Inspired Writing

Valerie J. Steimle

It's been a while since I really wrote anything of significance in my personal blog and this one here. It has been a real challenge for me to really dig down deep. I get ideas here and there but never follow through.  I believe it's because of the job I started a year ago next week.

Through a friend, I was able to get hired on for Native American Fatherhood and Families Association (NAFFA). It's home base is in Mesa and we all promote fatherhood and families. This was the dream job I was had waiting for over the last 30 years as I was driven to write. I focused on the strengthen of the family and that is what we promote at NAFFA.

The challenge for me now is to have enough energy, motivation and drive to write at night after I come home from a full day of writing and promoting family. Even writing early in the morning is tough because I end up falling asleep around 3pm at work.  It is a difficult task and after becoming an empty nester, traveling to visit family, married again and a 40-hour work week, I am totally exhausted. 

It takes a lot of brain power and time for me to write well so here I am trying to write to inspire all who read this blog.  Perhaps I can have a little help from fellow writers with inspiring words to help us all get motivated to dig, down, deep for inspired writings.

 “You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it.

That’s why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.”

― Octavia E. Butler

“You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.”

― Jodi Picoult

“Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.”

— Virginia Woolf

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.

- Orson Scott

“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”

— Anne Frank

“People say, ‘What advice do you have for people who want to be writers?’ I say, they don’t really need advice, they know they want to be writers, and they’re gonna do it. Those people who know that they really want to do this and are cut out for it, they know it.”

— R.L. Stine

"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster."
--Isaac Asimov

"The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself."
--Albert Camus

I hope that helps inspire you to write inspiring writing.  It certainly has me.