This was brought up to me once, when in a classroom setting I couldn’t write in a short given time a word of story. It sort of means that a good, professional writer should be able to conjure up a story on the spot. Not me; I need to wait for inspiration. Something either comes out of the blue, or maybe something seen or heard will inspire, but I’m just not able to force something based on direction.
Course, I never did take direction well. How many of you tried making jello with fresh pineapple despite this one single warning on the box?
So now I’m stuck with Few. The story needs a point, and that I have come up with (in a brilliant stroke of inspiration) but now that that’s decided, I can’t write the dialogue for it.
But I do tend to respond to deadlines, and there’s one looming so maybe with that on my head, stress shall inspire.
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