Thank you for your comment and sharing your own way of becoming inspired. Music is also an integral part of what inspires me as well. I’ve been experimenting with meditation, but it’s too early to see what effect it will have on my writing.

Thanks again!

Brad

From this short fiction writer’s point of view, I agree totally with you about the need for inspiration.

I have found the following to work for me:

Dedicating regular periods in my La-Z-Boy recliner with my classical music washing over me like a sonic trip. I love other music forms, but classical provides the best mental pictures.

Meditation or deep-centered prayer in said La-Z-Boy.

Playing with my 4-year-old granddaughter.

Day trips to new locations and restaurants, just to people-watch.

Subscribing to Netflix to view some of the best in independent and foreign cinema, along with my subscription to The Independent Film Channel and Sundance Channel(it’s ALL about experiencing great screenwriting first-hand!)

And yes, whenever my wife gets one of her five vacation weeks off from her retail management job, we shoot out to the mountains of North Carolina or up to Wisconsin’s Door County for sensory rejuvenation.

Writer’s block is much too over-rated. It is a poor excuse for writers who try to go it alone, as if they themselves were the creators.

I say that training oneself to be a better “listener” to the “music of the spheres” that is constantly pouring out from our maker makes for the most inspired fiction writing.

And getting my regular recharging from the mighty Brad’s Reader blog goes a long way to make me inspired. Thank you for that, Brad!

Wayne C. Long
Writer/Editor/Internet Publisher
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