Where does one get "Writers Fibre"?
I should have made myself more clear. I have a few suggestions:
1. Visit a good library and pick up something you wouldn't normally read.
2. Read what inspires you, imitate the masters and reach for the skies.
3. Daydream and live inside your characters.
4. Don't train voice recognition software and watch the nonsense it comes out with. (Hilarious).
5. Take certain person you know well and stick them in a situation that you know they won't cope with. Perhaps inside a short story. Could be humorous or horror or whatever. Make it up as you go along. Let it flow. Don't think; just write.
6. Research your hero authors and their backgrounds. If they've written short pieces like essays read them.
7. Pick up a decent newspaper or magazine and look for what's going on now and re-write the journalist's article.
8. Go surreal, if that's your fancy. Write weird, wacko, crazy stuff.
9. Research history (the interesting stuff like the Roman and British Empires, maybe ancient Egypt and Greece, perhaps startling modern history) and see where it takes you.
10. Go to those sites like brainyquote and print out all your favourite quotes and see where that leads.
Hope that is of some use to you.
-- Praetorian
