Welcome to week 41 of the 52-week MFRW blog hop – My Blogging Inspiration.
Wow, what a loaded question. Where do I get my inspirations? The short answer, everywhere.
The more complicated answer: I have tried to work themes around different days, for example I’ve set aside Fridays for this blog hop. I tend towards Motivational Mondays, have posted Teasers on Tuesdays, Woman Wednesday where I have hosted many female authors, Thinking Thursday and Fun Fridays. Ironically when I tried to channel my ideas into specific ideas, my creative juices came to a screeching halt.
Then there are the time issues, like when I was undergoing treatment, the days I am still sruggling to function, the myriad of appointments, and other life demands. I have good intentions to blog daily, but lately I’ve been doing good to post twice a week. By the way, I sat at the computer for well over an hour with several stops and starts, erase, delete, type over for last week’s prompt. My mind just wasn’t in it. I couldn’t think of a single book quote to save my life and it wasn’t until it was time to log off and start on dinner that my friend Cathy suggested I google it. DOH!
Anyway, back to my inspirations. . . everything. A post on Facebook, something on the news, something I saw while driving, or most often that ‘spark of genius’ that pops into my head. LOL
I wish I could say that it was some deep thinking, brilliant thought process, but most often it’s just what pops in at the moment. Yes, on occasion my thoughts run deep but I don’t often share those, because I like to keep it light and fresh and those deep thoughts can be intense.
I enjoy blogging. probably more than I like writing books because they are short pithy posts, and I get them out of my system quickly. Books take a loooooooonngg time and my ADD fights me every time. That and the perfectionist in me thinks it has to be absolutely perfect before I release it to the world. Meanwhile, I have twelve books completed and sitting in the files waiting for final edits. I am working on the next one, I’ve done final edits geting it in shape to send to my beta readers.
I may start sharing snippets again from that one, now that I have been in a good groove with my writing. Plus, looking forward to NANO next month to work on a new novella that ties into the universe of Faere Warrior.
One of the reasons I like to interview other authors is because I get inspired with their enthusiasm. Then I can write for a while longer. Selfish I know.
Comment below and let me know which of the topics you enjoy hearing about! Here are some other authors in the blog hop – be sure to check them out as well!
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Write on my friends, write on!
I think a lot of us had similar answers. No one thing inspires our blogging, but instead a little bit of everything. Just like our books, and life itself. Inspiration is found wherever you care to look for it.
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I’ve had trouble with some of the topics this year and am always grateful when that “spark of genius” pops in. Once a week is hard enough, much less blogging daily!
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Kudos to you to even trying to blog daily. My goal is twice a week, and I struggle to do that. This blog hop and Anna Cade’s blog ahead challenges have helped with this.
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Impressed with your ‘daily’ attempts. I remember attempting to do that and quickly failed (lol). Thanks for sharing!
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Your answers covered a lot of ground, and so they should. When a person is blogging frequently, or in your case everyday, your inspirations are undoubtedly multitudinous.
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I haven’t managed the every day for a while Ed, but I do intend to get back to it. Thanks!
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I agree. It’s so hard to come up with ideas I liked your motivational Monday.
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I love my motivational posts, but lately the doctor’s visits and appointments have been on Mondays, and I end up spending most of my energy doing that! I hope things will calm down soon and I can get back to a more reasonable schedule.
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I’m the same way when it comes to an idea- it seems to come from out of nowhere. But I guess that’s why it’s called inspiration? Great post!
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