Sunday Scribblings

I just discovered a really cool blog: Sunday Scribblings. The blog posts a writing prompt at the start of the weekend and bloggers take the prompt and run with it on their own blogs on Sunday (is the day flexible? I’m not sure yet…) Bloggers let Sunday Scribblings know that they wrote about the prompt, and Sunday Scribblings lists them on the blog. So, you can read the prompt on Sunday Scribblings and then look at what people wrote from it.

This last weekend’s prompt is Inspiration - “Do you wait for it? Do you court it? Do you flirt with it a little? Does it come in flashes or in trickles or in spurts?”

Part of why I started a blog is that I love to write. Always have. Still keep a regular journal and have journals/diaries all the way back to my first lock-and-key in 2nd grade. Writing helps me make sense of the world, but more importantly helps me understand myself. It is my therapist, my worst critic, my savior, my motivator to change. If I have nothing to write, I feel empty, disappointed, like I’m searching for my keys that I KNOW I put down right there!

Inspiration is the support beam for my writing. In response to all of the questions above: yes. Sometimes it hits me like a flash, and no matter where I am or what I am doing, I wish I could be alone with my journal. When it’s gone, I look for it, wonder why it left me, and feel as dumped as a recent divorcee. Sometimes (like now) I’m bless (or cursed) with long spurts that seem to never end. My mind and heart are full, and the link from them to paper (or computer screen) is a short and quick one. Inspiration to write is like breathing: necessary to my health and well-being.

Sometimes we need a nudge in a new direction - a way of seeing our current situation differently. A new lens from which to find inspiration. This “writing prompt” idea looks like interesting way to be inspired if inspiration has left.