"At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write. What she wanted was to be lost to the unfolding of an irresistible idea, to see the black thread spooling out from the end of her scratchy silver nib and coiling into words.... Trapped between the urge to write a simple diary account of her day's experiences and the ambition to make something greater of them that would be polished, self-contained and obscure, she sat for many minutes frowning at her sheet of paper and its infantile quotation and did not write another word."
-Atonement
I thought of you when I read this. I know the feeling too. You want desperately to write about something that inspires you, that is important to you, that excites you. And you sit for hours thinking about what that could be. But I think this search is never-ending; either so many things inspire you at once that you can't write enough, or there is nothing. I have 'searched' countless times, always without favourable results. But suddenly somethings will inspire you, and you will squeeze it with ease through your hand and into your fingertips until it uncoils itself elegantly on the paper (or computer) in front of you.
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"At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write. What she wanted was to be lost to the unfolding of an irresistible idea, to see the black thread spooling out from the end of her scratchy silver nib and coiling into words.... Trapped between the urge to write a simple diary account of her day's experiences and the ambition to make something greater of them that would be polished, self-contained and obscure, she sat for many minutes frowning at her sheet of paper and its infantile quotation and did not write another word."
-Atonement
I thought of you when I read this. I know the feeling too. You want desperately to write about something that inspires you, that is important to you, that excites you. And you sit for hours thinking about what that could be. But I think this search is never-ending; either so many things inspire you at once that you can't write enough, or there is nothing. I have 'searched' countless times, always without favourable results. But suddenly somethings will inspire you, and you will squeeze it with ease through your hand and into your fingertips until it uncoils itself elegantly on the paper (or computer) in front of you.
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