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Inspiration is a good idea
By Jim Murdoch
A lot of people try and mysticise inspiration at the very least by personifying it as a muse. The Romantics added fuel to the fire, in fact the contemporary caricature of the poet is based on them. Personally I now regard inspiration as nothing more than a good idea, an impulse if you will. Creative people have ideas all the time. Some are better than others. Most of the time 'inspiration' is just the shove that gets you going and once momentum has been established only hard graft will keep the creative process going otherwise you'll grind to a halt. Inspiration is only a part of the process not a state in which you can work. That smacks again of the Romantics but it also continued down to the Sixties where many writers looked for inspiration in a bottle or through mind-altering drugs. I said that inspiration was a 'good idea' but that doesn't mean every other idea a writer gets is a bad idea. Ideas come in all shades and a spark can be fanned into a fire. Years I wasted waiting for inspiration to strike. I was abdicating control of my creativity to this mystical muse. I wrote when she felt like it or not at all. I've since learned that good ideas can be cultivated . . . I'm going to use the word 'artificially' but that's not to belittle them, simply to acknowledge the difference. If I find I can't write about one thing then I put it aside and work on something else, It's not that I'm waiting for inspiration to strike, I'm simply acknowledging that the conditions are not always right to work on a particular project. Similarly, when I do get a good idea, I will drop whatever I'm doing and work on the new idea if only to jot down notes to develop later; only a fool ignores a good idea. Why not work it through to its conclusion while I'm 'inspired'? Because inspiration is not, as I've said, a state or a condition that will vanish if I don't use it up at the time and frankly one usually does a better job with a clear head anyway. So don't sit around waiting on inspiration striking. Take control of your own ideas. Pick an idea, any old idea, and see where it takes you.
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