How To Get Inspired To Write

Don’t go anywhere! You’re in the right place! You want to write something, a short story, a song, a simple blog post, an essay, a novel!? But you’ve got writer’s block, or you just don’t feel like it. I’ve been there buddy; let me help you, let me be the wind beneath your wings. Did my reference bring about images of the Bette Midler song? Did you know that she didn’t even write that song, that song wasn’t even written for her originally, but she gets all the credit? Life’s just not fair sometimes right? Well you know what Bette Midler’s got? She’s got moxie (and so do you) and that’ll get you a long way. So first things first, I’ve gotta tell you, the best way to get inspired to write is through shear will-power, you need to sit down and just start hacking away, stream of consciousness if you have to, and often times what you write in those feverish sessions won’t be an outline or a treatment for a future piece, it will be the piece itself! But you want something more, you don’t just want to get something on paper, you want to write something great. The bad news is it takes time; the good news is it takes experience and you’ve got that. You may have heard the advice “write what you know,” but I’m telling you to take it a step further, you don’t just have experience, but you have passion, everybody’s passionate about something and writing with passion is what will make your words powerful. Don’t rely on wine, or marijuana, or stimulants for inspiration. Those things aren’t necessarily bad in and of themselves, but F. Scott Fitzgerald is remembered as saying that if he hadn’t been drinking so much while he wrote later in his career, what he wrote would have been a lot better. You don’t need a substance to get out what’s in your head. You need a comfortable chair, no distractions and will power. So close your browser, stop reading this blog, open your word-processor and start typing!