nature  

Posted by John Isak

I find my best inspiration for writing is nature. Nature and the natural world. The wind, the rain, trees blowing in that wind and their leaves freckled with water.
The muse can come from anywhere but I feel that the best influences are those that are not contrived forced or human made. The best things in the world are those which just are. Trees rocks grass dirt, emotions, snow thunder, touching... these are all influences which move me to write. I get elated when I am surrounded by trees. I am evan more elated when surrounded by trees and with people. People who can leave behind technology and media influenced gunk. To be truly free is to have no ties to culture and media.
As humans we seem to need these ties though. We have become addicted to the rush of lights and sounds. All too much our minds are turned into zombified electronic drones. We are parasites feeding off of the grid, leeching the power and life from nature.
That Rant aside, I get the most fulfillment from the things that were here before and will be here after (hopefully).

This entry was posted on Sunday, April 29, 2012 at 4/29/2012 02:19:00 PM . You can follow any responses to this entry through the comments feed .

3 comments

Anonymous  

I agree, I get a lot of inspiration to write from things that are non-human. There is something much more interesting about it.

April 29, 2012 at 7:00 PM

I was a little inspired by nature myself. It was nice to get outside to write when the weather was fine this semester. however even looking out a window can be inspiring for writing poems

April 29, 2012 at 8:29 PM

I love writing about nature. The only thing I struggle with is how easy it is to create cliches writing about this, and trying to search for new ways to present old material, to spin it in a new light that makes it fresh and exciting.

April 30, 2012 at 8:10 PM

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