Can we get a pool of ideas and topics to flow about? Suggestions on everyday situations or whatever you can imagine; I.E: Outer Space, Da Ocean. For me its easier to flow if I have a general idea of what I'll be talking ab, otherwise I end up saying the same shit .
Posted Mar 21, 2013, 12:13 AM UTC
If you want to write but dunno wtf you want to write about.. Google psychedelic art, Salvador Dali etc. and try to write a piece describing what's going on in the picture. It's one of my fav ways to start writing and it gets my brain going to write something different.
Beside of that, here's some topics/ideas you can choose from from the top of my head at this very moment;
The boy that never learned ''Why''.
Gratification of the soul is going left when you can't tell what's right.
If you were the judge of humanity, what would be its sentence?
I didn't know what it meant to win until I lost everything.
The unsigned suicide note.
The inevitable sin.
Oedipal sacrifice.
I dig the bent of your thoughts. Do you have any media recs, books, movies, whatever?
As for media -> Basicly any news site. Certain pictures/stories can get your emotions going. When your emotions gets going you can be certain that others can relate to it as well, if you manage to describe a situation well and the story you got in mind is interesting enough it can't go wrong.
Books -> Anything from Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore is my fav book). He's extremely great at describing events and his thought processes can learn you a lot on how to convey a great story or a twist in just a few lines. It definately learned me that things doesn't need to be ''real'' to be captivating and give a message. Creating whole new worlds and surrealistic events is a powerful tool to get a reader wanting to read it through, IMO. (I'm not great at writing, but to understand this and see it being done in a book that's been successful was a good thing for me. It should give you some confidence to just ''let go'' and write what's on your mind even if it seems ''stupid''.)
Movies - Documentaries, Tim Burton movies, Pan's Labyrinth. A lot of things can get your mind going. Especially when you watch movies etc. Try to think of a different plot or a twist. It's a simple practice to see several views on the same story. When you write your own story you'll be able to come up with different twists/plots as you're already trained yourself to see different perspectives on one idea.
You can get inspiration from a lot of places. Vivid pictures and art just happens to me my number one source when I just want to write and need something to get me going. Don't mix it up with biting other peoples ideas/stories. But I believe that the more you understand views, plots and how to convey a story or get your mind going is a great way to become a better writer overall and start writing on something.
Also, learning how to write fiction, short stories and developing characters is smart. It teaches you wording, what makes a story good/bad and how to convey personalities. In a rap or a poem it's harder because you're limited by rhymeschemes and lines to a certain extent. But knowing these things certainly converts well when you're writing a cypher/piece. As I said before; I'm not a great writer, but doing these things once in a while give me ''aha''-moments every now and then.
Da Ocean
Lmao. Seriously though, part of rap is finding your own identity. You should focus on that after you get the mechanics. Once you can flow some complex stuff then you're equipped to make respectable stuff. What that stuff is about will be determined by what you know. Drake sings about bitches and riches. Eminem did the crazy thing while high on drugs. I don't know you man. You know you.
I mean u never heard me rap first off, that's my thing man, off the top spittin bullshit with my friends
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