How did you inspire to write?

by Jeferson Bello
5th August 2013

Hi everyone! In this time I want to know how did you inspire for write – the inspiration come for itself? Or you need sit down for hours hoping of it come to you?

In my case is a combination of both. Sometimes it come to me suddenly and other times I need sit down for HOURS until I get the idea that I needed. But the major part of time it come to me when I start to talk soliloquy with myself.

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I think you have touched upon something very valuable there. I suspect that much of writers block and inspiration/lack there of is part of the process of becoming a better writer, the digestive period of lessons learned, or learning how to fit those incremental steps in with a general practice of writing.

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10/08/2013

I've always know I was meant to write a book and I've always found excuses and procrastinated. I re-started the whole thing many years later and found I was writing a completely different book. I think if it's tough and we're struggle for inspiration and motivation, perhaps we're writing the wrong book. Now I've finished it and I'm editing it and it feels really good. It's a mindset and it needs no excuses :)

I haven't been focused on being a 'best seller' or even making a living at it. My main focus was getting it done and complete. Whether it sells of not ... time will tell.

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lol. Nope, not murdering me elder folks. :) But that bush was pretty established, had to get to and remove the heartwood. Intensive!

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