My daughter has been working on writing a novel for a while. I often joke with her that her book will get published before mine. (Though with her work ethic and love of writing it may actually end up being true.) She is a senior in high school and will be graduating soon, so she’s busy with school and sports and activities, which has cut into her writing time, but over Easter weekend my brother was in town and with him he brought inspiration.
Not the Godly kind that one might expect at Easter, but quite the opposite. My brother is a former Army Airborne Ranger and my daughter is working on a young adult dystopian novel, so she was looking for information on guns and knives and warfare. Not only did my brother have plenty of information to give her (and a fully loaded survival pack ready to show her), he has the love of world building and developing ideas.
When my brother and I were kids we never missed an episode of Twilight Zone or Creature Future or any futuristic TV show that we could find on our 3 Channels in Montana and we loved to build forts in the fields near our home and dream up different lives. Yes, he could imagine the world his niece was working to share and the story that went with it. They talked for hours.
The next morning I found my daughter tapping away at her keyboard, scribbled notes by her side.
Share your work with others and you never know what kind of inspiration you may find…
WRITING PROMPT #1: Who might inspire your writing. Why? Take the opportunity to contact them.
WRITING PROMPT #2: Tara and her little brother Wes would survive but it wouldn’t be easy in today’s society because they were…
You inspire my writing because you are committed to showing up every week to the blank page.Thank you for being the best writing partner a girl could ask for.