This week Terri is our host for WQWWC

For Writers Quotes Wednesday Writing Challenge, the sky is the limit. Especially this week as it is writer’s choice—that’s YOU, the writer.

My choice this week is;
How we are inspired to write;
“You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we’re doing it” ~Neil Gaiman
I love this quote about how we get inspired to write. Just sitting at the cafe, people watching at the mall or walking by myself, I suddenly get an idea that I think would make a good blog post.

Sometimes, we don’t need something dramatic to inspire us. The situations and the circumstances around us inspire us to write. Political climate is a great motivator. People should rise their voices or pick up their pens if they want to change the world around them.
“I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.”
– Robert Frost
Although, I don’t consider myself a poet, I love this quote as it is absolutely true for me too. Whenever I write a poem, I never think it out or bother to find rhyming words for it. I let it come directly from my mind to my paper ( metaphorically). Afterwards, I might edit the mistakes but nothing much.

It sounds easy, but it really isn’t! But those who write, and have the talent for storytelling, they would find it easy! For the rest of us, it is hard work.
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
– Sylvia Plath
This quote brings us back a full circle back to the first quote. It’s all about the imagination to notice happenings around us and the courage to write about them.
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I hope you find the topic for this week’s WQWWC interesting.
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Very relatable quotes, dear Sadje. I feel the same way about poems. More often than not, I don’t bother to make it rhyme. I just make it up as I go along
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Thanks Shweta! Same here. If I try to rhyme words, I just lose my flow of thoughts.
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You’re most welcome. That happens to be too.
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Wow. These are such amazing quotes. Love the one by Neil Gaiman! We notice and that enables us to write 🙂
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Thanks Anita. Yes indeed, the mind grasps the situation and ideas.
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These are great! Everyone goes about writing in their own way, being inspired by different things, and being able to express the thoughts and feelings through poems, stories, music, or art.
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Thanks Barbara! Yes indeed we all have a different way to go about it.
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Hi Sadje, great to see your quotes and wisdom about writing for WQWWC today. Marsha and I both wondered if we would see a submission from you–yay! Definitely thought-provoking, and yes writing IS hard and easy at the same time 🙂
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Thanks a lot Terri! Much appreciated ❤️
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Excellent quotes, and great insights too.
I like the Gaiman quote. It *IS* that easy, and that hard.😉
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Thanks Angie. Yes, absolutely right.
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Wow! These quotes are amazing, and resonate with me very well. I love that quote about writing being discovery, never knowing the ending until we get there. That is just so. Lovely post, Sadje.
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Thank you so much Jeff. Yup, words from great writers are spot on.
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Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet.
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Thanks 🙏
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Always a joy and pleasure to read and share your posts with followers, My Dear! Hope you have a great day!! xoxox 😘💕🎁🌹
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Writing does take a lot of courage, Sadje. I’m thinking about this month’s Story Chat. The author chose to fictionalize a traumatic event in his family’s life. It’s hard to put yourself out there in writing. But what you can learn from it is phenomenal. A great post today with some quotes I want to remember. 🙂
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Thank you so much Marsha. I read that story. A very heartfelt story.
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It was, wasn’t it? Hard to write. 🙂
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Yes, very much so.
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Those are great quotes, I especially love the second one from Neil Gaiman! Ideas really are everywhere and the words sometimes just flow out of us word by word.
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Thanks a lot Leigha. And your absolutely right that ideas are everywhere. We can be inspired by literally anything.
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You’re welcome.
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