What Inspires You as a Writer?
What inspires you as a writer? I would be interested in knowing.
So what inspires me as a writer? I was recently asked that question and I immediately went back to the year 2000 and a Bible devotion I was doing. On that day I was reading in the Book of Genesis about Noah and the Flood.
As I read the passage it suddenly occurred to me that here was a factual event that little is known about. The Bible gives us some basic facts including a general blue print of the Ark. But little is known beyond the biblical record.
That realization sparked my imagination! Thus began my writing career and my very first book was on Noah and the Flood.
Drawing my inspiration from the Bible has influenced me ever since. Not just the Bible stories. I have also written a novel based on American history. But biblical truths still influenced me.
So the short answer is that I am inspired by the Word of God.
Going deeper though I draw daily inspiration from the knowledge that I have a calling from God. He equipped me at birth with the desire to write, but the calling to write didn't come until I got saved in 1973. He not only called me, but began equipping me with the skills needed.
But you could in all honesty say that my daily inspiration rests upon prayer. Not my official morning prayers, although those are very important. But I have the same right as all born again believers, the right to go to God and talk to Him (that's what prayer is) and seek His help any time I need it. Not just for writing, but in all areas of my life and, more specifically, my writing career (authoring, publishing, and marketing).
What is your inspiration as a writer? I would like to hear about it. And don't forget you always have the option of asking me a question. I will answer.
So what inspires me as a writer? I was recently asked that question and I immediately went back to the year 2000 and a Bible devotion I was doing. On that day I was reading in the Book of Genesis about Noah and the Flood.
As I read the passage it suddenly occurred to me that here was a factual event that little is known about. The Bible gives us some basic facts including a general blue print of the Ark. But little is known beyond the biblical record.
That realization sparked my imagination! Thus began my writing career and my very first book was on Noah and the Flood.
Drawing my inspiration from the Bible has influenced me ever since. Not just the Bible stories. I have also written a novel based on American history. But biblical truths still influenced me.
So the short answer is that I am inspired by the Word of God.
Going deeper though I draw daily inspiration from the knowledge that I have a calling from God. He equipped me at birth with the desire to write, but the calling to write didn't come until I got saved in 1973. He not only called me, but began equipping me with the skills needed.
But you could in all honesty say that my daily inspiration rests upon prayer. Not my official morning prayers, although those are very important. But I have the same right as all born again believers, the right to go to God and talk to Him (that's what prayer is) and seek His help any time I need it. Not just for writing, but in all areas of my life and, more specifically, my writing career (authoring, publishing, and marketing).
What is your inspiration as a writer? I would like to hear about it. And don't forget you always have the option of asking me a question. I will answer.
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