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Artist: Bright Eyes Song: Poison Oak [Embed For Use By Upgraded+]   Prompt via "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS"  : Write about writing. What makes you feel inspired to write? What steps do you take to get your words from your head onto the page? What does your editing and rewriting process look like? What have you learned from fellow writers? I've managed to get yet another upper respiratory infection or something, which is the second one in the past 3 months.  I'm just happy it didn't happen during midterms or finals. Anyway, I'll break this prompt down briefly.What makes you feel inspired to write? I haven't felt inspired to write at all in a long time. I feel like the never-ending academia writing and reading took away my ability to write creatively. On top of that, a lot of the people I used to write with or at least read on WDC aren't on the site or writing at the moment. I used to get a lot of inspiration from a group of poets here, but it seems like they're not around anymore. Now it's basically just writing for blog prompts because it's easy, nonfictional stuff. I figure writing something is better than writing nothing at all, even if it doesn't really scratch the creative writing itch. What steps do you take to get your words from your head onto the page? When I used to write poetry, I would start with one line or even just a few words that randomly popped into my head. I would just toss the words around in my head for a while before even attempting to actually put them on paper. Sometimes I could expand upon the words in my head or think of some additional lines I wanted to use. Then I'd type up the words I had so far and go from there in expanding. My draft pages from poetry writing are often the same couple lines tried out in twenty different ways of expansion. I'd brainstorm some, then just hit enter a few times and restart. I'd do that until it started to come together. What does your editing and rewriting process look like? Pretty much nonexistent. Something that I think a lot of people don't understand is that there are different types of writers with different goals. If I've written something on the page that is at least cohesive and expresses the things I set out to express, I'm good with it. I can tell from reviews I've seen on the reviewing page and reviews that I've gotten myself that a lot of people insert their personal writing goals on other people. I have no intentions of publishing my writing. When I get a review that says, "In order to publish your writing, you'll need to appeal to such and such writing audience..." Those are essentially throwaway words for me. Not that they aren't important or appreciated in a review, but they essentially don't apply to me. Even if I made those changes to target a specific audience, I am not going to publish my writing at any point in the foreseeable future. So, no, not everyone needs to take the time to rework or rewrite their writing with the intention of publishing. That being said, if there are typos or specific things that could use some work, I have no problem with rewriting. But if it's some vague, big project that's going to take hours to rewrite, that's just a no for me. It's not aligned with my personal writing goals. What have you learned from fellow writers? What have I learned or what have I learned that I actually follow?  I don't follow it, but I've definitely learned that if you want to write, you just have to do it. There's no magic formula for finding your muse or inspiration. You just have to actually sit and put words on paper. If you do it frequently enough, it becomes like second nature. I know this to be true because I wrote 100 poems in 100 days while doing Give It 100, which is something I would have thought impossible for me.Now I've written a few poems in the past couple YEARS. I can't even imagine writing 100 poems in 100 days. But I do know that if I actually put my mind to it and started writing, by the end of it writing a poem would be easy again. I've also learned what I stated above... that not all writers have the same goals. Sometimes I review something and then the person responds asking what I think about their chances of publishing, what the critics/audience feedback might be, etc. That helped me realize that we all have different purposes for writing and none of them are wrong, they're just different. Let the poets cry Themselves to sleep And all their tearful words Would turn back into steam |
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