Lost: Inspiration/Found: It and More
Nov 3, 2008 Thoughts and Perceptions
Something happened to me yesterday. Something major. I opened up my unfinished novel, after almost 3 months of not even attempting to finish it and I began to write. I didn’t stop until it was finished.
I have an idea of where the inspiration came from, but I am not sure if it is truth or not… But I watched the entire first season of Californication on Saturday. If you haven’t ever seen it… I absolutely recommend you check it out.
David Duchovny is cast as a cynical prick of a Novelist who is suffering from extreme writers block since his split from his long time girlfriend-slash-babiesmomma. She was his inspiration. At the end, after many episodes of assholish, alcohol induced disfunction, he is able to write again. Granted, his end product had a great deal to do with true-to-life events, but that doesn’t change the fact that he found his inspiration.
He found his inspiration. Seeing him find it (I think) caused me to find mine again.
It feels really good to have accomplished this. I know that most of you who read here that have come from myspace… know of this story. You have waited forever, so my accomplishment means that you get to see it through to fruition… and you get your (infamously referred to) ‘fix’… but for me it is more than that. As much as I am happy to share it, I wrote it for me. Myspace and blogging in general brought the writer out of me. I knew it was there all along, but now it is tangible.
151 pages tangible.
I am so proud of myself. Even if the world never accepts me and my writing, it is mine. I started it, owned it, and finished it. Me. Mine. No one can take that from me.
That is all I have for today.
Do you have anything that you have accomplished that has made you feel this way?
Please share it with me.
Tags: blogging, Californication, David Duchovny, inspiration, myspace, novel, pride, Submissive Confessions, writer, writing
November 3rd, 2008 at 19:14
I’ve been uninspired for two weeks. One minute I think I have a good idea for NaNoWriMo, and then the next I don’t.
I’m going insane.
The places I usually find inspiration don’t provide this kind of inspiration. Inspiration for life and inspiration for writing are two very different things.
I get so discouraged, because I really don’t know enough about any one thing to right a book about it.
PQ Reply:
November 3rd, 2008 at 19:28
You can do it.
You can do it ALL. NIGHT. LONG.
I seriously just laughed at myself.
LivingWicked Reply:
November 3rd, 2008 at 19:34
Repeat IM conversation: “You are fired.”
PQ Reply:
November 3rd, 2008 at 19:38
Bite me.
LivingWicked Reply:
November 3rd, 2008 at 19:39
dont be a tease.
Jaime Reply:
November 3rd, 2008 at 20:14
Still not feeling it. If I don’t come up with something by Friday night I’m giving up for the year.
LivingWicked Reply:
November 3rd, 2008 at 20:27
LivingWicked Reply:
November 3rd, 2008 at 19:34
I am so sorry. I can totally relate. I have found that if you just stop fucking thinking about it, it will come to you.
And, that is the best part about fiction… you can make it up as you go along.
Good luck, and I am always here if you need an ear from a fellow writer.
November 3rd, 2008 at 19:27
I got my inspiration this morning when I was driving into work.
I realized that I outlined my book in my head the wrong way…With everything else in my life, I made it about everyone else BUT the main characters…
So I’m changing that.
It’s going to be Songs of Lily…Not Songs of a Love Affair…
I want to write. I want to keep writing and for once, I want to do something that I’ve never been able to do before.
Inspiration? I have it.
LivingWicked Reply:
November 3rd, 2008 at 19:35
I am so happy you do.
What brought the inspiration on? Anything? Or just realization of your misdirection and wrong focus? in the story?
PQ Reply:
November 3rd, 2008 at 19:38
I was just thinking about the story and where I want to go with it next…and I realized that I was LIMITING myself. With the title, the premise…everything.
What I have is a good start but it’s not the right direction for the entire novel.
I have to take the feelings of Lily into consideration above all else.
Maybe I should start doing that in real life.
LivingWicked Reply:
November 3rd, 2008 at 19:39
all I can say to the last comment is… wait for it…
DUH.
November 3rd, 2008 at 21:16
Finding the courage to tell someone how I really felt. Partly thanks to you. That letter I wrote, even though it was slightly ignored, helped me feel better. I’ve somehow, in the past 5 years crawled out of my shell, then ended up back in there. We both agreed that I sounded twisty in the letter, I think it needs to turn into a face-to-face conversation ASAP. . .
Congrats on the regained inspiration and I am stoked to buy the whole story. =)
Dre Reply:
November 3rd, 2008 at 22:52
Or I could just do it right now. . . Like I did. . I think I’m going to go dance in the streets now. <3
November 3rd, 2008 at 21:29
I have an intangible something bubbling in the back of my brain…but it refuses to go on paper.
…yet. It’ll come sooner or later.
I get this feeling everytime I lead a training class at work though. I created all the documentation. I put together the training class. I ensure everyone is enrolled in the classes twice a year, and ninety days after new hires hit the floor. And every time I give a class and I see the light bulb turn on over someone’s head it makes me giddy with pride.
November 4th, 2008 at 15:16
I love that you found your inspiration and I cannot wait to purchase the book. I want a signed copy with boob pics though
I take my inspiration from everyday life. I’m not good with creative writing so everything that comes out from me is from my own life, things I go through, things that make happy and things that frustrate the everliving crap out of me.
November 6th, 2008 at 22:07
I read this in the email…and we briefly chatted about it (and 829 other things…)But, I am VERY excited for you, Court. Lately, my tangible results are all tied to my job or my kids. It’s hard to say that one makes me feel better than the other…they are simply different.
But, yes, I get the “I kicked ass and REALLY am proud of myself in this moment” vibe. I’m tickled to death you have it to share.
November 7th, 2008 at 20:19
i am so bad about finishing things… ive barely got any stories finished, and ive been working on them forever. poetry however, i can usually finish.. trying to do the Nanawrimo thing this month, but the words just aint coming.. love the story tho, let me know where to buy the book and ill so buy it.. i loved reading the parts you used to post.. your a great writer.