Kain Ramsay
Honestly? I don't wait to be inspired. Inspiration is unreliable. Some days it shows up, most days it doesn't, and a writing life built on waiting for it produces very little writing.
What I do instead is pay attention. Most of what ends up in my books started as something I noticed in a conversation, a coaching session, or my own head at 6am when I couldn't get an idea to leave me alone. I keep a running note of those moments rather than trying to remember them, because a good insight at 11pm is gone by morning if you don't write it down.
The actual sitting-down-and-writing part is discipline, not inspiration. I show up whether I feel like it or not, and more often than not the wanting-to-write arrives about ten minutes after I've started, not before.
What I do instead is pay attention. Most of what ends up in my books started as something I noticed in a conversation, a coaching session, or my own head at 6am when I couldn't get an idea to leave me alone. I keep a running note of those moments rather than trying to remember them, because a good insight at 11pm is gone by morning if you don't write it down.
The actual sitting-down-and-writing part is discipline, not inspiration. I show up whether I feel like it or not, and more often than not the wanting-to-write arrives about ten minutes after I've started, not before.
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