Inspiration

Writer's Block

I have vented my frustration with writer's block here before, but this time I want to talk about a fiction writer's block.  As I have before mentioned, I am a writing enthusiast and most of the time writing comes easily to me... to easily in fact!  It was too many ideas that brought me one of my biggest writer's blocks of all time!

 In school I was asked to write a short story after studying the structure and flow needed for such a story.  How hard could it be?  All you need is a character, one big event and a bit of good grammar.  But I sat at the computer, blank page before me, and realized I had absolutely NOTHING to write.  The white page glared back at me wondering what was taking my fingers, usually so agile on the keyboard, so long to write an opening sentence!

Too many ideas were flooding my mind.  I thought maybe I could write some little back story from one of my novels in progress, but those ideas got too big and complicated until they also were novels.  Then I thought I would experiment with something historical like I had intended to do this school year, that also became a lot of work and turned into a plot long enough to fill 900 pages!  So what was I to do?  No genre worked, no idea worked, no character worked.  Everything was too big and complicated!

Then it dawned on me...

LIGHT BULB MOMENT!!!

The Small Inspiration

My inspiration came in a small, seemingly insignificant way.  I had so many big plans of fantastical stories that I had overlooked the simple ones all around me.  My fingers began to move on the keyboard and there sprouted up a wonderful little story right out of real life!!  The story took on some creative license when a beloved rooster took the role of the main character and narrator, but it was a story!  The story of my first rooster's appearance on our family farm turned out to be an entertaining one to write.  Even my younger siblings (a very hard-to-please gang) were all delighted with the story I came up with and asked for more.

My Inspirational Rooster!

Sitting back to consider my work of writing, I saw how wonderful the little stories of day to day life are!  Not only do they make decent blog material, but my siblings found them interesting as a story!  I have said before that day to day life is good, but day to day life is also inspirational!  I will be on the lookout from now on for the little stories of my day that will transfer into a bit of fiction writing.  This outlook on my day will certainly make me see the good, the true, the beautiful and, of course, the humorous!

My inspiration for a 1700 word story was from a rooster!  A rooster of all things!  What more can I find, walking, crawling, bounding throughout my day?  Just imagine one event of YOUR life as a humorous, dramatic or philosophical writing!  (I prefer the humorous!)  I'm sure it will make you think for a bit about your day!

So I firmly hope you have an excellent day!