, Native-American manitou, and haunted houses galore.
The precautions: When in an area you know is haunted, ALWAYS carry Salt on you, and wear either a blessed holy symbol or a gift/memento from someone that truly loves you.
-- I've been dealing with ghosts since childhood. I grew up in New England -- New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts, some of the most haunted states in the whole US of A.
I lived only two hours from Sleepy Hollow, Long Island, and two and a half from Salem, Massachusetts in a town that had a graveyard on every corner -- Not an exaggeration! We had Indian ghosts, Revolutionary War ghosts, Hessian ghosts, Dutch ghosts, British ghosts, French ghosts, devils, witches, Native-American manitou, and haunted houses galore.
The precautions: When in an area you know is haunted, ALWAYS carry Salt on you, and wear either a blessed holy symbol or a gift/memento from someone that truly loves you.
Yep, you've definitely encountered something spirit-like.
-- When you all did the same think it was likely because the Memory of that particular action was so strong in that area that you unconsciously acted on it.
Wandering souls aren't the only kind of haunt. Places where terrible things happened can often hold the Memory of part or all of the event. Under the right circumstances, that memory can be triggered and Played. Like a full 3D video just waiting to happen. Those are usually left behind by the victim of the happening. They're the type of haunt most often encountered in old houses and on old battlefields.
-- When you all did the same think it was likely because the Memory of that particular action was so strong in that area that you unconsciously acted on it.
Wandering souls aren't the only kind of haunt. Places where terrible things happened can often hold the Memory of part or all of the event. Under the right circumstances, that memory can be triggered and Played. Like a full 3D video just waiting to happen. Those are usually left behind by the victim of the happening. They're the type of haunt most often encountered in old houses and on old battlefields.
Well damn, I can't live in that town, graveyards scare the shit outta me at night.
And damn, you've meet pretty much every spook under the sun (moon? w/e)!
I will make sure to make a suit of crosses and get one of those little cross things filled with holy water that exorcists usually carry. Hmmmm, holy salt water?
And damn, you've meet pretty much every spook under the sun (moon? w/e)!
I will make sure to make a suit of crosses and get one of those little cross things filled with holy water that exorcists usually carry. Hmmmm, holy salt water?
Salt is the oldest and surest way to dispel spirits. It's been used in purification rituals since the ice age.
Holy water only works if you're Catholic.
-- You actually have to believe in the religion the object/symbol comes from in order for it to work because it's not the object, it's the strength of the belief behind it that actually creates the barrier.
The reason mementos from loved ones works is sort of the same.
-- A spirit that's out to get you operates on (is generated from & fueled by) hate and despair, so that's what it attacks with. Belief that you are Loved/protected is the best counter for that kind of attack.
"You're hateful, nobody loves you and you should die!"
"Mom loves me and so does <lover/spouse> so I think you're full of shit. Go away!"
Spirits can't actually make physical contact with a living body, their energy level is too low to withstand the energy that a living body produces - ie. we burn them. All a spirit of any kind can really do is scare you or Guilt you into hurting yourself. Of course, if you're stupid enough to invite it into your body and allow possession... ("Let me in and I'll make you Special!") Well, in that case, you get you deserve.
I haven't met every kind of spook, I have yet to meet a true werewolf, but I have met quite a few different kinds.
Holy water only works if you're Catholic.
-- You actually have to believe in the religion the object/symbol comes from in order for it to work because it's not the object, it's the strength of the belief behind it that actually creates the barrier.
The reason mementos from loved ones works is sort of the same.
-- A spirit that's out to get you operates on (is generated from & fueled by) hate and despair, so that's what it attacks with. Belief that you are Loved/protected is the best counter for that kind of attack.
"You're hateful, nobody loves you and you should die!"
"Mom loves me and so does <lover/spouse> so I think you're full of shit. Go away!"
Spirits can't actually make physical contact with a living body, their energy level is too low to withstand the energy that a living body produces - ie. we burn them. All a spirit of any kind can really do is scare you or Guilt you into hurting yourself. Of course, if you're stupid enough to invite it into your body and allow possession... ("Let me in and I'll make you Special!") Well, in that case, you get you deserve.
I haven't met every kind of spook, I have yet to meet a true werewolf, but I have met quite a few different kinds.
I may not be catholic, but I am Christian, so belief is no problem for me, lol.
But I am pessimist(sp?) so...yeah... Also soul fire, YAY! As a matter of fact one could say the an element that humans are associated with (other than earth) is fire.
However my prefered method for dealing with stuff like ghosts is the GTFO method ("I'll see you guys at grandma's house!"). They want me to leave? Gladly! Especially if demons are involved. If I see a demon I'll be over the hills, through the woods, across the river and at grandma's house by the time everyone else notices that I'm gone (eatin' green yam 'elps brutha!).
As for werewolves, you'll never meet an actual werewolf. The idea of werewolves was actually concocted by midevil peasents that ate moldy grains, the mold itself able to produce hallucinagenes (in other words they got high) and began, well, hallucinating. So sorry.
But I am pessimist(sp?) so...yeah... Also soul fire, YAY! As a matter of fact one could say the an element that humans are associated with (other than earth) is fire.
However my prefered method for dealing with stuff like ghosts is the GTFO method ("I'll see you guys at grandma's house!"). They want me to leave? Gladly! Especially if demons are involved. If I see a demon I'll be over the hills, through the woods, across the river and at grandma's house by the time everyone else notices that I'm gone (eatin' green yam 'elps brutha!).
As for werewolves, you'll never meet an actual werewolf. The idea of werewolves was actually concocted by midevil peasents that ate moldy grains, the mold itself able to produce hallucinagenes (in other words they got high) and began, well, hallucinating. So sorry.
Also soul fire, YAY! As a matter of fact one could say the an element that humans are associated with (other than earth) is fire.
Exactly.
However my prefered method for dealing with stuff like ghosts is the GTFO method ("I'll see you guys at grandma's house!"). They want me to leave? Gladly!
ROFLMAO!
If I see a demon I'll be over the hills, through the woods, across the river and at grandma's house by the time everyone else notices that I'm gone (eatin' green yam 'elps brutha!).
Believe or not real Demons are manufactured spirits.
-- They're spirits created by sorcerers. What they do is split off a piece of their soul and Shape it as they wish to see it. A good look at a demonic conjuring circle will show you point blank that that's its function.
Demons ALWAYS return to their source -- the sorcerer that made them because their true home is the sorcerer. However, by he time they're returned, they've eaten some nasty stuff (other spirits) just to remain functional and that stuff is usually what kills the sorcerer once they return. This is where all the stories of demons destroying the sorcerer that conjured them came from.
The fastest way to get a demon off your butt is to attack the sorcerer that made it. If you can get the sorcerer to drop his defenses, the demon will automatically go after the sorcerer since that the demon's true goal.
The other way is to simply outlast it. Demons are surprisingly fragile. If you can stay under protection long enough, usually a year and a day, it literally disintegrates -- taking a good hunk of the sorcerer's power with it because no one can manipulate the elements with only half a soul.
You DON'T want to know how I know all this and I am Not going to tell you. However, I will say that in the end, it was a very nasty mess to clean up.
The idea of werewolves was actually concocted by medieval peasants that ate moldy grains, the mold itself able to produce hallucinogens (in other words they got high) and began, well, hallucinating. So sorry.
Ah no, that's how the Salem witch hangings in Massachusetts happened - hallucinations from Rust on the Rye. As a matter of fact there are still cases of this happening in Europe.
The idea of werewolves came from the ice-age shamanistic ability to astral-project one's soul from one's body as an animal in a visible form. The idea that they were dangerous and man-killers came from the Viking berserkers, though those were Bears not wolves, (Ber-bear, Zerk-spirit). However, Berzerkers happened by drinking honey mead fermented with magic mushrooms.
I have SEEN the werewolf in astral projection form, I just couldn't find the guy doing it. I'm still looking though...
Exactly.
However my prefered method for dealing with stuff like ghosts is the GTFO method ("I'll see you guys at grandma's house!"). They want me to leave? Gladly!
ROFLMAO!
If I see a demon I'll be over the hills, through the woods, across the river and at grandma's house by the time everyone else notices that I'm gone (eatin' green yam 'elps brutha!).
Believe or not real Demons are manufactured spirits.
-- They're spirits created by sorcerers. What they do is split off a piece of their soul and Shape it as they wish to see it. A good look at a demonic conjuring circle will show you point blank that that's its function.
Demons ALWAYS return to their source -- the sorcerer that made them because their true home is the sorcerer. However, by he time they're returned, they've eaten some nasty stuff (other spirits) just to remain functional and that stuff is usually what kills the sorcerer once they return. This is where all the stories of demons destroying the sorcerer that conjured them came from.
The fastest way to get a demon off your butt is to attack the sorcerer that made it. If you can get the sorcerer to drop his defenses, the demon will automatically go after the sorcerer since that the demon's true goal.
The other way is to simply outlast it. Demons are surprisingly fragile. If you can stay under protection long enough, usually a year and a day, it literally disintegrates -- taking a good hunk of the sorcerer's power with it because no one can manipulate the elements with only half a soul.
You DON'T want to know how I know all this and I am Not going to tell you. However, I will say that in the end, it was a very nasty mess to clean up.
The idea of werewolves was actually concocted by medieval peasants that ate moldy grains, the mold itself able to produce hallucinogens (in other words they got high) and began, well, hallucinating. So sorry.
Ah no, that's how the Salem witch hangings in Massachusetts happened - hallucinations from Rust on the Rye. As a matter of fact there are still cases of this happening in Europe.
The idea of werewolves came from the ice-age shamanistic ability to astral-project one's soul from one's body as an animal in a visible form. The idea that they were dangerous and man-killers came from the Viking berserkers, though those were Bears not wolves, (Ber-bear, Zerk-spirit). However, Berzerkers happened by drinking honey mead fermented with magic mushrooms.
I have SEEN the werewolf in astral projection form, I just couldn't find the guy doing it. I'm still looking though...
PS.
Demons are surprisingly fragile. If you can stay under protection long enough, usually a year and a day, it literally disintegrates.
This is the Real reason why an engagement lasts a year and a day. If the fiance in question is a demon, they won't last long enough to make it to the marriage bed to steal the bride/bridegroom's soul through sex. This is also why someone trying to push for a quick marriage was look on with extreme suspicion.
Demons are surprisingly fragile. If you can stay under protection long enough, usually a year and a day, it literally disintegrates.
This is the Real reason why an engagement lasts a year and a day. If the fiance in question is a demon, they won't last long enough to make it to the marriage bed to steal the bride/bridegroom's soul through sex. This is also why someone trying to push for a quick marriage was look on with extreme suspicion.
Shamanistic astral-projection is traditionally done with some rather dangerous hallucinogenics, but an experienced shaman can do it through basic meditation. It's kind of like a waking dream that's so strong others can see it, though normally only from the corner of their eye.
It's a cool spying techniques, but not good for much else.
It's a cool spying techniques, but not good for much else.
The horror movies are grossly inaccurate. Believe me, I deal with the real thing. Salt pretty much repels just about anything. Sea Salt works best, especially on the big things, but common table salt works too.
"...the general subconscious fear of the paranormal is something I can't seem to suppress."
Oh I have problems with that too, only it's less fear and more the urge to barf my guts up. There are certain areas in town and certain old battlefields I can't cross without a small bag of salt in my pocket. I still feel nauseous from all the hate floating in the air, but without the salt, I'm puking my guts up.
Houses where people suffered -- child abuse, sexual abuse, extreme depression, and extreme hate, are particularly bad for me. Just driving past such a place -- especially if it's still going on -- will make me want to puke in the car.
"...the general subconscious fear of the paranormal is something I can't seem to suppress."
Oh I have problems with that too, only it's less fear and more the urge to barf my guts up. There are certain areas in town and certain old battlefields I can't cross without a small bag of salt in my pocket. I still feel nauseous from all the hate floating in the air, but without the salt, I'm puking my guts up.
Houses where people suffered -- child abuse, sexual abuse, extreme depression, and extreme hate, are particularly bad for me. Just driving past such a place -- especially if it's still going on -- will make me want to puke in the car.
LOL! Actually, the dead people talk to me. I don't go looking for them, they find me.
My Native American great grandmother on my mother's side, and my Irish grandmother on father's side both called it 'the sight'. I got it from both sides of the family. I learned to focus it with tarot cards and other forms of divination. I studied shamanism and white witchcraft to deal with the rest.
This sensitivity of mine ISN'T unusual. It's a lot more common than you think. In fact, you're probably more sensitive than you think.
Ever think strongly about someone and then they call, or drop by? That's a mild form of telepathy. Ever get really angry at someone and then they trip or bump into something? That's a mild form of telekinesis. Ever look at a car full of people and think "Maybe I shouldn't go?" and then find out something happened -- an accident, a fight, the cops pulled them over? That's a mild form of precognition, seeing the future.
Most people ARE psychic. They just learn to ignore it by writing it off as their imagination. Ignore any muscle long enough and it atrophies. This goes for the senses too. Blindfold someone who can see long enough and they will go blind.
My Native American great grandmother on my mother's side, and my Irish grandmother on father's side both called it 'the sight'. I got it from both sides of the family. I learned to focus it with tarot cards and other forms of divination. I studied shamanism and white witchcraft to deal with the rest.
This sensitivity of mine ISN'T unusual. It's a lot more common than you think. In fact, you're probably more sensitive than you think.
Ever think strongly about someone and then they call, or drop by? That's a mild form of telepathy. Ever get really angry at someone and then they trip or bump into something? That's a mild form of telekinesis. Ever look at a car full of people and think "Maybe I shouldn't go?" and then find out something happened -- an accident, a fight, the cops pulled them over? That's a mild form of precognition, seeing the future.
Most people ARE psychic. They just learn to ignore it by writing it off as their imagination. Ignore any muscle long enough and it atrophies. This goes for the senses too. Blindfold someone who can see long enough and they will go blind.
I know a kid at my school that's Native American.
And I never thought that I was psychic...now I have to look closly at many of my previous experiances with "wierd shit" and try some of those things...and if I do have precognition, I will say, without a doubt, "and I thought it was just my negro sense!" it's a running joke that my family talks about that half of the time that black people have more sense than white people (no offense, but just look at the show Jack Ass, as well as a number of cases where everyone else runs off but the one idiot stays to stare at the pretty lights (which reminds me of an inside joke my family has)). Now it is time to examine all of my cases of deja vu.
And I never thought that I was psychic...now I have to look closly at many of my previous experiances with "wierd shit" and try some of those things...and if I do have precognition, I will say, without a doubt, "and I thought it was just my negro sense!" it's a running joke that my family talks about that half of the time that black people have more sense than white people (no offense, but just look at the show Jack Ass, as well as a number of cases where everyone else runs off but the one idiot stays to stare at the pretty lights (which reminds me of an inside joke my family has)). Now it is time to examine all of my cases of deja vu.
And I never thought that I was psychic...now I have to look closly at many of my previous experiances with "wierd shit" and try some of those things... Now it is time to examine all of my cases of deja vu.
Exactly! Most people Don't think they have ESP, yet they talk about their intuition, their instincts, or their negro sense, all the time.
I REFUSE to look at Jack Ass. In fact I don't have cable TV just to avoid accidentally seeing crap like that.
"...everyone else runs off but the one idiot stays to stare at the pretty lights..."
Darwin's theory in action. The gene pool is much better off without them.
Exactly! Most people Don't think they have ESP, yet they talk about their intuition, their instincts, or their negro sense, all the time.
I REFUSE to look at Jack Ass. In fact I don't have cable TV just to avoid accidentally seeing crap like that.
"...everyone else runs off but the one idiot stays to stare at the pretty lights..."
Darwin's theory in action. The gene pool is much better off without them.
Agreed! And avoiding Jack Ass is a good way to conserve brain cells.
Is it possable to focus telepathy in a way to make people react in a certian way (like making them horny...)? And how do I turn on my neglected powers in the first place? Does causing headaches with violent thoughts constitute as empathy, telepathy ot telekinesis?
Is it possable to focus telepathy in a way to make people react in a certian way (like making them horny...)? And how do I turn on my neglected powers in the first place? Does causing headaches with violent thoughts constitute as empathy, telepathy ot telekinesis?
Is it possable to focus telepathy in a way to make people react in a certian way (like making them horny...)?
AKA: The Jedi Mind Trick? Yes, but it takes time and practice. Time as in DECADES and Practice as in it begins with the absolute belief that it works -- until it does. Focus is the key.
...how do I turn on my neglected powers in the first place?
-- Good old-fashioned BELIEF. It's a literal case of mind over matter. DOUBT kills it. This is why kids can learn it easier than adults. Adults are socialized into doubting themselves.
I gained mine VERY early though a head trauma, (I was hit in the head with a swing hard enough to need stitches.) However, I didn't learn to control it -- and use it -- until I was 13 or 14.
Puberty is when latent talents normally first manifest in the average person. If it's encouraged it stays. If it's discouraged it atrophies. Adults that have allowed their talents to atrophy rarely manifest their talents until they reach their mid to late 40s (another biological shift like puberty, only in the Other direction,) when faith & belief become possible for them again.
Does causing headaches with violent thoughts constitute as empathy, telepathy ot telekinesis?
Any form of mind to mind communication -- including pain -- is Telepathy.
AKA: The Jedi Mind Trick? Yes, but it takes time and practice. Time as in DECADES and Practice as in it begins with the absolute belief that it works -- until it does. Focus is the key.
...how do I turn on my neglected powers in the first place?
-- Good old-fashioned BELIEF. It's a literal case of mind over matter. DOUBT kills it. This is why kids can learn it easier than adults. Adults are socialized into doubting themselves.
I gained mine VERY early though a head trauma, (I was hit in the head with a swing hard enough to need stitches.) However, I didn't learn to control it -- and use it -- until I was 13 or 14.
Puberty is when latent talents normally first manifest in the average person. If it's encouraged it stays. If it's discouraged it atrophies. Adults that have allowed their talents to atrophy rarely manifest their talents until they reach their mid to late 40s (another biological shift like puberty, only in the Other direction,) when faith & belief become possible for them again.
Does causing headaches with violent thoughts constitute as empathy, telepathy ot telekinesis?
Any form of mind to mind communication -- including pain -- is Telepathy.
To make our conversaion even more random:
*surfs on a whale* :P
Now back to whatever we were doing. XD
Oh and since my school has pastors(sp?) come to our school every week, I tried to explain my theorie on how God and being psychic relate to each other, but I think I explained it poorly. :/ IDK.
*surfs on a whale* :P
Now back to whatever we were doing. XD
Oh and since my school has pastors(sp?) come to our school every week, I tried to explain my theorie on how God and being psychic relate to each other, but I think I explained it poorly. :/ IDK.
Hon, don't bother the Ministers about that stuff! It will only get YOU in trouble!
The Christian church is utterly AGAINST psychic ability.
-- Christianity insists that since God doesn't not grant power to anyone that isn't an ordained priest, anyone else with powers must be getting them from the devil.
It's the main reason why I switched to a different faith. I am Not a Christian.
The Christian church is utterly AGAINST psychic ability.
-- Christianity insists that since God doesn't not grant power to anyone that isn't an ordained priest, anyone else with powers must be getting them from the devil.
It's the main reason why I switched to a different faith. I am Not a Christian.
Oh shit. :O
I think I fucked myself then...in the ASS. And it was not a comfortable feeling.
Speaking of psychics, I really wanna try writting some scifi stuff (like as in both traditional scifi [with lasers and stuff] and the whole X-Men experiance) and in my first official forray I would like to base a chacter off of you (and one of me, lol) and get into the whole secret government conspiracy that's so popular (or IS IT?!? *dun dun duuuuuun!*).
Can you tell that I'm NOT trying to think of any potential cruxifitions that could happen to me, both litterally and figuratively? :]
I think I fucked myself then...in the ASS. And it was not a comfortable feeling.
Speaking of psychics, I really wanna try writting some scifi stuff (like as in both traditional scifi [with lasers and stuff] and the whole X-Men experiance) and in my first official forray I would like to base a chacter off of you (and one of me, lol) and get into the whole secret government conspiracy that's so popular (or IS IT?!? *dun dun duuuuuun!*).
Can you tell that I'm NOT trying to think of any potential cruxifitions that could happen to me, both litterally and figuratively? :]
I really wanna try writing some scifi stuff (like as in both traditional scifi [with lasers and stuff] and the whole X-Men experience...
I hope you're good at research and turning dry science into something readable.
I would like to base a character off of you (and one of me, lol)
Good luck figuring out how to get me on paper! Oh wait, I know...! Use the Oracle from "the Matrix" as a model. Her personality & mine are almost identical. However, I'm MUCH cuter. *wink*
...get into the whole secret government conspiracy that's so popular (or IS IT?!? *dun dun duuuuuun!*).
Wow, you must REALLY be into research. Good luck with that. Even "I" won't touch conspiracy stories. Too complicated.
I hope you're good at research and turning dry science into something readable.
I would like to base a character off of you (and one of me, lol)
Good luck figuring out how to get me on paper! Oh wait, I know...! Use the Oracle from "the Matrix" as a model. Her personality & mine are almost identical. However, I'm MUCH cuter. *wink*
...get into the whole secret government conspiracy that's so popular (or IS IT?!? *dun dun duuuuuun!*).
Wow, you must REALLY be into research. Good luck with that. Even "I" won't touch conspiracy stories. Too complicated.
It's really a conspiracy with out being a conspiracy. You'll get it if/when I write it. Been a while since I saw "the Matrix" trilogy, so I'll have to google Oracle. And as long as I like the subject, research can actually be fun. I should know, I've done enough essays that required research and my current history project is litterally the ONLY history project that I like. And I'm a member of a scifi forum, of course I can make techno-babble into awesome-babble.
I think you might like it when it's done, it's got psychics (I'm half way convinced that I have precognition, just need more evidence and a successful field test...), funky gene-altering cocktails, ghosts, and the alternate ending features a one-tetra-ton bomb. Oh and there might be sex, I haven't decided yet.
I think you might like it when it's done, it's got psychics (I'm half way convinced that I have precognition, just need more evidence and a successful field test...), funky gene-altering cocktails, ghosts, and the alternate ending features a one-tetra-ton bomb. Oh and there might be sex, I haven't decided yet.
I can't see the point in boring the poor writer that's just looking for a way to help their story.
No one wants to read egotistical biography crap on how much this particular tip saved the author's butt! (I certainly don't.) And no one wants to have to pull out their dictionary -- or English grammar book, to TRANSLATE what the heck the article is actually saying. They just want a fix for their situation.
Err... Sorry about that. Draggy, boring and over-technical writing help articles are a pet peeve of mine.
No one wants to read egotistical biography crap on how much this particular tip saved the author's butt! (I certainly don't.) And no one wants to have to pull out their dictionary -- or English grammar book, to TRANSLATE what the heck the article is actually saying. They just want a fix for their situation.
Err... Sorry about that. Draggy, boring and over-technical writing help articles are a pet peeve of mine.
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