Where Did You Find Your Inspiration?

January 20, 2012 33 Comments

Think of your greatest creative accomplishment to-date?

What is it?

Remember back to its inception, how did the idea or concept originate?

OKAY, we are going to do something very different today.

In the comment field below describe this “creative birth” in only seven sentences!

We are going to choose the Seven Creative Birthing Stories with the “most likes” as our Guest Blogs for the whole of the next week(January 30th)

Not only will you get a link back to your own personal blog, but your words and your story will be read by thousands!

2012 Copyright – Seven Sentences – Guest Blogging Competition

About GeoffTalbot: Geoff Talbot is an an actor/screenwriter and comedian who loves the creative process and believes that when everyone gets together great and good things can happen.

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Bclefevre

I have yet to write my greatest piece; however, my creative
inspiration comes from observation and my heart. I could be sitting at a traffic light or
dreaming in my sleep. There is no
specific place I go to or ritual I do that helps me to get those thoughts in
motion. I have found that my creative inspiration comes to me when I am just
completely open to the cosmos. There is
no specific space, place, or time for me to pick up my pen. I have found through time that when I force
myself to write something, my words are hard to find, and I rarely finish the
thought, so my mantra is to just let it flow as it comes. I suppose you could say that my inspiration
comes when the creative gods speak to me spontaneously.

http://sevensentences.com Geoff Talbot

Gonna post this one Friday… friend. Thanks!

Winsome Losenone

Spark to my creative brith: Those less qualified considered being my competition

W.

WritersWritingWords (Helenee)

Winnone.

http://www.facebook.com/people/Arna-Baartz/745733289 Arna Baartz

Creative Birth came for like an orgasm of consciousness from the centre of foreverness.
My heart burst open and my eyes blinked in the light, I was a soft baby taking in my mothers chocolate eyes.
A paintbrush was my fingertips and the paint, well, the sunlight, mud and vegemite all over my hands!
Moon swam through the sky, an olympian tugging out the artistic gold from the corners of my mind, I created I created I created; baby after baby flew from me like beautiful, colourful birds and swirls of rainbow paint.
Inspiration peaks (speaks) daily, though little squares of canvas can never do it justice.
My loves my heart my passion my life, I AM my own creation.

WritersWritingWords (Helenee)

Vivid and dionysian, although the first sentence seemed to me somewhat pompous.

http://www.facebook.com/people/Arna-Baartz/745733289 Arna Baartz

ha! pompous…I’ll have to look into that , certainly don’t want my pompousness to be so obvious!

AscensionForYou

Very vivid indeed, lovely post Arna. Dave

http://www.facebook.com/people/Arna-Baartz/745733289 Arna Baartz

thanks!

http://www.drdeadline.com Rick Clark

1987…

Client, Akai Digital Audio, wanted endorsement ad from their number one spokesman, Stevie Wonder. They gave me a private phone number, a sizable budget and I nailed a lengthy interview with “the man.”

Headline “If our new digital console is just another mixer, then Stevie is just another musician.” Photo with Stevie was remarkable, copy was brief and motivating.

Adweek picked up the story, ran it nationally as front page news and my phone started ringing off the hook. 1987… was a very good year.

WritersWritingWords (Helenee)

Short, sweet and suggestive. Good copy.
http://sevensentences.com Geoff Talbot

Love this one Rick – going to Publish Thursday!

http://www.drdeadline.com Rick Clark

Thanks Geoff! Really appreciate the exposure.

http://twitter.com/Schnicka Schnicka

Words have always come easy to me; my dad says I was ‘vaccinated by a gramma-phone needle at birth’. My life has been spent doing a lot of talking, speaking, saying, expressing. So why could I never figure out what I wanted to do when I grew up?

Unlike my pattern of speech, realising I was a writer at heart came slowly; the writing was there but the realisation wasn’t. It didn’t even become obvious when I became a social media junkie after turning 40. It all gave way when writing for therapeutic reasons made my word count hard to hide.

Now I am writing 2 blogs, 2 books, 2 journals and I write copy and content for 2 paying clients!
http://www.wonderoftech.com Carolyn Nicander Mohr

Before the cacophony of sensory stimuli trespasses on my thoughts, I collect the ideas my mind processed throughout the night. Dreams, nightmares and imaginations combine to stimulate my brain. Insights about the past, anticipation of the future and revelations about the presence form a peace that I am where I am meant to be. My mind is fertile soil for a story to germinate.

Dreams mold my characters, nightmares mold my plot, and reality leaves on hiatus as I craft my creation. I rouse only after I have settled upon the outline of my story in my mind. Once I turn on the light to scribble my thoughts, my creative zone will be shattered.

http://sevensentences.com Geoff Talbot

Hi Carolyn,

We love this comment/blog and would ove to post it on Monday. Could you please email us at sevensentences@gmail.com with your own blog url and twitter handle etc! Congrats!

http://www.wonderoftech.com Carolyn Nicander Mohr

Thanks, Geoff, I’m honored. I sent you the info.

WritersWritingWords (Helenee)

Inspiration
springs up when the necessity of expressing a reality joins the means that will
render it in the most becoming manner. It is the truth overwhelming you,
paining to impress its traits through the thick material of speech.

Inspiration
is the way you perceive light dancing upon darkness, painting shades, tones and
transient images. It is the vertigo of a descent and the redemptory rise with
the trophies snatched from the depths.

Inspiration
is the Spirit fluttering inside of you, when the mind and the heart move your
fingers on the blank page. It is the messenger carrying on her wings the voices
of humanity, transcending all dimensions and giving breath to what previously
stood indifferent and motionless.

Inspiration
is collision with fear, awe at what is and longing for what you feel must see
the light.

AscensionForYou

Loved this…well done Helenee!!

WritersWritingWords (Helenee)

Thank you, Dave.
I guess every writer loves to know that his or her words can vibrate the chords of another person’s soul.

http://sevensentences.com Geoff Talbot

Love this one… we are going to publish this on Wednesday! Congrats. Two in one week!

http://www.writerswritingwords.com/ WritersWritingWords (Eleni)

Inspiration builds up, especially around good company.

Anonymous

As an “older” college student nearing the end of my formal
education, yet still trying to find my way, I signed up for a senior experience
class called My Life, My Story.

Our very first assignment was to write about a specific
place from our childhood with this instruction: ”Be specific, be detailed, dig
deep, you’ll be amazed at what you find.”

I wrote five pages about my best friend’s living room; her
Mom welcoming us each day with genuine interest and affection, her sisters
simultaneously loving and bickering, her Dad quietly tolerant of so many
females, other friends from the neighborhood popping in and out, life lessons
shared with humor.

My paper was returned with this note, “You must write
more.”

Over the course of the ten week class, the professor cried when I wrote
about my dad’s death, he gave me a hug when he returned my paper about my Mom’s
Alzheimer’s; he marveled at my description of an ocean sunrise, he criticized
my attempts at fiction.

“Stick to the truth,” he said, “your heart has a unique voice to
give it.”

And so, I write.

http://www.drdeadline.com Rick Clark

Stick to the truth… can’t go wrong with that. Thanks, very much.

Anonymous

Thanks, Rick. I learned that I don’t have to struggle to *create* a good story, they are all around us. I just need to tell them.

WritersWritingWords (Helenee)

Keep writing. We like it.

Anonymous

You are kind, Helenee. Thank you for the encouragement.

http://sevensentences.com Geoff Talbot

Hi Eleanor,

We are going to publish this one Tuesday. It’s lovely!

Anonymous

Thank you, Geoff. This was a fun one to do. Good memories.

AscensionForYou

In all of your lives, every single one of you, I constantly leave you clues and
messages, some sublime and some that glare you right in your face, and yet they can
still be missed!

I might send you the right song to be heard on the radio, you may overhear a
conversation that triggers a memory or feeling, you may smell a fragrance which reminds you of someone or something personal…or perhaps you’ll even gaze upon a beautiful sunset or see an incredible picture or photograph.

Maybe you will hug and kiss your beloved husband, wife, daughter, son or family pet, triggering a
feeling of joy and comfort deep within but understand that any of
these are just a few examples of how I connect with your own Divine
spark and essence.

Within the connection of your heart, you not only sense or feel more whole,
but you may also be inspired to think and moreover seek the answers to your
questions deep inside of you.

Know that your own true inspiration will always be within you and it is waiting,
hoping, wishing for you to find it.

Open your heart and go deep inside to feel the illumination and glow within your inner
child, for your Divinity is willing you to shine more radiantly every day.

Reveal it, bask in it and make your dreams come true.

WritersWritingWords (Helenee)

You’re very, very close, Dave.
Please, accept my opinion knowing that it is only well-intentioned.
What offset me: in the first three sentences, you are speaking in the first person. Yet, I believe only God can speak for Himself.

Ascensionforyou

Hi Helenee….thanks for the comment….very well spotted….it is God speaking through me! He gives me the messages through inner dictation….hence the recent release of I am I : The In-Dweller of your Heart…plus the sequel later this year. I am so very humbled to receive the ‘lessons’ to share …a priviledge indeed. So pleased it resonate with you. God bless.. Dave
WritersWritingWords (Helenee)

Ooops! Correction: please, substitute ‘put off’ for ‘offset’. My big fat Greek tongue got in the way again