Waiting for Inspiration
Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons.
“You will never ‘find’ time for anything. If you want time you must make it.� – Charles Buxton, English author (1823-1871)
Even in the 1800s people understood that ‘we’re all busy’ and no one ever seems to have enough time for anything. That’s why when it comes to writing you can’t sit around waiting for inspiration to come to you.
You have to go out and find it.
The same goes with ‘finding’ time for your writing. It’s up to you. If you are dedicated enough to your craft, then you will make the time. Even if you have to give up some of your sleep hours to do so.
Yes, it’s all find and well for me to talk about how you have to go out and find inspiration instead of waiting for it, but where do you look?
If you honestly need to ask me that, then you either have a long way to go in the world
Writers write about life. The world. People. Anyone, anywhere, everything. As a writer, you are an observer. You shouldn’t expect to sit holed away in your writing room for all eternity and write masterpieces.
At one point or another, you have to get out there and truly look at the world. Connect. Therein lies inspiration. In the everyday, in observations, in people watching.
Try going out somewhere at least once a week to observe and listen to people. Explore places you’ve never been. Listen to what people are talking about. Find things that interest you and the things that interest them.
Find inspiration.
March 3rd, 2008 at 1:18 am
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