Writing Motivation: Great Pain, or Great Joy? What Inspires You The Most

If you plan to create or are in the process of creating literature, it is of great importance that you find out what inspires you to write.  Is it pain? Is it joy? Is it confusion?  Logic?  Senselessness?  Every writer has a pool of thoughts and emotions that he or she tries to mix and match to create meaningful verse.  Find out what it is that drives you to write, and make good use of it.

I for one find pain as my most compelling motivation.  I wouldn’t describe my life as utterly painful, only that I’ve had my fair share of all kinds of heartache.  I didn’t write about it at first, because I didn’t want people to know. And I thought that the emotion was too huge to put into writing that one extremely long sonnet still would not do it justice. But it only took one poem to start it all, and then all the others just came out naturally.

One of the Most Amusing Pieces I had to Write

I decided one day that I would do an article about writing poetry, entitled Five Ways to End a Love Poem.  I inserted some of my work every step of the way so as to reinforce my point with concrete examples.  If you’ve read the article you’ll notice that the fourth one says to “Revive the Soul,” which was the preferred ending to happy poems.  After I had written a few lines to explain my point I browsed over my written work to search for a poem centered on happiness, and much to my amusement, I couldn’t find a single one.

I couldn’t believe it when I realized I hadn’t written a single happy poem in my life.  But I had to finish the article, so I decided to break the habit and write one happy verse to complete it.  No matter how I tried to focus on happy thoughts and happy memories (I even put the word “happiness” in the end to make sure I was getting the emotion across), What Lyric still somehow managed to be bittersweet. And I could do nothing else but laugh while pondering my predicament.

Truth is, you alone can find out what inspires you to write.  No one can tell you to go look at a flower and expect you to come up with a literary masterpiece in an instant.  Different things have different meanings to different people.  And it doesn’t matter if it’s about pain, or hate, or sorrow — that doesn’t mean you’re not happy — what’s important is that you find that driving force, and use it all you can.

Some of my poetry:

Breathe Again

Till Last Breath Shall be Bliss

I Could Sit Here Dying

I Thought I Walked Away

The Rose

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