Comments on: sunday scribblings: inspiration

By: gautami tripathy

gautami tripathy — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:22:00 +0000

I like analogy of birthing of a healthy baby here. Thats how we writers do feel at times.

gautami
Fillip

By: Frances

Frances — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:28:00 +0000

Thanks so much for visiting.
I agree - a good dose of the outdoors does get the juices flowing. Love the flowers and the way your blog is looking.
Waving at you from New York!
Bet you can see me if you try hard enough

By: Tori

Tori — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:58:00 +0000

Great reflections!
I am so glad to have found your blog through Sunday Scribblings!
I am looking forward to doing some archive reading!

By: KG

KG — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:53:00 +0000

I like all of your tie-ins to nature and walking around. There’s a great quotation — can’t recall who said it — that goes something like: “Angels speak to those who walk.” This is so true!

By: Waspgoddess

Waspgoddess — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 22:23:00 +0000

love your new look. did you take the photo?

By: Tammy

Tammy — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 21:07:00 +0000

I love the way you connected your writing inspiration to labor. lol Your blog looks great and congrats nonna!

By: sognatrice

sognatrice — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 20:19:00 +0000

Hmm Firecat, I think maybe we’re talking about different stages of development/inspiration. I need inspiration to even get the preemie out (and, btw, both preemie babies and writing can most certainly catch up and even surpass the full-termers)! I think there’s a time and place to push through the pain, so to speak, with writing, and even though what comes out may not be perfect (in fact, it won’t be!), at least it’s something. If I were waiting for perfection to pop out, I would indeed be waiting forever.

Everyone has her own method of course (thanks for sharing yours Nadine!), and what works for me may not work for you. That’s the beauty of prompts/posts like this–we start looking at ways other people work and analyzing our own techniques, what works, what doesn’t, and we go from there.

Best of luck, and thanks for visiting!

By: it's me, Val

it's me, Val — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 20:15:00 +0000

Hi there . . . I love the picture . . . quite beautiful. I wanted to tell you thank you for visiting me like you do. I wanted to come over and check you out . . . I plan to add ya to my “friends” if you don’t mind? On another note, I didn’t know tomorrow is St. Joseph Day! Wow, so maybe it will come then?! I will hope and pray and then probably pray some more once “he” arrives! Happy day to you!

By: thefirecat

thefirecat — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 19:37:00 +0000

Ah yes…..because no amount of pushing can do any good unless the baby wants to be born yet. And, frankly, usually has similar consequences in writing and the “birthing push.”

Sometimes impatience is my worst enemy. I always think that waiting for inspiration is “bad”–that I would never get anything done, otherwise. But now. Hmm. Now I realise that sometimes, just sometimes, if I jump inspiration, if I let something come out the end of my pen before it’s fully formed, it stays just that: premature. And, like a child who lags behind her peers growth-wise because she was seriously premature, a piece of writing never develops to its full potential. Because I can’t go back and “unbirth” it.

It’s not like a cake, that you can pop right back in the oven and let it finish cooking.

Hmmmm. This is intriguing. (and also somewhat alarming, since it’s now turning my thoughts on their ear.)

By: Nadine

Nadine — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 19:03:00 +0000

Inspiration comes for me in writing when I take a moment before I start and say a prayer. When I feel God’s presence the inspiration seems to flow through me and words just spill on the page. Well anyway…that’s just my method of writing.