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a neighbor's door, all these simple sounds become the basis of words not yet written. Stories not yet told but which will be. These are the thoughts within a writer's imagination, simple emotions, and ideas felt and created within a writer's backyard.

Looking at the apple tree laden with fruit a writer envisions yesteryear. He sees homesteaders who trek to find a better existence, a place abundant enough where they can live off the land, and their labors. A writer feels a raindrop like others would feel tears, and in his heart he sees fields fed by rain, monsoons, and lagoons.

The old wood fence that encloses his backyard is a corral where a rodeo will be held next week, his dog becomes a prancing pony, rambunctious in its youth. The gentle wind that blows through the backyard suddenly becomes a windstorm whisking away the topsoil from prairie farms, and all homesteads within its reach. It steals the fruit from the tall orchard trees, blows the roof from the barn, and leaves an old farm devastated in its wake.

The writer's wife touches his shoulder, and he returns to today, and the warmth of the summer sun as he sits on his back yard deck.

There are just so many little details, emotions, and ideas that you can use as inspiration when you are writing. Unfortunately, sometimes writers focus far too much on trying to come up with a topic to write about, rather than simply allowing one to come to them. It means stepping back in time to when you first started to write and to the time when you wrote simply because you loved to. Relax in the writing process once again and just write because you enjoy it. Use a note pad to jot down key words or phrases to remind you of the feelings that you experience at any given time. Put down on paper the events that trigger a concept, or idea, till you have an article that you can use these emotions or memories within.

Spend a day out in your backyard, and look around you, really and truly look at the life around you. Examine your back yard through a writer's eyes. You might just be amazed by what you will discover when using your back yard as an inspiration for your writing.

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