James L. C. Kafka - Fiction is My Reality

Sunday, March 23, 2025

Inspiration Comes in all Forms

 

Do you need a hefty dose of lion-level courage? Will the Full Moon release a creative occurrence that brings forth an abundance of jubilant and meaningful words to a blank page?

 

Writers are weird. We seek inspiration wherever we may find it. My inspiration is the resentment, bitterness, aggression, and hostility that’s built up inside me, and when it boils over, I write. After a few thousand words, I revert-back to my peaceful, simple-self.

 

Unfortunately, sometimes real-life calls, and it forces writers to move on to other things, but that does not mean those inspiring moments are lost. You just put them on hold until you get a break from reality.

 

Eagerness to write and pent-up frustration because you can’t; that is the two-faced demon we all must defeat.


Happy Place


To rejuvenate that enthusiasm, it will take a leap of faith to revitalize your inspirational yesterday – basically that means, no phone, no TV, and cancel the playdate with your pointless preoccupations and the bee in your bonnet.

It’s time to embrace the lessons you learned; the good and the bad.

Stretch out your smiles of yesterday, and build more words upon the lands of your Expressive Sovereignty, and battle the blank page with courage.

Release negative energy. Contemplate what you want to write. Write whatever comes to mind. And for the love of frivolous  punctuation, bad grammar, and misspelled words, please, please, please, Write Like You Mean It!

 

The best smiles are when you type – The End.

 

“Mr. Kafka?”

“Yes, jimmy?”

“Resentment, bitterness, aggression, and hostility? You’re never like that.”

“I was aggrandizing to rouse inspiration.”

“Sounded a bit over-the-top, Mr. Kafka.”

“Thank you, jimmy.”

“It wasn’t meant as a compliment.”

“I know.”

 

-jk-