hi im studing visual arts and some of creative writing (im new in writing), but i need some of help to conceive ideas for write a story, im so desperate please please!!

Geez, um...

What are your favourite books at the moment?

Music was allways an inspiration to me, alt rock stuffs like tool, a perfect circle, the Mars volta ect.
Or and keeping in mind this isnt really nice but find some-thing that really sucks and use you're own talent to make it better.

All else fails, post expresionism, all those artists VanGogh, Matise awesome, they dont inspire you forget it man go look at some snow shovel some loser frames saying its modern art

Look at something ordinary, and do some "what-if'ing":

"What if this motherly-looking woman next to me on the subway were the deposed queen of a kingdom that no one has ever heard of?"

"What if that trendy boutique across the street was really a front to snare and enslave people who gravitate toward particular color combinations because that means they can see certain psychic emanations?"

"What if I weren't just on my way to class, but was instead guiding an emissary from a world where magic works on a tour of our world, and I kept having to explain our technology and customs?"

- Cho

heh. my first thought was, what a good title for a story/movie about a person who wanders into a town call Inspiration.

People watch, think, think a lot. Take a favorite story and re-write it.

But don't wait for inspiration to hit, because that's passive. Take out a piece of paper and brainstorm, come up with characters, a setting, plot, even a title (not themes, because that's an essay). Not necessarily all of them, but something. And then work around that, create a story.

It's not that simple, or even easy. But writing/storytelling isn't magic. It's a skill, which means that it gets better with practice.

Not writing it in allcaps is something that inspires me . . .

But, in all seriousness, write. Draw. Take pictures. Whatever you want to be inspired, do it often and the inspiration will come soon enough.

Terry Pratchett once said that ideas circle a struggling writer like sharks circling a swimmer.

I play a game of people watching and making up brief one or two sentence silly stories about them. Some people become zombies, some are haunted by the Furries, some have gnomes living in their brains.

The news is also a good souce. Listen to a news story and then give it a twist, like the bank robber wearing a mask is really two monkeys dressed in a raincoat that were trained by a race that lives in the center of the planet.

An added benefit to these kinds of games is that nothing is ever mundane.

Thanks a lot, well my favorite book in this moment is a children book(the wolves in the walls), cuz i like the mix between illustration and storytelling, other is "blankets" (graphic novel) by Craig Thomsom.

Im going to try with the "what if" or try with games, or look at my environment i would like to write something about sci fi but inside the real life like "eternal sunshine of spotless mind" (script by charlie kaufman), the point is how i develop the idea, and make the plot believeble.

thanks, sorry for my english, is very bad i speak spanish is for it.

keep an eye on the News. There are lots of ideas that can be taken into a different context

Take three random objects and incorporate them into your story.

This is an actual game used in creativity workshops.

No need to apologize for bad English unless it's your first language. You write English quite well.

Look up a random throwaway line in, say, Sandman, and run with it.

I've always loved that bit about two old women taking a weasel on a holiday. I see them taking a roadtrip in a big old Cadillac.

I like looking at news photographs and making up my own stories in my head about what's going on in the picture.

Like, this one from The Times Picquane. Here we discover that Superman was black, and that even he couldn't save New Orleans.

Even just that wave behind him.... whenever I think of the flooding, I think of flat water. But there were waves. Just think about being in your own city, walking along the streets and having waves gently rock you off your feet as if you were swimming in the ocean. Go on from there.

As any two points can form a line, any two random images can form a narrative.

And one can find inspiration by hanging around here; lots of smart, odd people on this board.

Or, Andres, you might try hiring a muse.

I'd lend you mine, but I'm afraid he's not easy for beginners to handle.
He sits on my desk all day, drinking my booze and saying random things like:
"Kill 'em all off. All of 'em."
Or: "Hey, what about some incest to spice things up?"

When I'm writing he reminds me how great it would be to play pinball instead. When I'm doing that, he tells me to get back to work.

I have to keep him on a tight leash.

Well, I guess he's cheap.

Your muse has obviously been moonlighting for George R R Martin

LOL!
Never read him, but my best friend complained horribly about GRRM:

"I can just see him wanking all over his desk. Ooo, what can I do to make them really evil? I know, I'll make them have incest! And they kill people! And they insult them!"

She never finished the first book.

Your friend must have interesting predilictions to be sure

Certainly Martin`s work displays a grim realism not seen in most fantasy and the absence of traditional motifs like a messianic hero and an epic quest may lead a lot of readers rather baffled, but for those who want more thrills and enjoy the machiavellian plotting and emphasis on characters without sacrificing plot he`s well worth a read.

B&N Online University is running a class on writing SF&F this month. You may get a few pointers there, as well.

My main inspiration is to re-write films or books I've just seen or read into what I think should have happend, with the main character often being a version of me.

Though what I get out of that wouldn't be publishable, it often leads to other ideas that end up being far more interesting then what I started off doing. And less embarrasing.