Creative Writing: Staying Inspired

June 21, 2011 — pittsburghflashfictiongazette

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The Old Soldier has been writing for more than 45 years. How do I stay inspired, especially since I make only a little more than a dollar a day from online writing? Well, I’ll tell you.

When I first started to write seriously I had just come back from Vietnam. Writing was therapy. It was the way that I dealt with my demons; and not just the demons I had from Vietnam but the demons I had left over from growing up in a home where my father was a wife beater.

It was through writing that I was able to control my emotions and to make sense out of the world.

To be truthful with you, that has not changed much.

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Of course, I was also inspired by the authors that I read: Hemingway, John O’Hara, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Dorothy Parker…the list goes on and on. And if you are a writer I bet you can find some flash fiction and some articles on this blog that will inspire you, too.

Keep reading and keep writing.

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