Inspiration
I wrote this a while back and never published it. But it still holds true as I often sit down to blog and have no idea what to write. …
Lately, I’ve been searching for inspiration. I want to write, I want to get words out of my head and onto the screen, but I’ve failed to make it happen. I’ve been searching for inspiration and waiting for something to inspire me to write blog posts here.
There are people who inspire me on a daily basis, but sadly I can’t draw inspiration enough for action. So I sit in front on my computer with an empty screen and too many thoughts.
Unsure of what to write, I continue my search for inspiration. I google it. I listen to new music. I read a new blog. I am inspired for a moment but nothing sticks. The search ends up leaving me more confused and muddled on what direction to take than when I started.
Inspiration, as it seems, is fleeting.
But still, inspired on a topic or not, I am compelled to do. So I start. I put words on the screen and think about them. More often than not what started there will be deleted as I change my mind and head down another path still wishing for inspiration but writing anyway.
And then somewhere along the way inspiration suddenly hits me. It’s only once I’ve forced myself to write and moved past the initial resistance that I start to feel inspired. The words and the ideas that I tentatively started to work with grow into something that inspires new ideas and a work flow that can’t be stopped.
All because I started without being inspired. All because I started without being sure of my destination.
If you claim to be a writer, as I so badly want to do, then you can’t wait for inspiration. You have to write daily and you can’t skip out on it because you don’t feel the inspiration. I’m learning this lesson slowly as I transition away from the mind-numbing hourly jobs of my past and take on more writing opportunities.
Sometimes you just have to write, whether you feel like it or not. And you have to write well.
Do you think inspiration required? Do you for inspiration to strike, or do you start and find it along the way?
Love the blog!
I write when I feel inspired. I write when I am angry. I write when I am extremely happy. I write when there is something SO funny that I MUST tell the world (although my page will only see 1 or 2 hits). I am more of an emotional writer – I write when I feel compelled to do so. Granted, this is not my full time possession, so I have that luxury. But I imagine if I had to do I would definitely exercise at times when I don’t feel like writing.
Once, I moved away for the summer. I knew no one, lived in a small studio apartment, had no tv, and would just write. And I would start listening to music and trying to type the words as they are sung (no cheating, even if you knew the song). By the time the chorus came the second time my brain was thinking and I was on a tangent, writing about what I guess my subconscious had really been thinking about the whole time.
I mostly always have lots of blogs inside of me that I want to write. Its not inspiration that I need, but I cant write if im getting interupted every minute. And im always tired when I get home. So I need just the write time and tempermant to get the words out of me. I can easily read and comment in between work and stuff, or even write reviews, but I have to have just the right environment for my blogs to flow out of me.