Aight sweet I upvoted all your answers LOL. (I'm Mohammed Hakim on there)

Oh, did you mean me? If you did, here's a link to my Quora: https://www.quora.com/profile/Skylar-Tamsin

LOL XDDDDD. What's your Quora account btw? Lol. Would you happen to be interested in doing a collab at sometime in the future possibly?

Yep. Definitely the same person.

I exist as everything and nothing at the same time, for to this perspective I am everything but perspective is nothing. Therefore, I am you, you are me, I am nothing, you are nothing. So in that sense nothing matters, and nothing is everything. So in that sense, it is both a thing and not a thing.

Okay, we're definitely the same person. This is a thing.

Hahahaha completely agree :) For me though issue is confliction of time when my mind is flowing music vs. the time when I can write shit down. Like I'll be in the shower make an entire fucking great song, then forget half the lyrics by the time I'm out and I'm just like "FUCKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!" LOL.

That's actually a really nice way to put it,

I feel pretty inspired lol.

What's great is those days when writing does come pretty easy. Nothing is more relaxing or peaceful than sitting outside on a porch with a hot cup of tea by your side and a warm laptop in front of you, the gentle tapping of your fingers on the keyboard being the only sound.

Those days have become so rare for me. I think I'm going to remember that next time I start procrastinating again ;)

Lol to be honest for me I procrastinate on my studying and work and whatnot just to write LOL. To me writing is more natural than speaking, more natural than walking. If I had the time I'd sit at my computer for 20 hours at a time to write my songs and stuff. But yeah if you have writers laziness just remember that what you're doing right now won't matter 10 years from now, but 10 years from now your writing will be here to stay, and that it's here to stay forever, and to influence the world in whatever way you want it to influence it :3

Yes, its VERY intimidating when you have been inspired by a source in popular media and are finding that fine line between inspiration and a ripoff, I've written and rewritten characters several times for fear that someone would look at them and go "hey, that character is just like so-and-so from [insert popular franchise here.]

I go through this mostly with actors and actresses, and it's become a habit. See, when I was just starting out as a writer, I had this book called The Fiction Writer's Brainstorm (an absolute gem of a book for any writer struggling with perfecting their story, I depended on it for far too long.)

This book in particular had a method you could copy for easy story organization. A method that I use and abuse to this day, though my ways of doing so have changed slightly. Regardless, this book encouraged you to keep track of characters, scenes, events, places, and other aspects of your story by using cards, provided by the book, and fill them in with details.

It also encouraged you that, in order to make your characters truly pop, you should base them off real actors who you admire, even trim out their faces from magazines and pasted them to the character cards (creepy on some aspects for me, but it truly brings your character to life.)

I have a certain obsession with a certain actor (won't mention the name for fear that doing so will come back and bite me;) and I have been basing my main men off him for quite some time. I love everything about this guy, his poise, his looks, his stature and attitude, he's perfect protagonist material.

He served as heavy inspiration for the main character in my book, and everything from watching movies and interviews with this actor to looking at pictures of him with his dogs (he has such gorgeous dogs!) served as fuel for the story.

And then there was the constant fear of "dear lord, if he by some miracle reads my book, he's going to know I based this guy off him."

My solution of course is to change things up, make them your own (which you're doing by writing a book in the first place.) Alan is not a direct representation of this actor, merely the image (in my mind) of this man. This actor inspired Alan heavily, looks and attitude wise, but his story, his personality, his likes, dislikes, friendships, experiences, all of that grew and stemmed from the book he was in. I can guarantee, to some degree, nobody will suspect Alan is actually based off this actor, nobody will go "omg, that's [first name] [last name]!"

It was a fear for a while, a lingering feeling of regret, but I guess what I'm trying to say is, don't be afraid to be inspired.

Perhaps that's not your biggest issue, but it's the one I seem to have accidentally addressed X).

As for everything else, what I find works best is to sit down, and write anything and everything that comes to your mind (another tip from the book.) It doesn't even have to make sense, if you write long enough, things will get out, pieces will click, you'll find a way to make it work.

Another thing that sometimes helps me is writing fanfiction. The story, characters, places and experiences are all already there for you, you just need to get in and write a new plot.

I may, may open a fandom page on the forum now that I think about it ;)

Dude. I'm having the same exact problem. I started a book a few weeks ago, and it's a big project. I'm not even done with the outline, let alone having written any of it (I've written a few scenes to get a feel of my characters, but nothing I plan to use just yet). I'm currently stuck on developing my antagonist. It's an organization, so it's vague right now, and it's just. . . complicated. The whole thing is pretty damn complicated, honestly. I love the idea, the world, the characters, but it's so big and I'm intimidated. Especially when thinking of the antagonist. I highly respect the role of the the antagonist, as I feel it needs to be worthy of my protagonists. I have the end goal of my antagonists, and I have a few plot points of how s/he goes about meeting that goal, but they still don't feel at all tangible to me. I'm mostly worried about seeming cliche, I think. The Illusive Man from Mass Effect, Voldemort and his Death Eaters, even Hugh Laurie's character in Tomorrowland (which is the closest resemblance to the type of character I have in mind). . . I feel like it's so obvious where I'm getting my inspiration from. I'm trying to make them real And unique, and I'm stuck. And I'm ignoring it instead of trying to map it all out. xD Writer's laziness indeed.