Mark Andrew Ferguson
I don't think it's wise to wait for inspiration. It's like expecting that one day you're going to wake up and suddenly be inspired to do an Iron-Man that very moment.
That sounds too pithy to be genuine but it's probably the most true thing about writing that one can say. You do it whether you are inspired or not. Sometimes the things that I feel inspired to write end up working beautifully, but much more often that emotional pull of inspiration ends in sentences that are completely self-indulgent, overwrought, and trite. Often, the chapters that feel like the greatest struggle to get out and edit, over and over again, are the ones I end up liking the most.
So I try not to focus on inspiration.
That sounds too pithy to be genuine but it's probably the most true thing about writing that one can say. You do it whether you are inspired or not. Sometimes the things that I feel inspired to write end up working beautifully, but much more often that emotional pull of inspiration ends in sentences that are completely self-indulgent, overwrought, and trite. Often, the chapters that feel like the greatest struggle to get out and edit, over and over again, are the ones I end up liking the most.
So I try not to focus on inspiration.
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