Finding Inspiration

It's already Friday and four days into NaNoWriMo. Plus, it's a cause for celebration; it's our first Friday! Yay! *momentary pause for applause* Again, Fridays are surveys, interviews, new authors, etc that relate to that week's topic or a specific post that was made. I hope to be able to have some inspiring writers come on and you know, inspire you. (Inspire is, after all, the word of the week.) So, back on topic, it's Friday! I went and asked a few people ways that they found inspiration and compiled a big list of ways to get new ideas. So, enjoy!

1. Browse Deviantart.com      _amayanieva_
2. Listen to Music (Pandora, IHeartRadio, Jelli)     _amayanieva_
3. Look through WeHeartIt.com     _amayanieva_
4. Browse through pinterest.com     Kaye Dominique
5. Google Quotes     LightningNinjaShinigami
6. Check out Buzzle.com for quotes     Hawk Eyes
7. History class or reading about historical events
8. Looking at pictures and deciding how they came about
9. Dreams
10. Watching random people and coming up with stories about their life
11. Reading poetry
12. Drawing/Sketching, various forms of art
13. Writing off of already created art pieces
14. Go for a walk
15. Experience the kind of things your characters are (If your MC climbs a tree, go climb a tree. Though I wouldn't recommend this to those of us with little to no hand-eye coordination.) 
16. Asking yourself a what if question
17. Asking someone else a what if question
18. Look at a list of baby names
19. Fall in love with your character
20. Think about things that you would like to do
21. Ask an elder questions about their life
22. Wander around your public library
23. Type random things into Google
24. Try new things
25. Get adequate help from a trained professional (Sorry, you might just have to make due with a fellow writer :)

You can do any of these or some of your own, or maybe even just wait for inspiration to find you. The biggest for me is usually dreams. There's so many different ways you can look at dreams and although you do have to wait for night, so many different dreams you can have. I would keep a dream journal or mentally file them somewhere in your head, that way, later on, you can look through them and get inspiration.

So have a nice, writing-filled Friday everyone! Good luck and keep writing!

Are there any other ways you get inspiration?