What Inspires Me As a Writer?

Inspiration comes from such a variety of places; it’s hard to sum it up into 250 words without generalising. However, generalise I shall.

It is unfair to say that there is a specific thing that influences my work. Everything that I have ever experienced has and will continue to influence my writing. Life is a journey and you cannot help but allow that experience to be portrayed somehow into your writing because experience is what makes a piece of writing strong and authentic.

What I have been through in my life has had an effect on everything I do; including my writing. The good times and the difficult times have always inspired me to write a strong piece of writing, and I find that my most successful pieces have been based on my personal thoughts and feelings about a particular incident in my life. The people I meet influence characters I write about, and places I see, influence the settings I describe.

Published works will also obviously inspire me as a writer. I am an avid reader and I constantly look for new material; something to expand my knowledge and style of writing. Books are not the only things that influence me as a writer. Films, television programmes and stories told by other people all contribute to how I write and what I choose to write about. For me, experience is the main source of inspiration for me and that involves absolutely everything, no matter how small, or minute in detail. If I didn’t use this experience and knowledge that I am gaining every day, my writing would have no substance.