How Good Writers Stay Inspired
I slept naked. I woke up because someone had kissed me on the lips. It was my muse.
Writing day to day, year to year. It’s raining outside the window now. Classical music is on the radio.
Where do writers get their inspiration from? I’ve gotten mine from bottles of beer and the taste and feel of a woman’s breasts. Nothing unusual there.
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Articles have to be written. Content has to be submitted to Triond. My Internet connection must be paid. We writers are children of the imagination. Without imagination we would be orphans. The rain is only a mist now.
Thoughts vie for my attention. The words slowly become sentences on the computer screen. I take a sip from the water bottle on my work stand. A vacuum cleaner in the hallway starts up and then shuts down. I haven’t run mine in days.
Where do the ideas come from? What provides the inspiration? Is it love? Is it duty? Is it beauty or an unspeakable sadness? The violins answer the flute.
To master the language, to bend it to my will, to infuse it with an ice as hard as iron makes me exalt in the possibilities of harpooning life to the page. Sentimentality must give way to skill and precision.
Writing is not what I do. Writing is who I am. The writer and the writing become one.
It is this melding of the inanimate with the living that is the writer’s true inspiration. This is the meaning of the kiss.
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October 16th, 2009 at 3:53 am
Thanks. Excellent one!
October 16th, 2009 at 4:31 am
Unity in diversity is a challenge. If we could hear that faint voice of wisdom amidst the noise of our present civilization, we could write better ideas that stands out alone amidst the many. Many are called but few are chosen. I could sit with you and elaborate the wonderful insights gained in writing. It’s a topic that’s rarely being talked about in level, not eversince Ray Bradbury perhaps. Cheers, mate.
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October 16th, 2009 at 7:24 am
I love your take on writing, we all are inspired in different ways, This was a well written article.
October 16th, 2009 at 7:46 am
excellent!
October 16th, 2009 at 7:54 am
I like your style of writing and your way with words.
October 16th, 2009 at 8:27 am
A excellant piece of write
October 16th, 2009 at 9:43 am
Great article! I’ve just discovered writing is me. Thanks for a very well written, informative article!!!!!
October 16th, 2009 at 10:02 am
Great article! So poetic. ;^) Great inspiration.
October 16th, 2009 at 10:05 am
Indeed we’re mostly inspired by random daily stuffs. Nice writing!
October 16th, 2009 at 10:06 am
This was very eloquently written Guy. I have discovered that the more we realize who we are, the more we conclude that we still have so much further to go…
October 16th, 2009 at 10:11 am
I like that…the weiter and the writing are one and notwo seperate things.In my case I want to think its the truth since seperating them is impossible.Inspiration to write or what to write about could come from a though or even a single phrase seen or heard somewhere.As usual,another great piece from you and enjoys reading them.
October 16th, 2009 at 10:26 am
I write because I want to write and that is my only inspiration.
October 16th, 2009 at 11:05 am
Teves, I don’t think writing can be separated from the writer, especially at the moment of inspiration.
October 16th, 2009 at 11:11 am
deep blue, the mystery of writing is as great as the mystery of creativity. I don’t believe the two can be separated.
October 16th, 2009 at 11:17 am
diamondpoet, writers can find inspiration in the most mundane things and turn these things into poetry.
October 16th, 2009 at 11:23 am
martie, inspiration can come even when the writer sits alone at a desk in a small, untidy apartment.
October 16th, 2009 at 11:23 am
love it good write
October 16th, 2009 at 11:28 am
Papa, it’s wonderful to belong to this community of writers at Triond. Much of my inspiration comes from this fact.
October 16th, 2009 at 11:37 am
cutedrishti8, I believe a writer carries inside everything that’s needed to find inspiration in the real world no matter how much good or bad is a part of that world.
October 16th, 2009 at 11:44 am
pattiann, the writer and writing cannot be separated and the writer becomes the vessel that creativity can flow through. It’s pretty exciting.
October 16th, 2009 at 11:51 am
Eric, I know that great events inspire too but the writer deals with mundane events every day. It is the mundane event that calls out to be made into something more, to be made into art.
October 16th, 2009 at 11:56 am
Avaxier, I believe that is the great gift of any artist, to give meaning where meaning did not exist before.
October 16th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Thank you for sharing… Keep up the excellent writing! You have a gift for sure!
October 16th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
Vickram, I agree that for the writer writing can be a journey of self-discovery.
October 16th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
Beautifully written!
October 16th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
mystery writter, something seems to happen when a writer gets inspiration. Writing becomes a spiritual act.
October 16th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
I love it.
October 16th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Sourav, writing is very much an expression of the want of the writer. I know it.
October 16th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
KitKat, I’ve done a lot of thinking about inspiration and I just thought I’d write a little bit about it today.
October 16th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
sylvatay, writing is at the very center of my life. It has been for many years.
October 16th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
Marie, I guess I was dealing with a little inspiration of my own.
October 16th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
That was beautiful! (But I’ll never understand why Americans decided to invent the word ‘gotten’ LOL)
October 16th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
marlene, I really like this piece. It’s a peek into my own creative process.
October 16th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
yes, I am crying, it is the kiss isnt it? I am at the point I do not care if I ever get wealthy writing, it is about the kiss, beautiful piece and quiet reminder that it is a passion to write
October 16th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
good work
October 16th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
Mr. Hogan
I must commend you, with kudos, for such a beautiful form of artistic self expression; your words, powerful, touched my soul in a way with much impact. In this reply I would like to bring to attention the words that touched my heart “Writing is not what I do. Writing is who I am.”
At twenty-six I am terminally ill; in mere seconds, life as I knew it, flashed before my eyes. However. I vowed to honor myself with the truth; to survive and to fight, never a victim, and never a statistic. That Sir, is where my inspiration comes from.
October 16th, 2009 at 6:57 pm
A very well written piece, thank you.
October 16th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
Guy,
This was so beautiful and the words and feelings were so there! I think all of us really like you and enjoy your articles and see through to your soul-hopefully.
Glamorous Amanda, I will pray for you in hopes you won’t be offended first of all, and after that, so you will be comforted. If you ever need us-we are here!
Thanks Guy!
October 16th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
Beautifully written piece. There are no words to express. You’ve used them all in your writing.
October 16th, 2009 at 11:56 pm
awesome dude, I pressed the I like it button!
yw!
October 16th, 2009 at 11:58 pm
Answering comments might keep me inspired!
Very poetic. Well, I reckon not calling myself a writer works for me. I love just being.
Keep on truckin’ , Guy , j
October 17th, 2009 at 12:09 am
Hi Guy,
Another well written piece. Good and concise. Besides bottles of beer and the taste and feel of a woman’s breasts, is there anything else that inspires you to write? Please share. Thanks. ~ Ricky
October 17th, 2009 at 2:01 am
Highly inspiring article. ‘The sense of responsibility’ is my source of Inspiration.
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October 17th, 2009 at 2:45 am
Very well presented, I love the tapestry of your words!
October 17th, 2009 at 5:19 am
Beautiful!
October 17th, 2009 at 5:24 am
As writers, writing is part of who we are. If we do not write we are less than whole.
October 17th, 2009 at 10:03 am
dawn, it is all about the kiss. We simply have to be ready for it when it happens.
October 17th, 2009 at 10:08 am
royee, we writers have to be ready for inspiration any time and anywhere. A muse doesn’t make appointments.
October 17th, 2009 at 10:18 am
glamorousamanda, I’m glad you found something in the article that spoke to you.
October 17th, 2009 at 10:23 am
Frances, inspiration is all around us. We just have to be receptive.
October 17th, 2009 at 10:28 am
Sometimes the fire is triggered from within and fanned by good comments. Great write, as always.
October 17th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
I couldn’t have put it better myself, for true writer,writing is inbred into them just as their heart beats and their blood races though every fiber of their being.Excellent work you definately have my like!
October 19th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
Great piece of work. Short, punchy sentences. Concise. Bang on target! This should be the style of writing for blog posts, IMHO.
October 21st, 2009 at 7:26 am
Good read, I love starting my day with morning pages to purge the chaff floating in the mind before zooming in on something!
October 21st, 2009 at 8:47 am
mo, writing is at the center of my life. It has been since I was a very young man.
November 5th, 2009 at 7:18 am
You do have great opening.