This one was simply too good to pass up…
You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.
Jack London
…because this is something I suffer from. I wait, and wait…and wait some more for inspiration to hit me like a meteor falling out the sky, to cause a violent upsurge of fiction-writing brilliance that will take me on a radioactive tidal wave to the top of the New York Times Bestseller List.
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March 30, 2010 at 6:08 pm
It’s true. I bumbled across this quote some time ago, then attended a couple of writing workshops where the people leading the workshops explained that routine actually encourages their brains to ‘gear up’ and get ready to write. It works for me…although lately my routine has gone to hell in a handbasket. The downside of routine is that you feel resentful when it’s taken away!