A moment, with inspiration…

Inspiration is elusive, glorious, and utterly fleeting. People talk about the thunderbolt hitting, but for me, there’s a physical and mental component to being hit with inspiration. The mental aspect is an unfolding, an image, a set of words that ring true, feel right, and that remain with you as though your brain suddenly laid a big fat egg that it wants to sit on for a while.

The physical sensation is a little different. What I feel is a hot jolt that starts in my heart, accompanied by a lit...