Tuesday
Jul272010
action generates inspiration
Tuesday, July 27, 2010 at 10:18AM 
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. — Frank Tibolt
Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it. — Madeleine L'Engle
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another:
I don’t know where my ideas come from, but I know where they come to. They come to my desk, and if I’m not there, they go away again. -- Philip Pullman
Thanks.
Stumbled you from Abby, btw.
and abby! xoxo
:)
xo Alison
Anyway, as I was working, I got a little flash of an idea for a new project. I set it aside, and kept at my writing.
Later, I came to this post. And reading about inspiration made me think again about that idea I had. It motivated me to pay attention to it, and play with it. And now I'm just bubbling at the edges over how I'm going to carry this thing out.
So thank you for the inspiration. Tibolt and L'Engle were so right!
patricia, excellent. :^)
i'll post another for you in just a sec. ;^)
"The Muse visits during composition, not before." -Roger Ebert
and
from Barbara Kingsolver:
"Don't wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic."
the b.k. quote is in my collection .. it goes on to say, "writers just write." :^)
xoxo