inspiration
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“Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.” -Sydney Smith I’m keeping things fairly short and simple today; often, on Saturday mornings, I have difficulty…
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Maybe it was finishing up The Best American Short Stories 2008 recently, but yesterday, while bogged down with incredibly dreary weather, a slow day at one job and a long meeting at the other, I noticed a lot of the little, bizarre, quirky, and just plain strange things around me that made for great inspiration…
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As I stand on the precipice of the great cliff of my handful of upcoming writing challenges, I’ve been thinking an awful lot about inspiration lately. Mostly on how I haven’t got much of it (at the moment) and how I know that often changes, but what exactly changes that? What happens to cause inspiration…
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Being officially in May, both the weather and minds turn toward distinctively spring-like inclinations. Sunny skies, blooming tulips in a bright array of colours, birds chirping in the budding trees, and windows wide open to welcome in their song. As I sit in my living room, this is very much the scene, with a slight…
L.S. Engler 