Tag: inspiration
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If I am just a bag of meat, sitting on a rock in outer space…
I recently came across this quote on The Oatmeal in regards to religion: Does [your religion] help you cope with the fact that you are a bag of meat sitting on a rock in outer space and that someday you will DIE and you are completely powerless, helpless, and insignificant in the wake of this […]
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Writing Challenge, Day 28: Stealing Inspiration
30 Day Know Thyself Writing Challenge Day 28: When you write, to what degree do real-life experiences serve as inspiration? So, my favorite writing teacher ever taught our English class an important lesson on the first very day. She said, to a room of eager, innocent young faces: “Boys and girls, if you want to […]
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Writing Challenge, Day 25: Starting the Fire
30 Day Know Thyself Writing Challenge Day 25: What makes you want to write more? I find there are a few things that stoke the creative fire: Real-world inspiration. Reading about people like Amanda Hocking with wild success stories is immensely encouraging. Hocking had tried for years to get her books accepted by publishing houses […]
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Writing Challenge, Day 16: Have No Fear
30 Day Know Thyself Writing Challenge by Writer’s Relief Day 16: As a writer, what are your biggest fears? How can you overcome them? I don’t know which writing fear is worse: that of not being read, or that of being read, judged, and not liked. It seems contradictory to possess both, but there you […]
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Writing Challenge, Day 7: the Myth of the Muse
30 Day Know Thyself Writing Challenge Day 7: Do you find that inspiration to write happens organically, or do you sometimes feel that you need to seek it out? I feel that we must court experience: ideas sparked and new connections made are the organic results of exposure to new people, places, and things. Sure, […]
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Writing Challenge, Day 3: The Inspiration Jar
30 Day Know Thyself Writing Challenge Day 3: What’s the BEST writing advice you ever received? “Good writing is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.” That both reminds me my frustrations are worthwhile and encourages me to keep sweating because it means I’m going somewhere. It means that any writer can start with almost nothing, […]
Julie Israel 