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"How do you find your inspiration?" @fudo randomly asked me that. (Let's thank him for giving me an idea and for making this curiosity come into light). I have to say this first, It's actually hard to find inspiration, I'm on a different kind of slump and it's seriously not going anywhere. So what kind of things inspire you? Any advice? Any habits you want to share? Cause I had my own habits, since anyone can be stuck sometimes, it just means you have to change your habits and try different ways to make things spark again. Share want you have learned through years of experience then learn something different here.
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Wilmer in Journal
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A Word Away

Writing has taken over just about every facet of my life, I cannot go out on a simple walk or just get out of bed without thinking about a couple of story beats for a poem or some future narrative that my mind spins up. I do not hate this of course being a writer, but I have found that inspiration is not a spark that just explodes in the center of your conscious but a gradual construction of odd bits and ends of your day. You write a quick line here and there about some idea that floats in your head and then you write another: "she was afterlife..." "when devil's play in my mind"...

Life is a grand story, and it is unique to your experiences, you will be inspired and you will steal for the better.

Overtime I learned how other artist "disciplines" go about creating, and I uncovered that it is a slow process of evolving a sound, an art style, a look, whatever it may be there is an evolution that is happening internally and externally simultaneously. I had several days where I wrote a couple of wonderful lines and then struggled to write anything else for the rest of the day, I forced myself to write and hoped that some grand idea would just fire out of my mind, but you have to take time to let your idea grow, it may be a great one but you need to be patient eventually you will learn how to properly craft it. There is no doubt that actually putting in the time to study on how to do it will help, but that may not always be the issue, sometimes you need to grow as a person to create an accurate representation of the concept, and not just force it into existence.

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