Last month I did a post on music and how specific songs influence writers. Sometimes music is a direct influence for me, like the story I just finished. I mentioned in that post how a Snow Patrol song was the inspiration behind one scene in my novel. But often the influence that I get from[…]
Music. It may be a little old hat to say music is a great source of inspiration. You know that already. Or do you? Maybe you’re a writer who absolutely can’t write without noise in the background. Or maybe you’re one who can’t write a single word unless you’re submerged in utter silence. Personally, I[…]
I’ve given you excerpts from Steven Pressfield’s cut-through-the-crap-and-get-busy book The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles over the past few weeks. Today, I leave you with a final installment, and I hope that you will run your little fingers over to your favorite book-purchasing website and pick it[…]
In my early twenties, I began writing about a girl named Sunny in what I thought would be my first novel. I found my inspiration for her name (also to be the book title) from Frank Sinatra’s song by the same title. I loved that song. I listened to it in the car, in my[…]