Words and inspiration

I’ve been despairing about the lack of words in my life, as most of you are probably tired of hearing.

This morning, I decided to make a commitment to bring them back.

Ideally, I’d love to be reading and writing in every moment I could.  But the reality is different – even when I have the time while Liam is napping, I usually have other, more pressing things to be done, or I’m just too damn tired.

Which means that I need another plan.  I will return to writing when time permits, but for the time being, I can at least begin to fill the well again.

I have a stack (or three) of books to be read, but I lack the focus to do justice to new novels right now.  Instead, I’m going to dive back into old favourites – into the books that inspired me to write in the first place, and the books that make me want to be a better writer.  As I go along, I’m going to blog about them and the influence they had on me.

I’m going to begin with the books that originally made me want to write – L.M. Montgomery’s Emily books.  Now I just need to steal some time to read.

Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.