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This month's optional question is: If for one day you could be anyone or *thing* in the world, what would it be? Describe, tell why, and any themes, goals, or values they/it inspire in you.
Well, my immediate response to this question is that I would want to be a house cat. Just living the good life, taking lots of naps, looking cute, and getting fed. But that's not really what the question meant, is it??
I don't know if I would necessarily want to be any particular person for a day, but I would like to understand how certain people's minds work. Anyone who is able to just keep constantly writing, constantly coming up with new ideas and churning out project after project. I feel like even when I was actively writing, I was only able to focus on one idea at a time and didn't have too many other ideas on the back burner.
I would love to absorb the drive these kinds of people have. I want to be able to just keep writing and writing and writing and then writing some more.
Finding inspiration and drive has been really hard for me for a long time now. I know there's no secret to finding it, but it's hard to understand how other writers can keep coming up with new ideas and getting them done so quickly. I wish there was some kind of switch in my brain that I could turn on and make the writer in me go into hyperdrive.
I guess I'll just have to keep plugging away day by day, trying to find scraps of inspiration. I have been listening to my book's playlist when I'm at the gym lately, and while it does make me think of that story, I haven't actually brought that inspiration home with me and done anything with it. But, baby steps, right? Maybe one of these days I'll pick up a pen and start brainstorming again.
Are you always writing or coming up with new ideas? What's your secret??
I come up lots of ideas for stories and write them down but that's about it. I do plug away at my W.I.P. daily. Sometimes it's only research, but that's okay...it's better than nothing.
ReplyDeleteI don't have tons of ideas for stories either. I think taking baby steps is a good approach, especially when you have a busy life like you do.
ReplyDeleteI never have tons of ideas. I'm lucky to have one!
ReplyDeleteConstantly filling the creative well so I can keep writing... That's the only secret I know :-)
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I have ideas, just not the urge to write them down. Elizabeth S. Craig puts out four books a year, so she's one of those write every day type of person.
ReplyDeleteAnonymously Esther O'Neill, East of the Sun, no signal, 0 G, rubbish broadband. Realistically, my second choice - be a cat, was probably more achievable. The perfect life, all services and staff included.
ReplyDeleteI'm impressed and fascinated by the type of writers you describe. I have a friend with a very productive muse who throws more and more ideas at her every day. Meanwhile, my muse, if I even have one, is on some kind of semi-permanent hiatus. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
ReplyDeleteYou can never have too many ideas. The problem is sorting through them and focusing on one Yikes!
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Lol, seems like an idyllic life being a cat.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't mind being one of those productive writers too, Sarah! But I'm just going to keep on plodding along as me. All the best to you! Happy IWSG Day!
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