Beautiful Damage Forum Inspiration

What inspires your writing? What or who is your muse? Please do tell...

What inspires me?

 

Dreams. Billie Holiday. Trees in the eve of Autumn. Cold beer and muggy evenings. Pynchon and Ayn Rand. Old couples who can't keep their hands off of each other. Spider-webs. Population refuse. Orchids. Networks. Malcom X. Pioneers and paranoids. Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove". Sepia-toned photographs. Claw-foot tubs. The smell of bacon.

 

The list could go on and on and o... ....