You’re the Inspiration
When I was in fashion, I learned that the first step in making a design is always Inspiration. So you either watch a movie, go to a museum or travel to a new country to get the theme or reason for your collection. I’ve always felt it a little contrived, because you intentionally look for inspiration, before your pencil even hits your canvas.
In writing, your essays are always, involuntarily inspired by a certain recent happening, or person, in your life. There will be no essay if there was no experience, no realization, no lesson.
And so, to all the people who’ve come, passed and mattered in my life and in my thoughts, you may recognize yourselves in some of my writings. Some are named, others unnamed, but always with impact.
Before I became a writer, and life would slap me with such people and experiences, I would console myself and say, "One for the books!’ Now, they really are.
Life experiences? Random people? Wide array of actions, reactions and emotions? Bring ‘em on!
