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Inspiration Surrounds Us

It is not a surprise or an author's trade secret that to create beautiful writing requires inspiration. Many writers cannot write without inspiration at risk of producing mediocre disappointment or dismal failure. Inspiration is therefore invaluable, contributing strength of character and encouraging both ethics and resolve. It confirms and tweaks individual creativity and initiates the search for knowledge.

Inspiration encourages better writing methods and techniques, but more importantly, it encourages and even prods insistently the desire to learn well the exquisite art of writing . To be a superior writer demands inspiration, for inspired work is inevitably superior. To proffer a hypothesis in clarity, to outline technical details precisely, or to write creative works of art in an extraordinary fashion requires more than mundane thought. The fruit of the pen, to ripen elegantly, requires nothing less than inspiration, but where does inspiration come from?

Interaction with other individual human beings is an important source of inspiration. It is said everyone that touches a life influences that life and it's projected outcome, good or bad. Thoughts are collected subconsciously, and all contribute to the creation of the written word. A choice phrase may be picked up subconsciously in overhearing the happy chatter of children at play, a neighbour complaining about arthritis, weeds and weather, or the finest orator strangely out of character and graciously praising her political competition. To a writer, words plucked from the airwaves become a bountiful harvest of choices and encourage a plethora of ideas. Words and concepts that result are often not made as conscious decisions, but a sublimate totality of life and those around us who communicate , to influence our thoughts, consciously or even unwittingly.

In nature, inspiration and the power of life itself is easily observed in considering the smallest droplet of water. Sparkling dewdrops fall where they may, yet nourish the growth of tiny seeds, the little ideas of life that may turn into wonderful flowers, trees that bear food for thought, or a majestic, long-living Sequoia. Plant a seed with inspiration and it will grow.

The open book before me may be the ultimate source of inspiration. The bible, perhaps the most famous and enduring book of all

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