Sources of Influence and Inspiration

Where do the sources come from? G_d the Creator? Books and songs? Sources come from everywhere. From religion, say Psalms, music/lyrics, novels, events, holidays, from superheroes and villains, real life heroes, tragedy, comedies, responses to life on life's terms, poets/songwriters, Dylan, James Taylor, Cat Stevens, Neil Young, Nabokov,B.E. Ellis, Douglas Coupland, language, color, art, instrumental music, epic ebvents in one's life, the subconscious, myth and the past, myth and the future, teachers, friends, enemies (J. Olds, "I have no friends, .. no enemies. I have only teachers."), from successes, better, from "failures," from books on shelves, books never read, books that one wants to read and have not come into manifestation yet. Keep the hand moving. Connect the brain to the page. And I was person stops along the way. A hook is that "It is a fool who passes by a lesson." No one wants to be a fool. Learning by writing is a lesson. Figure out some logic. Then free yourself. Let go of the opression. Create. Joyfully, through hard times, ... present difficulties, good times, comfortatble times, awkward times. Do the "samurai" editting later. Not now. Now; Produce. Generation. Make. Create. Give.

What is in front of you? In what dimensions? Cerebral, visual, geographical? Feelings, emotions? Thought and mood? Environment? Other? It is like you are the author when you read? You are the author when you write as well and more so more over. First within, then "with-out." You express your experience, cognitively, in imagination/subconscious rewired, in reality. N. Goldberg; Think of writing as though it were breathing." Treat writing like breathing.

As an N. Goldberg exercise write a list (lists?) of words that you like, words you really like. Integrate these words into your work.

As an exercise write word groups/lists for fields of interest you have and/or want to have. Maybe five to get started? Dig in. Dig it. ... Like a rolling stone!