Inspiration – An Old Portrait
I’ve said before that inspiration can be found just about anywhere. This week I’ll share three such incidents that happened to me recently.
When I’m not writing (and that always seems to happen from mid-November to mid-January), I’m usually indulging in some other creative outlet such as designing houses or handwork. Last weekend I was on an art website looking for inspiration for a room when it happened.
I felt as if I was looking in a mirror.
The portrait was of a woman of similar age with the same facial structure, same shoulder set, same ears, same jaw, same furrow in her brow.
So of course my writer brain goes a bit nuts producing three or four scenarios for short stories and novel-length stories about a heroine who stumbled across a portrait that looked so much like her it was uncanny. Add to this a 400 year time span between the life of the heroine and the life of the portrait’s subject.
The plot pot started to boil.
That’s all it takes. Some off the cuff comment or a glimpse at an antique portrait can set your writer mind in action.
Where have you found inspiration lately?
