What gives you writing inspiration/energy?

[Eivets Rednow]

I find that I write most creatively and with the most energy when I go through big life changes or situations that make me feel uncomfortable. It probably has something to do with constantly learning and reassessing my surroundings and my evolutionary reaction to discomfort is to think quickly and widely.

I’d been in a bit of a writing rut for a number of years, but very recently it’s all come back to me which is great. May the discomfort continue?

What gives you inspiration for writing? When do you have the most energy for it?

 

[Steel Icarus]

Being 36.

Unfortunately I'm now 53

 

[Eivets Rednow]

Being 36.

Unfortunately I'm now 53

I’m 36. I didn’t have the energy for this a few years ago. Especially when I was in my late 20s.

What I am doing differently now to when I couldn’t do the writing is eating a lot more salad and fruit, and pushing myself to exercise even if it’s cold and raining outside.

 

[Steel Icarus]

When I wrote a lot and got stuck I wrote about writing, or just wrote any old shite until it started going better.

 

[Eivets Rednow]

Some of what I have been writing is truly horrific. But some is good. If I’m to publish any of it, even the good writing is going to be heavily edited and transformed. The initial ideas are what is important right now, these form the concept but this needs to develop for it to be of any use.