A Writer's Pen

In My Mind's Eye  ✨ In my mind’s eye Stars, they whirl With wings they fly Brightly swirl Speckles of light Golden spark The jewels of night Slay the dark In my mind’s eye The late spring frost Was the faint sigh Of winter lost The snow had flown Yet as before The windows shone With frost once more In my mind’s eye A small blazing light Flaring up high  It conquers the night Once a bright star Yet it tumbled down Now raging far As a flaming crown In my mind’s eye A long forgotten pond Cradles the sky And the space far beyond A wrinkled dream Of a vast boundless sphere The faintest gleam Like a cloudy mirror ~Madelyn

     Welcome back! It's time to dive back into our rousing pursuit of inspiration! Stick around as we chase this tricky creature from the Heights of Musing to the Depths of Brainstorming. When our journey reaches its end, you may find that inspiration is not as elusive as it first seemed.      Last time, we took a look at two tricky questions:     Does a writer need to be inspired to write?     How can they find inspiration in their writing?     Today, in the second half of this two-part series, I'll be addressing one last question that may arise on this topic:     What if there is something preventing finding inspiration in writing?     Let's say that you have the keys of inspiration jingling on your mental keyring, a free afternoon to write, and a fully charged laptop... but something still is impeding the flow of inspiration. Could there be an underlying issue? How can you fix it?     Today, I'd...

       Have you made the acquaintance of inspiration? I'm sure you have, for it is often the very thing that sends an unsuspecting person down the path to authorship. It's a funny little creature, really, that pops in and out of each thought and flickers at the edges of your vision.  A wild, untamable beast that roams the storybook world. We see it simmering in the pages of books, teasing us on the tip of the pen, and vanishing like the Cheshire Cat when we need it the most. Nearly a whimsical sort of character, but perhaps with more cunning than good intentions. But, despite its rather untimely habits, we all appreciate the spark that it adds to our writing.    Yet, this begs the question, d oes a writer need to be inspired to write?  And how can a writer find inspiration? These are the topics I'll be discussing in this two-part series on inspiration.            The first stop on our adventure is the w...