Inspiration: A cat poster
Inspiration is the motivation to do something creative and/or artistic.
That little "and/or" is bugging me. Because creativity and art are linked. They are locked into each other, and you can’t remove one without the other. Nor can you add on with the other. There should be a new word that holds these two things together: creart, that sounds gross. I don’t hate creartive. It sounds kind of posh, like how you would describe architecture to people more intelligent than you at a cocktail party where tuxedoed servers pass around trays of food with crab in it. There we are. Creartive.
Think about your process to create. What types of activities inspire you to write? Is it a poster of a cat hanging from a rope with the words "BELEVE" above it?
Looking at an ordinary object in zoomed-in detail, or listening to morning sounds in your kitchen, think about the mental space you need to enter to write.
And then go there.
Take photos, collect tiny objects, write down fragments of a conversation. These will all serve as inspiration, plus it’s fun to find bits of trash you forgot to empty out of your pockets in the laundry later.
What kinds of things can you collect to help inspire you later?