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Blog Posted:10/4/2016 8:15:00 AM

WHAT IS YOUR GREATEST INSPIRATION FOR WRITING?

Is it love...loss of love...death....gratitude

I do have many but mainly three. The first two inspirations are the love I hold for my hubby Nick and my daughter Ella. The third is the death of my sister Karen. These things may be opposite in nature, but they bring meaning to my life and are constant reminders of why I love writing so much. 

I sometimes write about deep and dark things that really are all fiction. I enjoy putting myself in someone elses shoes and writing as if I was in that situation. Sometimes I take circumstances that loved ones are dealing with and write about those.  Sometimes I write about whatever is going on during my days or nights. What mood I may be in, or something that happened I feel like I need to write about it. 

But what are your greatest inspirations for writing?

Who or what inspires you to keep expressing yourself?

 

 



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Date: 10/10/2016 6:46:00 PM
My main inspiration is nature - I see beauty and want to put it in words. And I process by writing, but difficult feelings need to sit for a long time before they become poems. I also want to thank all of you here on the soup - the contests and community are huge inspirations for me to just show up for the work and put pencil to paper, instead of waiting for the elusive inspiration.
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Date: 10/5/2016 8:55:00 AM
My inspiration would be - love of God, nature, pain, sad incidents that make my pen bleed, and then of course, the contests of PS:) but in all these, God gives me the right words and I'm ever grateful to Him for that:) the Lord is my true inspiration:) all glory be to God alone:)
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Lu Loo
Date: 10/5/2016 9:13:00 AM
amen Jo! God is good and He gave us our gifts for a reason! thank you lovely Jo for commenting..God Bless you on your journey :)-luloo
Date: 10/5/2016 8:19:00 AM
Writing inspirations: Love, wants, needs and desires mixed with life-experiences and a bit of inherent talent. Pain and obstacles often inspire passion and unique perspectives materialized in poetic or prose forms....
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Date: 10/5/2016 9:12:00 AM
wow Tom, you said everything we all needed to hear. Yes pain and obstacles do often inspire passion. I love your comment Tom, many thanks :)-luloo
Date: 10/4/2016 10:22:00 PM
My inspiration, sadly, is my inability to inspire a muse from inspired yesteryears (followed closely by baseball and Radiohead, naturally). Fun question! It's interesting to read about what inspires folks after you've had a chance to get familiar with their style and tone. It'd be a good contest prompt probably
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Date: 10/5/2016 11:46:00 AM
hmmmm. yeah it could be a great prompt! thanks Phillip :)-luloo
Date: 10/4/2016 6:42:00 PM
that's nice that you have specific inspirations. When I started out with all this in my late 40's, It was all about my family, nature, things like that. Today I am doing everything under the sun. My main inspiration , the challenges of Soup!!
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Date: 10/4/2016 7:25:00 PM
the challenges are fun and expand our horizons...thanks for your comment lovely Andrea :)-luloo
Date: 10/4/2016 2:37:00 PM
For me personally, it's all about the moment. I can see or hear the same thing everyday and then one day it just look or sounds different. It could even be some reoccurring thought. Then one day, boom! Nature is always inspirational and loneliness. I can almost always think of something about those two subjects. Cool question. My muse is usually very elusive.
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Date: 10/4/2016 7:23:00 PM
you can never write enough about nature :) thanks for the comment :)-luloo
Date: 10/4/2016 2:26:00 PM
sometimes its a word or a random thought, sometimes it may be the music I'm listening to..example listen to Andre' Rieu play" Once Upon a Time in the West" and try not to write something
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Date: 10/4/2016 7:20:00 PM
music is a big one for me too Frederic :) it can bring out so many emotions...thanks for the comment :)-luloo
Date: 10/4/2016 1:18:00 PM
My greatest inspiration in writing is the pleasure of listening to everyone's inspire comments to me. I have never been a writer until I joined Soup and everyone and I mean everyone makes me want to write more.... Hugs sweet friend
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Date: 10/4/2016 7:19:00 PM
very inspiring Eve..hugs to you too lovely lady :) thank you -luloo
Date: 10/4/2016 1:17:00 PM
Hi Laura, I get inspired by deep emotions locked inside of me. Poetry literally saved me in a way. Poetry is so theraputic and it helped me deal with alot of bad things that happened in my life.. Although now I mainly right about love and matters of the heart, And the abuse I endured in my life. My writes are mainly fiction, I like yourself put myself in other people shoes to coney a message.I hope this answered your question. Thanks for sharing this blog:-) Alexis
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Date: 10/4/2016 7:18:00 PM
sweet Alexis- you are so true :) abuse can bring out so many emotions..thanks for your comment :)-luloo
Date: 10/4/2016 10:45:00 AM
I was made redundant and was offered a taster session at my local collage one of the sessions was English, war poetry and that was the first time I had given poetry any thought what so ever, I was in my early thirty's for and against war that day stayed with me . A few years later a wrote a poem for my girlfriend on valentines day that was my first go at writing a poem, that poem on here Contagious.
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Date: 10/4/2016 11:25:00 AM
I'm sooo sorry I meant Stephen- for some reason it mixed up comments lol
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Date: 10/4/2016 11:22:00 AM
war poems? I would love to read one Brian- have you posted any?
Date: 10/4/2016 9:53:00 AM
Laura, as you know I write mainly poems about death , grief and sadness and there is a name for this kind of poetry. Words - Drowned - In-Tears School of Poetry or Graveyard School of Poetry. But I also like nature and often combine this with my sad writes. I am very inspired by interesting patterns and layouts. And I seem to be able to write on any theme for any contest, I can just take "me" there and dwell in that place for awhile. I tend to ponder my writes before posting ~
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Date: 10/4/2016 10:07:00 AM
yes you can write for any theme very beautifully...and I love your layout ideas :)thanks for posting :)-luloo
Date: 10/4/2016 8:46:00 AM
Laura,When I became a committed Christian(30 years back) I felt completely free to be who I really was(too long a story for a blog comment) A few years later ,out of the blue,I was inspired to write an alliteration(it was called Connections and is here in my anthology .A few years later I got into short forms via the American cinquains of my beloved Adelaide Crapsey.The rest is history as they say.Follow your muse until you exhaust that 'well' is my humble advice.
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Date: 10/4/2016 8:58:00 AM
It's funny because I was writing since I was a young lady but when I became a Christian, my writing took a whole new meaning. God does great things! thank you for your comment..be blessed Brian and thank you for your contests :)-luloo
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Date: 10/4/2016 8:48:00 AM
Currently my muse is the clerihew form and lately reading the talented 'read aloud' PS poets via my contests.

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