inspiration
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Art and Letters
At The Millions, seven writers share the visual inspiration they keep in their writing spaces, whether an illustration to capture the mood of a novel-in-progress, a photo reminding them of what they’re working for, or a note sternly reminding them…
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Finding Inspiration in Weird Places
At this point, everyone knows about the Amtrak Residency, but the Smithsonian highlights some other unusual places artists can seek their inspiration, including a shack on the beach and a container on a cargo ship.
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Just Do the Hard Things
Sara Benincasa has some inspiring words over at Medium: You must tell people exactly what you want from them if you have any hope that they will give it to you. I asked people to review my book (well, my publisher…
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Influence Without Anxiety
Inspiration comes from many sources, including the books we read. As we internalize other authors’s work, they inevitably influence our writing (often without us ever knowing). The novelist Kim Triedman explores the relationship writers have to the books they read…
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Literature in Your Skin
If you need a few minutes to break away from your day, why don’t you head on over to Tattoo Lit, where the word is made flesh. It is updated regularly with submissions of tattoos inspired by literature. Virginia Woolf,…
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Demanding a Degree of Strangeness
“It might be your own past, or even just the tomb of someone you’d forgotten and who, awakened from the deep slumber of oblivion, comes to life and steps onto the page and, like a magician, plucks out of the…