Inspiration, Lack Of

How To Write An Article About Not Having Inspiration To Write Articles

by Rickard Andersson (rickard@softlab.se)
written 12 May 1995

This article is classified "Real"


This article explains how you deal with the lack of inspiration that
can occur when you, being a notorious Field Researcher, are trying to
write articles for the Project Galactic Guide (PGG).  You, of course,
are cursed with a deadline hanging above your head and you feel an
obligation to the Guaranteed Articles Group (GAG) and the rest of the
PGG people around the universe.  Your inspiration is nil and the
article theme you must write about feels almost as funny as the number
42.  So you decide to rationalise the workload by trying to write a
short as possible story to ease the pain of having to think about
witty things to tell the world about something you don't want to write
about.  There is a great art in the concept of composing an article
that people didn't even know they were going to read.  One can put it
more elegant, the art form of filling an article with the help of
creative writing, is immensely underestimated.  To start off writing
without inspiration for the issue you should tell the world about, is
a fantastic gift performed by your brain, as it composes sentences and
with some co-processes thinks about food, drinks as other basic
elements of life.  Then, suddenly as you are typing along, you realise
that you have written a quite acceptable article, so you can stop the
writing and go to bed (or some nice party).  So there you have it, the
simple explanation on how to cope with the lack of inspiration.  Just
ignore the boring part of following a subject and wander of into the
mist of loosely tied lines of babbling nonsense.

See also:
  • Prolific Writing
  • Writers' Block
  • Rationalization
  • Stories, Short
  • Towns Article Writing Guide For Field Researchers
  • Towns Article Writing Guide For Field Researchers
  • Field Researchers, How To Recognize
  • GAG, Guaranteed Articles Group
  • Writing Style, Douglas Adams'

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