{"id":6,"date":"2007-09-10T16:55:53","date_gmt":"2007-09-10T22:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naperwrimo.org\/2007\/09\/10\/finding-inspiration-in-pictures\/"},"modified":"2007-09-10T16:55:53","modified_gmt":"2007-09-10T22:55:53","slug":"finding-inspiration-in-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naperwrimo.org\/wp\/2007\/09\/10\/finding-inspiration-in-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding inspiration in pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are times when I find it difficult to get my creative engine started in generating plot, characters, settings, etc. for my story writing. Inspiration isn&#8217;t something that easily comes on demand, particularly if you spend a large portion of your day doing analytical tasks. So I spent a little bit of time <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&#038;ct=res&#038;cd=1&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stumbleupon.com%2F&#038;ei=1cnlRrG2A6fkiwHA1dyCDA&#038;usg=AFQjCNEYxo9NcyXPepT7wR-BvX1QnzQ2pw&#038;sig2=9Jye8kN53YDSjYyjLuM7Qg\">stumbling<\/a>  to some new sites and came across <a href=\"http:\/\/memory.loc.gov\/ammem\/fsachtml\/fsowhome.html\">this great repository of photographs from the Library of Congress<\/a> depicting Americans from the Great Depression to World War II. There are also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/exhibits\/boundforglory\/glory-exhibit.html\">many pictures here<\/a> from 1939-1943. It is difficult to look at these pictures and <strong>not<\/strong> begin thinking of story lines and character traits.<\/p>\n<p>So if you find yourself in need of inspiration, just start looking at some good photographs or paintings and your creativity will be reawakened.<\/p>\n<p>                                                   &#8211;NMK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are times when I find it difficult to get my creative engine started in generating plot, characters, settings, etc. for my story writing. Inspiration isn&#8217;t something that easily comes on demand, particularly if you spend a large portion of your day doing analytical tasks. So I spent a little bit of time stumbling to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanowrimo","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naperwrimo.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naperwrimo.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naperwrimo.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naperwrimo.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naperwrimo.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.naperwrimo.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naperwrimo.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naperwrimo.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naperwrimo.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}