Rusty brought up an interesting question I would like to know from everyone. What do you do for inspiration on the work you do? In addition, does your work tend to reflect your mood for the particular day you write a specific piece, or are you able to change your mood from perhaps upset to happy by writing something uplifting? Do you find it easier to write from reality or from your imagination and do you enjoy one more than another? Just for the sake of getting to know one another more, have you always been motivated to write since you were young or did you find it later in your life?
Well, I am going to look forward to reading your answers. I am sure they will be extremely interesting to compare notes. Later on, I will contribute as well. Thanks.
Suzanne

Hi Suzanne,

I have always wanted to write, even before I actually started writing! I think writers write...once a writer, always a writer, whether a person actually puts it on paper or not, a writer is a writer. It's a gift.

Sometimes I can write in a particular mood, despite my actual mood. If you've read enough of my stuff, you would learn that I tend to write in a rather 'romantic' style, but I do write a lot of nature or spiritually oriented poetry. I like to experiment, as you may have guessed, and sometimes it blows up in my face. But every once in a while, a real satisfying piece of writing will somehow spill out of my fingers into the keyboard. It just happens, but it wouldn't if I stopped playing around with my writing.

I'm no great writer. In fact, I feel that a lot of my stuff is rather mundane. I have these aspirations of creating that one fantastic piece of writing, that one piece that leaves a person's jaw sagging in disbelief at the sheer beauty of it. The harder I try to create it, the more elusive it seems to be. Perhaps this is my curse, or perhaps it may be my teacher.

I like that you pose these questions to us. We can learn a lot about each other this way. And there's nothing wrong with growing close, eh?

Thanks,

Dave F

What do you do for inspiration on the work you do? - Think of special people, yesterdays and todays. Sometimes one word will 'kick me off' or the unexpected.

does your work tend to reflect your mood for the particular day you write a specific piece? - Quite often but not always

or are you able to change your mood from perhaps upset to happy by writing something uplifting? - I am very rarely upset. My 'writing mood' is as vast as my imagination will take me, it is only sometimes ruled by the mood of my heart.

Do you find it easier to write from reality or from your imagination and do you enjoy one more than another? - I enjoy both but even when writing from reality, the very nature of poetry allows one to curve around situations, so as to exagerate sadness, romance or anything else that comes to mind.Sometimes it makes truth even more truthful and it allows a reader to form their own interpretation.

have you always been motivated to write since you were young or did you find it later in your life?
- Like most writers, (I suppose), I started writing in my formative years with teenage romances but for some unknown reason it stuck with me to the present.

Hello Everyone,
I found your responses to my questions very interesting. It is great to know how much we all have in common.
First I would like to say to Dave I do disagree with you on one point. I, for one, do not find your work at all "mundane." You have talent! Your work comes through loud and clear with an ability to express yourself extremely well. Whatever you do, don't stop on the path you are on. It would certainly be a shame if you did. We tend to be more critical of ourselves than anyone else especially after working on a piece for a length of time. It loses it's freshness to us as we work. But when someone else reads it! Now there is where the punch comes in. If you are able to give your reader that punch, you have succeeded. You, my friend, are able to do that as does several writers on this website. That is certainly why I hang around. I hope what you all have to show will rub off on me. After all, we do have a great bunch here at Wondersmith.
I also want to comment on Rusty's contribution. I find for me the lines I write which come unexpectedly become the poems I receive the most satisfaction from. I try to consciously not push myself into it. The overall organization, yes, I do consciously work, but the emotional side, no. My son commented he can tell what kind of mood I am in by what I write. I believe that is true although my subject matter may be based on imagination, the emotion is usually mine at the time.
Well, that is what I have to say at this time. Thanks for everything including your support.
Suzanne