But I'm asking again:
What do you do for inspiration? I feel like I want to write - or do something - but I simultaneously feel like I don't know what or that any ideas I come up with are ...boring? Not interesting enough? Blah blah blah blah blah?
So, when looking for a muse, where do you turn? I think in the past I've gone with listening to music of bands that I find inspirational.
Actually, you know what, I don't even want inspiration. I just want the ideas given to me. I think what I'm really asking is - what should I write about? What should I do? Why doesn't someone do the work for me? [/whine]
BLAH!!
Let's see. A (moderately) more interesting post:
Tomorrow is Wednesday, and three things of note are going on in town:
1) "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" will be having contestant try-outs, between 7am and 11am, at a casino that is, quite literally just down the street from our house. I would SO be there, except for...
2) at work tomorrow we are having one of the single most important conference calls of the year. (It's that time of year when we lay out the Fall Lineup for both stations) So, really, I pretty much have to be present for that.
and
3) MCCAIIIIIN!!!!
Yeah, John McCain will be in Vegas tomorrow. I suspect he's trying out for the game show, "Who Wants to Be a President?"
2 comments:
I believe that I am a terrible writer. Not because the QUALITY of my writing sucks (I actually think it's very good) but because I absolutely can't write until an idea falls into my lap. I often have vague concept-y ideas, and sometimes I try to write them but I always fail. I really can't get started unless I am either inspired by the ENTIRE story or the first sentence just tells itself to me. USUALLY BOTH. So I write, like, one thing every five years. (Screenplays are different because Will has five thousand stories in his head at any given time.)
I do a lot of reading and listening to people's stories. I get a lot of my inspiration from old family "legends". I come from a long line of southern story-tellers and as a result, I have many a turn of phrase and tall tale rattling around in my tiny brain.
What I'm lacking is motivation. The writing process is fine...it's the post writing process that scares the bejesus out of me. Things like agents and editors and publishers...oh my!
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