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Don't know about you, but I've seen a lot of articles online with published authors talking about what inspired them to write their book and actually, you know, what pushed them to take an idea and tend it into a full blown novel. Now, I'm by no means like a novel writer at all. I like short stories. I like things that are bite sized, sort of novella size and other just short media. Hence why I'm on this app
Binati Sheth
@Binati_Sheth · 4:15
What inspired me to start writing? Well, honestly, it was that I didn't have anyone to talk to. So I when I was growing up in school, I had I'm an introvert. I'm a heavy introvert. My time and my Saturation period with public interactions is somewhere around 40, 50 minutes after that. It's difficult for me to stay in a situation, but that was not loud at home
Chelsea Hanawalt
@allowthesun · 4:54
Hi. I really enjoyed thinking about this question. I was thinking about when I first started writing, and I think it was when I was pretty young. More like a dear dear diary, writing more just reflecting on all my thoughts and what was happening in my life. A lot about probably family and relationships. And I do theater. So my writing shifted a lot into character studies. Like, I remember writing long pages about any character that was playing in a show. Very method actor style
Jai Staton
@SistahSoul · 4:21
But I was fascinated by people who could put words on a page that could transform how you were feeling, that could give you emotions, that could open up new worlds to you that were not in your physical realm or even comprehension at the time. And I remember thinking, one day I'm going to be one of those people, a person who could put words on a page that could help transform the life of someone else, transform the thoughts, transform the energy and appreciation of someone else
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:42
And writing is a great way to explore because when something writes itself, what's really happening for me is that the circumstance of the character or the plot just has its own sort of trajectory that I'm just following. And it's a weird, amazing experience. I took a dialogue class at my first year of College with Edward Alby, who's no longer with us, but he's very famous for his dialogues. Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?
What inspires me to write. I don't really write, per se, but I do come up with some pretty good stories. At least I think they're good. So about it, a year and a half ago, one of my daughters calls me up when I'm at work, and she says, Dad, I want to try out for this play. And I was like, Okay, what's the play? And she said, I don't know. It's Something About Nothing
Olivia Sears
@Olliesbookchat · 2:00
I've published a couple of poems in different compilations over the years but being a mom and working single mom, working, surviving all those things have not really let me put the energy I want to into putting a book together. And now of course there's Amazon and all these ways to self publish and in the pandemic I really spent a lot more time writing and being introspective in my own thoughts and just had more time. So I'm hoping to get a collection out to the universe soon
Rachel Tucker
@rachtucker · 0:59
Well, for me, I know that a legacy is a lot about what we leave in our kids and those we influence, but also what we leave behind. So journals and then of course, course my own library books. But my life is a testimony. So I am a believer. Jesus is aloud. And I've had a radical transformation and I write to share my story. I write to give people tangible application to transform their life
So what inspires me to write is my creative thinking. I personally believe it to be a gift. It has come on quite so suddenly over the last two years. I started out writing poetry at 13, and I still write to this day, so you can imagine how much work I have. But I would never have thought that I would have been a writer. If somebody would have said, oh, you're going to be a writer
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Sophie Sophia
@sophie_world · 0:35
I think letting my emotions flow actually inspire me to write. When I write, I forget my pain. Eight when I write things around me. When I write, I am myself. That inspires me to write life aloud. Me inspires me to write. I
varsha jain
@varsha_j · 0:27
Hello, everyone. I just joined Swell and the first thing I saw was what inspired me to start writing. A friend of mine told me about this platform where I can share my thoughts with everyone and without any in charge. Me also. I like to learn from everyone and I like to share my thoughts with everyone because I like to conversation. So I hope to hear from you all soon. Bye
Hi. This is such a beautiful swell and a unique way to express and I started thinking about discussion
Josh Colon
@Gitdown · 4:55
And I guess what inspired me to start writing is to be able to find a way in which I can express myself in a way that I can in real life. I've gotten better socially. I'm very frank. I have no problem telling my thoughts anymore. And that's why for so long, my adult age, that's also why I was blocked. Because if there's an issue with it, I feel free to just attack it. Right on
Jae Alexander
@Jandrea · 4:48
Hey there, hey there. Great question. I think what inspired me to start writing was, well, number one, I have a very active imagination. Very active. And I am a dreamer I know people kind of knock on dreamers, but I don't know, the world to me needs more dreamers. This world needs more of us. And way back when, I want to say probably 9th grade, it was my first poetry book, my first writings. And I don't know
Lara Kline
@Vocalizah · 4:52
So I guess writing for me is a very selfish thing, and I love that I've been able to give that to my daughter. I suggested that she start writing. Of course I mention it. And she doesn't want to do it, but one of her friends does it, and therefore it's cool. So then she started doing it. And that's all I care about, because everybody should journal, in my opinion. And, yeah, that's how I started writing
And she flashed me like, this $1,000 million dollars smile and said, that's pretty good. And from that moment on, I knew I was going to be a writer. And when I stopped and think about it, I think a lot of my Kline choices were made because Pretty Girl complimented me. Probably not the best indicator that I should make those decisions, but yeah, that definitely was something that stuck out when I said for the rest of of my days I was going to write
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:16
Hey, Tim. I love this story so much. It's so honest and it's such a homage to the power a teacher can have to validate you. And also the power of a beautiful smile. Just lovely. Thank you so much for sharing
Uma Maheshwari
@UniqueUma · 2:51
It's like, if I think I write, maybe I could put it this way even when I'm thinking, I'm probably, probably writing my thoughts inside my head. How's that for an inspiration?
Tiffany Edwards
@mrspoetic · 0:53
What inspired me to start writing? Well, when I was 25 years old, my oldest son dad was killed. He was murdered. And I didn't know how to express my feelings. So I went and I saw a therapist. And the therapist was telling me that sometimes people have a hard time with expressing their feelings, so they write out how they feel. So one day I was at home and I decided to write how I felt, but I put it in poetry form
Emmanuel Christian
@MannyLox · 2:32
Tony ask me how long I've been in college, but I was a part of a comworks group, and the people in the group pretty much motivated me to not only continue to write, but also to express my writing or perform my writing on my poetry. One of my favorite things to write about is love, but I also express myself through any spectrum, really. Kline I can write about anything. I believe anything up in my mind, too
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:45
Hey, Emmanuel. First of all, the concept of Afro Futurism is completely foreign to me. And when you mention it, I was thinking, there are so many incredible minds and writers on this app that I wanted to encourage, urge you to connect to this community through a new swell and create a topic of explaining your interest in it and kind of inviting people to contribute, I guess. I have a request, which is you mentioned something that's so moving to me as a writer
Eluchianna Olive
@Luchianna · 2:07
So for me, I can take any subject at any time and write something from the heart. I don't use words to try to make myself seem bigger than what the story actually is. It's just giving a voice, giving an insight on subjects that may or may not be relevant to people. It's just a way of me communicating. Cating was on the inside out. That's what writing does for me
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