I just have to get this down somewhere before my brain explodes. You know how inspiration comes from really weird places? I've been stuck for an ending for about a week, so last night in desperation, I outlined the general crisis to my roommate and asked her how she would fix it.

[Now my roommate has little-to-no story creation talent whatsoever. She hates reading for pleasure (heathen!) and claims that her head hurts just by looking at 2 solid pages of my text for SF on a Word Document. My 50+ pages blows her mind.]

She looks at me and laughs and says "Inter-dimensional duct tape! Duct tape fixes everything!" And out of nowhere, I realized that it worked. Sure it won't be as simple as 'pull out some inter-dimensional duct tape and slap in on the hole', but with some tweaking and overhauling, I can make it work. I was speechless. I think I see the apocalypse over there on the horizon...

Anybody else getting last-minute crazy inspiration from impossible sources?

-Spark

My alter-ego is clamoring right now to complain about people stealing her inter-dimensional duct tape. xD
We've been using it for years!

Anyway...
I haven't had one of those moments for Screnzy, but I had one halfway through November during NaNoWrMo. See my signature? It says I'm inspired by Poe. Well, I hadn't gotten any inspiration, and turned to my anthology of Poe's works. I opened up randomly to a story (turned out to be "Parable of Silence") and read it. I came away with a lynx. For a story set in Chicago, based in a bookstore...a lynx. It was like...what the--? But it worked, and saved my novel!!!

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I nearly forgot to mention the shirt I'm coincidentally wearing while reading this. It reads "Save the Planet: Duct Tape won't fix everything." I find irony in that...

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Inspired by Poe
Driven by Christ