Do Writing Frustrations Ever End?!

Ever thought about the creative process? Sure there's the usual think up a story, make a character, then name it. What if we tried that backwards? I don't know if I'm the only crazy one that does that, but sometimes creatively it's what I find to be the best.

I'm going into Nanowrimo with just about no ideas or inspirations. So what do I do? I pick my title. "To Write A Love Song" The title itself opens up so much to the piece. As in the blog a couple days ago, the lyricist that writes the song gives so many questions alone! Who are they writing for? What's the relation? Why write it now? Why write it at all? Why for that person? What happened ten minutes ago? What happened to that person? What does that person mean to the lyricist? Why does the lyricist feel that way about that person? What happened to cause that feeling? How did they meet? What impact on each other's lives did they have? Was it a spouse? A sibling? A best friend? A complete stranger that said a kind word on the subway?
So many possibilities, so little time!

Another thing I do is I just let my mind wander and bring me back a scene. The scene starts off blurry and generic, then the more I focus, the more details I see. Like for example earlier I dreamed up a picture of a girl in a graveyard.

My train of thought went as: I can only see her back, but I know she's pretty. Long blond hair hangs down her back. It's raining, but it's not gloomy, so it must be late spring or early summer. She's wearing a baby blue dress, cotton and light. There's a light gray cardigan on her too. Her skin is pale, she's sick. It's terminal. There's a weeping willow tree in the background. She's got yellow roses on a white marble gravestone... Her hand are slim, soft too. She's thin, naturally dainty, but it's because of her sickness. The grave is her grandfather's. She's not crying, but she's sad. She's singing softly, a light melodic voice, but she's not confident...

And the list goes on and on. I just keep at it, trying to see more of the scene as I develop the story behind it all. For example, once I figure out who's grave it is, I would speculate on how they died. I would go find the inner struggles of the character. Usually when I just envision stuff I don't think about things. Like the girl was wearing blue, it wasn't after the fact that I realized it wasn't the funeral she was at, because she wasn't wearing black. It must mean something that the sun was shining even though there was rain. The fact that I saw a weeping willow must mean that a weeping willow will have to play a big part somewhere else. I always try to use themes and motifs in everything. Let no potential symbol lose it's meaning!

Point of this long useless ramble? Let the character and plot develop! Fall in love with your writing, but don't put it in concrete. Sometimes something you write will lead to changes, go with them! Go with them especially if you're Nanoing!

Well that's my writing ramble of the day, expect my focus to be a lot on writing for a little bit!