What inspires you to write?

I write recipes out of books that I end up selling. I write information I find about herbs and critters etc. My daughter has written a book so I am impressed with her. To put words from your mind down on paper to express a character or group of some such is an amazing thing to me.

I write kind of constantly . . . compulsively? Although -- in response to your mood thing -- I have bipolar disorder, so I'm upset/sad a lot. Maybe that helps.

I find my inspiration mostly out of pain.. On a rare occasion, beauty will move me to try and capture it with ink on paper, but usually i cannot do an inspirational beauty justice. I think alot of us write out of sadness, since it is a way to respond back to it, to vent it, to fight it or try and make sense of it somehow~

Nature inspires me to write. I can go out and sit by the side of the loch and the words just start to flow. Whenever we go for a walk I always bring a pen and pad with me. I just never know when I will be inspired. I write about my past, my feelings, my move to another country, whatever comes to mind at the time I am holding my pen. I find I create better when I am actually holding a pen. Composing on the computer just doesn't work for me. It is too impersonal.

My writing inspirations come and go like the wind. Sometimes it will be a humorous or interesting event that happens during the course of my day, or just something funny someone has said, that drags me to my keyboard. I just have to capture the moment so I don't lose it, in case I want to make it part of a story later. Sometimes writing is a way to vent out frustration, grief or sadness, and I find myself treating my keyboard like a therapist. Sometimes just a person I see on the street, a pub, or at work will inspire me. I'll find myself, for whatever reason, making up a story that involves them as a character. Great question!

As a teenager I used to write when I had new feelings about things and had to work through them. These days I hardly have time to write and just seem to do it when I have to, I hardly do any creative writing at all.

I use to take care of this Senior Citizen. she would always tell me to feel my feelings down, she said it was good for you. so I do it from time to time. I am interesting in selling Ebooks. let me know how you go about it.

Being upset really helps me write. It's a wonderful outlet to help me sort out things.Sometimes, random things inspire me to write. Since I freelance and write newspaper type articles, that's also a good thing because I can write about things others may be interested in and get paid for it.

when i'm lonely i ussually write. and the output of course would be sad writings.

When I find something funny or a humorous event happens in my life, that's most likely when I want to write something strong. Sometimes I write when I'm sad too, but it doesn't feel as effective for me. Negative journal-writing doesn't seem to work. I feel much better writing letters or poetry for someone else, whether I give it to them or not.

If I have something going on in my head, a problem or question to work out, I'll write about it and that helps me a lot. Also, if I've got a spark of an idea, a "plot bunny", I will try to write the key ideas down then and there, and then flesh it out later.