Let’s face it, pretty much every avid reader at one point has thought…I am going to write a book! Or, when reading a particularly bad book, mull over the notion…I could totally write better than this hack!
Well, have you been inspired to put pen to paper by good or bad writing? Have you found a flurry of ideas cascading in your head as your read something inspiring and jotted down an outline? Did it go further and become a NaNoWriMo project? Or did you bang something out and actually finish it?
If you aren’t a writer, but find books inspire you to at least attempt a short story, novella or full-blown novel, let’s hear about it.
What was the book/author that kicked you in the creative pants and did you/did you not finish the writing project?
After reading Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying I felt so inspired! So I tried my hand at a very short story in her style. Posted it here: http://booksarethenewblack.com/2013/01/23/the-fantasy/ But otherwise haven’t published it.
I’ve always fancied myself a writer but never really knew what it is that I would write that people will latch onto. Sometimes I watch documentaries or read non-fiction books, and think – yep, that’s me, that’s the kind of genre I’ll get into – but it’s constantly in flux. Sometimes I want to write sci-fi or action thrillers, other times I want small non-fiction put together, and then other times again I want to write these full-blown, hard-hitting non-fiction books, but I think my mind changes far too often to commit to one idea. Anything I read inspires me and the list of things to write is overflowing all through my room and mind. I think my forte is writing letters to other people, so either I need to mold that way of writing into a book/series of articles or maybe I need to just continue on writing letters and that’s that. I am only young and I am building more and more confidence in my writing. There’s always the feeling that someday I will get over this strange divide between me and my potential as a writer. I’m generally inspired by good writing or good films, the list is fairly huge so I don’t know where to start telling you who inspires me.