This photo I took yesterday inspired me how art inspires you. I keep thinking about it & feel like it could be tied to one of my stories or at least a poem but I may need to think a bit & write a poem…we’ll see. Anyway on to a couple recent insights & inspirations – one I think I may have figured out the point/moral/theme to my Eurydice retelling which likely gives me the ending but I’m not sure how it will all fit together yet. I’m figuring out more of my process, thinking & things & recognizing more how I’m a writer & a creative & need to keep going at it & owning it. Speaking of which, a couple times recently when people asked me to introduce myself in groups online etc, I said I was a Mom & a writer/aspiring author which I’ve done before but not that many times. Since taking WWTS workshop in Nov I’ve been trying to say that to everyone when they ask me to introduce myself in certain settings, it’s been liberating & empowering to say that out loud to others more often. Also, one other inspiration that caught me off guard cause Insta made me do it lol. One of the stickers floating around has the put the first name of your character in & see what the first song that comes up is. Well, I put a few characters names in & wasn’t really getting anything good & then one of the last names I put in was from a very involved story – multiple characters, complex worldbuilding likely needed etc that I first wrote when trying to figure out the novel thing seriously a few years or so ago now that has been set aside & unfinished because I didn’t/don’t think I’m ready for that one just yet with skills etc. So the point is the song that came up with one of the characters sparked & now I have things popping in my head about that story from a few years ago which caught me unawares because let’s be honest I was wondering if that story was dying or going to be a trunk novel but now I know it’s still alive & kicking – it’s just biding it’s time. Let me tell you when the puzzle pieces finish coming for that story it’s going to be epic & the romance is going to be heart wrenching, swoon-worthy & everything I didn’t think it would be. And Mythology either retellings or inspiration will be one of my things, I think because I LOVE Mythology and have been getting other story ideas related to different Mythologies.