Struggling to find a topic for your next poem? Don't have enough tension to sustain your short story? Stuck in the middle of your novel-in-progress?
Calling inspiration!
Really, just as Oscar Wilde said, inspiration isn't as illusive as our writer brain makes us think.
There are poems about cats like Christopher Smart's "For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffry". Poems about jobs (like pet sitting) in Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz's "things that happen during pet sitting...". Poems about standing in line like Robert Funge's "A Starbucks Romance". Poems about catalogs like Philip A. Waterhouse's "Castlekeep".
Really, anything in our daily lives, when seen through an artistic eye, can be made into something extraordinary.
Did you once have hiccups for three days straight? Write an essay about it.
Did you watch grazing deer out your window while washing dishes? Make it into a poem.
Did you hear a strange conversation while sitting in your cafe booth during breakfast? Use it in a novel chapter.
Anything - literally anything - can be the inspiration for your next writing project. Take it from Orson Scott Card...
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