Simply having too much to say, and noticing when it comes out in text, it looks and sounds good.

Reading books inspired and continues to inspire me to write.

I have an idea for a book, so that's why I started writing. It's just when I write, I get stuck for ideas before I've even put the pen to paper. So I don't get anywhere fast.

The woman I fell in love with, gave my life for, and everything else inspired me to begin my book. I never had an ending to it, as I imaged this life to be with her. But sadly this morning the book received its final chapter...

Misery. I always write more when I am unhappy

Reading "Tom Sawyer" as a kid was my first inkling that real people could use mere words as their tools, telling stories about people who seemed so real you could touch them. That was my first inspiration to write.

I always have, and for a long time I assumed it was something that everybody did. I still have trouble understandig people that don't write. Even before I learnt how to actually write I used to make up long meandering fairy tales of my own and speak them into a tape recorder. It's just something that I have to do. I would be more interested to know what it is that makes people NOT write.

I love to read. The more I read, the more I need to write. Sometimes, what I write isn't even related to what I was reading when the inspiration hit me. I think reading just opens up my creative floodgates.

IDEATION... I have a word... no its deeper than a word... wait now it's an idea... (When it moves fast and keeps developing that is when I write) Writing is not an option it is a reflex... That is how it started and how it will end for me and writing...

I love to read also, but I think what inspired me even more is when I was in therapy years ago, my therapist asked me to journal at least 3 pages a day - stream of consciousness. Eventually, I HAD to write. It just became a part of me.

My junior year in high school, I had a writing teacher who kept beating me over the head with giant pencils screaming, "You're a writer! You're a writer!", until I started to believe it. It took about twelve years for me to actually DO anything with it. Toward the end of 1989, I started writing song lyrics. I do also write about ideas, rambling logical thoughts, and connections. I've never been published, nor do I have any wish to be. I used to get writer's block, but I never get it anymore. I learned how not to partly from the movie "Finding Forester" and partly from "The Real Frank Zappa Book". I think every writing teacher should recommend watching the movie to their students. Finding Forester helped me learn to stop thinking about what to write. There's a scene in it where Forester is teaching a young kid named Jamal how to write. He sits down across a table from him, both of them with typewriters, and starts punching keys. "Go ahead", he says. "Go ahead and what?" "Write!", he says with a smile, and continues punching. "What are you doing?" "I'm writing", he says punching away, "like you'll be, when you start punching those keys." Jamal stares at his typewriter. "Is there a problem?" Forester asks (still typing). "No, I'm just thinking." "No. No thinking, that comes later." Forester says, as he keeps pounding the keys. "You write your first draft with your heart. You rewrite with your head. The first key to writing is... to write... not to think." The second thing I had to overcome was thinking that everything I write has to be meaningful, or have some sort of merit. I wasn't able to locate the book to quote directly, but here's the gist of what Frank Zappa said about making it good. Just do it. Don't worry about whether or not it's good. That's what critics are for, and they don't always know what they are talking about. Neither do you. Just do it and put it out there. Someone is bound to like what you did. If enough people do, and are willing to pay for it, you might be able to make a living at it. If you can make some money at it, get a part-time job so you can do even more of it. Eventually, if enough people like it, you can quit the job, and do it full-time. The most important things I have to say (and these are my words borrowed from many other writers), are two things. 1) Do not wait to be inspired to write. Writers who wait for inspiration seldom become successful. Just write. Write anything. Keep writing until the inspiration infiltrates what you are writing. You can't wait for inspiration, you have to dig for it, and you can only do that by writing. 2) DO NOT try to make everything you write original. Too many billions of books have been written to possibly come up with anything that is totally original. No matter what you think of, someone somewhere has already thought of it, or at least something similar, and written it down. The key to making ideas yours, is how you put them together, and present them. If you can't think of something to write, start by writing someone else's ideas, and build on them. Keep building on them until they become yours. Back to Finding Forester. Jamal still cannot think of what to write, so Forester hands him a copy of a piece he wrote, and tells him: "Start typing that. Sometimes the simple rhythm of typing leads us from page one to page two, and when you begin to feel your own words... start typing them." It took me twelve years from the day I knew I was a writer to actually do anything with writing, because I spent that entire twelve years trying to think of what to write. Simply put, don't think, or wait for inspiration. Just write. That's what makes a writer a writer. Writers write. If you don't write, you aren't a writer. If you write, you are. So write.

Originally, it was because my uncle and grandpa would tell these wonderful stories that they would make up from bits of other stories or seeing a sign and their own imagination, and because my aunt would write short stories that were nothing like I ever read. I thought that was a great thing to be able to do, and since I was lousy at saying things, I tried writing. In school I discovered I was good at writing what the teachers wanted to see, even if my first story attempts were so pathetic that I gave up for years. But I read copiously and my reaction to really good books is often "I want to be able to write something that good". That actually isn't 'inspiration' but it's what pushes me to write BETTER. What I call inspiration is when that little 'what-if' circuit in my brain goes off and I suddenly have a phrase, partial scene, or two or three scenes banging around and refusing to go away until I put them down on paper. I write for my own entertainment (and peace of mind) not for other people, although its always nice to have somebody ask and then like it. EDIT: ^That's all true, but a little misleading. I'm lousy at plots, and alot of the time if I just need to write (writing is a form of therapy for me) I just start put words down on a page one at a time, sometimes I even start with individual letters. Not everything makes it beyond a sentence or paragraph, and sometimes what flows is only worth burning afterwards. That's okay. Especially if I can keep a thought or color or sentence or two from what I chuck and build something half-way good out of it. Writing is like dreaming: sometimes its easy, sometimes you have nightmares coming out, but its your mind at WORK.

It must be a love of writing, because I've been writing for as long as I can remember. My first memories are of elementary school, when my diaries began. Then, in 5th grade note passing became popular. In middle school, a friend and I used to write short stories to share with each other too. They were typically about relationships (nothing too physical). I completed my first book at 21, a romance novel, which I began writing at work to entertain my co-workers/friends. (We were opening a new bank branch and were bored off our rockers.) Never got an agent or published, but I did finish it and received glowing reviews from my readers. Any agents out there?(:

Nothing inspired me. It was just something I always HAD to do. I wrote my first poem at about age 8. Although I don't remember the exact words, I do remember the experience it was descriptive of. I walked out on the steps of my Chicago-area home with my father who was driving me to school. Snow was melting on the ground and I asked him if he smelled the spring, which was dancing there like a color in the air. In mind it was just as clear as day! When he chuckled and ignored my question, it hurt my feelings. And I wrote a poem down trying to describe this feeling.

I wasn't so much inspired as URGED to write... I just had to put my thoughts in writing, and noticed that I liked some of the things that came out of my pen... I like writting poetry and fiction, because it lets you play with ideas that you would, otherwise, repress or hide. The characters in a novel can do what they want, even if you can't or won't. So I guess it's my escape.

Experiences, Friends, Music, and Art ... I could sit here right now and write a story about a stool, a blanket, a closet, a clock ... just naming things in the room, lol. I'm basically inspired by anything and everything, but those first few things I named inspire me most.

My sorrow, my love, my music.

i have always written, so i don't really know what has first inspired me to begin to write. i do know that i would go crazy if i couldn't write any more. in first grade i broke my littlest finger of my left hand and i learned myself to write with my right hand in two weeks.

My age ... When I reached an age that I could really appreciate what I know all about life and how precious it is ... understanding other people why I am here ... My art ...

My real life, it's so crazy, you would think it was fiction...

Fydor Dostoevsky Pink Floyd Quentin Tarantino Chuck Palahniuk ...probably a few others

when i was in 4th grade my teacher wrote, "writing seems to be a talent of [mine]," on my report card. in that moment, i realized that writing was what i wanted to start doing in my spare time. it also helped that i started reading books copiously at a young age, and i realized that, through reading, i could escape life.

My inspiration to begin writing came to me about eight years ago and it came in the form of a book called War and Peace. I was so fascinated by the way that the book was written that I decided to write on my own. My style is nothing like War and Peace(that is a good thing) but I do have a very good way of writing in my opinion.

i dunno. reading my friends writing helped :-)